I said that I would practice my magic tricks, and I am a pup who keeps his word. I asked two of the chicks to help me and went outside into the school playground. It was Saturday so there was nobody else around - I think peace and quiet is very important when one has to concentrate. Anyway, I intended to try out a trick from the book I'd got from the library. It was called "Every Boy's Bumper Book of Magic Tricks" and seemed to be very comprehensive - over 1000 tricks ranging from the very easy to sawing your teacher in half. I decided that I should probably start at the easier end of the range, and so I decided on trick No. 85 - Making a friend disappear. The explanation of how to do the trick was very long and boring, so I just skipped to the end bit, where it gave you the magic words to use. I read them out very carefully, there was a big "kerplunk" noise and a puff of smoke, and I looked down to see - not two missing chicks, but one pink chick and one blue one! It was only then that I decided to read the rest of the instructions.
"May lead to unpredictable results if used with non-mammal subjects out of doors" it said. Fine time to tell me that! Anyway, in the "What to do if things get out of hand section at the back of the book, it said "To reverse the effects of tricks just look in our companion volume "Tips and Tricks for Plucky Young Chaps in Trouble". The problem is, the library wasn't open again until Monday, so it was multi-coloured poultry for rest of the weekend!
....give up! Just look what happened when I tried to reverse the spell that changed the chicks to a different colour. Only another dinosaur! What am I supposed to do with this one? Actually he's quite a friendly little chap. He says his name is Mini Steg, which is quite an odd name. I wonder what the "mini" bit means?
