Swishswooshtinkle the Windy Wizard cannot sneeze, an important ability in windy wizardry. He needs to find an assistant who can help him to learn to sneeze. He consults the four winds and they tell him IF YOU NEED AN ASSISTANT, FOR MAGIC AND TRICKS, YOU NEED A YOUNG GIRL, CALLED BELINDA, AGED SIX. He manages to find just such an assistant, and Belinda tries a number of ingenious plans to make Swishswooshtinkle sneeze, then finally finds that the answer is under their very noses
