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Chapter1
Scrapman was a
mechanical man. He lived with Winston who owned a
an was made out of odds
and ends that
Winston had saved from old broken machines.
His brain was
made from a personal organizers that someone had
thrown away going wrong..
It still went wrong,but now Scrapman
went wrong with it.
‘’
Odear,
’
said ScrapmanWinton was
working ,that he was having his supper heated over
a gas ring in the
shed.
Scrapman was opening a tin of baked
beans for him. At least he thought it was a tin of
baked beans.
‘
Volly od
beans,
’
saidScrapman.
‘
I
can
’
t eat
that,
’
saidWinston,in a tired
kind of voice.
’Can’
t you
read what it says on the
label?
’
Scrapman
hung his wasn
’
t very good
at could read his name and a few really easy
words but
he
could
n’
t read what it said
on the cat food tin.
Scrapcat
was watching from under the
workbench.
He
didn
’
t eat cat food either
because he was a mechanical cat and he worked on
batteries,not cat food.
Scrapman went
and sat in the felt very sad .He wished he could
read like was his special
was
teaching him to talk like a human had a pictue
book with wonderful stories in it about
were mechanical men like him but they
could do amazing things.
They could drive rockets and walk on
the moon an save people from fires and floods and
an
loved looking at the pictures,but he
had to wait until Emma came round to find out what
the stories were about.
Scrapczt saw
that Scrapman was sad,so he went and sat beside
him.
Winston
opened a proper tin of beans and he put the tin of
cat food in looking,Scrapman took it out.
He
’
d bought it as
a treat for was Emma
’
liked
to come and play with Scrapcat while Emma was
at
’
d climb in
through the window when Winston and Scrapman were
busy.
Then
he
’
d show Scrapcat how to do
useful cat things,like chasing pieces of strig and
hiding things under the
workbench.
Now,you
may
be
wondering
why
Winston
and
Scrapman
were
so
were
working
round
the
clock
on
Winston
’
s
incredible invention.
It was a wonderful flying machine that
didn
’
t need petrol to make
it was almost a few more
nuts and
bots to fix and it would be ready for a test
flight.
Butwhere had those last few
nuts and boits gone?
Chapter2
At last,the day
came for the first test n had cleared a runway
through the scrap-yard.
The runway led out into a field,and
beyond that there was another field,so there was
plenty of room to take off.
That
morning,Winston took off one of his socks and hung
it on a pole to test the wind direction.
It was an east
wind,steady and strong,just right for testing a
plane.
Emma
arrived early with
’
d
brought a special picnic and a big bottle of fizzy
lemonade to celebrate
after
the
found
Winston
and
Scrapman
busy
underneath
the
machine,making
some
last-minute
at was running
in and out through his scrapflap giving up-to-the-
minute reports on the weather.
By ten
o
’
clock in the
morning,Winston said that everything was
ready
’
It was going to be cold up
there in the sky,so he put on a thick jacket with
a woolly lining over his
he wrote his
special goggles to protect his eyes from the wind.
‘
Open the
doors,
’
he said proudly to
Scrapman.
’
Stand well
back,
’
he said to Emma and
Patch.
And
then,verycarefully,Winston and Scrapman pushed the
flying machine out into the open.
A small crowd had gathered
had heard about the flying had come to share in
the
excitement of seeing it take off
for the first time.
Winston
held
up
a
hand
for
silence.
’
Welcome,
’
he
said
something
about
this
being
a
‘
historic
occasion
’
and
everyone clapped and some people little boy waved
the sock on the pole like a flag.
Winston climbed up into the
flying machine and Scrapman started to climb up
behind him.
‘
Stop.
’
saidWinston.
’
Yo
u can
’
t come with
me,
’
re too machine could
never get off the ground
with you in
it.
’’
Winston tested the flaps
and jiggled the joystick and looked in his mirrors
to check that everything was working
he pulled down his goggles
and turned up his waved proudly to the crowd.
‘
Chocks
away.
’
he called out,and Emma
and Scrapman pulled out the bricks from under the
wheels.
Winston
started to flying machine began to move forward.
He pedaled
faster and faster and the machine picked up ne in
the crowd held their breath as the
flying machinf shot down the got
faster n was
pedaling like mad and
going red in the
face.
The machine reached the
first was going very fast indeed,but it
didn’t
take reached the
second field
going faster still and it
got to the very end of that
…
But it still
didn
’
t take off.
‘
Odear,
’
said
Scrapman.
One
hour later,Winston was ready to try again.
‘
I
need
your
help,Scrapman,
’
he
took
off
his
warmwoolly
lined
jacket
and
handed
it
to
Scrapman.
Scrapmanlooked
this time he would have a chance to go up in the
incredible flying machine.
But no such n took off his boots,and
his other sock and even his wanted to make the
flying
machine lighter.
‘
Scrapman,this
time I want you to get behind and
push,
’
he
said.
’
The machine has togo
much faster before it can
get off the
ground.
’
Scrapman handed
Winston
’
s warm woolly
jacket,the sock and the watch to Emma and got his
shoulder behind
the machine.
‘
Chocks
away.
’
shouted Winston again.
The
machine
got
under
way
much
faster
this
an
was
pushing
as
hard
as
he
legs
were
going
so fast you could hardly see crowd got excited
and started clapping.
The little boy waved the sock on the
people cheered as the machine sped across the
first the
next was going so fast,it
left Scrapman behind.
By
the
time
they
had
pedaled
the
machine
back
to
the
scrap-yard
the
crowd
had
given
up
and
gone
an and Winston pushed
it back intothe shed.
One of the wheels had come n said the
machine probably needed a good oiling before it
could fly.
Winston seemed depressed.
Emma laid out the picnic on
a cloth,but although they were very good
sandwiches and nice fizzy lemonade,it
wasn
’
t the
celebration they
’
d been
looking forward to.
Then Scrapman remembered the tin of
fppd he
’
d saved as a treat
for although everyone else was
depressed,Patch was happy.
Winston spent the afternoon
in the shed mending the wheel of the incredibl
flying machine and oiling every
had
a
worried
look
on
his
face
and
he
said
he
didn
’
t
want
any
didn
’
t
whistle
while
he
was
working,which was a bad
sign.
Scrapman
and Emma sat on the grass feeling a
while,Scrapman asked Emma if she would read him
a story from her big picture book.
‘
Scrapman,you should try to
learn to you could read the book for
yourself,
’
said Emma.
Scrapman
didn’t
feel like learning to
wanted to help Winston.
More than anything,he wanted to fly up
in the sky in the incredible flying felt was the
point in reading about robots doing all
these incredible things,when he
wasn
’
t allowed to do
anything?
‘
Look,Scrapman,
’
said
Emma,pointing to a word on the
page.
’
does that
spell?
’
‘
I dun
no,
’
said Scrapman crossly.
‘
Rob
ot,
’
said
Emma.
’
You s
easy.
’
But it
wasn
’
t easy for Scrapman.
‘
C.a.t,
’
said
Emma,trying something at sat up and pricked up his
ears and nudged Scrapman.
“
Cat?
”
asked Scrapman,
“
Very
good.
’
said
Emma,
’
Now how anout
d,o,g,?
’
‘
I
dun no.
’
said
Scrapman.
’
You read the
story,M,R,
’
‘
’
re
not even trying.
’
said Emma,,
’
I
’
m
not going to read to you if
youwon
’
t
try,
’
And she got up and cleared
up the picnic,Then she picked up Patch and went
home,
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That
night,Winston finished work on the flying machine.
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