Chapter 4

CHAPTER FOUR THE SLIPPERIES PLAY A TRICK! Peter and Mollie looked hard at the five Slipperies. Each Slippery had one blue eye and one green, and not one of them looked straight at the children! Their hair was slick and smooth, their mouths smiled without stopping, and they rubbed their bony hands together all the time.

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I'm sorry, said Peter, 'but we don't want to leave our chair. We're waiting here with it till our friend Binky comes back from seeing his Great-Aunt Quick-Fingers.' 'Oh, she's gone to market, said one of the Slipperies. 'She always goes on Thursdays.' 'Oh dear,' said Peter. 'How tiresome! Now we shan't be able to get a fourth wing for our wishing-chair.' 'Dear me- is this a wishing-chair?' said the Slipperies, in great interest. 'It's the first time we've seen one. Do let us sit in it.'

'Certainly not,' said Peter, feeling certain that if he let them sit in the chair they would try to fly off in it. 'I hear that Great-Aunt Quick-Fingers has some flying dogs,' said Mollie, hoping that the Slipperies would look frightened at the mention of them. But they didn't. They rubbed their slippery hands together again and went on smiling. 'Ah, yes- wonderful dogs they are. If you stand up on your chair, and look over the field yonder, you may see some of them flying around, said one Slippery. The children stood on the seat of the chair. The Slipperies clustered round them. 'Now look right down over that field,' began one of them. 'Do you see a tall tree?'

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