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pleasant smell of coffee brewing. I could also smell eggs and bacon frying.

"Mmmm," Jenny murmured as she stirred beside me. "That smells absolutely
marvelous!"

''Oh, do it again! Do it again!"

It was little Michelle's voice, and we both came completely awake instantly.
For
a moment, Jenny looked confused, then she remembered our house guest and
bolted
out of bed. Neither of us had undressed the previous night, and we both
hurried
to the kitchen, where the sight that greeted us brought us both up short and
rendered us absolutely speechless.

Breakfast was cooking itself. Literally, cooking itself. Merlin sat on a
chair,
which he had pulled back from the table, and Michelle was sitting on his
knee,
in a rapture of delight, clapping her hands with glee. Christine stood by the
stove, staring with a mixture of awe and fascination as the eggs in the
frying
pan obligingly turned themselves over and the bacon rose up as it was done,
levitating out of the pan on the adjoining burner to float gracefully over
onto
a plate set on the counter top.

A mixing bowl stirred by a wooden spurtle was suspended in midair, then it
tipped over to pour dollops of pancake batter into a frying pan. The pancakes
flipped themselves as they became done on one side, and Michelle clapped with
delight and cried, "Oh, higher! Higher!" Complying with her demands, the
pancakes flipped once more, describing elaborate parabolas in the air, flying
up
to just below the ceiling before they landed back in the pan again.

"It's a trick," Christine insisted, frowning as she seemed to scan for wires
or
some other hidden agency that might have performed the feat.

"Yes, but you must admit it is a neat trick," Merlin said.

"How is it done?" Christine asked, framing with childish innocence the one
question that raced through both mine and Jenny's minds, only we could not
bring
ourselves to ask it. We were both absolutely stupefied with disbelief.

"It's magic," Merlin said, glancing at us and acknowledging our presence with
a
smile and a nod.