Once Ugu the Shoemaker took two teaspoonsful, and it made him so strong that when he leaned against the city wall, he pushed it over, and we had to build it up again." "Who is Ugu the Shoemaker ?" Button-Bright curiously, for he now remembered that the bird and the rabbit had claimed Ugu the Shoemaker had enchanted the peach he had eaten.
"Why, Ugu is a great magician who used to live here.

But he's gone away now," replied the Czarover.
"Where has he gone ?" asked the Wizard quickly.
"I am told he lives in a wickerwork castle in the mountains to the west of here.

You see, Ugu became such a powerful magician that he didn't care to live in our city any longer for fear we would discover some of his secrets.

So he went to the mountains and built him a splendid wicker castle which is so strong that even I and my people could not batter it down, and there he lives all by himself." "This is good news," declared the Wizard, "for I think this is just the magician we are searching for.

But why is he called Ugu the Shoemaker ?" "Once he was a very common citizen here and made shoes for a living," replied the monarch of Herku.