A Captain Dumbletwit Box of Tricks Grandpa In My Pocket

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

Grandpa!

No, be careful!

Grandpa, stop!

Whoa...!

Captain Dumbletwit was chewing cheerfully

on a crunchy chocolate chip and cherry chunk bar

and reading his Bobby Bombottom comic when it happened.

Wagh, wagh, wagh!

It was Panicar, his alarm plant, panicking.

'It was the holidays. Dad had taken Jemima away for a week

'with the school choir. Grandpa and I

'were reading the new Captain Dumbletwit story.

'Aunt Loretta had come round to visit.'

There goes the coconut...

'She was making a coconut, curry and cucumber trifle as a treat for me

'because Jemima was away.'

Mmm...

Oh, yum!

Doojit whipped the comic out of the captain's hands

and pointed wildly at the hysterical pot plant.

Captain Dumbletwit looked at the plant.

"Whatever is the matter, Panicar?"

Wagh!

'Just then, Mum came down the stairs.'

Surprise!

Your finally going to find out about my new hobby.

'Mum's always taking up new hobbies. One week it's karate,

'then it's salsa dancing,

'then cake decorating...

'..the ukulele...

'..knitting...

'..opera singing...'

# A-a-a-ah! #

'..and now this.

'I ripped off the paper and found a box all decorated

'with Captain Dumbletwit characters.'

-Mum, this is brilliant!

-I know!

-A whole collection of made-up Captain Dumbletwit games!

-Yes!

Made up by me.

-There's Doojit...

-Doojit, yeah!

Panicar!

Wagh! Wagh!

'Oh, yes. Mum's new hobby was making this...'

Grandpa and I couldn't wait to get all the games out

on the kitchen table.

Oh, I say, what is it?

It's a box of Dumbletwit games. Mum made it.

New hobby.

Oh, Diabolical Dave, he's my favourite.

Wahaha!

-What else have you got?

-I'm just popping out. Another surprise.

-Why don't you work out how to play the games while I'm gone?

-OK, Mum.

What's this? Oh, a magic trick!

Ooh... This is lovely!

Stop fiddling, Loretta.

I am not fiddling!

Yes, you are. You're a terrible fiddler!

Oh, you want to keep it all to yourself, don't you, Grandpa?

-I do, do I?

-That's right. Off you go for a little lie down.

Sulky socks!

'I knew what Grandpa was thinking.'

Ooh!

I won't have her interfering and messing everything up, Jason.

I'm going to stop her from fiddling.

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

'You know when Grandpa shrinks,

'he can make all sorts of things happen.'

SCREECHING

'He can make my car go... He can fly on Gordon, my toy seagull.

'He can chuff about in our Sunnysands train.

'He has great fun when he flies around in my toy plane

'and he can run so fast, I can't catch him.

'But today I saw him running into the kitchen.'

Grandpa, come back!

Ooh... Right, now, let's have a look. What do you do with this?

'Grandpa climbed up onto the table...'

Oops...

'And jumped into the box.'

'He stood next to Diabolical Dave and gave me the thumbs up.

'I knew what Grandpa was planning.

'He was going to dress up as Diabolical Dave to teach

'Great Aunt Loretta a lesson.'

I'm back! And look who I've brought.

-Max!

-Oh, hello, Max. Come and have a look at all this stuff.

'Max is my little cousin.'

Wow, I like him!

I want Grandpa to play. Where is he?

Oh, he's being a sulky socks and he's gone for a little lie down.

Oh...

'But of course, Grandpa hadn't gone for a little lie down.

'Grandpa had gone too far.'

I'm sure he'll be up soon, Max.

Oh, ooh... These are the instructions for the magic trick.

Let me show you, Max. This is how it works.

Right, first you take the bag and then you take Diabolical Dave...

Let me try the trick!

We need the magic wand.

Oh, you're too young to do the magic trick.

You'll never make it work.

Oh, give him a go, Loretta.

Oh...

'Before I could do anything,

'Max picked Grandpa up and put him in the back!'

Now you have to say, "I'll wave my wand from here to here,

"and Dave, you'll find, will disappear."

I'll wave my wand from here to here and Dave, you'll find,

will disappear.

Come on then. Open the bag.

