Marlon is now slightly older and is faced with the problem of how to amuse himself, having exhausted all the appeal of creating intergalactic battles with his long-suffering mum's furniture. "I wish I had someone to play with" complains Marlon, and goes off in search of companions Alligatina, Boomps-a-daisy and Basher.
He finds the friends dressed as the three Musketeers, but they're reluctant to let him join in their fun—"We'll think about it" being their refrain. Marlon persuades his mum and grumpy Granny to help him put together a dressing-up costume, but finds that his monster friends keep changing their game and he's still excluded! However, the tables are turned when Marlon's luxurious paddling pool appears in his back garden.
Mildred Hubble was a trainne witch and
making an awful mess of it. But she
managed to get by at Miss Cackle's
Academy until she turned Ethel Hallows
the teacher's pet whose spells were
always perfect,into her deadly enemy after
turning her into a Pig.
After some frantic efforts in the library,
Mildred did manage to turn her back again,but the
damage was done:from that day forward Ethel
was Mildred's deadly enemy, and all too soon
found a way to have her revenge,and Mildred
was thrown into such disgrace that even her
friends deserted her.
The Worst Witch