I will never forget the day when a talking koala arrived at my door. At first I just thought he was talking for a while, but I was wrong. He chatted about anything and everything: ants, slippers, t-shirts and lots more. It was like he was never going to shut his mouth. He was cute though. He had fluffy ears and jet black beady eyes. He was as soft as a teddy bear and as cuddly as one too and that was what made me nearly keep him...

But I had to for the time being (annoyingly) because he had nowhere else to live. What was extra annoying was his Australian accent. But one day I found an extremely thick book at the back of a cupboard. It said:

THE BOOK

OF

SPELLS

So I dusted the dust off the cover of the book and flicked through it. I skipped a page and then noticed I had and turned back to it. It said: How to stop a person or animal talking. I followed the instructions, waved my finger at the koala and shouted "alazaloc!" and the koala instantly stopped talking! Hooray! But then he started to mime. "Weird" I muttered. Then I noticed that it said at the very bottom of the page:

Side effects:

Miming, blindness, crazyness and bossiness.

"Oh great" I muttered.