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01x10 - Strawberry Picking

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Herbs". Aired: 12 February – 6 May 1968.*
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The Herbs consisted of a fantasy mix of human and animal characters inhabiting the magical walled garden of an English country estate.

01x10 - Strawberry Picking

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parsley is a herb do you see what it is next to a wild strawberry plant parsley

the lion likes strawberries so does Dill the dog and Sage the owl I'm not too

sure about bay leaf he's probably too busy with other things like Constable NEP weed Constable naped has to keep Law

and Order in the herb garden he hasn't got time to eat strawberries sir basil

and Lady Rosemary have a very fine bed of strawberry plants in fact the annual strawberry

picking is quite an event lady Rosemary keeps all the old boxes that were used for Christmas presents and they usually

manage to fill them all we'll go inside and watch if you like I'll just say the magic word

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herbaceous there's no one about well I expect they're all busy there they are sir basil lady

Rosemary and bailea working away it's hard work picking strawberries makes your back

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ache I am saasil the king of the herbs today I'm really in

trouble this strawberry picking is very hard work and it hurts when I have to

bend double I don't think we've ever been in this part of the herb garden before there's a pile of drain

pipes they've been there for as long as anyone can remember in fact no one knows why they were put there in the first

place and there's Bay Leaf's barow piled high with Lady Rosemary's old Christmas boxes full of strawberries they have

been busy there can't be many left to pick now my name is Lady Rosemary working

here so busily my fingers Nimble and so quick are useful when there's fruit to pick I think we've nearly come to the

end bay leaf ah I reckon you're right Mom I reckon we shall have a fair old load on the Barrow now thank goodness

for that now perhaps I can get on with me fishing not today basil we have to sort them all out first some for eating

some for Jam you can take them away bay leaf right

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m' I'm Bailey I'm the god I've done a lot today now I must start

to tidy up and put these things away ah here where's me bar someone stolen me

bar come along baile I know you've had a busy day but we haven't finished yet disy bar ma it's been stolen what's that

did you say stolen well it was there not minutes ago now it be gone so must

have been stolen bars don't just disappear Into Thin Air unless unless

what bay leaf unless it were the Phantom strawberry picker nonsense bay leaf ghosts don't eat

strawberries Constable nap weed Constable naped wow ain't the first time strawberries have been missing there's a

difference between one or two strawberries being missing bay leaf and a whole barow load Constable NEP weed

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I am Constable NEP weed and I keep Law and Order I watch to see that all is

well along the garden

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border did you call ma'am ah there you are neeed what be the trouble some someone been Disturbed in the pieace has

that old owl known as Sage been ooting again during the hours of daylight NEP weed all our strawberries have

disappeared oh oh that' be a very serious matter very serious indeed I wouldn't mind so much if we hadn't spent

all afternoon picking them they were in my Barrow and all it was standing right here now it

ain't I should have to examine the ground for Clues you asked me it be the Phantom strawberry picker as I

understand it a phantom is a kind of ghost what you can't see that's right that's why we didn't see it one minute

it were there the next minute it are gone in that case I don't think he would have left a pow print behind him what's

that a pow print that's right sir Basel you look for yourself by Jo naed you're

right they are poor prints shh hey what to be quiet B look hello

here comes

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parsley I expect he's been having his afternoon nap he likes a nap in the afternoon or after

meals after meals I say parley you wouldn't I mean

you haven't have you parsley come here at once parsley have you been eating the

strawberries but you like strawberries H likes

strawberries and was last seen licking lips I'd like to take your paw prints

now Young Lion Place it down here please h

I'm not saying it's the same and I'm not saying it isn't it'll all have to be gone into it's soly

suspicious especially the licking of the lips part I shall have to place you under arrest until the whole matter can be

gone into come here Young Lion parley come here at once where are you going

parsley it's no use hiding Young Lion you'll only make matters worse for yourself there he is looking out of the

other pipe I'll teach you to play tricks on me Young Lion just you wait bless my soul he's back again basil

cut off his Retreat these sort of goings on won't do you any good young fell meion just you

wait until I get it all down in my notebook there he be I say steady on

it's all the fault of that young lion I tell you what if I block this end with some of these ear branches you can all

go around the back and catch him when he comes out Capital bay leaf come basil this will stop his pranks playing Iden

seat this will stop him thank you hurry bay leaf sh be long now Mom

thank you can't see him anywhere bay leaf you sure we're not too

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late I'm a very very friendly lion called parsley I'm so happy doing jobs of every

kind although this time Mr Baya hasn't asked me he'd be so surprised if he should look

behind Baya yes ma'am look behind you man why it is old parsley parsley come

back you young varint I'll have your tail off I will I'll have your man as a duster

here have you seen that there past Lego boy sitting there stuffing yourselves when there's work to be done you'll make

yourself sick you will eating all them strawberries here where did you get them from Dill

Sage what are you up to upon my soul do you mean to say it wasn't parly after all Dill Sage what's the meaning of this

just you wait until Constable naweed hears about it you'll be in in serious trouble ah once he gets your names down in his

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notebook stop them neeed I'm sorry sir Basel one thing at a time I as that young laon to catch first we can't do

two jobs at once first things first I always say I make a note of it it'll all be gone into at the proper

time do put that notebook away neeed it wasn't parley at all it was Dylan Sage all the time parsley dear boy I hope

you'll forgive us fancy thinking you'd eaten them parsley it may be no use sniffing those boxes they've eaten the

lot st*lks and all can't understand it it's not like dill or S to do a thing like that without asking parsley what

are you doing looks as if he's trying to tell us something well I'll be here see what it says on

the side it says two Dill with best wishes ah and this one says it's a sage

wishing him a merry Christmas wishing him a merry Christmas oh it's your blessed boxes

Rosemary the ones everyone had their presents in that's what comes of saving old boxes you should have put them on

the bonfire told you so ick old sage and Dill thought you'd given them strawberries as a present you can't

blame them Rosemary come Basel we must go to them at once and apologize parley do you know where they may be

hiding when found nearly all the strawberries had been

eaten by said owl and

dog also some cream

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and some sugar very very tasty uh I may have to

keep these remains Mr bay leaf for evidence ah there you are dill it's all right we aren't cross with you you can

come out now come on boy I say are you all right don't say you're stuck

all right then you stay there I'll see if I can find you another strawberry as a

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reward I'm Dill the dog I'm a dog called Dill I'm afraid that I've been greedy now I feeling rather

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seedy oh dear how about Sage Sage where are you would you like a

strawberry Sage

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I'm a rather fat feathery Al call Sage I've been sitting here eating for simply an age those strawberries and cream are a

wonderful Feast I can't face anymore for a fortnite at least I don't think strawberries are

very popular anymore enough is as good as a feast and too many is worse than none at all Sage feels

ill Dill is stuck in the pipe mind you I expect he'll get out in

time especially if he goes without his bones for a day or

two that's right Sage I shouldn't look I don't know how he's going to get back up to his nest he must be full of

strawberries oh I'm sorry Sage I shouldn't have mentioned that word and what's parsley up to I wonder if he's

seen a box with his name on I thought so three boxes Lions must do very well

at Christmas I think we better go I can see you're going to be busy goodbye parsley don't eat too many and get stuck

in the pipe like d

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