Bagpuss 1x13

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Emily brings in a piece of cloth, which Charlie Mouse identifies as a house for a rag doll, leading to a several rag jokes from the mice! They fold up the cloth so that Bagpuss can use it as a thinking cap, and create the story of Uncle Feedle, which Gabriel and Madeleine sing along to.

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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.

36. A piece of cloth. Hm.

37. Thin cloth with markings on it.

38. Well, I don't know. I really don't know.

39. I haven't the slightest idea what this thing is,

40. or was, or is going to be.

41. Well, I should say it's probably...

42. hm, a piece of cloth.

43. I know what it is, it's a house.

44. A house? A house for a mouse?

45. No. A house for a rag doll.

46. No, no, no, no. Ridiculous!

47. That is a piece of cloth, not a house.

48. Who could live in a house made of cloth?

49. It would fall down.

50. A rag doll! A doll made of rags.

51. But what would a rag doll do

52. all day in a rag house?

53. Read rag books.

54. Dance rag time dances.

55. No, no. No, no, no. You are not being serious.

56. This is a serious question.

57. What would a rag doll do? What would he eat?

58. Cloth sausages! No, no, no.

59. Red flannel soup.

60. No, no, no, no, no.

61. Green velvet jelly.

62. On white button plates!

63. No! Bagpuss, Bagpuss!

64. These mice are being silly again.

65. That piece of cloth couldn't be a house, could it?

66. What do you think?

67. Yes, Bagpuss! Think for us.

68. Think for us, Bagpuss!

69. Oh, well, I'll try and think,

70. but that isn't an easy thing to think about.

71. I shall need a thinking cap.

72. I know, use the piece of cloth as a thinking cap.

73. Oh, yes. Yes, of course. That is a house.

74. You were quite right, mice.

75. It's a rag doll's house

76. just like the one made by Uncle Feedle.

77. Uncle Feedle? Who's Uncle Feedle?

78. I know Uncle Feedle!

79. Yes, we know about Uncle Feedle.

80. We'll sing about him if you think about him.

81. Yes, Bagpuss, think!

82. Think about Uncle Feedle!

83. So Bagpuss thought.

84. Ah, yes. Uncle Feedle. There he is.

85. Uncle Feedle was a rag doll.

86. He walked through the rag doll country

87. where it is always summer

88. and the green velvet leaves grew on the hedges,

89. and all the year, the flowers bloomed

90. in the prettiest materials you ever saw.

91. Uncle Feedle needed nothing.

92. If he was hungry, he just had to unpick a cotton cauliflower

93. or a corduroy carrot,

94. and there was his dinner.

95. If he was tired, he just had to find a cotton wool bush

96. and lie himself down on it.

97. Wasn't it odd then,

98. that one day, he found himself feeling sad?

99. He felt he needed something.

100. He felt he needed a house.

101. A house to live in with a real bed in it.

102. Uncle Feedle emptied all the pieces

103. and patches of cloth out of his rag bag

104. and set them out on the green velvet grass.

105. The other rag dolls saw him working away,

106. and they were very puzzled.

107. Then they asked him what he was making.

108. And when he said he was making a house,

109. they were even more puzzled.

110. But Uncle Feedle went on working.

111. He laid out pieces of calico and bombazine

112. and watered silk and purple plush.

113. Then he started to work.

114. Uncle Feedle sewed and stitched

115. and patched and cobbled

116. until he had made the pieces for the four walls of his house

117. with pictures on the walls and tables and chairs sewn on.

118. He even made a real bed

119. from a quilted patch of old eiderdown

120. to go inside his own house.

121. Everything went well

122. until he sewed the walls and the roof together.

123. And then, suddenly, the trouble started.

124. His house would not stand up!

125. It was made of rag, and it was all flippy-floppy.

126. Uncle Feedle tried and tried,

127. but every time he nearly made it stand up,

128. one bit of it would bend

129. and down it will all go, flap on top of him.

130. Well, of course, all the other rag dolls

131. knew how to make things made of rags stay up:

132. The same way as they stayed up.

133. They were stuffed with cotton wool.

134. So they all marched out into the fields

135. and gathered loads of cotton wool flowers

136. from the cotton wool bushes

137. for Uncle Feedle to stuff his house with.

138. Then, Uncle Feedle's house stood up beautifully.

139. But there was still one thing wrong with it.

140. What was it?

141. Well, of course, Uncle Feedle's house

142. was so full of stuffing, he couldn't get into it.

143. He couldn't go in through the door.

144. He couldn't lie on his new bed

145. or use any of the useful things he had sewn

146. because his house was full of cotton wool.

147. Well, that really was a problem.

148. All the rag dolls sat down

149. and thought as hard as they could.

150. Then, one small rag doll had an idea.

151. She said, "Why don't you have the inside of your house

152. on the outside?

153. It is always warm here, and it never rains,

154. so there is no need to have the indoors indoors.

155. You could have the indoors out-of-doors!"

156. "That's a good idea," shouted Uncle Feedle.

157. He jumped up,

158. and quick as a flash,

159. he emptied the stuffing out of his house,

160. turned it inside out, and stuffed it full again.

161. There it was, a lovely house

162. with the inside on the outside.

163. The fireplace, and the mantlepiece,

164. and even the grandfather clock were on the outside.

165. "Yes," said Uncle Feedle,

166. "I like that house. It suits me."

167. Nerp, what a pretty story.

168. What a delightful story.

169. Hm, absolute rubbish, every word of it,

170. but quite delightful.

171. And you, Bagpuss,

172. you look quite absurd with that piece of cloth on your head.

173. Yes, Bagpuss, give it to me.

174. I will finish sewing it up.

175. But Bagpuss, I still say

176. that is quite an extraordinary place

177. for anyone to live.

178. Oh, I don't know.

179. People live in much more extraordinary places than that.

180. Take these mice for instance.

181. Ooh, us! Yes, us!

182. Fares, please! All aboard!

183. Hold very tight now!

184. Oh, ridiculous!

185. Ridiculous!

186. Those mice are never serious.

187. Madeleine? - Yes, little Jennie-mouse?

188. Me?

189. A house that belongs to me?

190. No, this is where I live.

191. Yes, yes.

192. I love you all, yes.

193. But there are rather a lot of you.

194. Ooh! Down you get. Down you get.

195. Here is the rag doll's house, all finished.

196. Ooh, yes. That is very handsome.

197. But that's not Uncle Feedle's house,

198. because that one has the outside on the outside,

199. like an ordinary house.

200. So the mice took cotton wool from the cupboard...

201. and they stuffed the little house with it.

202. Pull!

203. And when it was full of stuffing...

204. Pull!

205. they dragged it to the front of the window and left it there,

206. so that if a homeless rag doll should happen to come past,

207. he would see it there and come in and live in it.

208. And so, their work was done.

209. Bagpuss gave a big yawn

210. and settled down to sleep.

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

212. all his friends go to sleep, too.

213. The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.

214. Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.

215. And Professor Yaffle was a carved wooden bookend

216. in the shape of a woodpecker.

217. Even Bagpuss himself,

218. once he was asleep,

219. was just an old, saggy cloth cat,

220. baggy and a bit loose at the seams.

221. But Emily loved him.