Literary Prestidigitation

The branch library a few blocks from here hosted a healthy dinner (with obligatory lecture on how healthy it was) plus a performance by Magic Dan, with guest appearances by a talking puppet bird and a scared live rabbit. Libraries are a heck of a place to see a magic show because when the kiss hip and holler the adults feel compelled to remind them that they’re in a library.
Oh, and the incantatory phrase of the night was not “abracadbra” but this:
“Reading is Fun!”