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Updated: June 20, 2025
'Oh, PLEASE, Anthea pleaded, 'do wait till we get to the others. They'll think it most awfully sneakish of me to talk to you without them; do come down, there's a dear. She knelt before the sand-bath and held out her arms. The Psammead must have remembered how glad it had been to jump into those same little arms only the day before, for it gave a little grudging grunt, and jumped once more.
The Psammead must have been there all the time. And it had given the Indian chief his wish. Martha brought home a jug with a pattern of storks and long grasses on it. Also she brought back all Anthea's money. "My cousin, she gave me the jug for luck; she said it was an odd one what the basin of had got smashed." "Oh, Martha, you are a dear!" sighed Anthea, throwing her arms round her.
'This afternoon we found ourselves on the bank of the River Nile, and ending up with, 'And then we remembered how to get back, and there we were in Regent's Park, and it hadn't taken any time at all. She did not tell anything about the charm or the Psammead, because that was forbidden, but the story was quite wonderful enough even as it was to entrance the learned gentleman.
After all that Babylon and all those years ago, I feel as if I should like to see something REAL, and NOW. You'll come, Psammead? 'Where's my priceless woven basket of sacred rushes? asked the Psammead morosely. 'I can't go out with nothing on. And I won't, what's more. And then everybody remembered with pain that the bass bag had, in the hurry of departure from Babylon, not been remembered.
The morning after the children had been the possessors of boundless wealth, and had been unable to buy anything really useful or enjoyable with it, except two pairs of cotton gloves, twelve penny buns, an imitation crocodile-skin purse, and a ride in a pony-cart, they awoke without any of the enthusiastic happiness which they had felt on the previous day when they remembered how they had had the luck to find a Psammead, or Sand-fairy, and to receive its promise to grant them a new wish every day.
And instantly, the entreaties of the children availing as little as the bites of the Psammead, though both bites and entreaties were fervent, it was carried away from before their eyes. 'Oh, DO be careful! cried Anthea. 'At least keep it dry! Keep it in its sacred house! She held up the embroidered bag. 'It's a magic creature, cried Robert; 'it's simply priceless!
The children and the Psammead crouched in a circle on the floor in the girls' bedroom, because in the parlour they might have been interrupted by old Nurse's coming in to lay the cloth for tea and the charm was put in the middle of the circle. The sun shone splendidly outside, and the room was very light.
'Parcels and umbrellas to be left here, said a man at the counter. The party had no umbrellas, and the only parcel was the bag containing the Psammead, which the Queen had insisted should be brought. 'I'M not going to be left, said the Psammead softly, 'so don't you think it. 'I'll wait outside with you, said Anthea hastily, and went to sit on the seat near the drinking fountain.
I thought you'd be certain to be able to fetch back Father, even if you couldn't manage Mother. And Jane began to cry. 'Now DON'T, said the Psammead hastily; 'you know how it always upsets me if you cry. I can't feel safe a moment. Look here; you must have some new kind of charm. 'That's easier said than done.
The lanes were all open to the sky, but the little hut in the middle of the maze was round-roofed, and a curtain of skins hung over the doorway. 'Here you may wait, said their guide, 'but do not dare to pass the curtain. He himself passed it and disappeared. 'But look here, whispered Cyril, 'some of us ought to be outside in case the Psammead turns up.
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