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Emily Brings home a bottle with some bits of wood in it. Professor Yaffle tells them it is a ship-in-a-bottle. Bagpuss finds this puzzling, wondering where it would sail to. With the help of a nursery rhyme and a poem about Mermaids, the ship is magically reassembled.

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1. Once upon a time,

2. not so long ago,

3. there was a little girl, and her name was Emily.

4. And she had a shop.

5. There it is!

6. It was rather an unusual shop because it didn't sell anything.

7. You see, everything in that shop window

8. was a thing that somebody had once lost

9. and Emily had found

10. and brought home to Bagpuss.

11. Emily's cat, Bagpuss.

12. The most important,

13. the most beautiful,

14. the most magical

15. saggy, old cloth cat in the whole wide world.

16. Well, now, one day, Emily found a thing.

17. And she brought it back to the shop

18. and put it down in front of Bagpuss

19. who was in the shop window, fast asleep as usual.

20. But then, Emily said some magic words:

21. "Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss,

22. old fat furry cat-puss,

23. wake up and look at this thing that I bring

24. Wake up, be bright, be golden and light.

25. Bagpuss, oh, hear what I sing!"

26. And Bagpuss was wide awake.

27. And when Bagpuss wakes up, all his friends wake up, too.

28. The mice on the mouse organ woke up and stretched.

29. Madeleine the rag doll.

30. Gabriel the toad.

31. And last of all, Professor Yaffle

32. who is a very distinguished old woodpecker.

33. He climbed down off his bookend

34. and went to see what it was that Emily had brought.

35. Nerp, nerp, nerp.

36. That is nothing but a rotten old bottle.

37. There may be something inside it,

38. but I can't see what it is because it's too dirty.

39. Wait a minute! Wait a minute! We will do it!

40. - Wait a minute! - Wait a minute!

41. The mice scrubbed

42. and polished the bottle until it shone.

43. Then Professor Yaffle could see what was inside it.

44. Nerp, nerp, nerp!

45. Inside that bottle,

46. there are some broken scraps of old wood and bits of cloth.

47. I don't know why they're there.

48. So, of course, the only thing to do

49. was to open the bottle.

50. Pull, pull, pull!

51. Come on, little Charlie-mouse.

52. Come on, everybody, shove him in the plugglehole!

53. Push! Push!

54. Madeleine the rag doll didn't like that.

55. Stop! Oh, stop! Stop!

56. You're hurting poor Charlie-mouse.

57. Take him out at once!

58. Pull, pull!

59. Pull! Pull!

60. That's right.

61. Now, all you have to do is turn the bottle upside down.

62. Then the things will just fall out.

63. Yes, of course! Upside down!

64. The other way up! Come on, turn it over!

65. Heave! Heave!

66. Heave! Heave!

67. There are the things. Look, just a heap of scraps.

68. Now I wonder what that lot was doing in a bottle.

69. Nerp! Nerp!

70. That was once a ship. A ship in a bottle.

71. Bagpuss was amazed.

72. A ship? In a bottle?

73. There's a— Oh, what?

74. I-I mean, what's it doing in a bottle?

75. Where could it sail to?

76. Who could possibly sail in it? It would be much too small.

77. Oh, I don't know.

78. I have heard of some very small ships.

79. I know of a ship that had mice for sailors.

80. Ooh!

81. Mice for sailors? Yes!

82. - Tell us about it, please! Alright, alright!

83. Nerp, nerp, nerp. What a silly song.

84. Hm, It's not a silly song.

85. It's a nice song with mice sailors. Nice song!

86. Well, I think it's a silly song.

87. It doesn't even make sense.

88. Mice like it! Mice like nice song!

89. Come on, let's find the roll for the nice mice song.

90. There it is! There!

91. Heave! Heave!

92. Heave! Heave!

93. Look, the mice have got an organ roll for it.

94. Let's sing it again!

95. The marvellous mechanical Mouse Organ!

96. Nerp, nerp, nerp!

97. That's all very well.

98. All that singing and dancing, yes, yes, that's fun,

99. but this ship is still broken.

100. The pieces are just as they were, look.

101. Now, what we need is a story. A magic story.

102. A magic story that will put it together again.

103. Bagpuss!

104. Eh? Huh?

105. Bagpuss, you must think of a magic story

106. that will put little broken ships together again.

