- In the days of King Arthur, they lived in Camelot, A source who entertained the royal court with miraculous feet south, magic high above the castle walls, the ancient ne meet with members of the magic round table.

Come with us now to the secret room of, - Oh, I wonder, I wonder what happened to the playing card this time that turned into a membership card today.

And I, oh, it's Michael Lap page's membership card.

And on the back it says, dear Merlin, I won't be here today, but you have a guest.

A guest will appear in the secret room and his name is, well, I won't tell you because I'm gonna give him a good introduction.

Let me present at this time.

You're a very good friend of mine, our guest for the day.

Who do you think it is?

His name is Brett Tma.

Here he is.

Hi Brett.

Nice to see you.

Gee, I like that outfit you're wearing blue and white striped shirt.

And you funny.

I thought I saw somebody else that looked just like you.

I get, look there.

Am I seeing two people?

Yeah, two.

Two.

You're, you're Brett, right?

Yeah.

Well, who's this?

Your shadow?

- No.

- Who is it?

- Bart.

- Bart.

Your twins.

Brett and Bart.

Shake hands.

I'd like you twins to meet each other.

Oh, they know each other.

They've been with each other all their life.

Well, I'm Merlin Bart Brett.

Nice that you could be here in our secret room today.

It was a long, long trip from the 20th century over the drawbridge of time.

But I'd like to try a little trick.

May I?

Yeah.

Do you mind?

Alright.

Do you have any money?

A coin?

Yeah.

Alright, you have a coin and I am going to put the coin in the back of this handkerchief.

It's an ordinary handkerchief.

It has a side on each side, you see in the center in the middle.

Now I'm going to put this coin.

You see that mark on there?

Did you put that there?

Yeah.

You put on magic marker, didn't you?

Yeah.

Alright.

I'm gonna put the coin underneath.

Underneath the handkerchief, right in the very center.

And I want you to hold it.

Hold it tightly.

Can you still feel it?

Don't let go.

You got it?

Yeah.

Alright.

Now I have here a banana that we're going to use later on.

Now don't eat the banana Bart.

Now when I count to three, something is going to happen.

I'm going to make that coin.

Leave the handkerchief and float around the room.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 times.

This gives me luck if I put my hand over a boy with a short haircut.

Little magic wolfel does from your hair.

And I'll sprinkle that on the, oh, the coin's still there.

What did I forget?

Oh, I know.

I have to say the beg.

Your pardon?

The magic words Fi Die.

Philly d mystic coin vanish for me.

That's what I'll say.

Philly die.

Philly d mystic coin vanished for me and count to three.

Here I go.

One, two, and three.

Still there.

Blow on it.

Do you know where that coin went?

Right into the banana.

Wait a minute.

You ate most?

He ate the banana.

There's only a little bit left.

I was gonna produce the coin from the banana that take a little, just a little bit down there.

I was gonna push the wand right through there and make a hole and have it come out the other, but there's already a hole right there.

Alright, now let me see.

Open your mouth.

Wide.

Wide.

Oh, I see that coin right here.

I wonder if this matches, is that your mark on there?

Yeah.

Take the coin and show it to your brother.

Is that your, yeah.

I see.

I'll forgive you for eating the banana, but I'll tell you what we're going to do now.

Brett and Bart, we're going to make the mighty sword Excalibur rise.

So would you mind sitting over at the round table over there?

Brett and Bart, you sit here and Brett, way over there it is Brett and Bart, isn't it?

Yeah.

Brett, Bart, you're sure?

Two good looking boys.

You won't laugh at me if I make a mistake.

No.

Huh?

No.

Not even giggle a little bit.

Alright.

Okay.

Maybe you'll make the sword rise with me.

Let's say, let's say the magic words together.

You know what they are.

Beg your pardon.

Fi Die fi d magic sword.

Rise for me.

We say that now and then we'll find out what the theme word for the day is.

I hope Excalibur doesn't set my handkerchief on fire because sometimes a lot of flame comes out.

Here we go.

Ready?

Good fiddly.

Die fiddly.

D, magic sword.

Rise.

For me, the magic.

The magic theme word today is C-A-S-T-L-E-S. Castles.

You know, many, many members have asked me about, about castles and how they, how they were shaped and formed and used in King Arthur's day.

I'm going to to draw before I go back to our good friend Brett and Bart over here, a picture of a castle and explain a little bit about, and perhaps it'll be more understandable to you.

Alright, first of all, we have a tower on one corner of the castle and it's round and usually it has a pointed roof like that.

