It will be awake now for eight hours and if you all work for eight hours a day you'll soon have your city as fine as ever.

And there's one new law.
Every time the clock strikes you must all say "Halma!" aloud, every one of you, to remind yourselves of your great destiny, and that you are no longer slaves of the Great Sloth.' [Illustration: And all the while it had to go on turning that handle.] She went back and explained machine guns very carefully to the now hard-working Sloth.

When she came back all the men were at work digging a channel for the new river.
The women and children crowded round Lucy and Philip.
'Ah!' said the oldest woman of all, 'now we shall be able to wash in water.

I've heard my grandmother say water was very pleasant to wash in.
I never thought I should live to wash in water myself.' 'Why ?' Lucy asked.

'What do you wash in ?' 'Pine-apple juice,' said a dozen voices, 'when we _do_ wash!' 'But that must be very sticky,' said Lucy.
'It is,' said the oldest woman of all; 'very!'.