Bagpuss 1x2

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Emily brings in a very old, dirty bit of rag, which as ever, Yaffle can see no value in. The mice start to vigorously clean the cloth, before being stopped by Madeleine. She implores the mice to be more gentle with it, and they clean it lovingly, to reveal an old cushion cover depicting an owl. The mice run away, scared by the owl, but come back when they realise it isn't real...

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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,

20. fast asleep as usual.

21. But then, Emily said some magic words:

22. "Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss,

23. old fat furry cat-puss,

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

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

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

27. And Bagpuss was wide awake.

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

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

30. Madeleine the rag doll.

31. Gabriel the toad.

32. And last of all, Professor Yaffle

33. who is a very distinguished old woodpecker.

34. He climbed down off his bookend

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

36. Nerp, nerp, nerp, nerp.

37. That is a very dirty, very old piece of rag.

38. I don't know why Miss Emily brought it here.

39. It is much too old and dirty for us to see what it is...

40. if it is anything!

41. Wait! Wait! We will do it! We will do it!

42. Stop! Stop at once! Stop!

43. We will wash it?

44. You will do no such thing!

45. That is a very delicate piece of fabric.

46. If you go bashing and scrubbing at it

47. you will spoil it forever.

48. You must treat it gently,

49. lovingly and very politely.

50. Ooh.

51. We are very fond of you.

52. We love you very much.

53. That's better.

54. Now, one mouse may very gently

55. brush one part of the cloth

56. with one soft brush.

57. Brush, brush,

58. brush, brush.

59. The mouse brushed very carefully

60. and very slowly the pattern of the cloth began to show.

61. Was it a pattern or was it a sort of picture?

62. What was it?

63. A owl! A owl!

64. Look! Run! Owl! Owl!

65. What happened? The mice saw something.

66. Something that frightened them. What was it?

67. Nerp, nerp, nerp. That is a picture of an owl.

68. That's all it is, a picture of an owl.

69. And those foolish mice ran away from it.

70. That is a very old picture of an owl.

71. It has Ancient Greek writing on it.

72. A-th-E which means Athens.

73. That is the Obol, the owl of Athens.

74. There! You ignorant mice,

75. if you remember that you will really know something!

76. The owls of Athens! Yes!

77. They were kings among birds

78. and famous for their beautiful singing.

79. Oh, no, no, no! Stuff and nonsense.

80. Owls don't sing!

81. They make a sort of hooting noise, you know,

82. to-wit to-woo or words to that effect.

83. Maybe you are right.

84. But I know a very ancient story about the owls of Athens.

85. It may not be true, but it is very, very old.

86. Well, tell it to us then.

87. At night, in the groves of olive trees

88. that grew on the mountainsides

89. above the city of Athens in Ancient Greece,

90. the owls of Athens would gather together

91. and sing lovely songs in the moonlight.

92. Think of it, Bagpuss. It was a beautiful sight.

93. Think of it, Bagpuss, please.

94. So Bagpuss thought.

95. And as usual his thoughts appeared like magic.

96. Ahh. Will that do?

97. That's lovely.

98. The Owls of Athens sang so sweetly and beautifully

99. that all the animals would come to listen.

100. This pleased the owls enormously.

101. They said to each other, "Surely, we are kings and queens

102. and should be treated as kings and queens!"

103. So the owls told the animals

104. that they would only sing to them

105. if they brought presents;

106. not just good things to eat but gold and silver and jewels.

107. Well, the animals loved to hear the owls sing,

108. and so as they had no gold or silver of their own

109. they crept into the houses of people

110. and stole gold and silver and jewels

111. and took them to the owls.

112. This pleased the owls very much indeed and they said,

113. "Now, we are truly

114. the kings and queens of all."

115. And they sang most sweetly together that night

116. and the next night, and the night after

117. and each night the pile of glittering treasure

118. grew larger and larger

119. until one night...

120. one clear cloudless night,

121. the moon, passing overhead,

122. saw the pile of treasure glittering in her light.

123. Then the moon spoke to the owls. She said:

124. "Oh, owls!

125. Where did you learn to sing so sweetly?"

126. The owls replied,

127. "Oh, moon. We did not need to learn.

128. We were born able to sing so sweetly.

129. Are we not kings and queens among birds?"

130. Then the moon said,

131. "Why do the animals bring you

132. glittering treasure?"

133. The owls replied, "Oh, moon,

134. they bring us treasure because we told them

135. that if they didn't we would not sing to them.

136. Are we not the cleverest of all birds?"

137. The moon did not answer.

138. She sailed away through the sky on her journey

139. but as she went she spoke one word of magic.

140. At once there came into the world

141. a number of small brown ordinary-looking birds.

142. At least they looked ordinary

143. but the moon called them nightingales

144. and perched them in the very tops of the trees.

145. The next night, the owls sang together as usual

146. but no animals came to hear them,

147. nobody brought them treasure.

148. They sang alone in the empty grove.

149. An owl said,

150. "Why has nobody come to hear us sing?"

151. - Another owl said, "Listen. "

152. All around them in the top of the trees

153. the nightingales were singing.

154. As they listened, the owls knew that the singing of nightingales

155. was far sweeter than the singing of owls

156. and they knew that nobody would ever come to hear them again

157. or bring them gold and silver and jewels.

158. The owls were angry.

159. They were furious.

160. Who could have played such a trick on them?

161. "Who?"

162. "Who?"

163. "Who?"

164. They saw the moon smiling.

165. "You! You, moon!", they hooted.

166. "You, moon!

167. You are who! You!"

168. "That is the sort of song for owls to sing,"

169. laughed the moon.

170. "And that shall be their song."

171. And so, from that day to this,

172. that has been the song of the owls.

173. Nerp, nerp, nerp, nerp.

174. Yes, yes, quite right and proper.

175. Those owls were proud and mean.

176. I think it was a sad story, poor owls.

177. Look at this everybody.

178. You can see all the story in the pattern.

179. I wonder what it is.

180. I know what that is.

181. That is a cushion cover.

182. It was the cover of a cushion for a king.

183. The cover of a cushion for a king?

184. That's right.

185. He must have been a very small king.

186. He was very small,

187. and very bony and cold too in places!

188. I know! The Bony King of Nowhere!

189. That's right! - Come on, mice.

190. There's a roll of music somewhere.

191. The Marvellous

192. Mechanical Mouse Organ!

193. Thank you, thank you, that will do.

194. Hooray! Hooray!

195. Clever mice is nice, clever mice is clever.

196. Hooray! Hooray!

197. Clever mice have mended cushion!

198. And so they have, look.

199. While they were singing, the mice had mended the cushion

200. and stuffed it and edged it with gold braid

201. until it was clean and bright and soft

202. and certainly fit for a... certainly fit for a king.

203. So Bagpuss placed the cushion

204. neatly in the front of the window

205. and left it there so that if by chance

206. a very thin king should happen to come past,

207. he would see it there and come into the shop to collect 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, once he was asleep,

218. was just an old, saggy cloth cat,

219. baggy and a bit loose at the seams.

220. But Emily loved him.