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Author:  Emerence [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:19 pm ]
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The train let forth a spout of steam and a deafening whistle. Miss Ferrars briskly moved along the line, marking off each pupil before they picked up their case and scurried towards the train.

“Next?”

“Rosamund Lilley, Miss Ferrars.”

“Next?”

“Ted Grantley, Miss Ferrars.”

“Lastly?” she said, pen poised over the list.

“Paddington Brown, Miss Ferrars,” said the small bear, raising its hat as high as it could go, and moving towards the train clutching a battered case.

But Miss Ferrars caught up a paw. It was a very sticky paw, and she quickly let it go with a peculiar look on her face.

“Is there something wrong?” enquired the bear, looking worried.

“I can’t find your name on my list. Are you sure this is the school for which you were entered?”

“It’s hard to tell,” said Paddington thoughtfully, examining the label on his suitcase handle. “Some of my marmalade seems to have made a stain on the address.”

“Your marmalade … made a stain on the address,” repeated Miss Ferrars slowly.

“Yes,” said Paddington. “I always keep an emergency sandwich in my case. It seems to have leaked a bit,” he added guiltily.

Miss Ferrars looked at the label but it was covered with orange chunks. She shuddered.

“Do you remember the name of the school?” she asked, not too hopefully.

“It was the Chalet School,” said Paddington firmly. “I remember very distinctly. Mr Brown and Mrs Brown and Mrs Bird went through all the prospectuses and we decided that the Chalet School looked much the best.”

“Oh,” said Miss Ferrars, her face falling slightly. “Well, I suppose you had better get on the train.”

“After you,” said Paddington politely with a wave of his paw.

“Thank you, Paddington,” said Miss Ferrars, and they climbed aboard. Mid-climb something wet plopped on to her neatly stockinged foot. Her face froze.

“Oh dear,” said Paddington apologetically. “I’m so sorry, Miss Ferrars. It’s just one of my chunks falling off. The label’s a bit loose.”

While he bent down and tied the marmaladed label on more firmly, Miss Ferrars took a deep breath. She had never dealt with a young bear before. In her head she calculated the hours until they would arrive at the Platz. There were a lot of them, and she shuddered again.

Author:  LizzieC [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:43 pm ]
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:rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl:

Fantastic :D You captured the Paddington style perfectly there :D

Thank you!

Author:  Lesley [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:56 pm ]
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Love it!

Author:  Emerence [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:55 pm ]
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Thanks! I have no idea where the idea for this drabble came from :lol:

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“Come in here, Paddington,” said Miss Ferrars, thankfully detecting a compartment with a spare seat. “Move over girls. Make a bit of room.”

“Thank you very much, Miss Ferrars,” said Paddington gratefully as he climbed over an assortment of legs and umbrellas and cricket bats. The further he went the more tangled things seemed to become and the darker it got, and he could hear confused sounds overhead, and people seemed to be calling his name but he couldn’t make out from which direction. He curled himself into a ball and waited for the noise to stop.

A minute later he felt a number of hands latching onto his fur before he was half pulled, half guided backwards. Paddington blinked in the sudden light.

“Is he all right?” asked Miss Ferrars anxiously, bending over.

“I think so,” said Paddington. “I got a bit lost when the train went through the tunnel.”

The girls shouted.

“There haven’t been any tunnels, you walked right under the seat,” said a girl with curly golden hair.

“He’s very small,” said Miss Ferrars doubtfully. “I don’t quite like to leave him.”

“I’ll be getting bigger soon,” said Paddington. “I had one of Mrs Bird’s puddings for breakfast.”

“Don’t worry, Miss Ferrars, we’ll look after him for you,” said the curly girl cheerfully. “Shove up, Verity. Would you like to sit by the window and watch everything going by?” she added to Paddington.

Paddington’s eyes lit up as he squeezed into the space next to Verity.

“Is this your first time away from home?” asked Verity after Miss Ferrars had departed with an uneasy feeling of forboding.

“It’s my first time away from the Browns,” said Paddington, watching the scenery whizzing past. “But I used to live in Darkest Peru. I’ve never been to school.”

“Never been to school!” exclaimed the girls.

“Bears don’t, as a rule,” explained Paddington. “It’s hard for us to count because we only have four paws to do it with.”

“But it’s not just lessons, think of the other things you’ve been missing out on,” said the curly girl.

“Tell him all about them, Mary-Lou,” said the others.

“I already know some things,” said Paddington eagerly, undoing his briefcase and taking out the prospectus. “It’s all in here.”

“Oh good, chuck it over,” said Mary-Lou. She neatly caught the booklet.

There was a pause.

“Well, hurry up and open it,” said Verity.

