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Updated: May 22, 2025
If he names a bigger price than you can afford, say you wish you had the money. 'But you can't give us wishes. I've promised never to have another wish from you, said the bewildered Cyril. 'Don't be a silly little idiot, said the Sand-fairy in trembling but affectionate tones, 'but find out how much money you've got between you, and do exactly what I tell you.
"Well, in plain English, then, a Sand-fairy. Don't you know a Sand-fairy when you see one?" It looked so grieved and hurt that Jane hastened to say, "Of course I see you are, now. It's quite plain now one comes to look at you." "You came to look at me, several sentences ago," it said crossly, beginning to curl up again in the sand. "Oh don't go away again! Do talk some more," Robert cried.
And so there got to be fewer and fewer, and, whenever you found a fairy and had a wish, you used to wish for a Megatherium, and eat twice as much as you wanted, because it might be weeks before you got another wish." "And did you get wet?" Robert inquired. The Sand-fairy shuddered. "Only once," it said; "the end of the twelfth hair of my top left whisker I feel the place still in damp weather.
It is very difficult always to remember that 'what' is not polite, especially in moments of surprise or agitation. 'Are Pterodactyls plentiful now? the Sand-fairy went on. The children were unable to reply. 'What do you have for breakfast? the Fairy said impatiently, 'and who gives it you? 'Eggs and bacon, and bread-and-milk, and porridge and things. Mother gives it us.
'You see, said Anthea, wrapping herself in the boys' counterpane, for the morning was chill, 'we've had things happen to us before; and she told the story of the Psammead, or sand-fairy. 'Ah yes, said the Phoenix; 'Psammeads were rare, even in my time. I remember I used to be called the Psammead of the Desert. I was always having compliments paid me; I can't think why.
'Child, said the Sand-fairy sleepily, 'I can only advise you to think before you speak 'But I thought you never gave advice. 'That piece doesn't count, it said. 'You'll never take it! Besides, it's not original. It's in all the copy-books. 'But won't you just say if you think wings would be a silly wish? 'Wings? it said. 'I should think you might do worse.
These children had often talked this matter over, but, now the chance had suddenly come to them, they could not make up their minds. 'Quick, said the Sand-fairy crossly. No one could think of anything, only Anthea did manage to remember a private wish of her own and jane's which they had never told the boys. She knew the boys would not care about it but still it was better than nothing.
"I'm so sorry," said Anthea gently, and she took off her white pinafore and covered the Sand-fairy up with it, all but its head, its bat's ears, and its eyes that were like a snail's eyes. "Thank you," it said, "that's better. What's the wish this morning?" "I don't know," she said; "that's just it. You see we've been very unlucky, so far. I wanted to talk to you about it.
"I dreamed we found a Sand-fairy in the gravel-pits, and it said it was a Sammyadd, and we might have a new wish every day, and" "But that's what I dreamed," said Robert; "I was just going to tell you, and we had the first wish directly it said so. And I dreamed you girls were donkeys enough to ask for us all to be beautiful as day, and we jolly well were, and it was perfectly beastly."
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.
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