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Not smashed themselves up with those wings, I hope?" "No," said Robert; "but the wings got us into a row, just like all the wishes always do. So the others are kept indoors, and I was only let out for half an hour to get the wish. So please let me wish as quickly as I can." "Wish away," said the Psammead, twisting itself round in the sand. But Robert couldn't wish away.
But when people had dinner-parties it was nearly always Megatheriums; and Ichthyosaurus, because his fins were a great delicacy and his tail made soup. 'There must have been heaps and heaps of cold meat left over, said Anthea, who meant to be a good housekeeper some day. 'Oh no, said the Psammead, 'that would never have done. Why, of course at sunset what was left over turned into stone.
'But how DID you do it? they asked, when every one had thanked the Phoenix again and again. 'Oh, I just went and got a wish from your friend the Psammead. 'But how DID you know where to find it? 'I found that out from the carpet; these wishing creatures always know all about each other they're so clannish; like the Scots, you know all related. 'But, the carpet can't talk, can it? 'No.
'I don't want to think about the pleasures of memory, said Cyril; 'I want some more things to happen. 'We're very much luckier than any one else, as it is, said Jane. 'Why, no one else ever found a Psammead. We ought to be grateful. 'Why shouldn't we GO ON being, though? Cyril asked 'lucky, I mean, not grateful. Why's it all got to stop?
'Nobody's allowed to, said Anthea in haste; 'but look here, we'll take you and show you anything you'd like to see anything you CAN see, she added kindly, because she remembered how nice the Queen had been to them in Babylon, even if she had been a little deceitful in the matter of Jane and Psammead. 'There's the Museum, said Cyril hopefully; 'there are lots of things from your country there.
If anything horrible were going to happen to us, it's my belief those Lemmings would know; and that may be why they've fought shy of us. 'What do you call this country? asked the Psammead, suddenly putting its head out of its bag. 'Atlantis, said the priest. 'Then I advise you to get on to the highest ground you can find. I remember hearing something about a flood here.
The Psammead whispered crossly, 'Don't you understand? The thing existed in the Past. If you were in the Past, too, you could find it. It's very difficult to make you understand things. Time and space are only forms of thought. 'I see, said Cyril. 'No, you don't, said the Psammead, 'and it doesn't matter if you don't, either.
'There, she said comfortingly. 'Now if it does begin to look like rain, I can cover you up in a minute. Now what are we to do? The others who had stopped holding hands crowded round to hear the answer to this question. Imogen whispered in an awed tone 'Can't the organ monkey talk neither! I thought it was only parrots! 'Do? replied the Psammead.
I wish to goodness he would 'OH, take care! cried Anthea in an agony of apprehension. But it was too late like music to a song her words and Cyril's came out together Anthea 'Oh, take care! Cyril 'Grow up now! The faithful Psammead was true to its promise, and there, before the horrified eyes of its brothers and sisters, the Lamb suddenly and violently grew up.
"I didn't know it," said Cyril. "Don't you remember yesterday?" said the Sand-fairy, still more disagreeably. "You asked me to let you have your wishes wherever you happened to be, and you wished this morning, and you've got it." "Oh, have we?" said Robert. "What is it?" "So you've forgotten?" said the Psammead, beginning to burrow. "Never mind; you'll know soon enough. And I wish you joy of it!
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