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Clearly very surprised, she asked him if this "small thing was really what he wished. He, still in his most jocular, ' commercial traveller,' mode, laughingly replied, "Sure thing, Old Mother, and in a flash, as quickly as she had first appeared the wrinkled old crone was gone. No puff of smoke, nothing like that, just gone. In her place stood a little chap no more than a foot and a half high and, dressed in a boiled shirt, white tie and tails, looked very smart."Well hello! Kirby had gasped, looking about him in complete astonishment, "Who are you? The dapper miniature guy, taking this as a friendly greeting rather than an expression of surprise, replied, "Hallo there! and went on to explain that he was the pianist that had been demanded from his patron the witch. Peter, light dawning in his face, began to laugh, at first almost soundlessly but then with so much vigour that he almost fell from his rock. " "That's a good one, he choked out " the pair of you got me there. The little fellow was bridling, so obviously offended that, stifling his merriment and beginning to look a little concerned, Kirby continued more soberly, "Come on, you both know it was a joke.