The Great Hobarto's Magic Act The Numtums

COCKEREL CROWS

# Here come the Numtums They're furry and they're fun

# Here come the Numtums Let's start with number one

# Bendy Go!

# Dar Dar!

# Champer!

# Gladdy!

# Little Sandy!

# Flinders!

# Humpty Do!

# Coogee!

# Hobart!

# Nimbin!

# One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight

# Nine, ten!

# The Numtums! #

Good morning, Numpups! Would anyone be interested in the er...

-brand-new Super Numtum comic?

-Yeah!

-Uh-oh!

-Come on.

-Look over there. A...giant termite treat.

-Oh!

-Huh? Uh? Hold on!

-Numpups, nil. Lyrebird, one.

Oh, yes. Go, me!

Gotcha! Oh, it's a magic story today.

Time for some magic tricks, Fluffy-style!

I will now make these rubber duckies disappear,

because no rubber duckies means no bath time.

All the more time to be naughty! Ha-ha! Oh, assistant!

My magic wand, please. Thank you.

Abraca-Fluffy-McTuffety-zon, wiggle my wand

and these ducks are gone.

Ta-da! The ducks have disappeared.

There's one left.

Do I have to do everything myself?

Hmm. My mischief detector tells me there's some naughtiness nearby

-and I can guess where it's coming from.

-Ta-da...ahem! Ta-da!

Hey, leave those poor ducks alone!

Time to make you and your naughtiness disappear.

-But... Oh!

-Ta-da!

Oh, cocks-a-doodles!

Yeah! Go, Super Numtums!

Ha-ha, watch me make this disappear.

Ta-da! No more treats.

-Now that IS impressive!

-Look! There are free gifts with the comic!

-It's a magic wand and a magician's hat.

-Oh, try it on, Dar Dar.

Ha-ha-ha! OK.

Ha-ha-ha! You look like Fluffy McTuffy!

-I want to take over the world!

-Ooh, nice hat, Dar Dar.

It's a magician's hat but it's too big for us. You try it.

-Look, it fits.

-And look, there's a magic wand.

-That must mean I'm a magician!

-Are you really a magician, Hobart?

I am now and by the way, call me the Great Hobarto!

-Wooo!

-Ooh, show us a magic trick.

-Er, uh... A magic trick.

-Can you make things disappear?

-Disappear? Well, er...maybe.

-Will you show us?

-Make something disappear.

-Show us.

But it would be so much more fabulous

at the Platypus Playhouse with the lights and the music.

-Whooo!

-I know!

Why don't you Numpups run along and find some things

-I can make disappear in the magic show later.

-Come on, Numpups.

Last one back's a wobbly walrus.

Can I be your magician's assistant?

-An assistant?

-Oh, please! Can I? Please?

Of course. That's just what I need. Can you do magic tricks?

-Er...maybe.

-Excellent! Oh, you've got the job.

-Hooray!

What magic trick we going to practise first, Great Hobarto?

I don't know any magic tricks. Yo-ho-ho-ho!

What am I going to do? Everyone's coming to see a magic show

and I don't have any magic tricks to show them.

-I'll never perform in Gumnut Gorge again.

-Don't worry, Hobart.

-I know a magic trick that I can teach you.

-You do?

By my calculations,

the hat should have a secret hiding place in the bottom.

Oh, that's right! It does. Oh, how mysterious.

Oh! Mysterious!

That's so when you do the magic trick, you can lift the flap

and hide the object in the bottom.

Then you put the flap back and hey Hobarto!

-It looks like the rubber ducky has disappeared.

-That's wonderful.

It's like a kind of magical subtraction.

That reminds me of a song.

# One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten tasty treats

# Ten tasty termite treats

# But that's too many termites

# For just one Numtum to eat Yeah!

# Let's take three treats and put them away

# Save them for another day

# How many treats are left on the tray?

# Count together, let me hear you say

# One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

# Seven tasty termite treats

# But that's still too many Mmmm!

# Let's take three more and put them away

# Save them for another day How many have we left on the tray?

# Count together, let me hear you say

# One, two, three, four

# Four tasty termites

# But there's only one of me

# I think we still need to take three and put them away

# Save them for another day How many have we left on the tray?

# Count together Let me hear you say

# One Yeah!

# One tasty termite treat for you. #

So I'm taking things away and hiding them

in the secret part of the magic hat.

That's right. Over to you, Great Hobarto.

See if you can make my sparkle stones disappear.

I have here three sparkle stones.

I shall now, before your very eyes, take one away

and put it into my hat.

I tap it with my wand,

and, "Hey, Hobarto", the sparkle stone has...

-disappeared.

-That was great, Hobarto.

You just forgot one tiny detail.

Silly old me. Let's try that one more time.

I have here three sparkle stones.

I shall now, before your very eyes,

take one away and put it into my hat.

I tap it with my wand,

and, "Hey, Hobarto",

one sparkle stone has disappeared.

And only two are left.

Oh, mysterious.

I love it.

-You really are the Great Hobarto.

-Thank you, Little Sandy.

I am pretty good, aren't I? Now, on with the show!

Roll up, roll up for a stadium spectacular!

Yeah!

-Tickets, please.

-Here you go, Billy.

# I say, clip, clip, clipetty clip

-# I said, clip, clip, clipetty clip Yeah!

-#

-Be sure to remember the secret hiding place.

-I'm so nervous.

-Do you think they will like the magic trick?

-They will love it.

Be careful not to make too many things disappear.

-The secret hiding place isn't very big.

-I will.

Now, it's time for the Great Hobarto and his assistant

to work their magic.

Ladies and jellybeans, get ready for an amazing

and spectacular show, full of magicy-magic.

And the Grrrreat Hobarto!

THEY CHEER

-Hello, magic fans.

-ALL: Hello, Great Hobarto!

Today, I will make things disappear before your very eyes.

-Oooo!

-Humpty Do.

-Have you brought something for my magic trick?

-Oh, yes.

-These.

-Two magnifying glasses.

-Is my hat empty, everybody?

-Yes!

Little Sandy, put the magnifying glasses in the hat.

Of course, Great Hobarto.

We give the hat a magic tap. Ta-da!

There were two magnifying glasses.

I take away two and we now have none!

-Oooo!

-Wow!

-Magic!

Three balls to make disappear. Into the hat, please, Little Sandy.

One, two, three.

We give the hat a magic tap. Ta-da!

There were three balls.

We've made three disappear and we now have...

ALL: None!

Uh-oh!

-Let's make four rubber duckies disappear.

-Four?!

Into the hat, please, magical assistant.

One, two, three, four.

-Give the hat...

-A magic tap.

-Ta-da!

There were four rubber duckies.

We made four disappear. And now we have...

ALL: None!

THEY CHEER

-Uh, you haven't done my pineapples.

-Pineapples?

The Great Hobarto needs to rest after using all his magical powers.

ALL: Aw! Please!

Little Sandy, the pineapples, please.

-The secret hiding place isn't very big.

-Drum roll, please.

One, two, three, four, five.

Ta-da! There were five pineapples.

I take away five and we have...

POPPING

-None!

-THEY GASP

Ta-da! And for his last magic trick,

the Great Hobarto has made everything reappear.

Yay! Amazing!

Thank you, thank you.

And now for my final trick, Little Sandy

and I will disappear ourselves.

Come on, let's go!

Yeah.