Original subtitles

NARRATOR: Around and along, in the middle of somewhere,

lives a little sound collector.

Oh, yes, and his best friend, Mole.

MOLE SNORES

MOLE COOS

HE YAWNS

Putting in his hearing aids,

the Sound Collector starts to hear the world around him.

WAVE OF SOUND SWELLS

Hmm... Where's Mole?

MOLE GRUNTS

Ah. MOLE SNIFFS

She has carrot cake on her mind.

MOLE COOS

I'm sure they'll both have a slice

once he's back from collecting sounds.

MOLE GROANS

MOLE GRUNTS

But for now, breakfast. BOX RUSTLES

MOLE GRUNTS

NARRATOR CHUCKLES One happy Mole.

CLATTERING

MOLE GRUNTS

SWITCH CLICKS

BIRDS CHIRP

Ah... Glorious noise.

WATERWHEEL PATTERS

ENGINE STARTS That'll be his ride.

Ha-ha... Yes, hurry!

The tractor is always handy

to catch a lift to somewhere far away.

I wonder what sounds he'll find out here.

Huh?

Oh, look!

It's a scarecrow.

It scares the birds away from the crops in the field.

Oh...

Hup!

It looks a bit raggedy.

And it doesn't look very happy.

It seems this scarecrow is doing a fine job.

There are no birds.

It's so quiet.

It must get lonely out here on your own.

No wonder it looks sad.

RECORDER CLICKS

WAVES LAPPING ON TAPE, SEAGULLS SQUAWK

Wonderful sounds.

Sounds the scarecrow has never heard standing here in a field.

MOLE GRUNTS

Still hungry for carrot cake, huh?

Maybe later.

FLY BUZZES

Uh-oh. That sounds like... Fly.

Ha-ha-ha...

You don't need to worry about Fly eating the cake, silly.

MOLE GRUNTS, FLY BUZZES

But then again... PLATE CLATTERS

MOLE GRUNTS, FOOTSTEPS CLAMOURING

TREES RUSTLE

CHEEPING

Hm? Can you hear that?

It seems to be coming from inside the scarecrow.

Ah... Will you look at that!

CHICKS CHEEP

So the scarecrow isn't lonely after all.

RECORDER CLICKS Yes.

Best not to disturb the chicks.

CHICKS CHEEP SOFTLY

TRACTOR APPROACHES

Ah, the farmer's returning.

He'd better catch his lift.

Huh.

There, that's better.

Bye, scarecrow. Bye, chicks.

I'm sure your mum will be back to feed you soon.

I wonder how Mole's getting on.

Uh...

Ah.

MOLE GRUNTS What a mess!

HE SIGHS, CHUCKLES

OK. She's made a mess.

But how amazing.

She didn't eat the cake!

SOUND COLLECTOR LAUGHS, MOLE GRUNTS

Time for carrot cake.

MOLE GRUNTS

Hm?

MOLE GRUNTS, FLY BUZZES

SOUND COLLECTOR SNIFFS

Ah... MOLE SQUAWKS

Mole can be very strange sometimes.

SOUND COLLECTOR LAUGHS

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