Wait! You have to give the magic time to work.

-Everyone outside. Come on. For a few seconds.

-No, I want to...

No, no, we need to wait...

'This gave Grandpa time to escape.

'He hid behind the box as we all came back in.'

'Great Aunt Loretta grabbed the bag and shook it.

Oh!

It's empty!

Yay, I made it work!

MAX: I can do magic!

Amazing!

I'm going to go and tell Grandpa.

Wait!

-Grandpa!

-Wait!

Let's play a game first. Then when he wakes up, you can

-teach him how to play everything.

-OK.

It was Max's turn.

How many squares would he get to move?

Yes! Three.

Three, two, one...

Lift-off, wheee!

'He zoomed up on a space ship.'

Well done, Max.

'Poor mum landed on a space serpent,

'so down she slid.'

ALL: Aw...

'Max was Captain Dumbletwit

'I was Doojit,

'Mum was Panicar the plant

'and Great Aunt Loretta was Diabolical Dave.'

Come on, Diabolical Dave!

Ooh. One, two, three, four, five!

And up we go!

Hey! You counted more than five.

-I did not!

-Yes, you did. I saw you. You were there.

THEY ARGUE

I saw you skip that one!

'While Great Aunt Loretta argued,

'Grandpa moved back to where he should have been.'

Who moved him?!

Somebody moved him.

I don't like cheating. I'm going to go and tell Grandpa.

No-o-o!

-Grandpa?

-Wait!

-Let's try just one more game, eh?

-OK.

'So we played table hoops

'while Mum got some juice and Jammy Jumbleys ready.'

Ooh, don't forget my special coconut curry and cucumber trifle too!

'The idea of the game was to throw a hoop over your chosen character.'

I am aiming for Diabolical Dave. Oh...

Missed!

'Grandpa nearly got knocked over.'

Let's see you do it, eh? Throw your hoop over Dave.

'So Max threw his hoop and while everyone watched the hoop,

'Grandpa moved.'

..Not in a million years...

-Yes!

-I did it! See, I did it!

I'm going to go and tell Grandpa!

Have a Jammy Jumbley first, Max, eh?

-Let's have it in the garden!

-Fine.

'So off we went into the garden, leaving Great Aunt Loretta

'alone with Grandpa.

'She threw the hoop and, this time, she saw Grandpa move.

You moved! You moved out of the way.

You cheated!

Yes, I did!

I'm the biggest cheat in the universe, I am!

I'm Diabolical Dave, ha-ha-ha!

And you've been cheating all morning. Don't think you can beat me

at cheating!

Who are you?!

You're real!

Of course I'm real. I'm real and I'm ready to take over the universe!

Ha-ha-ha!

Wagh!

Ah-ha-ha!

Oh! Oh! I'm never going to touch that Space Serpents game again!

Never! That Diabolical Dave, he's got it in for me, he has!

He went, "Wagh!"

Really, Loretta?

Ooh...

'I ran in to rescue Grandpa. He was already back in his own clothes.'

Oh, you should have seen her, Jason! She was like this -

"A-a-argh!"

No time for that now, Grandpa. Come on.

'So, I picked him up and put him in my pocket.

'Then I picked up the Captain Dumbletwit clothes.

'Grandpa took his shrinking cap off,

'and came back to his normal size.'

Well, we sorted Loretta out between us, Jason.

-She won't cheat again.

-Yes. Teamwork, I think they call it.

Teamwork!

Right, better get these clothes back to the real Diabolical Dave.

'Loretta was tucking into her trifle.'

-I think you just got really into the game, Loretta.

-I expect so.

I've got a wonderful imagination, I have.

Want some?

Can I go and wake up Grandpa now?

Erm... Max?

Oh...

This time I am going to wake up Grandpa

and you can't stop me!

Max!

-MAX:

-You're up!

Ha-ha-ha!

You've just got to play Space Serpents, Grandpa. It's amazing.

And Max made Diabolical Dave disappear in the magic trick.

And Diabolical Dave made Loretta disappear.

Exactly... Hang on. How do you know that, Grandpa?

Oh... Well... You can always rely upon Dave to see somebody off

with a "Wha-ha-ha!"

Come on, let's go and play.

-Right.

-It's amazing. It's the best game ever...

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