Because I know I have been told that he took an army to Egypt, and that afterwards a lot of wise people went grubbing in the sand, and fished up all sorts of wonderful things, older than you would think possible.

And of these I believe this charm to have been one, and the most wonderful one of all.
Everyone listened: and everyone tried to think.

It is not easy to do this clearly when you have been listening to the kind of talk I have told you about.
At last Robert said-- 'Can you take us into the Past--to the shrine where you and the other thing were together.

If you could take us there, we might find the other part still there after all these thousands of years.' 'Still there?
silly!' said Cyril.

'Don't you see, if we go back into the Past it won't be thousands of years ago.