“Er … I can’t,” said Mary-Lou, brow furrowed.

“Why ever not?”

Mary Lou grunted. “The pages … seem to be … stuck together.”

“Would you like me to try opening it?” suggested Paddington kindly. “Bears are good at pulling things apart.”

He climbed over Verity’s lap to take the other side of the book and found himself engaged in a tug of war.

“For goodness sake, Mary-Lou,” said Verity crossly from beneath a flurry of paws. “Just give it to him and let go.”

“I CAN’T let go,” replied Mary-Lou, flapping her hands, to which the book had stayed stuck and was consequently flapping Paddington (who was also finding himself stuck) up and down at the other end.

Things went on like this for a bit.

“Now my chin’s stuck too,” said Paddington eventually, with some difficulty.

“It must be some sort of glue,” put in another girl called Barbara, who was looking on with interest.

What’s a sort of glue?” demanded Miss Ferrars, who had just appeared and was trying to look patient. She found it difficult to be patient after being presented with her newest charge waggling around in the air on the end of a laminated bit of card.

“I don’t know,” said Paddington miserably. “I took it out of the toolbox that Mr Brown gave me for my birthday.”

“Mercy on us,” said Miss Ferrars, delicately rootling through his suitcase and extracting a dripping bottle. “Do you mean to say you’re stuck there with Super Glue?”

“I thought,” said Paddington slowly, for it was becoming more tiring to move his chin, “that it might come in handy to stick things in my journal.”

“We’ll have to cut between the places where they're stuck,” declared Miss Ferrars. “Who has scissors in their sewing kit?”

There was a rustle of activity as the girls looked for their scissors and Paddington’s whiskers drooped further into the glue.

Author:  Sugar [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:01 pm ]
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
What a great drabble!

Author:  Catherine [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:19 pm ]
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Oh dear! Poor Miss Ferrars! :lol:


Keep it going, Emerence, this is brilliant!

Author:  linda [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:57 pm ]
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:rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol:
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Author:  Kathy_S [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:17 pm ]
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Now, here's a unique situation. :lol:

Thank you, Emerence.

Author:  Elbee [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:26 pm ]
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It's years since I read any Paddington Bear, but this is spot on :lol:

Thanks, Emerence.

Author:  Fiona Mc [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:48 pm ]
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This is fantastic, thank you. I love it

Author:  janem [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:15 pm ]
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Fantastic. Can't wait to see the dorm arrangements :lol: :lol:

Author:  jilianb [ Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:56 am ]
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Thanks Emerence, this is brilliant :lol: :lol:

Author:  Liz K [ Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:40 am ]
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janem wrote:
Fantastic. Can't wait to see the dorm arrangements :lol: :lol:


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

What a situation!!

Author:  Karoline [ Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:32 am ]
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Thanks Emerence :lol: :lol: :lol:

Author:  leahbelle [ Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:17 pm ]
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This is fantastic!

Author:  jonty [ Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:50 pm ]
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ahhhhhhhh. Takes me back years! I do hope he doesn't wander off in Berne and end up in the pit :wink: :wink:

Author:  Emerence [ Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:53 pm ]
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Wow, thanks everyone! :D Sorry this isn't an update :oops: . Just popping by, I've got the next bits all plotted out in my head but it'll be a few days before I can put them up.

As for the dorm arrangements ... *snickers but refuses to say any more*

Author:  patmac [ Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:57 pm ]
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:lol: :lol: :lol: Glad I'm reading this in private! You've really caught the style.

Author:  meerium [ Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:25 pm ]
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ohhhhh, brilliant!!!

I have a boxed set of the first five or six Paddington books, and this is just perfectly in keeping!!!

Author:  Elder in Ontario [ Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:19 pm ]
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I have a confession to make - I never read Paddington Bear, though my kids all loved the books - but I'm still enjoying this! The picture of them all getting stuck together with superglue is brilliant - I'm still giggling, and it's at least 10 minutes since I read it!

Author:  Rachel [ Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:30 pm ]
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How lovely! I can't remember the last time I read a Paddington book!

Author:  abbeygirl [ Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:05 am ]
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This is so Paddington! I keep trying to persuade my nearly five year old son to let me read Paddington to him - but he won't! This will have to do instead...

Thanks...

Author:  Abi [ Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:24 pm ]
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This is fantastic - am now determined to re-read all my Paddington books!

Author:  alicat [ Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:32 pm ]
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Oh thank you thank you this is just what I need to cheer me up!!!

Author:  Cathie [ Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:49 pm ]
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Hiliarious! I really needed this!

Author:  Fiona Mc [ Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:31 am ]
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Just found out a few days ago that it's the 50 year anniversary of Paddington. Very apt this drabble for that

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