- “Where would we be without water!"
"High and dry!” - ― The driver and Skarloey
High and Dry is a magazine story.
Plot
Skarloey is taking some engineers to a reservoir. One of the engineers explain that the reservoir stores and treats water before it goes to homes all over Sodor. Skarloey drops off the engineers and soon sets off again. After a short while, Skarloey spots thick, black smoke and he soon sees a barn on fire. Soon the firefighters arrive and the fire is soon extinguished. Luckily, most of the barn is saved. Skarloey remarks how really useful water is.
Skarloey has not gone far when he starts to overheat; he has run out of water. The firemen soon roll by in their fire engine and kindly give Skarloey a nice, long drink from their hose. Skarloey admits that they would be "high and dry" without water.
Characters
Trivia
- A story puzzle version of the story, where the reader is asked to rearrange the illustrations in the right order, is featured in Issue 379 of the main series. This version is missing the first illustration and mirrors the final one, thus fixing the final goof listed below.
Goofs
- Skarloey is pink.
- Skarloey's coach is a scaled-down standard gauge coach.
- The word "FIRE" is spelt backwards on the front of the fire engine in the final illustration but the writing is normal in all other illustrations.
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