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Once upon a time, a long, long time ago there lived an old wizard called Know. He was so old that often he would forget what he was saying in mid sentence. Once he was in the middle of a spell to change a fish into a beautiful girl and he forgot what he was supposed to say next. This happened rather a lot with this particular spell and as a result there were mermaids swimming in the village pond. There was also white rabbits hopping about, speaking perfect English and small boys who couldn’t speak a word and who would sit in trees all day whistling and singing like birds and collecting twigs for to build nests with. In fact the whole island was littered with such strange sights, all because of the silly old wizard who couldn’t remember the last parts of his spells. Many people on the island thought they could cure him of this habit only to find the old wizard remembering the last bit but forgetting the start of missing great chunks out of the middle. Again, this would create even funnier things on the island. There were apple trees that would bark at you as you passed. There were flying carrots, sheep who insisted on singing in the village square and teachers who refused to do anything all day but lie on their backs in muddy pools grunting and snorting and grubbing for scraps and slops and anything they could lay their dirty little hands on. Nobody knew what to do for the best. One day an old witch landed on the island. She was so old that she too forgot parts of spells but only the first parts. Needless to say the place where she came from was also littered with these strange sights. Her name was Witch How and when she heard of the old wizard she insisted on trying to help him. As soon as they met it was love at first sight and shortly after that they got married and became known as Mr & Mrs Know-how. Needless to say whenever they cast spells they did it together and until this day they never cast a single faulty spell.

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