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00:30L'HOMME QUI N'A PAS VENU
01:00L'HOMME QUI N'A PAS VENU
01:31Hello, said the wizard.
01:33I wonder if by any chance, in such a warm day,
01:36you could possibly, if it's not too much trouble,
01:38be so kind as to, if it's not inconvenient,
01:40perhaps as I'm very thirsty,
01:42provide me with, do you think, a glass,
01:44if it's not too much to ask, of water, please.
01:48He was a very wordy wizard.
01:50No, replied Mr. Mean rudely,
01:52and shut the door in his face.
02:00How did you get in?
02:02Well, replied the wizard,
02:04it was by, how shall I put it,
02:06I just, well, you know, waved the old what's-his-name,
02:08magic wand, don't you know, and then, you know,
02:10well, here I am, if you know what I mean.
02:12You must be very poor,
02:15he remarked kindly, looking round.
02:18Oh, yes, I am, lied Mr. Mean.
02:21Then, perhaps I can help you,
02:24said the wizard, pulling up a box to sit down on.
02:27The box didn't move,
02:29so the wizard pulled it harder,
02:31and this time it did move.
02:33In fact, it tipped up,
02:35and spilled Mr. Mean's money all over the floor.
02:37Well, well, well, well,
02:40well, well, well, well, well,
02:42oh, well, well, well, well,
02:45it would appear to me
02:47that you, sir, are an old meanie.
02:50Mr. Mean, he didn't hear him, he was too busy
02:52scrambling all over the floor trying to pick up his money.
02:54And meanies need to be taught a lesson.
02:57And so saying, he waved his magic wand.
03:02All the money turned into potatoes.
03:04Potatoes!
03:06Oh, dear, oh, oh, dear me, oh, dear me,
03:09please turn my money back into money.
03:11Oh, please, please, please.
03:15Perhaps, replied the wizard,
03:17but on the other hand,
03:19taking all things into account,
03:21by and large, things being what they are on the face of it,
03:23perhaps not.
03:25However, continued the wordy wizard,
03:28if you make me a solemn promise
03:31never to be mean again,
03:33then I'll turn the potatoes back into money.
03:36But, he added sternly,
03:39if you are ever mean again,
03:41then it's, how shall I put it,
03:43then it's potatoes for you, my lad,
03:46if not other vegetables as well.
03:51The following day, Mr. Mean decided to walk to town.
03:54He never took the bus, because that cost money.
03:57On the way, he met an old washerwoman
03:59carrying an enormous bundle of washing.
04:01Oh, please, please, kind sir, he said,
04:03could you possibly help me to carry this washing?
04:06It's so heavy.
04:08No, replied Mr. Mean,
04:10it's your washing, you carry it.
04:12But, as soon as he'd said that,
04:15he felt a tingling in his nose.
04:18Mr. Mean's nose turned into a carrot.
04:21Oh, no, he gasped.
04:23The old washerwoman chuckled,
04:26and then Mr. Mean remembered the wizard's words.
04:29Yes, oh, yes, he cried in a panic,
04:31of course I'll help you, of course.
04:34And the carrot turned back into a nose,
04:37and off he went.
04:39The old washerwoman chuckled again,
04:42and turned back into the wizard.
04:44It had been him all along, you see.
04:50Then Mr. Mean passed by Cottage Garden.
04:52In the garden there was an old man chopping wood.
04:54Oh, excuse me, excuse me, he called.
04:58Could you give an old man a bit of hand,
05:01young fellow, a bit of hand?
05:03No, replied Mr. Mean,
05:05it's your wood, you chop it.
05:07But as soon as the words had passed his lips,
05:10guess what happened?
05:12His ears turned into tomatoes.
05:14Oh, no, he gasped.
05:16The old man chuckled.
05:18Mr. Mean remembered the wizard's words.
05:21Oh, yes, yes, he cried.
05:23Yes, of course I'll give you a hand, of course.
05:26And he chopped and chopped until all the wood was cut.
05:29And the tomatoes turned back into ears,
05:31and off he went.
05:37Eventually Mr. Mean arrived in the town.
05:39There was a little boy crying because his ball
05:41got stuck on the top of the wall.
05:43Oh, please, please, sir,
05:45could you make my ball down for me?
05:49No, retorted Mr. Mean.
05:51Your ball, you?
05:52Then he stopped.
05:54There was a funny tingling feeling in his feet.
05:56Yes, yes, he said hurriedly.
05:58Yes, of course I will, of course.
06:00And he reached up and passed the ball to the boy
06:03and went on his way,
06:05looking anxiously at his feet.
06:07The little boy stopped crying and turned into the wizard.
06:10I think, he said to himself,
06:12I think that Mr. Mean, by and large,
06:14is beginning, if I'm not very much mistaken,
06:16to be not quite so mean.
06:18And I think, although I could be wrong,
06:20although I never am,
06:22that he has, thank goodness, learned his lesson.
06:26And you know something?
06:28Mr. Mean had learned his lesson.
06:30Today he's nothing like so mean as he used to be,
06:33and he doesn't keep his money in a box in the kitchen anymore.
06:36Today his house is mended and painted and spic and span,
06:40and he's turned into quite a generous sort of fellow.
06:43Goodness, he's so generous,
06:45do you know what he gave his brother last Christmas?
06:47Two pieces of coal.
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