00:05Toby and Henrietta are enjoying their new job on the island of Sodor, but they do look
00:11old-fashioned and need new paint.
00:14James was very rude whenever he saw them.
00:17Urgh!
00:18What dirty objects, he would say.
00:21At last, Toby lost patience.
00:24James, he asked, why are you red?
00:26I am a splendid engine, answered James, ready for anything.
00:31You never see my paint dirty.
00:35Oh, said Toby instantly, that's why you once needed bootlaces to be ready, I suppose.
00:42James 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.
00:58At the end of the line, James left his coaches and got ready for his next train.
01:03It was a Slow Goods, stopping at every station to pick up and set down trucks.
01:08James hated Slow Goods trains.
01:11James hated Slow Goods trains.
01:14Dirty trucks from dirty sidings.
01:24Bleh!
01:32Bleh!
01:33Starting with only a few, he picked up more and more trucks at each station, till he had
01:38a long train.
01:46At first, the trucks behaved well, but James bumped them so crossly that they were determined
01:51to pay him back.
01:54Presently, they approached the top of Gordon's Hill.
01:57Heavy goods trains halt here to pin down their brakes.
02:00James had had an accident with trucks before and should have remembered this.
02:04Wait, James, wait, said the driver, but James wouldn't wait.
02:08He was too busy thinking what he would say to Toby when they next met.
02:16The trucks' chance had come.
02:18Hurrah, hurrah, they laughed, and banging their buffers, they pushed him down the hill.
02:25One!
02:25On!
02:26On!
02:26On!
02:26Yelled the trucks, Tupxin!
02:27I've got to stop!
02:29I've got to stop!
02:30Grolled James.
02:39To the station they thundered, disaster lay ahead.
02:48Something sticky splashed all over James.
02:51He had run into two tar wagons and was black from smoke box to cab.
02:57He was more dirty than hers, but the tar wagons and some trucks were all to pieces.
03:11Toby and Percy were sent to help and came as quickly as they could.
03:18Look here, Percy, exclaimed Toby, whatever is that dirty object?
03:23That's James, didn't you know?
03:25It's James' shape, said Toby, but James is a splendid red engine and you never see his
03:31paint dirty.
03:32James pretended he hadn't heard.
03:41Toby and Percy cleared away the unheard trucks and helped James home.
03:53The Fat Controller met them.
03:55Well done, Percy and Toby, he turned to James.
03:59Fancy letting your trucks run away?
04:00I am surprised.
04:02You're not fit to be seen.
04:04You must be cleaned at once.
04:06Toby 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.
04:14She will be pleased.
04:16All James could do was watch Toby as he ran off happily with the news.
04:20We'll see you next time.
04:24Bye.
04:26Bye.
04:28Bye.
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