Working with Selctors: setters and getters

Working with Selctors: setters and getters

Hello again, still working on the jQuery basics tutorial.  So I'm at the setters and getters sections and the documentation states:
Setters affect all elements in a selection ---ok got it..then it goes on to say:
whereas getters return the requested value only for the first element in the selection -- in my html I added three <p> tags and when i used: $("p").html() all three <p> tags were returned.  I was under the impression from the documentation that only the first one was supposed to be returned and I should have expected to see all three tags if I had used .text().  Was wondering if someone could please clarify this for me.
Thanks in advance for your help!!
  1. I'm copying my html:
  2. <h3>Second getter and setter test</h3>
        <p>This is a wonderful journey</p>
        <p>I want a margarita</p>
        <p>I want to go to sleep</p>
        <script src="jquery.js"></script>
        <script>
                 $( document ).ready(function() {
                     $( 'a' ).click(function(event) {
                    event.preventDefault();
                    $( this ).hide( "slow" );
                    $('p').fadeIn(2000);
                $("h2").html("New h2");   
                $("h3").html("The age of aquarius");
                $("p").html();

        });
    });
     
        </script>