How Shasta Set Out On His Travels
This is the story of an adventure that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between， in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him.
In those days， far south in Calormen on a little creek of the sea， there lived a poor fisherman called Arsheesh， and with him there lived a boy who called him Father. The boy‘s name was Shasta. On most days Arsheesh went out in his boat to fish in the morning， and in the afternoon he harnessed his donkey to a cart and loaded the cart with fish and went a mile or so southward to the village to sell it. If it had sold well he would come home in a moderately good temper and say nothing to Shasta， but if it had sold badly he would find fault with him and perhaps beat him. There was always something to find fault with for Shasta had plenty of work to do， mending and washing the nets， cooking the supper， and cleaning the cottage in which they both lived.
