Bagpuss E005 - The Hamish
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00:00Une fois à l'époque, il n'y a pas longtemps, il y avait une petite fille qui s'appelait Emily.
00:24Et elle avait un magasin.
00:32Voilà.
00:35C'était plutôt un magasin inhabituel, parce qu'il ne vendait rien.
00:39Vous voyez, tout dans ce magasin était quelque chose que quelqu'un avait perdu.
00:44Et qu'Emily avait trouvé.
00:46Et l'avait emporté chez Bagpuss.
00:49Emily's cat Bagpuss.
00:52The most important,
00:55the most beautiful,
00:58the most magical,
01:02saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world.
01:11Well now, one day Emily found a thing.
01:16And she brought it back to the shop and put it down in front of Bagpuss,
01:20who was in the shop window, fast asleep as usual.
01:23But then Emily said some magic words.
01:26Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, old fat furry catpuss,
01:30wake up and look at this thing that I bring.
01:33Wake up, be bright, be golden and light.
01:36Bagpuss, oh, hear what I sing.
01:41Grrrr!
01:45Grrrr!
01:49And Bagpuss was wide awake.
01:51And when Bagpuss wakes up, all his friends wake up too.
01:54The mice on the mouse organ woke up and stretched.
01:58Meow! Meow!
02:01Madeleine, the rag doll.
02:05Gabriel, the toad.
02:07Oh, look, look.
02:10And last of all, Professor Yaffle,
02:12who is a very distinguished old woodpecker.
02:15He climbed down off his bookend
02:17and went to see what it was that Emily had brought.
02:21What a soggy-looking thing.
02:23It's a dirty old sort of bag with legs,
02:26made of tartan cloth.
02:28I haven't the slightest idea of what it is.
02:30I really don't know why Miss Emily brings us things like this.
02:33So we commend them, of course.
02:35Clean them and restore them into the beautiful form they are.
02:38Yes, we commend them, of course.
02:40We commend them, of course.
02:42We commend them, of course.
02:44We commend them, of course.
02:46We commend them, of course.
02:48Clean them and restore them into the beautiful things they once were.
02:51That's all very well, but we don't know what it once was.
02:55Well, we can try and think of things it might have been.
02:58Gabriel, what do you think?
03:00It looks a bit froggish, but it has a tartan coat.
03:03Is it a Scottish frog?
03:04No. Frogs have different sort of legs.
03:06And anyway, Scottish frogs are green or brownish,
03:08just like frogs anywhere else.
03:10I've never seen a tartan frog.
03:12Bad Puss, you are good at thinking.
03:14If this isn't a Scottish frog, what is it?
03:17Oh, that's difficult.
03:19I shall need a thinking cap.
03:22Here's one. Where is it?
03:25Ah, a tartan thinking cap. A tamashanta.
03:28Oh, thank you.
03:30Let me see if I can think Scottish thoughts in a Scottish thinking cap.
03:34So, Bad Puss, thought.
03:41Oh, yes, I think I know what that is.
03:44I think that is a sort of small, soft Hamish.
03:47And what is a small, soft Hamish, if you please?
03:51Ah, it's an old story.
03:53A sad story from the highlands of Scotland, I will tell you.
03:57In the far north of Scotland, there once was a sort of creature
04:00who lived in lonely, cold, damp places.
04:03They kept away from people and lived alone
04:05because they were shy and rather frightened sort of creatures.
04:09In fact, they were completely unknown for many centuries
04:12and didn't even have a name
04:14until they were discovered by the famous Tavish MacTavish.
04:17Now, Tavish MacTavish lived all by himself
04:20in a tiny house high up in the mountains.
04:23He lived there not because he liked to live alone,
04:26but because he liked to play the bagpipes.
04:28He liked to play the bagpipes,
04:30but other people didn't like to listen to him playing the bagpipes
04:33because he played them terribly badly.
04:36Anyway, one evening, he was stamping up and down the shelf
04:39beside his house in the last of the twilight.
04:41He was stamping to keep his feet warm
04:43and blowing away at his bagpipes.
04:46It began to grow dark.
04:48He stopped playing and turned to go indoors.
04:51He heard a faint noise.
04:54It sounded, it sounded like,
04:57yes, it sounded like somebody playing the bagpipes.
05:02He listened delighted.
05:04The sound was terrible.
05:07There was only one person in the highlands
05:09who played the bagpipes worse than he did,
05:11and that was his long-lost brother, Hamish MacTavish.
05:15The sound came closer.
05:17In the dark, a small, humpy shape came towards him.
05:20He reached down and touched the shape and said,
05:23thinking it was his long-lost brother,
05:25"'Tis very small you are tonight, Hamish."
05:28He patted it and said,
05:30"'Tis very soft you are tonight, Hamish."
05:34There was no answer.
05:36Tavish MacTavish was feeling cold about the knees.
05:39He said,
05:41"'You'll have had your tea then, Hamish."
05:43And as there was no reply, he led the way into his house.
05:46There, by the light of his oil lamp,
05:48he turned to greet his brother.
05:50They were both amazed at what they saw.
05:52Tavish MacTavish was amazed
05:54because it wasn't his long-lost brother, Hamish,
05:56but a small, soft creature.