107. Oh. Ah. Ooh.

108. Alright then, but I shall need a thinking cap.

109. Come on! Fetch him a cap!

110. Find Bagpuss a thinking cap!

111. Come on, mice. Find Bagpuss a thinking cap!

112. Come on, everyone, there must be one somewhere.

113. There must be one here.

114. Yes, here it is! Here is one!

115. A captain's cap!

116. Here is a Captain Bagpuss cap.

117. Ooh, ah, yes! Yes, my old sea captain's cap.

118. Yes. I can think in that. Thank you.

119. So Bagpuss thought.

120. He thought so hard, his thoughts appeared like magic.

121. Ah, yes, yes.

122. Hm, I remember a story.

123. Hm, it all happened a long time ago,

124. when I was a sea captain and sailed the seven seas.

125. I steered my stout two-masted ship

126. before the western breeze.

127. One day, the breeze forgot to blow.

128. The sea was still, the day was fine.

129. Without a wind, we could not go.

130. So I fetched up my rod and line and settled down to fish.

131. Yes, well, there was nothing else to do, you know.

132. When the wind doesn't blow, the ship doesn't go!

133. But I was Captain Bagpuss.

134. I knew the thing to do.

135. I tied a pearl to the end of the string

136. and baited it with glue.

137. That way, I caught a mermaid.

138. A pretty child was she.

139. She sat on my lap in the bosun's cap,

140. and we all drank china tea.

141. We talked for a while, and I said with a smile,

142. may I ask you a favour, dear, please?

143. If I give you this pearl,

144. will you be a good girl and send us a westerly breeze?

145. "Delighted," she cried, and jumped over the side.

146. And she dived with a flick of her tail.

147. But the breeze that she sent was not quite what we meant,

148. for she sent us a terrible gale.

149. The poor ship was tossed, and some pieces got lost,

150. and the wind blew away our best sail.

151. And then came a thump, and a crash, and a bump,

152. just as if we'd tripped over a whale!

153. It wasn't, of course. It was something far worse.

154. We had hit this great island of rocks.

155. The ship was all smashed and we were all dashed

156. on the shore without any dry socks.

157. The storm ended at last, and the mermaid came past,

158. and she said she was ever so sorry.

159. But it wasn't too tragic, she'd do some more magic

160. and we would have no need to worry.

161. Then all of the mermaids for miles all around

162. went diving and swimming until they had found

163. every piece of our ship from the keel to the tip

164. and laid them all out in a heap on the ground.

165. Then the mermaids began a most beautiful song,

166. and the song they were singing was magic and strong.

167. The effect was unusual, but true,

168. for the pieces of ship began to jump and to skip.

169. And soon, they were dancing, and waltzing, and prancing,

170. and twirling, and whirling, and squeaking, and creaking,

171. and stringing, and ringing, and fitting together

172. in time with the measure.

173. Till when it was ended, the whole thing was mended.

174. The ship was as perfect as new!

175. Uh, did the magic work?

176. There was the ship beside the bottle.

177. Quite perfect.

178. It had been mended by Bagpuss's magic story.

179. All they had to do now was put it back in its bottle

180. and the whole thing would be as good as the day it was made.

181. Aye, just a minute!

182. That ship's too tall, that would never go

183. through the neck of that bottle.

184. No, no. Too tall!

185. Too small! No!

186. It's perfectly simple.

187. Ships in bottles have folding masts.

188. You fold the masts flat.

189. And then, after the ship is in the bottle,

190. you pull the masts up with a piece of cotton

191. which is part of the rigging.

192. Oh, so that's how they put ships into bottles!

193. What a clever old bird that woodpecker is!

194. Of course, of course, of course.

195. Now, come on, mice, fold the masts carefully.

196. That's right.

197. Now, into the bottle with it.

198. Good.

199. Now, very gently pull on the cotton.

200. Uh, g-gently.

201. Ooh!

202. That's right.

203. Now, all we need is a dab of glue

204. on the front of the ship to fix the cotton.

205. Uh, nerp, nerp, nerp. How are you going to do that?

206. Come on, Charlie-mouse!

207. Come on, dip his tail in the glue.

208. That's right!

209. Very good, very good! Very good. Nerp, nerp!

210. Now, put in the cork, and it's done.

211. Push! Push!

212. Push! Push!

213. And there it was, as good as new.

214. The mice dragged the bottle to the front of the window

215. and left it there

216. so that if the person it really belonged to

217. should happen to come past,

218. they would see it there and come in to collect it.

219. And so, their work was done.

220. Bagpuss gave a big yawn

221. and settled down to sleep.

222. And of course, when Bagpuss goes to sleep,

223. all his friends go to sleep, too.

224. The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.

225. Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.

226. And Professor Yaffle was a carved wooden bookend

227. in the shape of a woodpecker.

228. Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep,

229. was just an old, saggy cloth cat,

230. baggy and a bit loose at the seams.

231. But Emily loved him.