Chapter 6

CHAPTER SIX PIXIES AND SNOWFLAKES So, before very long, the town-crier was ringing his bell and crying loudly, 'Oyez! Oyez! A reward is offered to anyone having news of a pixie who fell from the sky! Oyez!' Mollie and Peter stood on a platform so that people might know to whom to go if they had news. To their delight there came quite a crowd of people to them. 'We've news, we've news!' they cried, struggling to get to Peter first. 'Well, where did you see the pixie fall?' asked Peter of the first little man. 'Sir, I saw a big snowflake fall in the Buttercup Field,' said he.

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'Don't be foolish,' said Peter. 'I said a pixie, not a snowflake. Don't you know the difference between pixies and snowflakes? We all know that snowflakes fall from the sky. That is not news. Next, please!' But the next person said the same thing -and the next- and the next! It was most annoying and very disappointing. 'We want our reward!' suddenly shouted someone. 'We have given you news, but you have given us no reward.' 'You haven't given us the right news!' shouted back Peter angrily. 'That doesn't matter!' shouted the little folk, looking angry. They looked rather funny too, because for some reason or other they all carried their bundles and baskets balanced on their heads. 'Give us our reward!'

They swarmed towards the platform on which the two children were standing, and Mollie and Peter suddenly felt frightened. 'I don't like this, Mollie,' said Peter. 'Let's go! These stupid creatures think that pixies and snowflakes are exactly the same- and we certainly can't give them all a reward. Climb into the chair!' Mollie jumped into the chair, which was just near them on the platform. Peter sat on the arm and cried out loudly, 'Home, chair, quickly!' The chair flapped its wings and rose up -but it didn't rise very high, only just above the heads of the angry people. Its legs began to jerk in and out, and to Peter's enormous astonishment, the chair kicked off bundles, pots, and baskets from the heads of the furious

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