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Updated: June 20, 2025
The children rubbed their eyes, the Psammead ran quickly to its sandy bath, and the others went down to tea. And until the cups were actually filled tea seemed less real than the beautiful voice and the greeny light. After tea Anthea persuaded the others to allow her to hang the charm round her neck with a piece of string.
They examined the painted plaster floor, and the chairs were of white painted wood with coloured stripes at intervals. But the time went slowly, and everyone had time to think of how Pharaoh had said, 'Don't torture them YET. 'If the worst comes to the worst, said Cyril, 'we must just bunk, and leave the Psammead. I believe it can take care of itself well enough.
I must leave out, too, all about the visit of the children to the Hippodrome with the Psammead in its travelling bag, and about how the wishes of the people round about them were granted so suddenly and surprisingly that at last the Psammead had to be taken hurriedly home by Anthea, who consequently missed half the performance.
It was very pretty, with moss growing between the stones and little shiny gems; but between him and it there was the width of the tower, and nothing in it but empty air. The situation was terrible. Robert saw in a flash that the carpet was likely to bring them into just the same sort of tight places that they used to get into with the wishes the Psammead granted them.
'Yes, said Cyril, very gloomily, 'here it is. But we can't get it out. 'No, said Robert, remembering how impossible the Queen of Babylon had found it to get anything out of the glass cases in the Museum except by Psammead magic, and then she hadn't been able to take anything away with her; 'no but we remember where we got it, and we can
And now here you are! 'I see we are, said Anthea patiently, looking round on the tall gloom of the forest. 'But why HERE? Why NOW? 'You don't suppose anyone would want a child like that in YOUR times in YOUR towns? said the Psammead in irritated tones. 'You've got your country into such a mess that there's no room for half your children and no one to want them.
He dug up the Psammead very carefully and kindly, and began the conversation by asking it whether it still felt any ill effects from the contact with the tears of Robert the day before yesterday. The Psammead was in a good temper. It replied politely. 'And now, what can I do for you? it said.
Robert had a wild feeling that this glorious leader of the besieging party being himself part of a wish would be able to understand better than Martha, or the gipsies, or the policeman in Rochester, or the clergyman of yesterday, the true tale of the wishes and the Psammead.
It was the Psammead, of course 'On the look-out to make sillies of them as usual, as Cyril remarked later. And of course the next moment Robert's wish was granted, and he was bigger than the baker's boy. Oh, but much, much bigger.
And, as he pointed, the wall disappeared, and instead of the damp, green, rocky surface, there shone and glowed a room with rich hangings of red silk embroidered with golden water-lilies, with cushioned couches and great mirrors of polished steel; and in it was the Queen, and before her, on a red pillow, sat the Psammead, its fur hunched up in an irritated, discontented way.
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