00:29I'll see you next time.
00:29More scratchy than the others, and even earlier than ever, Rhubarb was lying in the garden in a grizzling sort
00:36of way, and ranting on about being woken up yet again by the thumping and scraping of birds beating around
00:43bushes, and ants marching in lines, and bees buzzing about.
00:51My, it was noisy.
00:54Will you be quiet, screamed Rhubarb.
00:58You're breaking the silence, and it's far too early.
01:01Be quiet, he went on, but so did the noise, on and on and on.
01:08Right, ranted Rhubarb.
01:10If it's broken silence you want, it's broken silence you get.
01:13In fact, I'll smash it to smithereens, screamed Rhubarb, and stormed off up to the shed.
01:20You know, did someone say something?
01:24Sighed Mole, who'd surfaced after looking at his map upside down again, and causing another minor incident.
01:30But there wasn't a sound between there and the wood.
01:32My, it was quiet, as quiet as a cucumber.
01:38As the afternoon wore on to an end, the silence began to creak at the seams, as Rhubarb knocked and
01:45nailed till well after tea time, building a silence breaker with an old racket, some bellows, and lots of string.
01:53Custard popped his grin over the fence to see what was what, but apart from a couple of birds who'd
01:57just arrived at the tree, there wasn't a soul to be seen.
02:01Very quiet this evening, mused Custard to himself.
02:06Very quiet for the time of year, so, makes a nice change, be a pity to break it, sighed he,
02:13settling down on the fence for forty winks, just as the shed door almost flew off its hinges, as Rhubarb
02:18burst out into the garden with his nasty noise machine and shattered the silence.
02:34Oi! Turn that thing off!
02:37Demanded Custard.
02:38You're breaking the silence! Turn it off!
02:42I know, begged Rhubarb.
02:44It's my silence breaker! I've made it! Good, innit?
02:47He screamed, as he'd trundled a machine all over the garden, as it got louder and louder.
02:53What an inventive mind you have, Rhubarb thought to himself.
02:56Pardon?
02:57Oh yes, brilliant.
02:59I can hardly hear myself think, he thought on.
03:03After he'd been round the garden twice, Rhubarb sat down for a while to have a little rest.
03:08There! He grinned.
03:09Excellent! That's broken all the silence in the garden, and must have disturbed everything else for at least a mile.
03:16Peace!
03:18Roared a big black police dog.
03:20Beg pardon?
03:22Grinned Rhubarb.
03:23Peace! That is what it's disturbed!
03:27The peace!
03:28Turn it off immediately!
03:32But this is my world's silence breaker!
03:35shouted Rhubarb, and pulled the stop handle, which wasn't very strong.
03:41Oh! It's broken!
03:43Whimpered Rhubarb, as the machine set off round the garden, completely out of control.
03:58Disturbing the peace of the high warden!
04:02Screamed the police dog.
04:03There's only one thing that breaks, and that is the law!
04:08Oh, no!
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