“We’re sorry we drank your lemonade!” Janey said.
“I’m sorry I had a fight with you!” Johnny said.
“Yes! I know you are,” the Strange Man cried, shaking his stick at them, “and I told you that I would get even with you! I am about to change you into pigs!”
“Oh dear! I don’t care to be changed into a pig!” Janey cried.
“I don’t believe he can do it!” Johnny told her.
“Oh, don’t you!” the Strange Man hissed, as he put down the large book and came towards Johnny. “I can easily change you into a cat, but I am learning the rhyme to change you into pigs and then I’ll show you!”
Janey began crying and Johnny said, “Don’t cry, Sis! He’s trying to fool you! He can’t change us into anything, it isn’t possible!”
The Strange Man puffed some powder from a tiny bellows upon Johnny and began to sing.
“A diddle daddle hunka dee, A chunka lunka diddle fee,
Kerlike kerlunk kachunkapat, and so I change you to a cat!”