"Where do Smurfs come from?" Annabelle asked Toby as he was setting up the last of the small figures in a line stretched across the table. "I don't know," he replied. "Somewhere far away I think". "It must be a jolly cold place. Their skin is always blue," Annabelle remarked

Annabelle and Toby were about to play a game which they often played, testing each other's knowledge of the Smurfs. One of the children would turn their back away, while the other took one of the Smurfs and hid it. The other child then turned back and had to say which one was missing. The Smurfs also enjoyed this game as they liked to play little tricks on humans.

That evening, when the father returned home from work, the children beset him with questions about the Smurfs, like "where do they come from, Daddy?" "Where do they live?"