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Instantly the words came rushing into his head "Abracadabra, tum tum ti!" Was that it? Ah! yes for the cloak began to turn slowly. He repeated the charm again, more distinctly and firmly, when it gave a gentle dip, like a nod of satisfaction, and immediately started back, as fast as ever, in the direction of the tower.
The frightened cow had backed at the sight of the young girl, and stood in the doorway, with Finette clinging to her horns and making of her a sort of buckler. "You shall not escape me, sorceress!" cried the seneschal, and, with a grasp like that of Hercules, he seized the cow by the tail and dragged her out of the stable. "Abracadabra!" cried Finette.
Many of these fustian heroes formed the mushroom secret societies that played their vile extravaganza right under the shadow of the real tragedy of war. Worse still, not content with the abracadabra of their silly oaths, the busybody members made all the mischief they could during Lincoln's last election.
"Yes, my charmer," answered the happy bailiff; "I am just shutting the door." "Abracadabra!" cried Finette. "May you hold the door, villain, and may the door hold you till daybreak." And behold! the door opened and shut, and slammed against the walls like an eagle flapping its wings. You may judge what a dance the poor captive kept up all night.
She began snapping her fingers and saying the word eagerly, but nothing happened. Finally she turned back to him. "Show me again." He was sure it wouldn't work twice, and he hesitated, not too willing to have his stock go down with her. Then he gave in. "Abracadabra!" he said, and snapped his fingers. There were results at once. This time an egg appeared in his hand, to the delighted cry of Nema.
Even if we could find another subject with Bart's genetic possibilities, it would take more time than we have to spare." "This isn't magic, Colonel. You don't change a nobody into a physical and mental giant by saying abracadabra or by teaching him how to pronounce shazam properly." "I'm aware of that," said Colonel Mannheim without rancor. "Five years of work on Mr.
Doddleson went through the usual Abracadabra of his art, and assented to the opinions advanced, with all deference, by Mr. Sheldon. To Georgy this interview, in which Mr.
"He never had any patience to lose. What the hell does he expect me to do?" Dave asked hotly. "Snap my fingers thus, yell abracadabra and give him egg in his beer?" He stopped to stare at his hand, where a can of beer had suddenly materialized! Nema squealed in delight. "What a novel way to conjure, Dave. Let me try it."
By the way, many of the German peasantry in the more ignorant districts still believe that to write Abracadabra on a slip of paper and keep it with you, will protect you from wounds, and that if your house is on fire, to throw this strip into it will put the fire out. Many charms or incantations call on God, Christ or some saints, just as the heathen ones call on a spirit.
"I think I'll go home," said he, and repeated his "Abracadabra, tum tum ti!" with a rather heavy heart. The more he had, the more he wanted; and it is not always one can have everything one wants at least, at the exact minute one craves for it; not even though one is a prince, and has a powerful and beneficent godmother.
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