Disney Classics 10 Melody Time

Let's read the story of Little Toot.

Yes sir Little Toot just couldn't seem to behave himself. He wasn't really bad in any way, but it just seemed he was always himself getting into a lot of trouble. For you see Little Toot was a small tugboat and a tugboat means pulling the big ships around the harbor so that's what Little Toot's father did his name was Big Toot and when he blew his whistle, it sounded like this. For when Little Toot blew his whistle, it sounded like this. Well that was a funny little whistle now wasn't it? But Little Toot didn't seem to care so he went on his merry way zipping around in the water in and out among the big ocean-liners tooting his whistle and blowing around the black smoke balls out of his smokestack first the whistle, now a puff of smoke. Suddenly when the big ship was completely out of control, it went round and round in circles and it ran right over Big Toot who went down under the waves and came up full of water spluttering and gasping for breath. Well as I said before, Little Toot didn't really mean to be bad in any way but when he saw how hard his father worked pulling the large ocean liners, he decided to go help him. So when he saw Big Toot tugging away with a huge ship from the end of his rope, Little Toot just stood around and back to the big liner then he started to push. But he pushed on the rudder by mistake and when the rudder turned, the big oceanliner of course turned to him well you could imagine the rest. And when the big oceanliner was still out of control, it crashed into the docks went right up on the land and it stopped in the middle of a street that is after knocking down a couple of buildings. Meanwhile, the fire engines came running and there was much excitement. Well up to that time, one of Little Toot's troubles were little ones but now he was really in deep trouble for steering an oceanliner right up onto the street and through a couple of buildings was certainly no joke so the police boats appeared and they took Little Toot away sending him out of the harbor and into the big ocean beyond the 12-mile limit from outside the Harbor and they left him there all alone with the instructions never to return back home. Out there in the ocean beyond the sight of a land, Little Toot spent a frightful night being tossed about by the big waves while the light buoys and the sounds in the night made creepy noises. Meanwhile, Little Toot was drifting all around and then a storm came up where Little Toot was soaked all the way up to the top of his smokestack the waves became bigger than he was towered over him and they crashed onto his head so that he sputtered and he coughed with water. Meanwhile, the sky was lighted with a rocket the signal of a ship in distress. By getting his own fears, Little Toot raced to the spot where he saw the rocket and in a flash of lightening, he saw a big oceanliner being caught between the two rocks so Little Toot believed he needed some help and when he raced towards the spot, he started to puff the smoke balls from out of his smokestack only he puffed them so that they spelled SOS in smoke of the sky. SOS means that somebody's in trouble so just as Little Toot hoped, the other tugboats back home at the harbor saw the smoke in the sky and knew that something was wrong. So they tried to get out there and help but the storm forced them back which meant Little Toot was the only hope now and instead of bucking the waves like the big tugs have done, he skimmed along the top of them jumping from one to the other. So when he got to the oceanliner, the captain of the ship threw a huge rope to Little Toot then Little Toot started to pull and pull and pull and he made it the ocean liner was pulled free at last then off Little Toot went to take it safely back into the harbor and the other tugboats in the harbor who had witnessed his heroic actions, set up a tremendous rocket with their whistles because that was their sound of approval for Little Toot's daring rescue and a welcome back home to Little Toot who had certainly proven himself very worthy of being a full-fledged tugboat and incidentally made his father really proud of him too.