00:27One morning,
00:28just after the chimes,
00:30and Grandfather Clock couldn't hold his big hand up any longer,
00:34Rhubarb was sitting in his kitchen,
00:36eating his morning newspaper,
00:37when there was a clatter at the front door
00:39as a huge brown paper parcel
00:41was squeezed through the letterbox
00:43and landed with a groan on the hall floor.
00:47Could this be the great day?
00:49wondered Rhubarb breathlessly
00:50as he wandered into the hall
00:51and gazed at the plump brown parcel lying at his paws.
00:55It's arrived! It's arrived! It's arrived!
00:57twittered Rhubarb as he led himself a dance round the house
01:00in a very excited way
01:01and skipped out into the garden
01:03to tell everyone the good news.
01:06It's arrived! It's arrived!
01:08he announced at the very top of his bark.
01:11Custard glanced into the garden.
01:14What on earth is that?
01:16inquired he in such an uninterested way
01:19as only he knew how.
01:21This? said Rhubarb in a very excited way
01:24as everyone gathered round for a close look.
01:26Is my do-it-yourself bagpipe set.
01:30With that, there was a scurrying and hurrying
01:33and scattering for the next ten minutes
01:37until Rhubarb was completely alone, bar the bagpipes.
01:42Right then! I'll make the whole caboodle myself
01:45without any help at all!
01:46nodded Rhubarb to the empty garden.
01:49I thought you said it was a bagpipe kit!
01:53echoed Custard from the safe side of the fence.
01:56Well, it is! snapped Rhubarb.
01:58And not only is it a bagpipe kit,
02:00it's a famous caboodles of Glasgow bagpipe kit.
02:04So, there!
02:07All the rest of that afternoon,
02:09Custard lay on his back,
02:11watching the clouds going by.
02:14And the birds larking about.
02:18And listening to Rhubarb
02:19gluing the bagpipes together
02:21and reading the notes.
02:23When Rhubarb had finished
02:25putting the final touches to the instrument,
02:27he turned the page in the instruction book,
02:29memorised a tune,
02:31ate the book,
02:32and announced to the world
02:33that there would be a bagpipe bonanza
02:35on the lawn at four o'clock.
02:37Sure enough, there was.
02:48Rhubarb was huffing and puffing the pipes
02:50and it was great excitement in the garden
02:52when an underdog from caboodles
02:54arrived with yet another brown paper parcel
02:56even bigger than the first
02:58and addressed to Custard the cat.
03:01All the birds flapped about
03:03as Custard strolled over
03:04in a curious sort of way
03:05and untied the parcel there and then.
03:08Dear Custard,
03:10said the words in a note just inside the box,
03:13everyone who purchases
03:14a caboodles famous bagpipe kit
03:16is entitled to a free caboodles violin
03:19for his next door neighbour.
03:22Oh, wonderful!
03:24That's me!
03:25Thank you, Rhubarb!
03:27beamed Custard.
03:28What a wonderful fiddle!
03:31said he
03:31and played to the gallery
03:32for more than an hour.
03:41Oh, gracious me!
03:43murmured Rhubarb.
03:44I think I've got more than I bargained for here.
03:49You take the high road
03:51and I take the low road,
03:55cackled Custard.
03:56Which way? shrugged Rhubarb.
03:57Any way you like.
04:00All the world's a stage, laddie!
04:03drawled Custard
04:04in a dreadful Scottish accent.
04:06Or, you've got slungeredé£ęØ£å
04:19to glue Uh
04:19-ya
04:20-ya- you're already
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