WEBVTT 00:00:01.500 --> 00:00:07.630 In the tall house Tocko lived Pim — and up Pim got, at the first THUMP over the ceiling. 00:00:07.950 --> 00:00:11.805 Then THUMP again, and a long scrape, and nothing at all. 00:00:12.125 --> 00:00:19.463 Pim stopped, with the bread at her mouth, and waited. Up there, somebody had hold of a heavy iron— well. 00:00:19.783 --> 00:00:22.569 No one could see it, not me and not Pim. 00:00:22.889 --> 00:00:28.276 She put the bread down. Pim was in the corner, with the cold pipe, before the next THUMP. 00:00:28.596 --> 00:00:35.283 The cold pipe stood in Number Three, floor to ceiling. She put a hand on it, and held on tight. 00:00:35.603 --> 00:00:39.597 Pim said, "Listen, you go up, and you go through a floor." 00:00:39.917 --> 00:00:45.629 She took out the wooden spoon. Pim was going to knock, and knock, until the thumping knocked back. 00:00:45.949 --> 00:00:52.404 That was the whole plan, and nobody up there knew it. The pipe was cold all the way up, and it said nothing. 00:00:52.724 --> 00:00:53.606 Hall. 00:00:53.926 --> 00:00:58.988 So, what does Pim knock with, her hand, or the spoon? 00:00:59.308 --> 00:01:02.977 Ah. Her hand, first. One finger of it. 00:01:03.297 --> 00:01:06.269 Pim hit the pipe with one finger, hard as she could. 00:01:06.589 --> 00:01:07.425 Here it comes. 00:01:07.745 --> 00:01:12.064 Pim listened. Tocko said — CLICK. That was the rule. 00:01:12.384 --> 00:01:18.653 CLICK is a sound that fell over, right where it began. It never got up to the ceiling. 00:01:18.973 --> 00:01:23.524 She waited, and far down in the Under, the boiler breathed. Nothing came back. 00:01:23.844 --> 00:01:31.460 So Pim used her whole hand, flat and hard. THUD, and THUD, and THUD. Not one of them left her hand. 00:01:31.780 --> 00:01:40.046 Over the ceiling, the thumping went on, THUMP and scrape and THUMP. Pim hit it again. Her hand went hot, and the pipe did not care. 00:01:40.366 --> 00:01:46.357 Up on Seven, a kettle began to whistle, and somebody took it off. That was not it, either. 00:01:46.677 --> 00:01:54.804 Pim shook her hand out. Pim said, "Listen, a finger is soft, and a hand is soft." She looked at the wooden spoon. 00:01:55.124 --> 00:01:58.189 One cold pipe and one wooden spoon. 00:01:58.509 --> 00:02:03.060 A spoon is not soft. Pim hit the cold pipe with the wooden spoon. 00:02:03.380 --> 00:02:04.216 Here it comes. 00:02:04.536 --> 00:02:08.483 Pim listened. Tocko said — TANG. That was the rule. 00:02:08.803 --> 00:02:16.233 TANG went up the pipe, and TANG kept going, and going. Under Pim's hand the pipe hummed, low and long. 00:02:16.553 --> 00:02:21.476 Hollow. The pipe was hollow, all the way up, hollow past the ceiling. 00:02:21.796 --> 00:02:27.369 Pim did not wait. Pim hit the pipe again, quick, right in the middle of the hum. 00:02:27.689 --> 00:02:31.636 Nothing. The hum took that tap, and kept it. 00:02:31.956 --> 00:02:38.040 TANG, and TANG, and TANG, and the hum kept them all. Over the ceiling, the thumping stopped. 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:41.889 Pim said, "It stopped. Now it will knock back." 00:02:42.209 --> 00:02:45.042 Pim held the spoon up. Nothing came down. 00:02:45.362 --> 00:02:48.938 Pim, and Hod, and Pim's mum, and Tocko. 00:02:49.258 --> 00:02:51.403 Hall. Green door. 00:02:51.723 --> 00:02:54.788 One cold pipe and one wooden spoon. 00:02:55.108 --> 00:03:01.099 Pim put her ear flat, on the cold pipe. Pim tapped it once, and listened to the hum go small. 00:03:01.419 --> 00:03:08.339 Far down in the Under, the boiler breathed, and the hum was out. One breath of the boiler. That was how long a hum got. 00:03:08.659 --> 00:03:12.839 So, does Pim tap fast, or does she wait? 