Bagpuss 1x10

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Emily brings in a plant called Old Man's Beard. The friends try to figure out why it is has this name, and Bagpuss tells the story of a king who used his silvery beard to make carpets. Madeline sings a song about a master weaver.

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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. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Oh, dear.

37. What a tangle of old rubbish.

38. What a mix-up of twigs

39. and sprigs and twisted bits.

40. How on earth are we going to find out what it is?

41. Let alone what's wrong with it?

42. Wait, no wait! We will do it.

43. Wait a minute. Wait.

44. Stop! Stop! That's worse.

45. That's a terrible tangle.

46. Now everybody stand still

47. and think carefully about what to do next.

48. Well, I know what I am going to do next.

49. I am going to climb out of this tangle.

50. Now then, what have we here?

51. There are different sorts of things here.

52. Pieces of wood and lengths of woolly string,

53. and some twigs of... what do they call the stuff?

54. Um, old man's beard, I think.

55. Well, I think the twigs of old man's beard

56. have nothing whatever to do with the other things.

57. I think they just got tangled in by accident.

58. Old man's beard, hmm,

59. tangled in by accident, yes.

60. What do you think, Bagpuss?

61. Oh, yes. Yes, it was an accident.

62. Mm-hm, yes. Could have been dangerous, yes.

63. They were lucky really.

64. What on earth are you talking about, Bagpuss?

65. Oh, I was just thinking.

66. I was thinking about the king of the carpet country.

67. The king of the carpet country?

68. Yes! Oh, tell us, Bagpuss!

69. Think for us, Bagpuss!

70. Think for us, Bagpuss, please!

71. Hmm, it was a pleasant country.

72. Uh, not very far from here.

73. I wish I could remember its proper name.

74. I call it the Carpet Country

75. because that is what most of the people there used to do,

76. make carpets.

77. Now unfortunately, it was a very poor country.

78. Merchants would come from other richer countries

79. to buy carpets,

80. but I'm afraid they didn't think much of the carpets

81. and they wouldn't pay much money for them.

82. Now the king of that country was King Frederick the 29th.

83. He was worried because the people were poor

84. and the carpets did not sell well.

85. He built a factory and put in it big looms

86. which are machines for weaving carpets.

87. "Long live King Frederick,"

88. shouted the carpet-makers.

89. King Frederick smiled and raised his crown

90. and wiggled his long, long silver-white beard.

91. Then King Fred went into the factory

92. to look at one of the looms working.

93. The threads were too fine

94. for his poor old eyes to see properly.

95. He leaned over for a closer look

96. and then a dreadful thing happened.

97. King Fred's beard

98. is caught in the loom!"

99. A young rug-weaver jumped for the brake

100. and the machine slowly came to a halt.

101. The whole accident had only taken a few seconds

102. but already most of the king's beard

103. was woven into the carpet on the machine.

104. It looked simply wonderful.

105. King Fred didn't think it looked wonderful

106. 'cause the other end of the beard

107. was still on his chin

108. pulling his nose against the machine.

109. The young rug-weaver stepped forward with his scissors.

110. "Shall I release, your majesty?"

111. "Please do," said King Fred.

112. Snip! Snip! Snip! King Fred was free.

113. "Thank you," he said, "You are a bright lad,

114. thank you for your help but I really must go home now

115. and start growing a new beard. Good afternoon."

116. The king went home

117. and the carpet-makers took the carpet from the loom.

118. It was a very beautiful carpet

119. with a marvellous silky silvery sheen to it.

120. Many rich merchants tried to buy the beautiful carpet

121. and the richest of all actually did buy it

122. and he paid a tremendous lot of money for it.

123. And he said he would buy any more like that

124. for the same price!

125. Well, of course, they hadn't any more carpets like that,

126. and it would take a long time for the king to grow a new one.

127. That day many old men with long white beards

128. came to the carpet factory.

129. "Buy our beards," they said "Only ten-pence an inch,"

130. Then the carpet factory got busy.

131. Beards were snipped off, washed white as snow

132. and hung on the hedgerows to dry.

133. And then they were woven into carpets.

134. "They are magnificent carpets,"

135. said the richest merchant of all.

136. "But not as magnificent as the first one.

