Silly Billy

"Phe-eew! Fish smell so...fishy! Now I pong like a haul of herrings, too!"

- Billy

Silly Billy is a magazine story.

Plot
Billy's paintwork is sooty and covered in smudges. When he arrives at the washdown, Emily is being hosed down. Billy doesn't want to wait so he decides to pop the bubbles that Emily's wash is producing. Soon, he has popped them all and overhears the Fat Controller telling a workman that he needs an engine to get some fish. Billy announces that he will do it and rushes to collect the fish wagons before Sir Topham Hatt can reply. At the fish market, the manager is surprised to see the fish train so early. Shortly, boxes of fish were stacked into Billy's wagons and he set off to deliver them. Soon, Billy is complaining that he smells of fish and when he had delivered it all he returned to the station where the Fat Controller tells Billy that he wanted him to collect fishermen - not fish! Billy is annoyed, if only he'd listened to the Fat Controller he wouldn't be smelling of fish! Billy hurried off to the washdown. This time he doesn't chase bubbles and just waits quietly and patiently for his turn.

Characters

 * Billy
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Emily (does not speak)
 * Gordon (cameo)