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the corner, the Witch examines it, and then breaks into a laugh.

The Witch. Well, Fiddle, whatever have you been up to now? Oh, ho! playing with my spinning-wheel? Well, you are a snarl. Wait—I'll unwind you!

[She seizes one end of the yarn and winds it into a ball, but so quickly that poor Fiddle, at the other end, spins and whirls and revolves like a top as she unwinds him, and the Witch laughs at his antics till the tears stream down her withered old cheeks. When he is free, Fiddle has to sit in a corner and hold his head in both paws for dizziness; but, picking up her basket, the Witch says:

The Witch. Now come here and help me mix that magic hair restorer. We must stew all the other ingredients together before Brangomar comes.

[The Witch and Fiddle dance round and round the cauldron in a mystic circle;