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Updated: June 21, 2025
Even if the girls were to hunt for that old Sammyadd and find it, and get it to take the jewels away again, mother would only think we hadn't looked out properly and let the burglars sneak in and get them or else the police will think we've got them or else that she's been fooling them. Oh, it's a pretty decent average ghastly mess this time, and no mistake!"
Then we really shall get something out of the old Sammyadd at last!" "Take me, indeed!" said Robert indignantly. "Much more likely me take you!" And so it turned out. The idea appealed irresistibly to everyone but Robert, and even he was brought round by Anthea's suggestion that he should have a double share of any money they might make.
But Anthea was too quick for it. She caught it by its furry shoulders gently but firmly, and held it. 'Here none of that! said the Psammead. 'Leave go of me, will you? But Anthea held him fast. 'Dear kind darling Sammyadd, she said breathlessly. 'Oh yes it's all very well, it said; 'you want another wish, I expect.
"Everyone does want him now and no mistake! That Sammyadd has done us again! Tricky brute! For any sake, let's get the kid safe home." So they peeped out, and finding on the right hand only lonely white road, and nothing but lonely white road on the left, they took courage, and the road, Anthea carrying the sleeping Lamb. Adventures dogged their footsteps.
'Giving us such a fright for nothing! said Anthea. The third and miserablest silence of all was broken by Jane. She said: 'If we DO come out of this all right, we'll ask the Sammyadd to make it so that the servants don't notice anything different, no matter what wishes we have. The others only grunted. They were too wretched even to make good resolutions.
I'm not humbugging. 'Shut up, Bobs! said Anthea. 'Silence for the Squirrel's oration, said Robert. Cyril balanced himself on the edge of the water-butt in the backyard, where they all happened to be, and spoke. 'Friends, Romans, countrymen and women we found a Sammyadd. We have had wishes.
The fact is, it's like this and I hope you're not in a hurry, because the story's rather a breather. Father and mother are away, and when we went down playing in the sand-pits we found a Psammead." "I cry thee mercy! A Sammyadd?" said the knight. "Yes, a sort of of fairy, or enchanter yes, that's it, an enchanter; and he said we could have a wish every day, and we wished first to be beautiful."
Everything we've said so far seems to have done so. Who are you? And don't get angry! Because really we don't know." "You don't know?" it said. "Well, I knew the world had changed but well, really Do you mean to tell me seriously you don't know a Psammead when you see one?" "A Sammyadd? That's Greek to me." "So it is to everyone," said the creature sharply.
Cyril and Jane were more hopeful they generally were. 'I don't think the Sammyadd does it on purpose, Cyril said; 'and, after all, it WAS silly to wish for boundless wealth. Fifty pounds in two-shilling pieces would have been much more sensible. And wishing to be beautiful as the day was simply donkeyish. I don't want to be disagreeable, but it was.
Look here, Squirrel, let's play fair. It is hateful for poor old Bobs, all alone up there. Let's ask the Sammyadd for another wish, and, if it will, I do really think we ought all to be made the same size." The others agreed, but not gaily; but when they found the Psammead, it wouldn't. "Not I," it said crossly, rubbing its face with its feet.
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