00:00Toby and Henrietta were enjoying their new job on the island of Sodor, but they do look
00:11old-fashioned and did need new paint.
00:15James was very rude whenever he saw them.
00:17Yuck!
00:18What dirty objects, he would say.
00:22At last, Toby lost patience.
00:24James, he asked, why are you red?
00:27I am a splendid engine, answered James, ready for anything.
00:31You never see my paint dirty.
00:34Oh, said Toby innocently, that's why you once needed bootlaces, to be ready, I suppose.
00:43James went redder than ever and snorted off.
00:46It was such an insult to be reminded of the time a bootlace had been used to mend a hole
00:51in his coaches.
00:59At the end of the line, James left his coaches and got ready for his next train.
01:04It was a slow freight, stopping at every station to pick up and set down cars.
01:09James hated slow freight trains.
01:17Dirty cars from dirty siding, yeah!
01:34Starting with only a few, he picked up more and more cars at each station until he had
01:38a long train.
01:46At first the freight cars behaved well, but James bumped them so crossly that they were
01:51determined to get back at him.
01:54Presently they approached the top of Gordon's Hill.
01:57Heavy freight trains halt here to set their brakes.
02:01James had had an accident with cars before and should have remembered this.
02:04Wait, James, wait, said the driver, but James wouldn't wait.
02:09He was too busy thinking what he would say to Toby when they next met.
02:16The freight cars' chance had come.
02:18Hurrah, hurrah, they laughed, and banging their buffers, they pushed him down the hill.
02:25On, on, yelled the cars.
02:28I've got to stop, I've got to stop, groaned James.
02:42Disaster lay ahead.
02:49Something sticky splashed all over James.
02:52He had run into two tar wagons and was black from smoke box to cab.
02:57He was more dirty than hurt, but the tar wagons and some cars were all to pieces.
03:12Toby and Percy were sent to help and came as quickly as they could.
03:19Look here, Percy, exclaimed Toby.
03:21Whatever is that dirty object?
03:23That's James, didn't you know?
03:26It's James's shape, said Toby, but James is a splendid red engine and you never see his
03:31paint dirty.
03:33James pretended he hadn't heard.
03:42Toby and Percy cleared away the unhurt cars and helped James home.
03:53Sir Topham Hatt met them.
03:55Well done, Percy and Toby, he turned to James.
03:59Fancy letting your cars run away.
04:01I am surprised.
04:03You're not fit to be seen.
04:04You must be cleaned at once.
04:07Toby shall have a new coat of paint.
04:08Please, sir, can Henrietta have one too, said Toby.
04:12Certainly, Toby.
04:13Oh, thank you, sir, she will be pleased.
04:16All James could do was watch Toby as he ran off happily with the news.
