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Bagpuss and his friends learn of a Chinese wise man, his turtle friends and his love of solitude.

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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. Now, what's all this?

37. Bits and pieces.

38. Broken bits and pieces of things.

39. No! Those things are not broken.

40. No, wait a minute. We will fit them together.

41. We will do it. Wait! Wait!

42. Ah, yes, a turtle.

43. - Look everybody, a turtle. Ooh!

44. It's alive! It's real.

45. Look, it's nodding its head. Oh!

46. No, No, no. It isn't real.

47. It is only a model of a turtle.

48. Are there any real turtles, real live turtles?

49. Oh, no. Turtles live a long way away across the sea.

50. At least I think so.

51. Madeleine, do you know if there are any

52. real turtles living around here?

53. Oh, no, this country is too cold

54. for turtles to live out of doors.

55. There may be some in zoo's or special places like that.

56. Yes, that's right.

57. The only turtles around here that I ever heard of

58. were very cold and sad

59. and very glad to go home to Montego Bay.

60. Oh, yes. How did they go home?

61. Shall I tell you?

62. Yes! Tell us, tell us.

63. Yes, yes, tell us!

64. All right then.

65. If you get the roll of turtle music.

66. Heave, heave,

67. heave, heave.

68. The Marvellous Mechanical Turtle-organ!

69. Nerp, nerp, nerp.

70. What a pretty song.

71. Hmm. How nice.

72. I did enjoy that.

73. I do like a song with a happy ending, yes.

74. It was a lot of rubbish, of course,

75. absolute rubbish.

76. Turtles don't go on ships and buses.

77. Turtles don't even weep.

78. It was all nonsense.

79. And in any case we haven't fitted

80. all the pieces together yet.

81. Have we? What about those other pieces, hmm?

82. Look at that!

83. That's a little man.

84. He's a funny-looking chap, isn't he?

85. He is not a funny-looking chap, as you put it.

86. He is a Chinese gentleman

87. of great wisdom and respectability.

88. I think his name is Wung Hi

89. and if I am right, he is the wise man of Ling-Po.

90. Tell us! Tell us!

91. Tell us about Wung Po and wise man of Ling-Hi and his turtles.

92. Yes, I daresay, but Bagpuss,

93. you must think some Chinese thoughts for me.

94. Chinese thoughts?

95. Oh, dear, I don't know.

96. I think I shall need a Chinese thinking-cap

97. to think Chinese thoughts.

98. Come on! Let's find Bagpuss a Chinese thinking-cap.

99. A Chinese thinking-cap.

100. Here's one.

101. This will do!

102. Yes, hold still Bagpuss,

103. Ah. Oh, oh Yes. Thank you. Yes.

104. Hmm.

105. Now, what Chinese thoughts shall I think?

106. Nerp, nerp, nerp. Yes, ah,

107. the wise man of Ling-Po lived on an island.

108. It was an island in the middle of a Chinese lake.

109. An island in the middle

110. of a Chinese lake.

111. How about that?

112. That will do nicely.

113. I will begin the story.

114. It was a long time ago.

115. There lived on an island by a lake

116. in Ling-Po, a wise man.

117. He was very old and very wise

118. and all he wanted to do was sit beside the lake and think

119. and watch the leaves growing on the trees.

120. His favourite companions were the turtles,

121. who would come out of the water to sit beside him.

122. The wise man particularly liked the turtles

123. because they didn't talk or ask him silly questions.

124. They would just bow politely to him

125. and he would bow politely to them

126. and they would sit in the sun.

127. The wise man and the turtles would have been perfectly happy

128. except for the fact that there was a bridge

129. between the island and the shore.

130. Over this bridge would come the people of Ling-Po

131. to ask the wise man questions and bring him presents.

132. The wise man was always polite to them.

133. He usually thought their questions were silly

134. and he didn't really want their presents,

135. but he was happy to put up with them

136. until the day they brought him soup.

137. Yes, one day a person came over the bridge to the island

138. and presented the wise man with a bowl of soup.

139. Now, this person said

140. it was exceptionally delicious soup.

