27 SurpriseEveryone rushes to congratulate the wizard and shake his hand.
"Take it easy", laughs Zettelwitz, pleasantly surprised.
"Perhaps you wouldn't mind letting me go?" He asks the python politely.
Slowly, the snake loosens its powerful coils.
"I won't be far away", she hisses.
"And now I would like to put all my transformations into reverse",
declares the wizard, flourishing his magic wand.
He whispers something complicated. The sweet sound of a flute floats in the air.
All the creatures he transformed come running, hopping and flying to join them.
Ronya storms towards the wizard in a rage. Zettelwitz holds his hands up.
"Miss Ronya, please don't be angry! I promise not to cause you any more trouble
in the future.
Can you forgive me?"
"I'll conjure up a new birdhouse", he adds in a hurry. "Any requests? I can
make it any way you like!"
The girl quickly becomes more friendly.
"No need", she says happily. "Surprise me! If the house isn't right, you can
always change it!"
There's a sound of soft music again, and a new building appears. It's so grand
that everyone is
delighted. Everybody claps.
"Magnificent! Beautiful! Lovely!" They all say.
"You've done a magical job, Zettelwitz dear",
says Ronya with shining eyes and gives him a little kiss.
Zettelwitz is very happy.
"That's not all I can do. I will now conjure up the whole alphabet for you!"
With a smile, he makes the whole alphabet go whizzing by. All 26 letters are
there, large and small: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y zThe sun has gone down, and it's getting chilly. Everyone pours into the house.
When they get
inside, there's a surprise waiting for them.
Tables groaning under a sumptuous buffet!
What delicious food!
Avocados and apple tart, birdseeds, biscuits and blueberry pie, cheese and
creamed corn, dill sauce on poached eggs, fresh figs and other fruit, flies in
honey, grapes, honey-lemon-ginger cookies, juice, kiwis, meal-worms, lamb chops
with leeks and mushrooms, noodles and nuts, olives and cocktail onions, papaya
and orange sauce, quince pudding, roast beef, sausages, sherry, shrimp salad,
spiders and sunflower seeds, turkey breast and tuna steaks, Uncle Uli's
cucumbers, vegetarian stir fry, walnuts and water melon, wine, yams with yogurt
and zesty zucchinis.
Enough for everyone!
Now our wizard's made amends,
Everyone comes and brings their friends
From miles around, amazed to see
Zettelwitz charm the ABC.
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