WEBVTT 00:00:01.500 --> 00:00:07.677 In the tall house Tocko lived Pim — and Pim took the stairs down, and started on the meters. 00:00:07.997 --> 00:00:13.245 The wall down there was cold. Far along, the boiler breathed, once, and waited. 00:00:13.565 --> 00:00:20.485 Twelve meters sat in a line, all little, all the same. The first one was cold, and Pim put a hand on it. 00:00:20.805 --> 00:00:23.359 Pim said, "Listen, that one ticks." 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:27.626 Hod from upstairs came down after her, and stood still. 00:00:27.946 --> 00:00:33.937 Pim wanted her hand flat on the fast one. Pim wanted to name the flat, out loud, and be right. 00:00:34.257 --> 00:00:37.740 Pim said, "Listen, I say it first, and I win it." 00:00:38.060 --> 00:00:41.497 Hod from upstairs said, "No. I say it first." 00:00:41.817 --> 00:00:51.291 Pim said how it went, and Pim made it too hard. One go each, and you had to say a number out loud. A wrong flat, and you were out, all the way out. 00:00:51.611 --> 00:00:56.812 Eleven of them went slow, and Pim knew that much already. One of them did not. 00:00:57.132 --> 00:00:58.014 Hall. 00:00:58.334 --> 00:01:01.724 How many goes did Pim get — one, or two? 00:01:02.044 --> 00:01:05.434 Ah. One go each. Pim made that rule. 00:01:05.754 --> 00:01:12.766 Pim went along the line, hand out, meter to meter. Slow, and slow, and slow, and slow again. 00:01:13.086 --> 00:01:16.430 The meters ticked. Hod from upstairs did not. 00:01:16.750 --> 00:01:17.586 Here it comes. 00:01:17.906 --> 00:01:23.850 Pim listened. Tocko said — tk. tk. tk. That was the rule. 00:01:24.170 --> 00:01:31.740 The one under her hand took its time, and Pim held on. Far along, the boiler breathed, and the meter was slow as that. 00:01:32.060 --> 00:01:36.425 So Pim said, "Listen, not this one, and not the next one, either." 00:01:36.745 --> 00:01:45.011 The next one was slow, and the next, and the next. Then Pim put a hand down, on the last one, and it was not. 00:01:45.331 --> 00:01:52.390 It went quick under her hand, quick, and quick, and quick. Pim took her hand off, and then Pim put it back on. 00:01:52.710 --> 00:01:55.264 Then Pim said, "There it is, that one." 00:01:55.584 --> 00:01:59.160 Pim, and Hod, and Pim's mum, and Tocko. 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.313 Eleven tick slow. One ticks fast. 00:02:02.633 --> 00:02:10.388 The fast one went on and on, and Pim's hand stayed flat on it. Pim said, "Number Five, and that one belongs to Hod." 00:02:10.708 --> 00:02:14.934 Hod from upstairs said, "Right, so, it does not." 00:02:15.254 --> 00:02:21.988 Pim did not wait, and Pim did not think twice. Hod from upstairs was loud on the stairs, and loud in the Hall. 00:02:22.308 --> 00:02:25.512 So Pim said, "It does, and you are the loudest thing here." 00:02:25.832 --> 00:02:30.151 Then Hod from upstairs went still, and the Under went quiet. 00:02:30.471 --> 00:02:32.839 Nothing, and then nothing again. 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:33.995 Here it comes. 00:02:34.315 --> 00:02:38.959 Pim listened. Tocko said — tikkatikkatikka. That was the rule. 00:02:39.279 --> 00:02:48.195 Over by the wall, Hod from upstairs moved, and a ladder came off. It went down. It went CRASH, and the rattle went on and on. 00:02:48.515 --> 00:02:52.323 The fast one did not care, and it did not miss one tick. 00:02:52.643 --> 00:02:54.788 Hall. Green door. 00:02:55.108 --> 00:02:57.941 Eleven tick slow. One ticks fast. 00:02:58.261 --> 00:03:01.465 Pim said, "Go up, and turn your whole flat off." 00:03:01.785 --> 00:03:06.011 Hod from upstairs said, "Four flights, then. Up I go." 00:03:06.331 --> 00:03:13.158 Up the stairs went Hod from upstairs, loud, all the way. Pim left her hand on the fast one. 00:03:13.478 --> 00:03:16.311 Eleven tick slow. One ticks fast. 00:03:16.631 --> 00:03:23.133 Far up, a radio went off, and then it all went quiet. Down in the Under, the fast one did not change. 