That worried me a little." "If you'd try your best not to be clever I'd give you a job," said Richard, who with a rather tiresome persistence was now levitating the chicken, so that, invisibly suspended at a height of eighteen inches above the middle of the table, it dripped gravy into a bowl of daffodils.

"In fact I will give you a job.

I have a farm called Higgins Farm, just about half-way between sea-level and sky-level.

You can be a Hand, if you like, at sixpence an hour.

You can get there from Mitten Island every day quite easily, and I'll tell you how.