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Moon-Face and he waved it away.
     
   
"Saucepan, don't do any more bees," he begged. "I expect their
stings are twice as big, too. Look-let's go to that sweet-shop over there and
buy some sweets. It would be fun to make them twice as big!"
They hurried to the shop -but on the way a dreadful thing happened! Saucepan fell
over one of his kettles and upset the tin in which he carried the spell. It splashed
up -and drops of it fell on to Moon-Face, Silky, Jo and the old Saucepan Man,
too! And in a trice they all shot up to twice their size! Silky grew to three
times her size because more drops fell on her.
     
   
They stared at one another. How small the Land of Spells suddenly seemed! How
little the witches and goblins looked, how tiny the shops were!
"Saucepan! You really are careless!" cried Moon-Face, vexed. "Look
what you've done to us. Now what are we to do?"
Silky clutched hold of Moon-Face's arm. "Moon-Face!" she said. "Oh,
Moon-Face do you. suppose we are too big to go down the hole through the cloud?"
Moon-Face turned pale. "We'd better go and
see," he said. "Come on, everybody."
Frightened and silent, all four of them hurried
to where the hole led down to the Faraway Tree.
     
   
How little it seemed to the four big people now!
Moon-Face tried to get down. He stuck. He
couldn't slip down at all.
     
   
"It's no use," he said. "We're too big to go
down. Whatever in the world shall we do?"
6. What Can They Do Now?
     
   
Jo, Moon-Face, Silky and Saucepan sat down by the hole and thought hard. Silky
began to cry.
     
   
The Saucepan Man looked most uncomfortable. He was very fond of Silky. "Silky,
please do forgive me for being so careless," he said in a small voice. "I
didn't mean to do this. Don't cry. You make me feel dreadful."
"It's all right," sobbed Silky, borrowing Moon-Face's hanky. "I
know you didn't mean to. But I can't help feeling dreadfully sad when I think
I won't ever be able to see my dear little room in the Faraway Tree any more."
The Saucepan Man began to cry, too. Tears dripped with a splash into his saucepans
and kettles. He put his arm round Silky, and two or three kettle-spouts stuck
into her.
     
   
"Don't!" she said. "You're sticking into me. Moon-Face-Jo-can't
you think of something
to do? Can we possibly squeeze down if we hold our breaths and make ourselves
as small as we can?"
"Quite impossible," said Moon-Face gloomily. "Listen-there's somebody
coming up the ladder."
They heard voices-and soon a head popped up out of the hole in the cloud. It was
Dick's! He stared in the very greatest surprise at the four enormous people sitting
by the hole.
     
   
He climbed up and stood beside them, looking very, very small. Then up came Bessie
and Fanny. Their eyes nearly fell out of their heads when they saw how big Jo
and his friends were.
     
   
"What's happened?" cried Dick. "We began to be worried because
you didn't come home, Jo-so we climbed up to see where you were. But why are you
so ENORMOUS?"
Jo told them. Silky sobbed into-Moon-Face's hanky. Bessie put her arm round her.
It was funny to feel Silky so very big. Bessie's arm only went half round Silky's
waist!
"And now, you see, we can't get back down the hole," said Jo.
     
   
"I know what you can do!" said Dick suddenly,
"What?" cried everyone hopefully.
     
   
"Why, rub the hole with the spell, and it will get bigger, of course!"
said Dick. "Then you'll be able to get down it."
"Why ever didn't we think of that before!" cried Jo, jumping up. "Saucepan,
where's that tin with the spell in?"
He picked up the tin-but, alas! it was quite, quite empty. Every single drop had
been spilt when Saucepan had fallen over.
     
   
"Well, never mind!" said Moon-Face, cheering up. "We can go and
buy some more from that goblin. Come on!"
They all set off, Dick, Bessie and Fanny looking very small indeed by the others.
They went up to the goblin who had sold them the