Then over here we have another tower.

Usually we have four towers and separating each tower is a wall or a battlement.

And I wonder if you can tell me why they're nots like this.

Well, the soldiers stand here and they can look down and see what's going on around them in that manner.

You see?

So some, now these towers are usually made of stone or brick and sometimes they crack open like that.

The stucco where the plaster breaks off.

And you can see the bricks underneath them or the stones like that.

King Arthur's castle is in good repair and you can't see any broken or crack marks right in the center of one wall is usually placed an archway.

And there is a ditch filled with water in front of that archway.

And this is called, this is called a drawbridge.

I might as well just draw the moat right around here.

And you can see what I'm talking about.

Sometimes they just, they just make a ditch around a castle and fill it with water.

This is water right here, you see?

And to get from the land over here into the castle, the draw bridge has to be let down.

Otherwise you'd fall into the water.

Right?

But if the draw bridge isn't let down in sufficient time and the enemy troops try to cross over the draw bridge, they drop an iron gate.

And that iron gate is called a port cull.

It has very sharp spikes on the end like this.

And so the people in the castle are protected through the use of the four, the drawbridge and the iron gate or the port culls from the top of one of the spires flies the flag of the Lord or the king.

Usually in England they have a lion.

Now the people who live out in the countryside usually serve their Lord and they work for him in time of trouble.

They come across the drawbridge and into the castle.

And for the protection that the king gives them by his soldiers and his castle, they give him food.

That's right.

They give him food each year in payments.

Sort of a, like you might call taxes in your 20th century, modern America.

Brett and Bart are still over here and I want to talk to them just a little bit further.

Brett and Bart, I'm glad that you, you didn't go back to the 20th century.

I'm glad you stayed here.

I want you to help me.

Would you both stand up, please?

You'll each, you'll need a magic wand for this.

Would you take this wand?

Alright, just hold it tightly.

That's it.

And you take this one right here.

Fine.

I'll keep this one for myself.

It's a little heavy for you.

All right, we'll put it down.

What we're going to do is make a magic, a magic cake.

Now we don't have, I wonder if Chauncey, the page would throw me some flour napkins we have over there or some paper because we don't have any real flour today.

And I don't have anything to like, well, Chauncey's sleeping, so I'll just use this.

This old envelope from a letter I had.

What do we need in a cake?

You know?

Do you know what we need?

What are some of the important things?

Well, we need a little, little flour.

I don't have flour, so I'll just take some of this willful dust from behind your ear and sprinkle that there.

Over there.

And I need some from this ear over here.

And then we have to blow the magic trumpet.

The magic trumpet.

This is the magic trumpet right here.

See I take a little wolfel dust from you in here.

If I have some, here's a little more and we blow the trumpet.

Would you blow it please?

That's fine.

Bar.

Oh, would you blow it Brett?

Because we have to have something appear.

Try the other end.

That's fine.

You beg your pardon?

Alright, now we're going to just wave the wand gently over the, oh, I forgot.

One of the most important ingredients of all.

You say you don't feel.

Well, I know why we're not having any luck whatsoever.

Would you just step out here please?

And you come over here and help us please, Brett.

And you stand on that side and you put your elbow into the funnel right here.

I think he has a condition known as water on the elbow.

And the only way we can save him and make him feel better is to pump his arm.

When I count one, Brett, wait till I count one.

Okay.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

You better now.

Oh, you look much, much better indeed.

Yes.

Alright, now we'll go back to our archaic experiment over here, shall we?

Very quickly.

'cause we only have a little bit of time and I don't have much flour.

You wanna see your face?

'cause you're both two good looking boys.

You have to use your imagination now you know you never play with fire, right?

Only Merlin can do this little more wiffle dust.

Oh, that's getting very warm indeed.

We should shake this in a, in a counter clockwise position like that.

And would you just put a little bit of of salt in the cake?

Just shake the magic salt over the top.

That's a what you're enchanted.

Brett, I wonder what we have now.

Oh, we have one lovely cake right here.

And this cake is for, is for Brett.

Beg your pardon?

What about me?

You wanted, what would you rather have more than anything in the world?

Whisper in my ear.

A baby brother.

You'll have to speak to your daddy about that.

How about another cake?

Alright.

Alright, here's another cake.

You have your wand, you have your wand bar and Brett, and you can each take your cake now and go back to the 20th century.

Goodbye.

We'll see you later.

Goodbye.

Bye now.

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