00:23Hello again, Peabody and Chairman here.
00:25Who are we going to visit today, Mr. Peabody?
00:28First it.
00:29Bless you.
00:30I did not sneeze, Sherman.
00:31I was referring to Hans Christian Ørsted, the brilliant Danish physicist and discoverer
00:36of electromagnetism.
00:37Oh!
00:37So if you'll be so kind as to set the way back for the year 1820 and the place Copenhagen,
00:41Denmark, we'll be on our way.
00:43We entered the way back and were immediately teleported back through time where we soon
00:47found ourselves standing in front of the small country home of Hans Ørsted.
00:52Gee, we didn't pick a very good day to visit, Mr. Peabody.
00:55It looks like we're in for quite a storm.
00:57An electrical storm to be exact, Sherman.
00:58Come, let's...
00:59Quick, gentlemen.
01:00Tell me, have you seen him?
01:02Well, I'm afraid we haven't seen anybody.
01:03You see, we just got here and we have...
01:05You don't suppose he been under the house, do you?
01:07Well, it's possible, but perhaps if you told us just who...
01:09I'll have to look under there.
01:11We quickly joined Mr. Ørsted under the house to see if we could learn the reason for his
01:15peculiar actions.
01:16Without seeming to pry, sir, may I ask just who it is you are looking for under here?
01:20Yee-me.
01:21Yee-me?
01:22I mean, I mean, Jimmy?
01:24Yes, sure, but he ain't bane here.
01:27There's only one place left to look.
01:28Following him into the house, he watched as he approached a large overstuffed sofa.
01:33So, here you are.
01:35Shame on you.
01:36Oops, I'm afraid Mr. Ørsted has been working too hard, Mr. Peabody.
01:39Now he's talking to the sofa.
01:41Not to the sofa, Sherman, but to something under the sofa.
01:44See?
01:44Ah!
01:45Ah!
01:45And unless I miss my guess, that is Jimmy.
01:48Yeah, and Yee-me is a bad Yee-me.
01:50He hasn't got it in his mouth.
01:52He must have buried it.
01:53Now I can't fly my kite and make a compass.
01:56Huh?
01:57Buried what?
01:58And what does flying a kite have to do with you making a compass?
02:01Just this.
02:02By attaching this needle to the tail of a kite and flying it during this electrical storm,
02:07lightning would strike it.
02:08Thus it would become magnetized.
02:10And being magnetized, it would always point north,
02:13due to the magnetic field surrounding the earth.
02:15Yeah, sure.
02:16But then Yee-me ran off with my kite string,
02:18and I've got to find it before the storm is over.
02:21Oh, don't worry.
02:22I am certain that I can find the exact spot where Jimmy buried the kite string.
02:25Follow me.
02:27Walking directly to a spot beneath a large tree,
02:29I instructed Sherman to dig.
02:31In no time at all, he had uncovered two soup bones,
02:33a newspaper, a rubber ball, a well-chewed slipper,
02:35and, of course, the ball of string.
02:37Gee, that's amazing, Mr. Peabody.
02:39How did you know that this is where Jimmy buried his stuff?
02:42Well, very simple.
02:42In order to think what a dog thinks, you must simply think like a dog.
02:46And, among other things, Sherman, I think like a dog.
02:50Sorry, Mr. Peabody.
02:51I keep forgetting.
02:52Hmm.
02:53Now would be an excellent time to get on with your discovery, Mr. Ersted.
02:56Good.
02:56Here I go, Mr. Ebers.
02:58So saying, Hans Ersted ran across an open field,
03:01but watching the kite instead of where he was going,
03:03once more stopped the experiment dead in its tracks.
03:06Quickly, Sherman, pull him out.
03:08I got him.
03:09Are you all right, Mr. Ersted?
03:10No.
03:11What's the matter?
03:12I lost the needle.
03:13Come on.
03:14I'll help you look for it.
03:15Sherman and Hans frantically set about searching through the hay,
03:18but, of course, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
03:21You'll never find it that way, Sherman.
03:23There's only one quick way to find a needle in a haystack.
03:25How's that?
03:26By simply sitting down in the hay.
03:28Sitting down?
03:29Are you sure?
03:30Try it and see.
03:31Well, okay, but it seems kind of...
03:34It's the hard way, I'll admit, but it works every time.
03:38Here's the needle, Hans.
03:39Too late.
03:40I don't need it now.
03:41What do you mean?
03:41We waited too long.
03:43The storm is over.
03:44It was true.
03:44The sky had cleared and there was no more lightning.
03:46Oh, I best just forget the whole thing.
03:49Nonsense.
03:49It's simply a matter of getting it to storm again,
03:51and I can do that before you can say cumulus nimbus.
03:54Returning to the house, we proceeded to raid the ersted icebox.
03:57Finding a fine ham, some leftover chicken, and plenty of pickles and olives,
04:00I was soon able to whip up a fine lunch,
04:02which we then took into a nearby meadow and prepared to enjoy.
04:05I don't get it, Mr. Peabody.
04:07I thought you said you were going to make it storm again.
04:09I'm doing exactly that right now, Sherman.
04:11By eating lunch?
04:12When eaten out of doors, it's referred to as a picnic, Sherman,
04:15and the best way I know to drum up some foul weather is to have a picnic.
04:19Ah, there it is now, right on cue.
04:21By Yemeni, nothing gonna stop me now.
04:25Nothing gonna did, and needless to say,
04:27his experiment with electromagnetism was a rousing success.
04:30And he lived happily ever after, right, Mr. Peabody?
04:32Not quite, Sherman.
04:33For just a few months after that eventful day,
04:35Hans was repairing a toaster for his mother
04:37when, quite by accident, his brother Virgil
04:39plugged in the cord to which Hans was holding two pair of wires,
04:42and poor Hans disappeared in a blue flash.
04:45How awful!
04:45What did his brother say to his mother about that?
04:48Well, what could he say, Sherman, but...
04:49Look, Mum, no hands!
04:52...
04:56...
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