 6 Barbara B bBarbara is bending over the baking oven to bring out the bread and biscuits she has just baked. Like Munch, she is a bit on the broad side. Her blue blouse billows out over her bosom and her bright apron bulges over her belly. She goes out onto the balcony to call Munch in. But what's that moving about? Her beady eye spots the wizard before he bobs down behind a bush. So, thinks Barbara, that barbarian's back to his usual bad behaviour? She runs out into the garden. When she finds the letters of the alphabet lying by the flowerbed, she begins to see what has happened. How can I break the spell? she wonders. Perhaps I can befuddle him. She bends down, picks up a pebble and tosses it into the bushes. Zettelwitz thinks he can hear something moving about. He puts the magic wand down to scramble through the bush. This is what Barbara has been waiting for. She dashes to the magic wand, picks it up and takes it to the K. She touches the letter with the wand – and suddenly Kalinko is standing in front of her! "Bravo, Barbara! Come back with me to my treasury, and I'll bring you a bountiful reward!" cries Kalinko and hurries away, but Barbara wants to free the others. She all but manages to do it. But then Zettelwitz comes back. His wand goes bounding back to him like a ball. He bellows:
A BABBLING AND BUBBLING! A BLINDING FLASH! Barbara has been changed into a blue B Bibble, babble, baking day
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