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Updated: May 10, 2025
When breakfast was cleared away, Anthea swept the carpet, and the children sat down on it, together with the Phoenix, who had been especially invited, as a Christmas treat, to come with them and witness the good and kind action they were about to do. Four children and one bird were ready, and the wish was wished.
"I see," said Martha, "no, I don't want your box, miss. What you want is to get the precious Lamb off your hands for the afternoon. Don't you go for to think I don't see through you!" This was so true that Anthea longed to deny it at once. Martha had no business to know so much. But she held her tongue. Martha set down the bread with a bang that made it jump off its trencher.
Do wish it! Quick!" Anthea repeated the Psammead's wish, and it blew itself out to a larger size than they had yet seen it attain. "And now," it said as it collapsed, "can I do anything more for you?" "Just one thing; and I think that clears everything up, doesn't it, Jane? I wish Martha to forget about the diamond ring, and mother to forget about the keeper cleaning the windows."
'We'll club our money, though, and leave it to pay for the things, won't we? Anthea was persuasive, and very nearly in tears, because it is most trying to feel enormously hungry and unspeakably sinful at one and the same time. 'Some of it, was the cautious reply.
'Of course I know a good deal about Babylon, and I unconsciously communicate it to you; you've heard of thought-reading, but some of the things you say, I don't understand; they never enter my head, and yet they're so astoundingly probable. 'It's all right, said Anthea reassuringly. 'I understand. And don't worry. It's all quite simple really.
And so it went on, oh, for years. You see each journey takes at least six months. And at last we asked the hand of his daughter in marriage. 'Yes, and then? said Anthea, who wanted to get to the princess part of the story.
"But, one day, Fate, or Chance, or Destiny, or their benevolent spirit, sent a certain square-shouldered Waggoner to show me the way, and, after him, a very small Porges, bless him! to lead me into this wonderful Arcadia." "Oh, I see!" nodded Anthea, very intent upon her plaiting. "But there is something more," said Bellew. "Oh?" said Anthea. "Shall I tell you?" "If it is very interesting."
'Yes, said Cyril, 'let's. It's not really wrong. 'Well, look here, said Anthea. 'You know there's something about Christmas that makes you want to be good however little you wish it at other times. Couldn't we wish the carpet to take us somewhere where we should have the chance to do some good and kind action? It would be an adventure just the same, she pleaded. 'I don't mind, said Cyril.
'It was all there was, said Anthea, with timid firmness. She knew it was not her fault. 'There should be another piece, said the Psammead, 'and a sort of pin to fasten the two together. 'Isn't half any good? 'Won't it work without the other bit? 'It cost seven-and-six. 'Oh, bother, bother, bother! 'Don't be silly little idiots! said everyone and the Psammead altogether.
'But oh, whispered Cyril behind the pig-pail, 'I should have thought he'd had enough bicycle-mending for one day and if she only knew that really and truly he's only a whiny-piny, silly little baby! 'He's not, Anthea murmured angrily. 'He's a dear if people only let him alone. It's our own precious Lamb still, whatever silly idiots may turn him into isn't he, Pussy?
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