- 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 - Did, did, did you see what happened?

The, the car dropped and it turned into a, a cone.

This is a cone.

It's pointed on top.

It's round on the bottom, and it tapers up very, very slowly.

This is a cone, CONE, but this, this is a, is a cylinder.

It's round in the same size, top and bottom.

This isn't either a cone or a cylinder.

This, what is it?

Well, it's just a tray.

It has a, a side on each side, a center in the middle and, and edges all around.

I'm going to use that in just, in just a moment, but first I wanted to show you my, my cylinder.

See, it's just a chunk of air surrounded by cardboard round on both ends, all the way down a cylinder.

Okay?

And this, this of course is a cylinder too, but it's a skinny one.

It's a candle cylinder.

I'll put the big cylinder over the candle like cylinder.

And I hope that my little fire taper works.

We have to be very careful when we use fire.

You know that though, don't you?

Fire's very dangerous.

Now, what I'd like to do is just, just take the, the candle and put it in here.

Snap it once, twice, three times.

The cal, the, the, the candle is vanished completely.

And do you know where it's gone?

Right back into the cylinder.

Let's see if it's there.

And if it's, if it's lighted, there it is.

Oh, yes, the cylinder is empty.

And I better put the fire out because fires are very, very dangerous.

Something you shouldn't play with so much for the cylinder and cone trick.

Right now.

I, well, we should have Patty, the pixie here.

I don't know why she isn't here, but right now I'm going to, to get my, my crystal ball and maybe if we concentrate real, real hard, we'll see Patty, the pixie in the crystal ball.

Concentrate.

Think real hard.

Concentrate.

Concentrate the, there she is.

Hi Patty.

Hi Merlin.

Where are you?

- I'm in Camelot Forest right now.

- Well, that's a long ways.

Can you come here quickly?

I'll be right there.

Okay.

Thank you Patty.

Now Patty, one more thing.

Patty.

Oh, Patty, PA, she's gone.

And I wanted, I wanted to talk to her again.

Here I am.

Merlin Patty.

Where?

Where?

I don't see you.

Right over here.

Oh, Patty, it's nice to see you.

- Nice to be back.

Mar, - You got here very quickly.

What's the trick of going from one place to another so fast?

- I just shut my eyes and just hold my fist and I disappear.

- And here I'm, I think there's a secret that you're not telling me.

- Well, Merlin, we Pixies can't tell you all of our secrets.

- Tell me, Patty, do you have some mail force today?

What?

What do you wanna talk about?

- Well, we got a lot of mail, Merlin, but today I wanted to show you a special trick.

I learned.

- Well, I I I, I do the tricks around here.

- Well, this is a special one for you.

- You think you could fool me?

- I think I could.

All right.

It's with a, with a 20th century pencil.

This is a pencil.

And I wanted to ask you, do you have a dollar bill I could - Borrow?

I have a 20th century dollar bill with George Washington's picture on it.

- Yes.

Oh, that's perfect.

Now Merlin, do you think that you can break this pencil with that dollar bill - By hitting - It?

That's right.

I'll hold it real tight.

And you, you just hit it right down the middle like that.

- That didn't, that didn't do it at all.

I have no luck.

- Maybe you ought to try some magic.

- Well, I smart Alec.

I hit George Washington right on the nose.

Patty, I don't think anyone can do it.

No one can do that.

- I can do it.

Merlin, - Wait a minute.

Now you mean to say you can break this pencil right into - With only a dollar bill?

- I don't think you can do it.

I'll hold the pencil.

- Okay.

Melin, you have to make it nice and stiff.

- Yes.

Okay.

Right along the middle.

- One, - Two - Sheet.

She, she, you mean you're stronger than I am.

Well, Merl, this just takes a little bit of magic that I know.

- Would you please tell, tell us all the secret how you did that?

That's a wonderful trick.

- Well, Merl, and this is how you do it.

Yes.

Yes.

See, it's really just a plain, ordinary dollar bill, which, you know, can't break a pencil.

- Oh.

- So what you do is you come down, you put your knuckle in the fold of the paper.

- Yes.

But you still, that's a soft dollar bill.

- And you go down and on one, two and on the third time you extend your index finger.

Oh.

Just like that.

So it's solid.

- Yes.

- And make sure all your other knuckles are out of the way.

And then, and then right through the pencil.

Just like that.

Isn't that a It - Doesn't hurt a bit.

That's a wonderful trick.

And could I dry it?

Sure.

Merlin.

I'm gonna see if I hold it.

You hold that.

I'll hold it.

You get a pencil?

I've got one more left.

Now you have to fold it down the middle and the finger on the third count opens and hits the pencil.

I'm gonna do it now.

One.

Ready?

Two.

And wait a minute, I would break my finger right in two too big.

That's mu Well, it's as big as a, as a 20th century telephone pole.

I, I don't think I better try without my finger's too weak.

But I, I would like to have this pencil if I could keep - It.

Okay.

Merlin.

I'll keep the dollar bill.

- That sounds like a good idea.

Thank you, Patty.

