ABRA BA BOO!

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 23

ABRA BA BOO!

HIS LITTLE JOKE WITH THE COURT Abra Ba 800 was a wicked magician Who changed people’s noses without their permission, Which made them declare in a terrible pet They’d soon give him something he wouldn’t forget, If only they found where he cunningly hid. But no one was able, so nobody did! Once (changed to a beetle with glossy black wing), He crawled to a castle to peep at the king, Then “Click!" in a flash— by the trick in his book—■ The king’s head was changed for the head of his cook. While down in the kitchen, oh, wonderful thing, The cook wore the head and the crown of the king!

Ah, see from the kitchen with rage he has flown To reach the great chamber and sit on the throne. But finds there the cook with his cap on his head. Though robed like a monarch in raiments all red. “What cheek!" cried the. king when at last he could speak, “I never beheld such astonishing cheek. Get down, sir! At once, sir!” “Not I,” said the cook. “Your words are improper, and so is your look. Go back to the kitchen, you impudent clown! I’ll charge you icith treason, for wearing the crown." Then up came the courtiers in parties and pairs Amazed by this singular state of affairs, And found it too hard to decide by a look On which was the monarch and which was the cook; Till suddenly up rose the one on the throne' And pointing, he cried fin a terrified tone: “A beetle! A beetle! Sec there on the .. floor! They swarm in the kitchen by score upon score." Then “Stay!" laughed the beetle, “Stop joking now, do! Behold! I’m the wizard, great Abra Ba 800. My joke is now ended. I’m weary of fun, Your heads shall be changed again." Flash! It was done. The wizard had vanished . . The king rose to say: “Cook, make me a pancake for dinner to-day." The cook bowed his head and right humbly replied: “I will—the best pancake that ever was fried." iiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiHniiiiniiiiintuiiiiii