THE MAGIC FINGER The narrator is an 8-year old girl who hates hunting. She tries to talk the Greggs out of it, but either they laugh at her, or they ignore her. She gets so upset that she uses her "Magic Finger". The Magic Finger is one of the fingers on her hand, that if she gets upset, then sees red, makes permanent damage happen to the person she is upset at. (After turning her teacher Mrs. Winter into a cat, she swears that she will never use the finger again). The next day the Greggs wake up as tiny people with wings instead of arms and their house is taken over by four human-size ducks with arms instead of wings. The Greggs are forced to leave and build a nest in one of the trees in their garden where they spend the night. The next morning they wake up to find the large ducks with the Greggs' guns standing under their tree, threatening to shoot in the same way that they have shot ducks. The Greggs promise never to hunt again and are changed back into normal humans.
The next day, the girl goes to their house and finds the family smashing up their guns and setting up graves for the birds that they killed. They have even changed their name to "Egg"! The girl feels that things may have gotten a little out of hand but then hears a gun fired by another neighbouring family, the Coopers. She thus sets off, telling the Eggs that the Coopers will be nesting in the trees that night.