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Updated: May 22, 2025
The children had found a Psammead, or sand-fairy, and it had let them have anything they wished for just exactly anything, with no bother about its not being really for their good, or anything like that.
We've all dreamed we found a Sand-fairy." Her voice died away before Cyril's contemptuous glance. "Dream?" he said; "you little sillies, it's true. I tell you it all happened. That's why I'm so keen on being down early. We'll go up there directly after brekker, and have another wish.
The Sand-fairy smoothed his long rat-like whiskers and smiled between them. 'Do please tell! said the children all together. It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Only we'll make up our minds, solid, before we go, what it is we do want, and no one must ask for anything unless the others agree first. No more peerless beauties for this child, thank you. Not if I know it! The other three dressed, with their mouths open. If all that dream about the Sand-fairy was real, this real dressing seemed very like a dream, the girls thought.
Then the postman was heard blowing his horn, and Robert rushed out in the rain to stop his cart and give him the letter. And that was how it happened that, though all the children meant to tell their mother about the Sand-fairy, somehow or other she never got to know. There were other reasons why she never got to know, but these come later.
'I didn't know you were a Sand-fairy, but I knew directly I saw you that you were much the wonderfullest thing I'd ever seen. The Sand-fairy seemed a shade less disagreeable after this. 'It isn't talking I mind, it said, 'as long as you're reasonably civil. But I'm not going to make polite conversation for you. If you talk nicely to me, perhaps I'll answer you, and perhaps I won't.
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."
He sang, he put his feet on the table he clamoured to "go walky." The conversation was something like this "Look here about that Sand-fairy Look out! he'll have the milk over." Milk removed to a safe distance. "Yes about that Fairy No, Lamb dear, give Panther the narky poon." Then Cyril tried. "Nothing we've had yet has turned out He nearly had the mustard that time!"
'Ingratitude, said the Psammead, 'is a dreadful vice. 'We're not ungrateful,'Jane made haste to say, 'but we didn't REALLY want that wish. Robert only just said it. Can't you take it back and give us a new one? 'No I can't, the Sand-fairy said shortly; 'chopping and changing it's not business. You ought to be careful what you do wish.
"I didn't know you were a Sand-fairy, but I knew directly I saw you that you were much the wonderfullest thing I'd ever seen." The Sand-fairy seemed a shade less disagreeable after this. "It isn't talking I mind," it said, "as long as you're reasonably civil. But I'm not going to make polite conversation for you. If you talk nicely to me, perhaps I'll answer you, and perhaps I won't.
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