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You find the stone bones of the Megatherium and things all over the place even now, they tell me." "Who tell you?" asked Cyril; but the Sand-fairy frowned and began to dig very fast with its furry hands. "Oh, don't go!" they all cried; "tell us more about when it was Megatheriums for breakfast! Was the world like this then?" It stopped digging.
'It was because they WOULD build moats to the castles, and the nasty wet bubbling sea used to come in, and of course as soon as a sand-fairy got wet it caught cold, and generally died.
You find the stone bones of the Megatherium and things all over the place even now, they tell me. 'Who tell you? asked Cyril; but the Sand-fairy frowned and began to dig very fast with its furry hands. 'Oh, don't go! they all cried; 'tell us more about it when it was Megatheriums for breakfast! Was the world like this then? It stopped digging.
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 to you?" "Eggs and bacon, and bread and milk, and porridge and things. Mother gives it to us.
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.
"I don't believe we shall turn to stone," said Robert, breaking a long miserable silence, "because the Sand-fairy said he'd give us another wish to-morrow, and he couldn't if we were stone, could he?" The others said "No," but they weren't at all comforted.
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.
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."
'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!
"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."
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