Puzzle
Also known as Puzzle the Donkey, the Donkey
A well-meaning but easily led donkey whom Shift disguises as Aslan. Puzzle gradually understands the harm caused by the deception and joins the true Narnians.
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In the chronicles
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The Last Battle16 cited passages⌄
- Chapter I · paragraph 1
… the wood, but Shift had one friend and neighbour who was a donkey called Puzzle. At least they both said they were friends, but from the way things went on you might have thought Puzzle was m…
Open passage → - Chapter I · paragraph 4
"What's what?" said Puzzle.
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 49
… He was very fed up with the stable and quite ready to come--weren't you, Puzzle dear?"
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 54
…dn't know any better. And he's very sorry. He's a nice donkey. His name's Puzzle. And I've got my arms round his neck."
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 7
"Look!" said Tirian, pulling Puzzle forward into the light. "It has all been a lie. Aslan has not come to Narnia at all. You have been cheated by t…
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 8
…had ever been taken in. The lionskin had got pretty untidy already during Puzzle's long imprisonment in the stable and it had been knocked crooked during his journey through the dark wood. Mos…
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 2
After one look at it Puzzle gave a screaming bray and darted into the Tower. And Jill (who was no coward, as you know) hid her face in her …
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 15
"Where has Puzzle got to?" said Eustace.
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 5
…e tree: you glided before me like a snake last night in the wood and took Puzzle: and you, Eustace, killed your man. But you are too young to share in such a bloody end as we others must meet …
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 10
… Calormenes were on duty. And when the meeting did begin they could leave Puzzle at the back of the stable, completely out of sight, till the moment at which they wanted to produce him. This w…
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 1
…soon as she heard what he was saying she nodded and tiptoed back to where Puzzle was standing. Quickly and quietly she cut the last cords that bound the lionskin to him. It wouldn't do for him…
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 15
…n my left, Eustace on my right. Hold the right wing, Jewel. Stand by him, Puzzle, and use your hoofs. Hover and strike, Farsight. You Dogs, just behind us. Go in among them after the swordplay…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 15
…le ten seconds before five or six voices said all at once, "Why, it's old Puzzle!" They had never seen him by day light with the lionskin off, and it made an extraordinary difference. He was h…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 16
… or so of grass ("And I've never tasted such good grass in my life," said Puzzle), he plucked up his courage and followed. "But what I'll do if I really have to meet Aslan, I'm sure I don't kn…
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 7
… the same. The water was not bitingly cold as all of them (and especially Puzzle) expected, but of a delicious foamy coolness. They all found they were swimming straight for the Waterfall itse…
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 46
And the very first person whom Aslan called to him was Puzzle the Donkey. You never saw a donkey look feebler and sillier than Puzzle did as he walked up to Aslan; and he looked, besid…
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