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00:00You probably never heard of the Klinker Family.
00:25They lived in Holland many, many years ago,
00:27that's their little house right under the windmill.
00:29In fact windmills are Papa Klinker's specialty. He repairs them, but not very well.
00:36Papa, the windmill just fell down.
00:39Is it still turning around?
00:41Yeah, but it's turning around on the ground.
00:44Who cares so long as it's still turning?
00:46Papa and Mama Klinker had two lovely children, a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes and a little boy with blue hair and blonde eyes.
00:53The girl's name was Brunhilde, which in Dutch means she who steps on tulips.
00:58The boy, oddly enough, had no name at all until one day...
01:01Brunhilde!
01:03Yes, Mama?
01:05Go wash your hands!
01:07Brunhilde promptly dunked her brother in the wash tub and that's how Hans Klinker got his name.
01:12Hans, today you are three years old and it's time you got a job.
01:16Okay, my Papa. I will deliver papers.
01:20Unfortunately, the papers Hans delivered belonged to his father and they were of the legal variety, such as mortgage on the house, insurance policies, liberty bonds.
01:27Hans, baby, this morning you was three years old and I think already it's time you change jobs.
01:33So, little Hans went to work down at the waterfront.
01:36Yeah, that's right, little boy. All you gotta do is keep your finger stuck in the hole in the dam.
01:43But why, sir?
01:45Well, if there is no finger in the dam, the water will pour through and flood the country.
01:52A job as a dam plugger didn't pay very much, but you did go home with a very clean finger.
01:57But alas, a tourist came by seeking the whereabouts of the nearest Traveller's Aid Society.
02:02Hans appointed.
02:06Hans, this morning you was three years old and you got your first job.
02:10This afternoon you was three years old and you changed jobs.
02:13Tonight you are still three years old and you're going into retirement.
02:17But, my Papa, I am too young to be idle.
02:20The boy is right, Papa. He needs a vacation.
02:24Vacation, Mama.
02:26All right already. What would you like to do, Hans?
02:28I want to be a tubophone player.
02:31And what's a tubophone?
02:33It's a tuba with a phone inside it. Listen.
02:36The sounds that filled the air had a strange soothing effect, not only on Papa, Mama and Brunhilde, but also on the cows and the chickens.
02:44Hans Klinker was a born musician.
02:47Of course. I could only play a few notes.
02:50But if I could study at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music...
02:54How much would that cost?
02:56Fifty million klonkels.
02:58That astronomical figure caused Papa Klinker to take a fast nap in the center of the living room.
03:03Why doesn't Hans try and win fifty million klonkels in the Zyderzee skating contest?
03:09Yes. Once each year, the icy blasts of winter transformed the Zyderzee into a sheet of ice.
03:14Youngsters from all over the Netherlands put on their skates and entered the big race.
03:18A race which netted the victor fifty million klonkels.
03:21Good luck, Hans! You can win, Hans!
03:25It grieves me sorely to relate that Hans Klinker finished dead last.
03:30This was due to two things. One, he lacked the speed of most Dutch boys his age.
03:34And two, he lacked a pair of skates.
03:36Don't worry, Hans. Pupchen does all this next year.
03:40But again, it was the same story. Last in a field of three thousand.
03:45I don't understand it, Papa. Even with a new pair of skates, I couldn't win?
03:50Perhaps if you were to wear them on your feet instead of your elbows.
03:53Hans tried that the following year, and it did help a little.
03:56He came in next to last, barely beating out an octogenarian who had fallen through a hole in the ice.
04:02It's no use. I never get to study at the Amsterdam Conservatory.
04:06And off he trudged into the snow-covered forest.
04:09Winter turned to spring, spring turned to summer, and still, Hans walked.
04:13I am worried about our boy, Papa.
04:16Which boy is that, Mama?
04:17You know, Hans.
04:18Oh, yeah, Hans. What happened to him?
04:21What happened to him was this. Hans walked right out of Holland into Denmark.
04:26Now, you've all heard the saying, something is rotten in Denmark.
04:29Well, the something that was rotten was an old castle that had been sitting on top of a hill for centuries and centuries.
04:35And inside, there was a sleeping giant.
04:38And just above the giant hung a pair of skates.
04:41Why, they are silver skates!
04:44If I had those skates, I know I could win the Zyderzee race.
04:48Ah, but how do you make off with a pair of skates that are guarded by a sleeping giant?
04:52This is how.
04:56Seconds later, Hans and the skates were on their way back to Holland.
05:00Well, all fairy tales have happy endings, and this one is no exception.
05:03Hans and the silver-plated skates won the next Zyderzee race.
05:06And with the 50 million klunkles, Hans entered the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music,
05:10where he played tubaphone in the symphony orchestra.
05:13And oh, how grand the conductor led his musicians.
05:17Although he did hit a clinker every once in a while.