137. They lack the silvery sheen.

138. The luminous lustrous gloss

139. of a truly royal beard."

140. The merchants refused to buy any of the new carpets.

141. The carpet-makers were very sad.

142. The young rug-weaver took the message to King Fred

143. and King Fred sighed sadly.

144. "Ah, me! If only I could grow a beard quickly.

145. I would give half my kingdom

146. and my daughter's hand in marriage

147. to anybody who could tell me

148. how to grow a beard quickly enough

149. to make carpets of it."

150. The king's daughter looked at the young rug-weaver

151. and decided that if she was to marry anybody

152. she would like to marry him.

153. And the young rug-weaver thought the same about her.

154. So hand in hand they ran to see the princess's great-aunt

155. who just happened to be a magician.

156. "Easy!" She laughed.

157. "Just dance round the king

158. and say this poem."

159. Then hand-in-hand

160. the young rug-weaver and the princess

161. ran back to the palace

162. and danced round the king chanting the poem.

163. "Beard! Beard! Grow I say, grow by night and grow by day.

164. Grow for many hundred feet

165. through the door and down the street."

166. With a creak and a rustle,

167. the king's beard began to grow.

168. It rippled steadily across the throne room,

169. glinting with streaks of pure silver.

170. Through the door along the great hall

171. and out into the street it slid.

172. Three times round the palace it wound itself

173. and stopped at last by a sentry-box

174. where it tickled the sentry.

175. That tickles.

176. Snip. Snip. Snip.

177. King Fred was free again.

178. The carpet makers hoisted the beard on to their shoulders

179. and carried it off in a splendid procession

180. to the factory.

181. There it was woven into enough carpets

182. to make the country rich again.

183. The young rug-maker married the princess,

184. and everybody was happy

185. except perhaps the other old men.

186. They all wanted to have their beards made into carpets.

187. They would cut them off and wash them

188. and hang them in the hedgerows to dry

189. but nobody would buy them to make carpets.

190. So they left them there.

191. You can still see them sometimes in the hedgerows.

192. White and fluffy, people call it old man's beard.

193. No, no, no, no.

194. That is completely incorrect.

195. No.

196. Old man's beard is just

197. the nickname of a climbing plant

198. Clematis Vitalia is its proper name

199. but you can call it Wild Vine or Virgin's Bower

200. or Withy wind or Traveller's Joy.

201. It's all the same plant.

202. Well, it's only a story.

203. And a very good story it was, too.

204. Look what it's done for the bits and pieces.

205. What is it?

206. Is it a making things thing?

207. Yes. I think that must be a loom.

208. Yes, a loom for weaving.

209. That is the same sort of machine

210. that the king's beard was woven on.

211. How does it work? I'm not sure.

212. There's a warp and a weft

213. and a shuttle in the middle and, uh...

214. I don't know exactly.

215. Madeleine, do you know about weaving?

216. Weaving? Um, I only know a song about weaving.

217. So do I and the mice do, too.

218. Come on, mice!

219. Heave, heave.

220. Heave, heave.

221. The Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ.

222. I know! I know about weaving.

223. I understand weaving!

224. Ooh, do you, Charlie mouse?

225. - Well, you tell me. I'll show you.

226. Look, I am the shuttle.

227. I go up and down

228. through these strings like this.

229. - Up and down. I see, yes.

230. Then I pull the threads across

231. and it makes woven cloth.

232. Stop! Oh. Stop!

233. Tired out. Oh.

234. Yes, poor Charlie mouse.

235. Stop and have a rest now.

236. Have a rest on the marvellous mouse's bed you have made.

237. Of course that's what it is.

238. Charlie mouse has made a mouse's bed.

239. The mice pulled the loom to the front of the window

240. so that if anybody who had lost a tiny loom

241. for making mouse beds should happen to come past

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

243. And so their work was done.

244. Bagpuss gave a big yawn

245. and settled down to sleep.

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

247. all his friends go to sleep, too.

248. The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.

249. Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.

250. And Professor Yaffle was a carved wooden bookend

251. in the shape of a woodpecker.

252. Even Bagpuss himself,

253. once he was asleep,

254. was just an old, saggy cloth cat,

255. baggy and a bit loose at the seams.

256. But Emily loved him.