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Once there was a village named Middle Minster

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It was an ordinary sort of village except for one thing it had a wizard in it

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This wizard was always doing those little things that irritate people. You know the kinds of things I mean

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He would raise his left eyebrow ever so slightly and presto

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Mistress Hepplebottom's fabulous pumpkin pie would be transformed into turkey

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Or he would frown and before Squire

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Baffleshire's own eyes his finest clothes would turn to tatters as

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He cast each spell the wizard always made up a little verse

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Now, let me see if I can think of one. Oh, yes. Here's the one he used on mr. Walden Wiggin. I

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Love luxurious fur

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All your friends will say gee, I don't think it could be

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But didn't I just hear you purr?

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Some of the people liked the wizard in spite of his mischief

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but they were getting to be fewer and fewer as

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Time went by the wizards little spells grew much worse. Well here you'll see

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Today when your pots on the fire the flame will grow higher and higher

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Till your bit of pea soup will near drown you in gloop and you'll cry how I wish I were drier

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For the judge here's a delicate rose that will tickle his ears as it grows

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Since he thinks he's so fine. I will give him a vine

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That will sprout from the end of his nose as

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You can imagine the people of Middleminster were losing their patience

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Then after what happened to his honor the mayor?

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Well, the people were outraged

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Now when the villagers saw the wizard on the street they turned away in disgust

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No one ever smiled at him anymore

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No one even looked him in the eye he was ignored

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The wizard grew very angry there was nothing for him to do

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He thought he has he could go on casting spells, but it wasn't fun anymore

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You see though he was angry. He was also very lonely

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What do you expect me to do he squealed can I help it if I have an imagination

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Finally he stormed home to his cottage on the hillside of Middleminster

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The people of the town peered up at the cottage to see what awful thing might happen next

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They had never seen the wizard in such a temper and they thought to themselves

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If he can play such tricks when he is happy what horrible thing might he do now when he is furious

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They were afraid that perhaps the cottage would explode and that all of the wizards magic spells would spill down the hill

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onto the village

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But after a few days the cottage grew quiet

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No curses

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No cries

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No sound at all a

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week passed

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The villagers watched nervously and then what do you suppose began to trickle out of the chimney?

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It was a hum

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The people of Middleminster crept out of their houses a

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Few at a time they ventured up the hill

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When they had surrounded the cottage the children strained to peek in the windows, but their parents tugged them back

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Then suddenly the wizard himself threw open the front door

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The people jumped and scrambled down the hill

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But the wizard called after them in a calm and mild and very

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unwizardly voice

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Come back come in the people stopped. I won't cast any more spells he promised

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The people were still uncertain

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But wouldn't you like to see what I've been doing ask the wizard well in truth of course they would a

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Few of the bravest went in first, but when the others heard their oohs and their ahs

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Soon they followed

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On the inside of the wizards cottage on every wall were the most wonderful

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pictures that the people of Middleminster had ever seen

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Pictures of ostrich fountains

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elephant queens in jeweled coaches and

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Cloud cottages thatched with stars

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Before the people could stop marveling at his work the wizard called them over to his hearthside and

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Wouldn't you like to hear what I've been doing?

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The villagers seated themselves comfortably before the fire while the wizard opened a book of handwritten verses

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They were the strangest and most wonderful verses the people had ever heard

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about flying children

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dragons breathing blizzards and

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Blue horses that swallow the night

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The villagers stayed on into the early morning

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And when the last verse had been read each person shook the wizard's hand and spoke whatever

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Words he could find to thank him

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They found the wizard very modest indeed

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Can I help it if I have an imagination? Yes

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Now the people of Middleminster spend many evenings of every season on the hilltop

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listening to verses and looking at pictures

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And whenever the citizens leave the village to travel in the world they say

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We come from Middleminster

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It is just an ordinary sort of village except for one

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marvelous thing

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It has an artist in it

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