141. It was a new recipe.

142. Everybody thought it was marvellous.

143. It was turtle soup.

144. Now, it was many years

145. since the wise man had been angry,

146. but the thought that he was being offered soup

147. made from his best friends displeased him so much

148. that he threw the soup bowl and all

149. at the grinning face of the silly person

150. and then drove him from the island with a big stick.

151. The wise man was really furious.

152. He said, "The people of Ling-Po

153. are stupid as well as silly.

154. I will have nothing more to do with them.

155. I will break the bridge

156. so they cannot come to my island.

157. Then the wise man took his big hammer

158. and walked across the bridge.

159. As he crossed each section of the bridge

160. he swung his hammer.

161. Thump! Thump!

162. And smashed the piece of bridge he had just crossed.

163. Thump, thump.

164. Thump, thump.

165. The people of Ling-Po watched him

166. and they were amazed.

167. They had always thought of him as a wise man,

168. and here he was doing something very silly.

169. He was breaking his own bridge.

170. When he reached the shore,

171. the wise man spoke to the people.

172. He said,

173. "The turtles are my friends and do you no harm.

174. Please do not catch them and make them into soup."

175. Then the people said,

176. "Why should we do what you say?"

177. The wise man replied,

178. "Because I am the wise man of Ling-Po

179. and the turtles are my friends."

180. Then the people laughed.

181. They said, "You were once the wise man of Ling-Po

182. but now you are the silly man of Ling-Po

183. because you have broken your bridge."

184. The wise man said, "I do not need the bridge any more.

185. I shall live on my island alone and have nothing to do with you.

186. Then the people laughed still more.

187. "How will you get to your island you silly wise man?

188. You have broken your own bridge!"

189. Then the wise man said,

190. "I am the wise man and I know many things you do not know.

191. I tell you to stop catching turtles

192. and making them into soup.

193. Now I will go home."

194. The people were still laughing

195. as he walked down to the edge of the water,

196. but they stopped laughing very suddenly

197. when they saw him walk briskly across the surface of the water

198. and step on to his island, without, it seemed,

199. getting more than the soles of his feet wet.

200. They said, "The wise man must be very wise

201. and full of magic. We must do as he says."

202. So the people stopped catching turtles

203. and the wise man lived happily alone on the island.

204. Oh. Is that the end of the story?

205. Certainly. How else should it end?

206. But how did he walk back to his island?

207. He wasn't really doing magic, was he?

208. Of course not.

209. Bagpuss, think about what the turtles were doing

210. while the wise man was talking to the people.

211. Ah, yes, of course, the turtles. Yes.

212. Yes, the wise man's friends, the turtles.

213. They piled themselves up on the bed of the lake

214. and made stepping-stones just under the surface of the water.

215. Then the wise man just stepped

216. from one pile of turtles to the next,

217. and as he stepped off them the turtles swam away.

218. The people of Ling-Po

219. never found out what had happened.

220. They thought it was all magic

221. and they never caught turtles again.

222. Also, they couldn't cross to the island

223. to ask the wise man silly questions.

224. So he just sat beside the lake thinking his thoughts

225. and watching the leaves growing on the trees.

226. Sometimes he would catch a turtle's eye

227. and then they would nod and smile to each other

228. as they remembered how they had fooled everybody.

229. But most of the time

230. they just sat in the sun and were happy.

231. Look! He bows!

232. Of course, of course.

233. The Chinese are very courteous and polite people.

234. Now, mice, take them and put them in the window.

235. So the mice pulled them

236. to the front of the window and left them there,

237. bowing and nodding to each other,

238. so that if anybody who had lost a Chinese wise man and a turtle

239. should happen to come past,

240. he would see them there and come in to collect them.

241. And so their work was done.

242. Bagpuss gave a big yawn

243. and settled down to sleep.

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

245. all his friends go to sleep, too.

246. The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.

247. Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.

248. And Professor Yaffle was a carved wooden bookend

249. in the shape of a woodpecker.

250. Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep,

251. was just an old, saggy cloth cat,

252. baggy and a bit loose at the seams.

253. But Emily loved him.