Bagpuss 1x12

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Yaffle comes down from his bookend to find a basket, containing items. The mice search it and find a twig broom, which leads Madeleine and Gabriel to sing a song about a woman who brushes the cobwebs out of the sky.

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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, nerp, nerp. A basket.

36. Hm, yes, a basket with things in it.

37. How nice of Miss Emily to bring us a basket

38. with things in it.

39. I'm not at all sure what we're supposed to do with it.

40. I can't see what the things are.

41. Wait! We will do it!

42. That's a twig broom, a tiny broom made of twigs.

43. What's it for?

44. What do you do with it?

45. You brush the cobwebs out of the sky.

46. - Don't you, Madeleine? - That's right.

47. Uh, if you can get up high enough,

48. like the old woman.

49. Eh?

50. Which old woman? Where?

51. Up in the sky?

52. Oh. Uh, eh, where?

53. Where? What?

54. They're going to sing a song!

55. Mice like that! That's a good song!

56. Sing it again!

57. There's an organ roll here.

58. The marvellous

59. mechanical Mouse Organ!

60. It is all very unlikely.

61. This basket couldn't possibly be the one

62. the old woman was tossed up in,

63. if indeed she ever was.

64. And I certainly don't think

65. she could have gone 17 times as high as the moon.

66. That's rather a long way up.

67. The moon isn't nearly as far away as the sun.

68. Isn't it, Janie-mouse?

69. How'd you know?

70. My uncle Henry once went to the sun.

71. Or nearly.

72. Uncle Henry. Hm.

73. Ooh, he was a church mouse, I think.

74. Yes. That's right.

75. Uncle Henry and Auntie Ada.

76. They were church mice.

77. They were very good church mice.

78. They brought in daisies to decorate the church

79. and even sang in a choir.

80. But they had such small voices

81. that nobody ever heard them.

82. And they were very poor

83. because nobody ever left bacon rind or breadcrumbs

84. in the collection for them,

85. or even seemed to know

86. that they were there at all.

87. Well, one day,

88. Uncle Henry said he wasn't going to be

89. a poor church mouse any longer.

90. He was going to be a rich church mouse.

91. He was going to make a flying machine

92. out of a little basket and some cabbage leaves

93. and fly up and scrape some of the gold off the sun

94. with a teaspoon.

95. Auntie Ada said

96. she thought the sun was rather a long way up,

97. but Uncle Henry showed her

98. that it was only just above the weathercock on the steeple.

99. Uncle Henry and Auntie Ada

100. flew their flying machine

101. up into the sky.

102. They flew it above the weathercock

103. and up, up, up into the clouds,

104. and above the clouds.

105. But however high they flew,

106. the sun seemed just as far away as ever.

107. "The sun is running away from us,"

108. explained Uncle Henry,

109. "We must go home."

110. They didn't know quite where their church was.

111. And so, by mistake,

112. they came down in the bishop's palace

113. beside the cathedral.

114. They were lucky, though,

115. because they were met

116. by an important-looking cathedral mouse

117. who was very wise and learned.

118. He told them that the sun is not made of gold,

119. but of fire,

120. and is 93 million miles away.

121. He also said that there was plenty of bacon rind

122. at the bishop's palace,

123. and said the bishop would be happy

124. to invite them to breakfast everyday!

125. They weren't poor church mice anymore.

126. Would this basket fly?

127. This basket here?

128. No, of course not.

129. Though I suppose it could be made to fly.

130. There must be something that flaps air

131. like a bird's wing does.

132. I know!

133. Mice, look on the shelf there,

134. behind the blue and white jar.

135. Come on! Come on, look!

136. There are two sort of stick things here, look.

137. Thank you.

138. Now, look at this.

139. Ooh!

140. Isn't that beautiful?

141. What is it for?

142. This is a fan.

143. You flap it, and it blows cool air on you

144. to keep you cool in warm weather, like this.

145. - There.

146. That's lovely. That's nice.

147. That's lovely.

148. Nerp, nerp, nerp.

149. Now what exactly are you all doing?

150. We are going to make the basket

151. into a flying machine by fixing these two fans to it.

152. Well,

153. I don't want to seem discouraging or anything,

154. but I'm not sure that would really work.

155. I, uh...

156. I happen to be, in my way, something of an expert

157. on the subject of flying machines,

158. being something of an aeronaut myself.

159. Really?

160. Can you fly, Yaffle?

161. Well, no. Not at the moment.

162. But if you mice will be kind enough

163. to fetch me the little green book,

164. third along from my bookend,

165. I will be able to give you some proper information

166. - about flying machines. This one?

167. Yes, yes, that's the one.

168. Heave! Careful!

169. Oh, you have dropped it.

170. Ah, well, well. It'll do there. Hm.

171. Now, let us have a look.

172. Mm, where are we?

173. Pratt's Aeronautics. Yes, yes, here we are.

174. Come on, mice. Come and look at this.

175. From bits of string and this and that,

176. a gentleman named Percy Pratt

177. made quite a perfect aeroplane...

178. then took it all apart again because it wouldn't fly.

179. He made another one next day.

180. A pity that it got away

181. and looped the loop above the town

182. then hurtled back and knocked him down.

183. He sat and wondered why.

184. His next machine, it was the third,

185. he built of feathers, like a bird.

186. "Flap-flap," he cried, "and up I'll soar!

187. I should have thought of it before.

188. There's really no excuse."

189. Just then, he gave a mighty sneeze.

190. The feathers, blown off by the breeze,

191. went upwards, downwards, left and right,

192. exactly like a pillow fight,

193. and not a bit of use.

194. "I'll try once more," said Percy Pratt,

195. "If this one doesn't work, that's that!"

196. It didn't take him very long

197. to make a plane with nothing wrong

198. from every point of view.

199. It may be true, as people tell,

200. he couldn't drive it very well.

201. And travelled, if I must be blunt,

202. both upside down and back to front.

203. But look at him.

204. He flew!

205. Hm, there we are. You see?

206. If you want to know about a particular subject,

207. you must study it in detail.

208. Otherwise, you will never make

209. a flying machine that really flies.

210. This flying machine really flies!

211. This one?

212. But this couldn't fly.

213. No, no, no, no, no!

214. Heave, heave, heave!

215. There it is, basically unsound.

216. The whole idea is ridiculous.

217. It can't possibly...

218. Eh, what? What? What?

219. What's going on up there?

220. What did you say, mice? What?

221. What? What?

222. There's something odd going on up there. Hm.

223. It's a trick!

224. Look, Madeleine, Gabriel, Bagpuss!

225. Look, look, they aren't really flying at all!

226. They're on a string!

227. They are being hoisted about on a string.

228. That's right, Yaffle, you've noticed.

229. The mice placed the basket carefully

230. in the corner of the window and left it there.

231. So that if, um, an old woman who wanted to brush the cobwebs

232. out of the sky should happen to come past,

233. she would see it there and have to come in to collect it.

234. And so, their work was done.

235. Bagpuss gave a big yawn

236. and settled down to sleep.

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

238. all his friends go to sleep, too.

239. The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.

240. Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.

241. And Professor Yaffle was a carved wooden bookend

242. in the shape of a woodpecker.

243. Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep,

244. was just an old, saggy cloth cat,

245. baggy and a bit loose at the seams.

246. But Emily loved him.