Because he doesn't want to be taken as a conjurer of cheap tricks.
Turkey, apparently.
Because they don't want the siren to die.
A metronome!
You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish.
Pumpkin.
A Ghost Pepper.
Because a wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Because he has a magical staff.
You get some hoes and they get dough for you.
Because he got ova easy.
So people do not take him as a conjurer of cheap tricks.