About this story
The first wish, for beauty, leaves you starving and unrecognised by your own cook; the second, for gold, brings a constable to the door. By the last, a careless wish turns the baby of the family into a grown man in flannels who no longer remembers he is two years old.
How it opens
The country house promised adventure chiefly because Mother had forbidden climbing the new well.
Cyril led you, Robert, and Jane toward the gravel pit while Martha minded the Lamb.
RobertMy spade has found something with fur, eyes, and a very forceful sneeze.
Dig with less enthusiasm; some of us have been asleep since wishes were respectable.
Stop scraping my ears; they folded properly before your spade arrived.
Does the ending undo injuries caused while the wish is real?