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:16.085 Ah. She waits. The hum goes out. 00:03:16.405 --> 00:03:20.167 So Pim said, "Listen, tap twice, and then wait for it." 00:03:20.487 --> 00:03:21.927 Pim tapped twice. 00:03:22.247 --> 00:03:23.083 Here it comes. 00:03:23.403 --> 00:03:28.047 Pim listened. Tocko said — TANG, and then the hum. That was the rule. 00:03:28.367 --> 00:03:32.082 Pim did not move. The boiler breathed. The hum went out. 00:03:32.402 --> 00:03:35.467 One cold pipe and one wooden spoon. 00:03:35.787 --> 00:03:43.589 Pim tapped twice more, clean, into the quiet, and nothing came back. A pipe is only a pipe, and a spoon is only a spoon. 00:03:43.909 --> 00:03:48.971 Over Pim's ceiling, a bed came away from a wall. A long, dry scrape. 00:03:49.291 --> 00:03:49.895 TOCK. 00:03:50.215 --> 00:03:50.819 TOCK. 00:03:51.139 --> 00:03:58.291 Two of them, down through Number Five, and into Pim's hand. A voice came down the pipe, low and slow. 00:03:58.611 --> 00:04:02.326 The voice said, "Right, so, was that you down there?" 00:04:02.646 --> 00:04:08.637 Pim put her mouth close to the cold pipe. Pim said, "Yes, that was me. Who is that?" 00:04:08.957 --> 00:04:14.483 The voice said, "Hod." Hod from upstairs said, "I got my bed off the warm place." 00:04:14.803 --> 00:04:18.704 Then Pim said, "Hod, do it again, and I will wait." 00:04:19.024 --> 00:04:23.668 Hod from upstairs said, "Right, so, I have to wait for the hum." 00:04:23.988 --> 00:04:27.889 Pim said, "You do, and then tap twice, and I will hear it." 00:04:28.209 --> 00:04:31.785 Pim, and Hod, and Pim's mum, and Tocko. 00:04:32.105 --> 00:04:36.006 Hod from upstairs, five and a half, and Pim knew his name. 00:04:36.326 --> 00:04:38.787 One hollow pipe and one wooden spoon. 00:04:39.107 --> 00:04:41.708 Cold pipe, cold pipe, hollow all the way. 00:04:42.328 --> 00:04:45.765 Tap twice, and wait, and hear what it can say. 00:04:46.385 --> 00:04:49.513 Hall. Green door. Roof. 00:04:49.833 --> 00:04:51.551 Now, the other way round. 00:04:51.871 --> 00:04:59.812 TOCK, TOCK, twice and a wait, right into Pim's hand. Hod from upstairs, in Number Five, on the other end. 00:05:00.132 --> 00:05:07.748 TANG, and a long hum, and every quick tap gone. Pim sent them inside the hum, and the hum kept them. 00:05:08.068 --> 00:05:17.635 CLICK. One finger, on a cold pipe. A sound that fell over, and never got to the ceiling. The kettle on Seven, going off. Not it. 00:05:17.955 --> 00:05:21.392 Pim did all of that. Pim, and a wooden spoon. 00:05:21.712 --> 00:05:25.474 Roof, green door, hall — and home. 00:05:25.794 --> 00:05:32.296 Pim's mum stood in the door, and had heard all of it. Through a floor, and through a door, Pim's mum could hear. 00:05:32.616 --> 00:05:39.907 No word came from Pim's mum, not one. Pim's mum put a brass disc in Pim's hand. 00:05:40.227 --> 00:05:46.868 Down in the Hall, there was a board, with more hooks than there were games. Most of them had nothing, nothing at all. 00:05:47.188 --> 00:05:50.625 So, what goes on the disc, the pipe, or the spoon? 00:05:50.945 --> 00:05:53.360 Ah. The pipe, all the way up. 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:57.442 Pim scraped a picture of the pipe on it, and went down the stairs. 00:05:57.762 --> 00:06:05.425 Pim said, "That one is for Hod, and he got his bed off." And Pim said, "He got it off the warm place, to reach the pipe." 00:06:05.745 --> 00:06:06.860 Then up on the hook. 00:06:07.180 --> 00:06:08.852 And back up to Number Three. 00:06:09.172 --> 00:06:12.748 Pim, and Hod, and Pim's mum, and Tocko. 00:06:13.068 --> 00:06:17.505 Hall. Green door. Roof. Home. 00:06:17.825 --> 00:06:20.426 Cold pipe, cold pipe, hollow all the way. 00:06:21.046 --> 00:06:24.483 Tap twice, and wait, and hear what it can say. 00:06:25.103 --> 00:06:27.239 Then the ceiling went TOCK, TOCK. 00:06:27.559 --> 00:06:31.414 Two taps, and Tocko tapped back. Tock, tock.