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Updated: June 9, 2025
We look back with pleasure to the quiet camp in a gravel-pit on a hill-top far from the haunts of men to the pitching of the tent by moonlight in a meadow where the mushrooms gleamed like snow, to be duly gathered for the frying-pan next morning by the host-in-himself, and in pyjamas.
Although they were all in a great hurry they did not try to climb down the sides of the gravel-pit, but went round by the safe lower road, as if they had been carts. They had made a ring of stones round the place where the Sand-fairy had disappeared, so they easily found the spot. The sun was burning and bright, and the sky was deep blue without a cloud. The sand was very hot to touch.
'Where'd you get it, then? said the man, softening slightly, which was not at all what the boys expected when Jane began to call names. Jane cast a silent glance of agony at the others. 'Lost your tongue, eh? Got it fast enough when it's for calling names with. Come, speak up! Where'd you get it? 'Out of the gravel-pit, said truthful Jane. 'Next article, said the man.
"Ah!" said Joe, "a rum upset that there. Swig this down, sir!" and he held out to his master, a flask-cup filled with brandy. Mr. Lavender swallowed it. "Have they gone?" he said, gasping. "They 'ave, sir," replied Joe, "and not 'alf full neither. Where did you pick 'em up?" "In a gravel-pit," said Mr. Lavender. "I can never forgive myself for this betrayal of my King and country.
Ladies and gentlemen, we may of course think of anything which we choose in a gravel-pit, as we may anywhere else. Thought is free: at least so we fancy. But the most right sort of thought, after all, is thought about what lies nearest us; not always, but surely once in a way, that we may understand something of everyday objects.
"Come I can't go beyond dreams, you know! How much do you want, and will you have it in gold or notes?" "Gold, please and millions of it" "This gravel-pit full be enough?" said the Fairy in an off-hand manner. "Oh yes" "Then go out before I begin, or you'll be buried alive in it."
The vixen was exceedingly fond of snails, and would eagerly thrust a fore-paw into the crannies of any old wall or bank where they hibernated; but Vulp much preferred to scratch up the moss in a deserted gravel-pit, and grub in the loosened soil for the drowsy blow-flies and beetles that had chosen the spot for their winter abode.
Besides, he was the very person who a week before had caught hold of the reins when that little restive pony had taken fright at the baker's cart, and nearly backed Bill and herself into the great gravel-pit on Lanton Common. Bill had entirely lost all command over the pony, and but for the stranger's presence of mind, she did not know what would have become of them.
Where the road for carts wound into the gravel-pit the gold lay in heaps like stones lie by the roadside, and a great bank of shining gold shelved down from where it lay flat and smooth between the tall sides of the gravel-pit. And all the gleaming heaps was minted gold.
Stoats and weasels were ever on the prowl; no water-entrance afforded him immediate escape from their relentless hostilities, and he was almost as liable to panic, if pursued for any considerable distance on land, as were the rabbits living on the fringe of the gravel-pit within the heart of the silent wood.
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