- We'll see you.

Bye-Bye.

See you later.

Bye-Bye - Bye.

Wait a minute.

I just lost my dollar bill.

And all I've got left is this big pencil.

Well, we'll perhaps see Patty a little later on and I'll talk to that young lady about it.

Time for what now?

Right time.

Not to make the pencil rise, but time to make the mighty sort exce rise.

If we say the words together, the magic words.

Are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

Philly, die fiddly.

D magic sword rise for me.

And the magic word today is the same one we had our last meeting.

S-L-E-E-P. Sleep.

Something we all need a lot of.

In fact, we all need about, I would say about eight hours of sleep.

You remember the last time we talked about how animals sleep?

Remember that?

I'm not gonna draw them all.

I don't have time.

But the first animal we talked about was, well, it was an orangutan.

And I want to just have you concentrate on the orangutan now.

Are you ready?

1, 2, 3, watch.

That is orangutan.

And you notice he hangs onto the limbs of the tree with his feet and he hangs onto the limbs with his hands.

He sleeps by holding on by his four extremities.

Now let's, let's look at another one.

Let's concentrate this time on a bird.

Ready?

A bird.

What bird would you like to think about?

An owl.

All right.

How does an owl sleep differently than anyone else?

Well, he sleeps, for example, he sleeps during the daytime.

During the daytime.

Alright, let's think of another animal.

Okay.

Think, concentrate a bear.

He sleeps all winter.

He sleeps three months long and he hibernates.

I'm gonna draw.

Forget about those now.

Just forget about them entirely.

All right.

And I'm going to draw this time an animal that sleeps quite differently than most.

See if you can tell me what this animal is.

He's sleeping.

All right.

Big hind legs.

Yes.

And he has a spotted body and he sleeps at the bottom of the pond in the winter.

And it freezes over with ice.

And you know where he is under the ice.

The bottom of the pond, down in the mud.

And when he does that, H-I-B-E-R-N-A-T-E explains what he's doing.

That's known as to hibernate.

And that frog is hibernating.

Do you know any other animals that hibernate worms?

Do it in the winter.

They crawl down in the ground and hibernate.

And you think of anything else?

Well, bees, they all cluster together in a big ball and they hibernate together.

And God provides this for the animals that can't get food in the winter when snow is on the ground.

So he has them sleep for several months and they don't have to look for food.

Their, he beats very slowly.

All their bodily processes slowed down and they have a long winter's nap and they wake up very hungry.

Just as our bear did.

Remember you saw that picture of the bear skinny and they've used up most of fat on their body, but they did manage to live through a long cold food less winter.

Alright, I have another trick.

It concerns Queen g Guinevere and King Arthur.

This particular trick.

And I'm going to use something that they, well, something that belongs to them.

This right here.

Well, it's an object that I'm sure you'll recognize because it's a, well, it's a, a soup plate.

This is Queen Guine.

There's soup plate right here.

You have one of those at home, don't you?

And then I also have, I also have King Arthur's soup plate right here.

Okay, now we're gonna pretend that the plates are a castle.

And this is a roof on the castle.

This is Arthur's and this is Gu Vere's soup plate.

And we'll put them together, mouth to mouth, just like that.

Now I should have their favorite handkerchiefs.

I should have a red handkerchief and I should have, oh, well I wish you could see the color.

A green one.

This is a green one.

And this is a red one.

This green stands for Sherwood Forest or Camelot forest.

And the red one stands for the Royal red of King King Arthur's robes.

And I'm gonna stick them both into my fist just as heckle.

The hermit did one day when he stole the royal handkerchief from our castle, which is down there on the stool.

And he said some magic words, some black magic words, bad magic.

And he stuffed the silks in his fist and he slowly turned his hand around, open his fingers, and the silks, the royal silks were gone.

And I thought there must be some trick to that.

But I didn't know how the old wizard did it.

And then he opened both hands and wiggled his fingers.

And sure enough, the silks were definitely gone.

And then he counted 1, 2, 3, snap the fingers on this hand like that.

And the silks vanished entirely.

But I used my magic too.

I made the silks go around twice over the royal spires of Camelot and then go back to King Arthur's castle.

This is the castle.

Let's see if the silks returned from when they came between the soup plates.

Yes, they did.

Here's the red one and here's the green one.

Did you like that trick?

Let's show it to Patty.

Dixie.

I think she might enjoy it too.

I'm gonna instruct her on how to, how to make a silk disappear.

Patty, you know, you showed me a trick.

I'm going to show you one.

Just tuck the green handkerchief in your fist.

Watch Patty Dixie do this.

She's a good magician too.

Now squeeze it very hard.

Hold it tightly in your fist and count to three simple, isn't it?

Now it's gone.

Slowly open.

Your fist works very simple.

And, and, and I think we better practice a little more.

Let's, let's say goodbye to our friends.

Bye.

We'll see you soon.

Bye now.

Goodbye - Patty.

The Pixie was played by Jerry Tette.

Merlin was produced in the Is Ohio University television, Athens, Ohio.