Bissieu) g SFittle Golden Book & Feecord, 205SCUFFY THE TUGBOAT By GERTRUDE CRAMPTON Pictures by TIBOR GERGELY This is the story of SCUFFY THE TUGBOAT. You can read along with me in your book. You will know it is time to turn the page when you hear Scuffy’s bell ving like this... LET’S BEGIN NOW: J, GOLDEN PRESS Wostern Publishing Company, Inc. Racine, Wisconsin EN + GOLDEN ERESS® LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK® « ALIPTLR GOLDEN BOOK & RECOMD ate go ‘are Trademarks of Western Pubilssing Company. Ine- Walt Disney Productions authorized User I Fighte roverved. Produced in WBA. ian fom the peblchor MouseVinyl.com (or MOMLY. MCMALVI, Copyright onowed MCMLXXIY.Wortern Publishing Compan mele ios BOOK may Se rented St Copied in ay Porm waned aesSere the tugboat was sad. Scuffy was cross. Scuffy sniffed his blue smokestack. “A toy store is no place for a red-painted tug-boat. I was meant for bigger things.” Then Scuffy sniffed his blue smokestack again. 1 MouseVinyl.comThe man with the polka dot tie, who owned the toy shop, picked up the small tugboat. “Perhaps you would not be cross if you went sailing.” So one night he took Scuffy home to his little boy. He put the little tugboat in a bathtub filled with water. But Scuffy was still cross. “T won't sail in a bathtub. A tub is no place for a red-painted tugboat. I was meant for bigger things.” The next day the man with the polka dot tie and his little boy carried Scuffy to a laughing brook that started high in the hills. = “Sail, little tugboat,” said the man with the polka dot tie as he placed Scuffy in the brook. * MouseVinyl.comCay i We, Pa 3 4 cad MouseVinyl.comBut it was Spring, and the brook was full to the brim with rushing water. And soon Scuffy was rushing away downstream. MouseVinyl.com“Come back little tugboat, come back,” cried the man with the polka dot tie. Seuffy tooted. “Not I. Not I. This is the life for me.” 5 MouseVinyl.comAll that day Scuffy sailed along with the brook. Past the meadows filled with cowslips. Past the women washing clothes on the bank. Past the little woods filled with violets. Cows came to the brook to drink. MouseVinyl.comte They stood in the cool water, and it was fun to sail around between their legs and bump softly into their noses. : It was fun to see them drink. But when a white and brown cow almost drank Scuffy instead of the brook’s cool water, Scuffy was | frightened. That was not fun! T MouseVinyl.comNight came, and with it the moon. There was nothing to see but the quiet trees. Suddenly an owl called out, “‘ Hooo!” The frightened tugboat tooted his horn trying to sound brave. He wished he could see the smiling face of the man with the polka dot tie. MousevVinyl.comScuffy was glad when morning finally came. At last. he could see where he was going. He sailed happily about in the warm sunshine watching dragonflies dance around his head. “This is the life for me.” Mousevinyl.cémBut soon Scuffy grew tired of the little brook. “I was meant for bigger things, but which way am I to go?” There was only one way he could go, and that was with the running water. Two brooks met to form a small river, and down the river sailed Scuffy, the red-painted tugboat. jouseVinyl.com 10 E ’ ft P "He was proud when he sailed past villages. He straightened his blue smokestack. “People build villages at the edge of my river.” n MouseVinyl.comScuffy’s river became jammed with logs. Here were men in heavy jackets and great boots, walking about on the floating logs, trying to pry them free. “Let me through,” demanded Scuffy. But the men paid no attention to him. They pushed the logs apart so they would drift with the river to the sawmill in the town. Scuffy bumped along with the jostling logs. “Quch!” he cried as two logs bumped together. a y 13 —jtlea aE: Wifouse vinyl.com“This is a fine river, but it’s very busy and very big for me.’’ He was proud when he sailed under the bridges. “My river is so wide and so deep that people must build bridges to cross it.” The river moved through big towns now instead of villages. 14 MouseVinyl.comAnd the bridges over it were very wide — wide enough so that many cars and trucks and buses could cross all at once. a mt i } y 15 7 a MouseVinyl.commea so es Mi) The river got deeper and deeper. The river grew wider and wider. The river moved faster and faster. It hurried Scuffy along. “IT feel like a train instead of a tugboat.” He was proud when he passed the old saw mill with its water wheel. 16 ; MouseVinyl.comThen it began to rain. And high in the hills and mountains the winter snow melted, Water filled the brooks and rushed from there into the small rivers. Faster and faster it flowed, to the great river where Scuffy sailed. He pitehed and tossed on the waves. “There is too much water in this river. Soon it will splash over the top and what a flood there will be!” MouseVinyl.comGreat armies of men came to save the fields and towns from the rushing water. They filled hags with sand and put them at the edge of the river. They were making higher banks for the river to hold the water back. The water rose higher and higher. The men built the sand bags higher and higher. Higher! went the river. Higher! went the sand bags. At last the water rose no more. The flood water rushed on to the sea, and Scuffy raced along with the flood. The people and the fields and the towns were safe, . 19 MouseVinyl.comOn went the river to the sea, At last Scuffy sailed into a big city. Here the river widened, and all about were docks and wharves.Oh, it was a busy place and a noisy place! The cranes groaned as they swung the cargoes into great ships. The porters shouted as they carried suitcases and boxes on board. Boat whistles blew and truck motors roared, taxis honked and people shouted. Scuffy tooted his horn, but nobody noticed. a MousevVinyl.com22 When Scuffy saw the sea, he was frightened. ‘Oh, oh! There is no beginning and there is no end to the sea. I wish I could find the man with the polka dot tie and his little boy!”Just as the little red-painted tugboat sailed past the last piece of land, a hand reached out and picked him up. And there was the man with the polka dot tie, with his little boy beside him. 23 MouseVinyl.comScuffy is home now with the man with the polka dot tie and his little boy. He sails from one end of the bathtub to the other. “This is the place for a red-painted tugboat. And this is the life for me.” 241 nog eowsnauista Sig 1819 W Sal 9 ki8 7) 2 et ary 10 DEO! sauyyy 03818 204 ayaa weal Sei 1 et jug pue Aas, avesy avomon. 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