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Updated: May 22, 2025
They looked and they looked, and though they found their seaside spades, nowhere could they find the Sand-fairy.
Each thought that its brothers and sisters had wandered off, and that these strange children had stolen up unnoticed while it was watching the swelling form of the Sand-fairy. Anthea spoke first 'Excuse me, she said very politely to Jane, who now had enormous blue eyes and a cloud of russet hair, 'but have you seen two little boys and a little girl anywhere about?
"Is that the day's wish?" said the Sand-fairy, yawning. Cyril muttered something about "just like a girl," and the rest stood silent. If they said "Yes," then good-bye to the other wishes they had decided to ask for. If they said "No," it would be very rude, and they had all been taught manners, and had learned a little too, which is not at all the same thing.
Robert walked slowly on, and as he got nearer he saw that these were tents, and men in armor were walking about among the tents crowds and crowds of them. "Oh!" said Robert fervently. "They have! They've wished for a castle, and it's being besieged! It's just like that Sand-fairy! I wish we'd never seen the beastly thing!"
All the children were quite crushed by this terrible tale. They looked at the Psammead in horror. Suddenly the Lamb perceived that something brown and furry was near him. 'Poof, poof, poofy, he said, and made a grab. 'It's not a pussy, Anthea was beginning, when the Sand-fairy leaped back. 'Oh, my left whisker! it said; 'don't let him touch me. He's wet.
The Sand-fairy blew himself out, and next moment each child felt a funny feeling, half heaviness and half lightness, on its shoulders. The Psammead put its head on one side and turned its snail's eyes from one to the other. 'Not so dusty, it said dreamily. 'But really, Robert, you're not quite such an angel as you look. Robert almost blushed.
A sigh of relief broke from all lips when the Sand-fairy said: 'If I do I shan't have strength to give you a second wish; not even good tempers, or common sense, or manners, or little things like that.
'Not so dusty, said Cyril generously; and Robert added, 'Really, Panther, you're not quite such a fool as you look. Jane said, 'I think it would be perfectly lovely. It's like a bright dream of delirium. They found the Sand-fairy easily. Anthea said: 'I wish we all had beautiful wings to fly with.
"Well then," said Anthea, "everything we have wished has turned out rather horrid. I wish you would advise us. You are so old, you must be very wise." "I was always generous from a child," said the Sand-fairy. "I've spent the whole of my waking hours in giving. But one thing I won't give that's advice." "You see," Anthea went on, "it's such a wonderful thing such a splendid, glorious chance.
'They HAVE! They've wished for a castle, and it's being besieged! It's just like that Sand-fairy! I wish we'd never seen the beastly thing! At the little window above the great gateway, across the moat that now lay where the garden had been but half an hour ago, someone was waving something pale dust-coloured. Robert thought it was one of Cyril's handkerchiefs.
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