The Winx Club's Sodor Adventures - Season 3

Episode 5: Donald's Duck

Duck the Great Western Engine works hard in the yard at the big station. Sometimes, he pulled coaches. Sometimes he pushed freight cars. But whatever the work, Duck got the job done without fuss.

One day, Duck was resting in the shed when Sir Topham Hatt arrived. "Your work in the yard had been good," he said "Would you and Mirta like to have a branch line to your own?"

"Yes, please, sir," replied Duck.

So Duck and Mirta took charge of their new branch line. The responsibility delighted them.

The line runs along the coast by sandy beaches till it meets a port were big ships come in.

Duck enjoyed exploring every curve and corner of the line. Sea breezes swirled his smoke high into the air and his green paint glistened in the sunlight.

"This is just like being on holiday," he puffed.

"Well, you know what they say," laughed Mirta. "A change is as good as a rest."

Soon, Duck and Mirta were busier than ever. Sir Topham Hatt was building a new station at the port. Duck pulled the heavy freight cars whenever they were needed.

Bertie and Daphne looked after Duck's passengers and the other engines and their friends helped too. But the work took a long time. Noise and dust filled the air.

"Don't worry," whistled Toby. "The station is nearly finished."

"And on time, too," said Duck thankfully.

Duck felt his responsibility deeply and talked endlessly about it. "You don't understand, Donald, how much Sir Topham Hatt relies on me."

"Och, aye," muttered Donald sleepily.

"I'm Great Western, and I..."

"Quack, quack, quack."

"What?"

"Ye heard. Quack, quack you go. Sounds like you'd an egg laid. Now wheesht, and let an engine sleep."

"Quack yourself!" said Duck indignantly.

Later, he spoke to Mirta and Lucy. "Donald says I quack, as if I laid an egg."

"Quack, do you?" pondered Lucy. She whispered something to Duck and Mirta. They were going to play a joke on Donald and pay him back for teasing Duck.

Everyone was busy for the rest of the day and nothing more was said. Not even a quack.

But when at last, Donald was asleep, Mirta and Lucy popped something into his water tank.

Next morning when Donald stopped for water, he and Prince Sky found that they had an unexpected passenger aboard. A small white duckling popped out of Donald's water tank.

"Na doot, who's behind this," laughed Donald.

The duckling was tame, she shared Sky's sandwiches, and rode in the tender. The other engines and their friends enjoyed teasing Donald and Sky about her.

Presently, she grew tired of travelling and hopped off at a station and there she stayed.

That night, Sky and Donald's fireman got busy. And in the morning when Mirta and Lucy arrived to look Duck over, they laughed and laughed.

"Look, Duck," said Mirta. "Look what's under your bunker. It's a nest box with an egg in it."

Donald opened a sleepy eye. "Well, well, well. Ye must've laid it in the night, Duck. All unbeknownst!"

Then Duck laughed too. "You win, Donald. It'd take a clever engine to get the better of you."

There's a pond near the duckling station at Tidmouth Hault. Here she often swims and welcomes the trains as they passed by. The stationmaster calls her Dilly, But to everyone else, she is always Donald's Duck.

The End