[after James stops all of a sudden]
What's the matter?
The brakes are on. Leak in the pipe, most likely. You've banged the coaches enough to make a leak in anything!
[he and the guard inspect the damage]
How shall we mend it?
We'll do it with newspaper and a leather bootlace.
Well, where is the bootlace coming from?
Ask the passengers.
[the guard turns to the passengers]
[to a smartly-dressed passenger] You have a leather bootlace there I see, sir. Please give it to me.
I won't.
Then I'm afraid the train will just stop where it is.
The passengers all said what a bad railway it was. Then they told the man how bad he was instead. Everyone was very cross. At last, he handed his laces over.
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