![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |