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01:00Will got up, dressed and hurried downstairs.
01:07Of course, there was a bowl of wasp porridge waiting for him.
01:10And by the time he'd finished it, she said,
01:12Well, little quack, if you want to earn some money, I've got a couple of jobs that need doing.
01:18Quack? What, ma'am?
01:21Well, Will, first of all, I want you to clean the windows.
01:24Here's a bucket and cloth for you. I'll give you the money at the end.
01:28Clean the windows? Hooray! cried Will.
01:32He dashed out to the back and slammed the door behind him,
01:34so that Humphrey's false teeth fell off the mantelpiece and bit his ear as he was combing his hair in the mirror.
01:43Snorted Humphrey.
01:45First, Will cleaned the downstairs windows, holding the cloth in his beak and flying backwards and forwards.
01:50Then he flew higher and cleaned the upstairs windows. Martha was very pleased.
01:55Oh, excellent indeed, little quack.
01:59Is there anything else to do, ma'am?
02:01Well, yes, there is, Will, a little job.
02:05Go to the garden and gather a bowl full of snails for supper, will you?
02:15So Will hot-footed out to the garden and began to fill a big bowl with snails of every sort.
02:20Young ones, white ones, speckled ones, until the bowl was full.
02:23Oh, very good, little quack, cried Martha.
02:27Here, you deserve your money.
02:29And she gave him throppins.
02:31Hooray! I've got enough now. Thanks, ma'am. Ta-da!
02:35But what about...
02:37Too late. Will was disappearing in the distance.
02:48When he reached Mr Peel's shop, there was no sign of the Whip and Top in the window.
02:52Mr Peel shook his head.
02:54Very sorry, but I've just sold the last ones this morning.
03:02And when Will came out to the street and saw his friends, each one with a Whip and Top,
03:07and when he remembered how he'd worked so hard all morning to earn money,
03:11two tears rolled down his nose and he licked them without thinking.
03:16Don't cry, Will, said Hugh Herrick.
03:19You can have a go with mine.
03:23And mine, they all said.
03:25But it wasn't the same.
03:27So after saying, thanks for the offering, Will went home sadly.
03:38But when he got there, his father Humphrey said,
03:40And where have you been?
03:42In the shop, wasting your money and playing with those naughty friends of yours, I suppose?
03:49No, indeed.
03:51Is it true you cleaned the windows and collected snails without telling me?
03:57Quack. Yes, Dad.
04:00All right. Take that.
04:03Will closed his eyes, thinking he was about to be thumped.
04:07Then he heard laughter.
04:11Look what I've bought for you today for helping your mum.
04:16In front of him were the Whip and Top from Mr Peel, the shop's shop.
04:21Whee! Thanks, Dad, cried Will.
04:25And the next minute he was playing Whip and Top like nobody's business.
04:37When Will went to bed that night, he dreamed that he was the best Whip and Top player of them all.
04:43Good night.
04:45Good night.
05:13To be continued...