'The children DID see the Psammead again, but it was not in the sandpit it was-but I must say no more-' The book about all this is called Five Children and It, and it ends up in a most tiresome way by saying. 'I wish we were going to see you again some day.'Īnd the Psammead, touched by this friendly thought, granted the wish. At the moment of parting Jane said politely. In the end their unwise wishings landed them in what Robert called 'a very tight place indeed', and the Psammead consented to help them out of it in return for their promise never never to ask it to grant them any more wishes, and never to tell anyone about it, because it did not want to be bothered to give wishes to anyone ever any more. Cyril, Robert, Anthea, and Jane now found their wishes come true but, somehow, they never could think of just the right things to wish for, and their wishes sometimes turned out very oddly indeed. You know fairies have always been able to do this. But it still kept its fairylikeness, and part of this fairylikeness was its power to give people whatever they wished for. And it had been buried in the sand for thousands of years.
(Psammead is pronounced Sammy-ad.) It was old, old, old, and its birthday was almost at the very beginning of everything. It told the children-whose names were Cyril, Robert, Anthea, and Jane-that it was a Psammead or sand-fairy. It had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick soft fur-and it had hands and feet like a monkey's. Its eyes were on long horns like snail's eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes. One day they had the good fortune to find in the sandpit a strange creature. There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit. Produced by Jo Churcher, and David Widger THE STORY OF THE AMULET by E. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF THE AMULET *** With this eBook or online at Title: The Story of the Amulet
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