Chapter 3

CHAPTER THREE THE SILLY BOY The children were cross because Mother had said that the painters were to paint the walls of the playroom and mend a window- and this meant that they couldn't play there for some time.

Their playroom was built right at the bottom of the garden, and it was quite safe for their friend, Binky the pixie, to live there, for no one ever went to the garden playroom except themselves. But now the painters would be there for a week. How tiresome! 'It's a good thing it's summertime, Binky, so that you can live in the garden for a bit,' said Mollie.

'Oh, don't worry about me, said Binky. 'I've a nice Cosy place in the hollow of an oak tree. It's the chair I'm thinking about. Where shall we keep that? We can't have it flying about whilst the painters are there.' 'We'd better put it in the boxroom, indoors,' said Peter. 'That room's just been repainted so I don't expect Mother or any one will think it must be turned out just yet. It will be safe there.' So, when no one was looking, Peter and Mollie carried the wishing-chair up to the boxroom and stood it safely in a corner. They shut the window up tightly, so that it couldn't fly out if its wings grew suddenly. They couldn't have Binky to play with them in the house, because he didn't want any one to know about him. So they asked Thomas,

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the little boy over the road, to come and play soldiers, on a rainy afternoon. They didn't like him very much, but he was better than nobody. Thomas came. He soon got tired of playing soldiers. He began turning head-over-heels down the nursery floor. He could do it very well.

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