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By GE RTRUDE CRAMPTON
Pictures by TIBOR GERGELY

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This is the story of SCUFFY THE TUGBOAT.
You ca.1t read along with me in you1· book.
Yen~ will k?tow it is ti1ne to t U?"1/, the page w lie1i yoi,i, hear
Sc1iffy1s bel'l ,ri'.n..<;r h'.ke thi$ . . .

LET'S BEGIN NOW:

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Scuffy the tugboat was sad.
Scuffy was cross.
Scuff y sniffed his blue smokestack.
"A toy store is no place for a red-paint ed tug-boat.
I was meant for bigger things."
Then Scuffy sniffed his blue smokestack a.g ain.
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 The man with the polka dot t ie, ·who owned the
toy shop, picked up the small tugboat. "Perhaps you
would not be cr·o,s s if you went sailing."
So o·n·e nig:h t he took Scuffy home to his little boy.
He put the littl·e tu.g boat in a ba.t htub filled with water.
But Scuffy was still cross.
"I won't sail in a bathtub. A tub ils no pla.c e 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 Sculffy to a laughing brook that
started high m t he hills,
.. "Sail, little tugboat," said the man ·w.ith the polka
dot tie as he placed Scuffy i1n the br·ook.
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 But it was Spring, and the brook was ful] to the
brim with rushing water.
And soon. Scu:ffy was .r ushing away downstream .

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 "Come back little tugboat, come back," cried the
man with the polka dot t ie.
Scuffy tooted. "Not I. Not I . This is the life for me."

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 All that day Scuffy sailed along with the brook.
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Past the meadows filled with cowslips. Past t he

women washing clothes on the bank. Past the little
woods filled with violets.
Cows came to t he brook to drink..
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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 t hem drink.
But when a white and brown cow almost drank
rS cuffy· instead ·of 'the brook's cool water, Scuffy was
frightened. That was not fun!
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 Night came, and with it the moon.
There was nothmg to see but the quiet trees.
Suddenly an owl called out," Hooo!"
The frightened tugboat tooted his .h orn trying t·o
sound brave. He wished he c·o uld s~ the smiling face
of the :m an with th.e polka. dot tie.
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 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."

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 But s·oon Scuffy grew tired of the little brook.
"I was meant for bigger thingst but which way am
I to· go?" There was only one way he could go, and
that was with the rUilning water.
Two b·roo·k s met to form a small river, and do·w n
the river sailed Scuffy, the· red·-painted
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tugboat.

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He was proud when he sailed past villages. He

straightened his blue smokestack.
"People build villages at t he edge of my r iver."
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 Scuffy's river became jammed with logs. Here wer e
men in heavy jackets and great boots, walking about
on the floating logs, trying to pry them free.
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'Let me through," demanded Scuffy. But the men
paid no attention to him. They pushed the log,s a.p art
so they would drift with the river to the sawmill in
the t own. Seuffy bumped along with the jostling logs.
"Ouch!" he cried as two logs bumped together.

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 "This is a fine river , bu·t it's v·e ry busy an.d. very big
for me.It
He was proud when he sailed under the bridges.
HM.y river is so wi,de an.d so deep t hat people must
build bridges to cross it.j'
The river moved through big towns, now instead of
vill,a ge,s .
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 And the bridges over it were very wide - wide
enough so that many cars and trucks and buses could
cross all at once.

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 The river got deeper and deeper. The :river g.r ew
wider an,d wid.e r. The river moved .f aster and faster. It
hurried Scuffy al,o ng.
"I feel like a train instead of a tugboat.''
He· was p.r oud when he passed the old sa:w mill with
its water wheel.
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 Then it began to rain.
And high in the hills and mountains the winter
snow melted. Water filled the brooks and rushed from
ther e into the small rivers . .Faster and faster it f lowedt
to the great river where Scuffy sailed.
He pitched and tossed on the waves.
uThere is too much water int this river. Soon it will
splash over· the t op· and what a flood the·r e will be!"

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 Great armies of men came to save the fields and
towns from the rushing water. They filled bags with
sand and put them a't 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 moire. 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.

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 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.

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 Oh, it was a busy place and a noisy place! The
cranes groaned as tlhey 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.

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 When Scuffy saw the sea, he was frightened. "Oh,
oh ! There is no beginning and ther,e is no end to the
sea. I wish I could find the man with the polka dot tie
and his little boy!"

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 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 t he man with the polka dot tie,
with .h is little boy beside him.

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 Scuffy is ho,me now with the man with the polka
dot t.ie and his little boy.
H'e sails from one end o:f the bathtub to the other.
"This, is tile plaice fo·r a redapaiinted tll!gboat. And
this :i!s the Jife for me.''

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 Complete Your Little Golden
Book and Record Library with
the Following Titles:

201 THE SAGGY BAGGY ELEPHANT

202 TAWNY SCRAWNY LION
203 THE POKY LITTLE PUPPY
204 RUMPELSTllLTSKIN
ros SCUFFY THE TUGBOAT
200 THUMBELINA
'2Q7 LITTLE BOY WITH A B~G HOAN
208 PUSS IN BOOTS
209 CHICKEN LITTILE

-- - ZIO T HE LARGE AND GROWLY BEAR

211 TOOTLE
212 THE COLOR KITTENS
213 THE HAPPY MAN AND MIS DUMP TRUCK
214 THE TAXI THAT HIJRAIED
215 SMOKEY THE BEAR
216 THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD
217 THE PUSSYCAT TIGER
218 DAVID AND GOLIATH
219 NOAH'S ARK
220 THE LIVELY LITTLE RABBIT
221 CIRCUS TIME
2:!2 SEVEN L~TTLE POSTMEN
223 THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A DRAGO~
224 Tl-IE LITTLE FAT POLICEMAN
252 RUDOLPH THE REO·NOSE REINDEER
253 FROSTY THE SNOW MAN
254 THE TWELVE CAYS OF CHRISTMAS
255 JINGLE BELLS

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