Bagpuss 1x9

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Emily brings in a model of a giant, and Bagpuss tells the story of how a kindly witch makes an sad giant happy.

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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. Oh, dear, oh, dear.

36. Another heap of things.

37. Broken bits of things.

38. Oh, dear, I sometimes wish Miss Emily

39. would bring things which aren't quite so broken.

40. This is obviously some sort of statue,

41. but what it is a statue of is another question.

42. And not one I can answer

43. unless somebody can put it together again.

44. Wait! Wait! We will do it!

45. We will do it!

46. What on earth is that? Nerp, nerp, nerp.

47. I'm sure nobody ever made a statue as odd as that.

48. No, no. I'm sure that is quite wrong.

49. No! No! Be careful.

50. No, that's dangerous.

51. Stop at once. That whole heap is dangerous.

52. That heap has only got to fall

53. on poor little Charlie mouse and he would be squashed.

54. Ooh!

55. Now, very carefully take it to pieces again.

56. just one piece at a time, but very gently.

57. Ooh, gently.

58. Ooh, carefully.

59. Here's a big piece, look!

60. Look out! Look out Charlie mouse! Look out!

61. That will do.

62. That is quite enough

63. banging and smashing

64. and playing about.

65. Bagpuss! There's only one way to put these pieces together.

66. You must tell one of your magic stories

67. and see if that will mend it.

68. Oh, well, I could I suppose.

69. Oh, yes, I don't know what it is, do I?

70. I do. I know what it is.

71. Do you, little Charlie mouse?

72. Well, you tell me what it is.

73. It is a giant. A giant, giant!

74. A big, big, big,

75. giant, giant!

76. Think! Think!

77. Think for us, Bagpuss, please.

78. Hmm, ah, yes, a giant,

79. a great big giant, giant.

80. He was a good, friendly giant but really rather large.

81. He had a drum which went...

82. And he marched around the town

83. with the boys in the village band.

84. They made a marvellous loud noise.

85. The loudest noise of all was the giant's drum.

86. It drove the Mayor and the Corporation

87. out of the village hall

88. and they hid their heads in a haystack.

89. The only grown up who liked the noise of the band

90. was Mrs. Smiters-Rowbotham.

91. But then she was a magician in her spare time.

92. All the other grown-ups hated the noise of the band

93. and the one who hated it most of all was the model-maker.

94. He had just made a large figure of a drummer.

95. He set it on the shelf in front of his shop

96. as the band came down the hill.

97. "Look! Look!" said the giant.

98. "Look, that is me!"

99. And he beat his drum.

100. The statue smashed into a hundred pieces.

101. The model-maker was furious.

102. The Mayor and Corporation were furious.

103. The Mayor said, "Go home to your cave, giant.

104. You are too noisy.

105. You are too large

106. and you break things.

107. The giant walked sadly away.

108. He didn't mean any harm.

109. He just liked playing in the band.

110. He sat on the wall of a garden and felt sad.

111. It was the garden of Mrs. Smithers-Rowbotham.

112. She saw how sad he was,

113. so she propped her pruning ladder against him

114. and climbed up to talk to him.

115. The giant told her what had happened.

116. He said, "I don't mean to break things.

117. I hate being so large.

118. I really do wish I could be smaller.

119. "Don't worry," said Mrs. Smithers-Rowbotham.

120. "I will see what I can do."

121. She trotted to the scene of the accident

122. where everybody was still standing and arguing.

123. She bought the pieces of broken statue

124. from the model-maker for a silver penny.

125. "Right!" she said,

126. "Come on, children,

127. We must fit the pieces together."

128. She sat down with the children

129. and using the magic glue at the end of her umbrella,

130. they fitted the pieces of broken statue together

131. so beautifully that you would never have known

132. it had ever been broken.

133. In fact it looked so perfect,

134. you would have thought it was alive.

135. Mrs. Smithers-Rowbotham pointed her umbrella at it.

136. "Giant," she said. "Will that do?"

137. - The giant beat its drum.

138. "Magic!" shouted the children.

139. "Of course." said Mrs. Smithers-Rowbotham.

140. "I am a magician."

141. "It's our giant!" shouted the children

142. and, led by the smallest giant in the world,

143. they paraded round and round the town,

144. making a terrible, triumphant, lovely noise

145. Look! He's mended!

146. Nerp, nerp, nerp.

147. Very good, Bagpuss. Very good.

148. Nothing like a bit of magic, I always say.

149. There he is. The smallest giant in the world.

150. It's not. He's the biggest.

151. He's a giant, giant, giant, look!

152. No. no, no, don't be ridiculous.

153. That is a very small statue.

154. He's big! He's big! He's big!

155. Giant! Giant! Giant!

156. Oh, no, no, no, no!

157. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

158. You are all perfectly right.

159. It is all a matter of scale.

160. All a matter of one thing being so much bigger

161. than the other thing

162. and so much smaller than something else.

163. I don't know what you are talking about.

164. That is a small statue whatever way you look at it.

165. All right then. Mice!

166. We'll have to explain it to Professor Yaffle.

167. Have you got a roll for the song of the flea?

168. Heave!

169. Heave! Heave!

170. The marvellous mechanical

171. Mouse Organ!

172. ♪♪ But the boy said: "Don't be silly,

173. Nerp, nerp, nerp, nerp.

174. Well, it's quite obvious what that was all about.

175. The smaller you are, the larger the other things seem.

176. You mice can think that is a giant if you like,

177. but I still say: If that is a giant,

178. it is the smallest giant in the world,

179. Well, anyway, there it was in the shop Window,

180. so that if anybody who had lost a very small giant

181. should happen to come past,

182. they would see it there and come in to the shop to collect it.

183. And so their work was done.

184. Bagpuss gave a big yawn

185. and settled down to sleep.

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

187. all his friends go to sleep, too.

188. The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.

189. Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.

190. Professor Yaffle was a carved wooden bookend

191. in the shape of a woodpecker.

192. Even Bagpuss himself,

193. once he was asleep,

194. was just an old, saggy cloth cat,

195. baggy and a bit loose at the seams.

196. But Emily loved him.