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sorry, because she had baked the cookie. And Daddy wasn't sorry,

because he had gone to New Hampshire to get the 300 year-old

baked beans that went into the cookie.

Naomi and Joe? They just laughed and laughed, because they

knew that it wasn't a Wicked Cookie that Witch Hazel had just

eaten.

It was a Farting Cookie.

Witch Hazel felt something funny.

She felt it building in her tummy and her behind. It felt like a of

gas. It felt like an explosion looking for a place to happen.

"What have you done to me!" she shrieked. "Who are you?'"

"I am the Prince of New Hampshire.'" The Prince cried, raising his

face to she could see it clearly for the first time.

"And we are the Kings." Daddy said. "Shame on you for turning

my wife's hands into milk bottles! Double shame on you for

turning my nose into a banana. Triple shame on you for making

my Naomi and my Joe cry all day and all night. But we've fixed

you now, Wicked Witch Hazel!"

"You won't be casting anymore spells." said Naomi. "Because you

are going to the moon!"

"I'm not going to the moon!" Witch Hazel screeched so loudly that

the chimney fell on the lawn. "I'm going to turn you all into cheap

antiques that not even tourists will buy!"

"No you're not." said Joe, "because you ate the magic cookie. You

ate the magic farting cookie."

The wicked witch foamed and frothed. She tried to cast her spell.

But it was too late: the Farting Cookie had done its work. She felt a

big fart coming on. She squeezed her butt to keep it in until she

could cast her spell, but it was too late.

WHONK! Went the fart. It blew all the fur off her cat, Basta. lt

blew in the windows. And Witch Hazel went up in the air like a

rocket.

"Get me down!'' Witch Hazel screamed. Witch Hazel came down

all right. She came down on her fanny. And when the came down,

she let another fart.

DRRRRRRAPPP! Went the fart. lt was so windy it knocked down

the witch's home and the Bridgton Trading Post. You could see

Dom Cardozl sitting on the toilet where he had been pooping. It

was all that was left of the Trading Post except for one bureau that

had been made in Grand Rapids

The witch went flying up into the sky. She flew up and up until she

was as small as a speck of coal dust.

"Get me down. " Witch Hazel called, sounding very small and far

away.

"You'll come down all right." Naomi said.

Down came Witch Hazel.

"Yeeeaaahhhh'" she screamed falling out of the sky.

Just before the could hit the ground and be crushed (as maybe she

deserved), she cut another fart, the biggest one of all the smell was

like two million egg salad sandwiches. And the sound was KA-

HIONK!!!

Up she went again

"Goodbye, Witch Hazel " yelled Mommy waving. "Enjoy the

moon."

"Hope you stay a long time"' called Joe.

Up and up went Witch Hazel until she was out of sight. During the

news that night the Kings and the Prince of New Hampshire heard

Barbara Walters report that a UFW had been seen by a 74 7

airplane over Bridgton. Maine - an unidentified flying witch.

And that was the end of wicked Witch Hazel. She is on the moon

now, and probably still farting.

And the Kings are the happiest family in Bridgton again. They

often exchange visits with the Prince of New Hampshire, who is

now now King. Daddy writes books and never uses the word

banana. Mommy uses her hands more than ever. And Joe and

Naomi King hardly ever cry.

As for Witch Hazel, she was never seen again, and considering

those terrible farts she was letting when she left, that is probably a

good thing!

THE END

THE LITTLE

SISTERS OF

ELURIA

STEPHEN KING

From:

Legends: The Book Of Fantasy 1998

INTRODUCTION

The Gunslinger (1982)

The Drawing of the Three (1987)

The Waste Lands (1991)

Wizard and Glass (1997)

These novels, using thematic elements from Robert Browning's

poem 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'. tell the saga of

Roland, last of the gunslingers, who embarks on a quest to find the

Dark Tower for reasons that the author has yet to reveal. Along the

way, Roland encounters the remains of what was once a thriving

society, feudal in nature but technologically quite advanced, that

now has fallen into decay and ruin. King combines elements of

fantasy with science fiction into a surreal blend of past and future.

The first book, The Gunslinger, introduces Roland, who is chasing

the Dark Man, an enigmatic sorcerer figure, across a vast desert.

Through flashbacks, the reader learns that Roland was a member

of a noble family in the Dark Tower world, and that that world

may or may not have been destroyed with help from the Dark Man.

Along the way, Roland encounters strange inhabitants of this

unnamed world, including Jake, a young boy who, even though he

is killed by the end of the first book, will figure prominently in

later volumes. Roland does catch up with the Dark Man, and learns

that he must seek out the Dark Tower to find the answers to the

questions of why he must embark on this quest and what is

contained in the Tower.

The next book, The Drawing of the Three, shows Roland recruiting

three people from present-day Earth to join him on his way to the

Dark Tower. They are Eddie, a junkie 'mule' working for the

Mafia; Suzannah, a paraplegic with multiple personalities; and

Jake, whose arrival is startling to Roland, who sacrificed Jake in

his own world during his pursuit of the Dark Man. Roland saves

Jake's life on Earth, but the resulting schism nearly drives him

insane. Roland must also help the other two battle their own

demons, Eddie's being his heroin addiction and guilt over not being

able to save his brother's life, and Suzannah's the war between her

different personalities, one a kind and gentle woman, the other a

racist psychopath. Each of the three deals with their problems with

the help of the others, and together the quartet set out on the

journey to the Tower.

The third book, The Waste Lands, chronicles the first leg of that

journey, examining the background of the three Earth-born

characters in detail. The book reaches its climax when Jake is

kidnapped by a cult thriving in the ruins of a crumbling city, led by

a man known only as Flagg (a character who has appeared in

several of King's other novels as the embodiment of pure evil).

Roland rescues Jake and the group escapes the city on a monorail

system whose artificial intelligence program has achieved

sentience at the cost of its sanity. The monorail challenges them to

a riddle-contest, with their lives as the prize if they can stump the

machine, who claims to know every riddle ever created.

Wizard and Glass, the fourth volume in the series, finds Roland,

Jake, Eddie and Suzannah continuing their journey towards the

Dark Tower, moving through a deserted part of Mid-World that is

eerily reminiscent of twentieth-century Earth. During their travels

they encounter a thinny, a dangerous weakening of the barrier

between different times and places. Roland recognizes it and

realizes that his world is breaking down faster than he had thought.

The thinny prompts him to recall the first time he encountered it,

many years before on a trip out west with his friends Cuthbert and

Alain, when Roland had just earned his gunslinger status. It is this

story - of the three boys uncovering a plot against the ruling

government and of Roland's first love, a girl named Susan Delgado