00:03:23.453 --> 00:03:27.865 Hod from upstairs called down, "You said Five. You are out." 00:03:28.185 --> 00:03:33.108 Pim said, "One more go. My hand stays on, and I say nothing." 00:03:33.428 --> 00:03:42.809 Pim held on, and Pim said nothing. The boiler breathed, and breathed again. Up past Five went the feet. Two more, and they stopped. 00:03:43.129 --> 00:03:54.367 A knock came, up where the feet stopped, and a door came open. Behind that door was a big glass tan— well. Nobody could see it. It went hum, hum, hum. 00:03:54.687 --> 00:03:55.523 Here it comes. 00:03:55.843 --> 00:03:59.698 Something went CLICK, up there, and the hum went off. 00:04:00.018 --> 00:04:05.730 Pim listened. Tocko said — tikka, tikka, tik. tik. tk. That was the rule. 00:04:06.050 --> 00:04:09.812 Three quick ticks. Then slow, right under her hand. 00:04:10.132 --> 00:04:14.172 A meter always got three more ticks first. All twelve did. 00:04:14.492 --> 00:04:17.789 Which one was it — Five, or Seven? 00:04:18.109 --> 00:04:21.546 Ah. Seven, and the hum that went off. 00:04:21.866 --> 00:04:25.628 Pim said, "Seven. The fast one belongs to Seven." 00:04:25.948 --> 00:04:35.375 Down came Hod from upstairs, all six flights, loud. Hod from upstairs said, "Right, so, fish, and a tank of them." 00:04:35.695 --> 00:04:38.481 Eleven tick slow. One ticks for fish. 00:04:38.801 --> 00:04:41.355 Twelve little meters, and each one belongs. 00:04:41.975 --> 00:04:44.669 Put your hand on the fast one, and hold on long. 00:04:45.289 --> 00:04:48.417 Hall. Green door. Roof. 00:04:48.737 --> 00:04:50.455 Now, the other way round. 00:04:50.775 --> 00:04:56.626 CLICK, up on Seven, and the hum went off. Under Pim's hand, the fast one went slow. 00:04:56.946 --> 00:04:59.965 Five went off, and nothing changed at all. 00:05:00.285 --> 00:05:04.186 CRASH went the ladder, and the fast one did not miss a tick. 00:05:04.506 --> 00:05:11.658 At the start, eleven went tk. tk. tk. Then one went quick, and quick, and quick. 00:05:11.978 --> 00:05:14.904 Pim heard it all, and Pim said the number first. 00:05:15.224 --> 00:05:18.800 Pim, and Hod, and Pim's mum, and Tocko. 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.906 Eleven of them went slow, and one did not. 00:05:22.226 --> 00:05:26.663 Hall. Green door. Roof. Home. 00:05:26.983 --> 00:05:29.119 Pim said it first, and Pim said it right. 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:33.479 And Hod from upstairs said, "You kept your hand on. You win it." 00:05:33.799 --> 00:05:41.740 Up in the Hall, Pim scraped a little meter on a brass disc, and a fish. Pim said, "This one is for Seven, and the fish." 00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:49.026 Then Pim hung it up, on the board, with all the other games. Pim said, "Seven switched the pump off, so I could hear." 00:05:49.346 --> 00:05:51.018 And back up to Number Three. 00:05:51.338 --> 00:05:54.171 Pim put a hand on the pipe, and held it there. 00:05:54.491 --> 00:05:58.067 Pim said, "Listen, Seven has fish, and the fish have a pump." 00:05:58.387 --> 00:06:01.498 Now Pim could hear it, up there, all day and all night. 00:06:01.818 --> 00:06:04.372 Twelve little meters, and each one belongs. 00:06:04.992 --> 00:06:07.686 Put your hand on the fast one, and hold on long. 00:06:08.306 --> 00:06:12.068 Roof, green door, hall — and home. 00:06:12.388 --> 00:06:16.893 What made the fast one go slow — a radio, or a pump? 00:06:17.213 --> 00:06:20.464 Ah. The pump, and the fish on Seven. 00:06:20.784 --> 00:06:24.639 Two taps, and Tocko tapped back. Tock, tock.