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00:31Mr. Topsy-Turvy was a funny sort of fellow.
00:36Everything about him was either upside down or inside out, back to front.
00:43Topsy-Turvy, in fact.
00:46It was all very extraordinary.
00:50To give you some idea of how Topsy-Turvy Mr. Topsy-Turvy was,
00:55you ought to see his house.
00:58The front door is upside down to start with.
01:01And the curtains hang upside down at the windows.
01:05And just look at that chimney-pot.
01:09All very extraordinary.
01:12Inside is the same.
01:15Just look at that clock standing on Mr. Topsy-Turvy's mantelpiece.
01:20Isn't that the Topsy-Turviest clock you've ever seen?
01:24And just look at the way Mr. Topsy-Turvy reads a book.
01:28Not only does he read it upside down,
01:32but he starts to read it at the back page.
01:36And just look where Mr. Topsy-Turvy puts the stamp
01:40when he sends a letter to somebody.
01:43You've never seen anything like it.
01:46Now, this story is all about the time Mr. Topsy-Turvy
01:50came to the town where you and I live.
01:56Nobody's quite sure how Mr. Topsy-Turvy got there
02:01or where he came from.
02:04But he did arrive because somebody saw him getting off the train.
02:10The trouble was, he did it in a Topsy-Turvy way.
02:15Which really isn't all that surprising, is it?
02:20Mr. Topsy-Turvy went to a hotel to find a room to spend the night.
02:31The hotel manager tried not to smile
02:34when he saw Mr. Topsy-Turvy walk into his hotel
02:37carrying his suitcase upside down.
02:40But he didn't know what to do.
02:43Mr. Topsy-Turvy said,
02:46Now, something you didn't know about Mr. Topsy-Turvy
02:50is the way he speaks.
02:53You see, he sometimes gets things the wrong way round.
02:57Afternoon, good, said Mr. Topsy-Turvy to the hotel manager.
03:02I don't know what to do.
03:05I don't know what to do.
03:08I don't know what to do.
03:11I don't know what to do.
03:13Said the hotel manager.
03:16I'd room a like.
03:20The manager scratched his head.
03:23You mean you'd like a room, he asked.
03:26Please, yes, replied Mr. Topsy-Turvy.
03:30Eventually, the hotel manager managed to work out
03:33what Mr. Topsy-Turvy was talking about
03:36and he was taken up in the lift to a bedroom.
03:39Then, Mr. Topsy-Turvy unpacked his suitcase,
03:43put on his pyjamas and went to bed.
03:46He was rather tired after travelling from wherever he'd come from.
03:52The following day, Mr. Topsy-Turvy went round the town.
03:57But what a fuss his going round the town caused.
04:01He took a taxi from the hotel.
04:04But so confused, the taxi driver,
04:06trying to tell him where he wanted to go,
04:09the poor man drove straight into a traffic jam.
04:12Oh dear, said Mr. Topsy-Turvy.
04:15I am sorry, Larry.
04:18Then, he went into a big department store in the middle of the town.
04:23Walked up to one of the counters.
04:26I'd like a sock of pears,
04:29he said to the lady behind the counter.
04:32You mean a pair of socks, she smiled.
04:34And showed him a pair of bright red socks.
04:37Mr. Topsy-Turvy put them on his hands.
04:41Then he tried to leave.
04:43But being Mr. Topsy-Turvy,
04:45he tried to walk down the up escalator
04:48and all the people who were going up the up escalator all fell over themselves.
04:54Oh, it was a terrible Topsy-Turvy jumble.
04:58That day, Mr. Topsy-Turvy did all sorts of Topsy-Turvy things.
05:23Then he went to an art gallery.
05:25And insisted on hanging all the pictures upside down,
05:28so that he could look at them properly.
05:33And then, after Mr. Topsy-Turvy had been in the town for just one day,
05:38he disappeared.
05:42Nobody knew how he went,
05:44or where he went.
05:46But he certainly went because he wasn't there anymore.
05:51The whole town breathed a sigh of relief.
05:55But,
05:57what the town discovered,
05:59even though Mr. Topsy-Turvy had left,
06:02was that everything was still Topsy-Turvy.
06:08Read all it about!
06:10shouted the newspaper sellers.
06:12Instead of shouting,
06:14read all about it!
06:17News is the here,
06:19said the television newsreader.
06:22Instead of saying,
06:23here is the news.
06:26Morning good!
06:28People started saying to each other when they met him.
06:31Do do you how?
06:33Instead of, how do you do?
06:37Everybody was talking Topsy-Turvy!
06:43Now can you think of something to say that's Topsy-Turvy?
06:48Try on, go!
06:50I mean, go on, try!
06:53THE END
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