The Smoke Seller

1/19/2025

OK, so the computer has done the animation here but I really enjoyed this story. It's an handsome young man with a medicine show type affair who arrives in a small village where nobody is remotely interested in his wares. Then a small boy approaches him and he proves he can do wonders by making an acrobatic toy aeroplane out of purple smoke! When this plane has an altercation with a local, rather scrawny, mutt it's owner wants to keep the plane instead. The magician manages to turn the dog into a much more useful hunter and now he has everyone's attention - especially the mayor. We begin to suspect something is amiss as the storm clouds gather and all of a sudden he seems to want to get going. Is it all just a case of colourful smoke and (no) mirrors? There are some really quite entertaini