Extract from The Magic Finger

(pg 12-15)

The Magic Finger is something I have been able to do all my life.

I can't tell you just how I do it, because I don't even know myself.

But it always happens when I get cross, when I see red...

Then I get very, very hot all over...

Then the tip of the forefinger of my right hand begins to tingle most terribly...

And suddenly a sort of flash comes out of me, a quick flash, like something electric. It jumps out and touches the person who has made me cross...

And after that the Magic Finger is upon him or her, and things begin to happen...