05:58And the small, soft creature was amazed
06:00because he thought he had heard another small, soft creature,
06:02perhaps his own long-lost brother,
06:04calling for help in the cold winter twilight
06:06and had come to help him.
06:08Well, once they got over their surprise,
06:10they found they were rather pleased to see each other.
06:13MacTavish made up the fire and closed the door,
06:15and they sat down.
06:17MacTavish sat on a stool by the fire,
06:19hugging his cold knees,
06:21but the small, soft creature liked the cold,
06:23so it sat on the floor and leaned on the door,
06:25thus blocking up a rather nasty draft.
06:27Tavish MacTavish called the creature Hamish
06:29in honour of his long-lost brother,
06:31and they lived there in the lonely house
06:33for a long time.
06:35They were very happy together for many years,
06:37and then, one evening,
06:39as they sat quietly by the fire,
06:41they heard a sound they recognised.
06:45Was it the distant sound of badly played bagpipes,
06:47or was it the distant crying of another soft Hamish?
06:50Tavish MacTavish looked at his friend.
06:52He said,
06:54Is it my long-lost brother we hear
06:56playing a scuttle on the bagpipes?
06:58The soft Hamish shook its head.
07:00Is it your own long-lost brother
07:02calling you to come home?
07:04asked MacTavish.
07:06The soft Hamish nodded and looked very sad.
07:09Aye, you must go to your own folk,
07:11said MacTavish.
07:13He rose to his feet, he opened the door,
07:15and he saw in the twilight
07:17a line of small, soft Hamishes
07:19standing waiting for their long-lost brother.
07:21His own soft Hamish ran to join them,
07:23and they all walked away in line over the hill.
07:27The noise they made as they sang together
07:29was quite awful,
07:31but Tavish MacTavish stood and listened
07:33until the last notes had died away in the distance.
07:38Then he went back into his little house.
07:40He picked up his bagpipes,
07:42but he didn't feel like playing them any more.
07:44Aye, he said,
07:46it's time to go to my own folk.
07:48He put on his boots,
07:50closed the door of his house,
07:52and, tucking his bagpipes under his arm,
07:54he walked down to the village where he had been born.
08:00He went to live with his sister-in-law,
08:02Mavis MacTavish.
08:04She was a strict lady,
08:06and did not like the sound of bagpipes,
08:08and he never played them again.
08:10It's a very sad story.
08:13Yep, yep, yep, it's not only sad,
08:15it is silly.
08:17It's not only silly, it is not true.
08:19There's no such thing as a small, soft Hamish
08:21that makes noises like bagpipes.
08:23It is all nonsense.
08:25It's quite obvious what that thing is.
08:27It is a porcupine.
08:29A porcupine?
08:31Yes, a porcupine without any spikes.
08:34But there's no such thing.
08:36Porcupines have spikes.
08:38Well, um,
08:40maybe it lost them somewhere.
08:42What we need is a good song
08:44to encourage it to grow some new spikes.
08:46Porcupine, oftentimes,
08:48here's the one.
08:50Heave! Heave! Heave! Heave!
08:55The Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ
09:08A friend of mine, a porcupine
09:11Went up in a balloon
09:15He sailed it here, he sailed it there
09:19He sailed it nearly everywhere
09:22Except perhaps the moon
09:27He sailed with ease across the seas
09:31An inch above the waves
09:34And only jolt at getting salt
09:38At which an ancient codfish croaked
09:42How nicely he behaved
09:46He sailed it rough with snarling
09:49Tough wild animals below
09:53He sailed it blind and tried to find
09:57Some gentle things to leave behind
10:01The sunset's rosy glow
10:06He sailed it hot above a lot of
10:10Scorching desert sand
10:13He sailed it cold and five in total
10:17Where crowds of fluffy penguins
10:20Hold their flippers hand in hand
10:24He sailed it high beyond the sky
10:28And then I must explain
10:31A spiky spine a porcupine
10:35Popped his balloon so proud and fine
10:39And brought it down again
11:09It's a porcupine all right
11:11But it's meant to have no spikes
11:13You add the spikes, it's a pincushion
11:16A porcupine pincushion
11:18A porcupine pincushion
11:20No, a porcupine pincushion
11:24A porcupincushion, that's what it is
11:28All we need is pins
11:30Here's a pin and here's a pingle
11:33Porcupines are always single
11:35Poor old pines, they must not mingle
11:37Pingle, pangle, pingle
11:40Here's a pin and here's a pingle
11:42Porcupines are always single
12:04There it is
12:06Perfect porcupine pincushion.
12:10The mice pulled it to the front of the window,
12:13so that if anybody should happen to come past
12:15who had happened to lose a porcupine pincushion,
12:18they would come in and collect it.
12:20And so their work was done.
12:27Bagpuss gave a big yawn and settled down to sleep.
12:32And of course when Bagpuss goes to sleep,
12:34all his friends go to sleep too.
12:37The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.
12:40Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
12:43And Professor Yaffle was a carved wooden bookend
12:46in the shape of a woodpecker.
12:48Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep,
12:50was just an old, saggy, cloth cat.
12:53Baggy and a bit loose at the seams.
12:56But Emily loved him.
13:04To be continued...