'Well!' said Anthea, 'anyhow our holidays won't be dull NOW.
We've found the Psammead again.'

'No,' said Jane, beginning to put on her stockings. 'We shan't
be dull--but it'll be only like having a pet dog now it can't
give us wishes.'

'Oh, don't be so discontented,' said Anthea. 'If it can't do
anything else it can tell us about Megatheriums and things.'



CHAPTER 2

THE HALF AMULET

Long ago--that is to say last summer--the children, finding
themselves embarrassed by some wish which the Psammead had
granted them, and which the servants had not received in a proper
spirit, had wished that the servants might not notice the gifts
which the Psammead gave. And when they parted from the Psammead
their last wish had been that they should meet it again.
Therefore they HAD met it (and it was jolly lucky for the
Psammead, as Robert pointed out). Now, of course, you see that
the Psammead's being where it was, was the consequence of one of
their wishes, and therefore was a Psammead-wish, and as such
could not be noticed by the servants. And it was soon plain that
in the Psammead's opinion old Nurse was still a servant, although
she had now a house of her own, for she never noticed the