Thomas finds the unexpected incident humiliating, especially since the day started so well too. On the way back from the quarry, the trucks push Thomas over some points and onto a jetty, which floats across a muddy pond and sinks. The trucks, who are still cross at James for bumping them, decide to take their anger out on Thomas, deciding that one engine is as good as another. When Thomas arrives, James pretends to be ill, and Thomas offers to take James' trucks for him to the Quarry. Gordon advises James that if he pretended to be sick, he would not have to shunt trucks or go to the quarry, and James happily decides to try it. Meanwhile, James is complaining about having to do Percy's work while the green saddle engine is at the harbour, and takes his anger out by bumping his trucks, who vow to pay him out. At the station, Thomas finds out that Bertie has lost his trust in the railway's service after it failed to deliver tar to mend the roads two weeks earlier, and resolves to find the source of the problem. He soon meets Bertie, who is having a most unpleasant journey driving over the bumpy roads. It is a beautiful day and Thomas is puffing along his branch line with Annie and Clarabel, enjoying himself enormously.
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