- Percy: [is covered in hay and has just found out what he looks like] Bust my buffers, no wonder they all laughed! I'm just like a woolly bear! Please clean me before Toby comes.
- Percy: [ghostly whistle] Wheeeeeeeeesh!
- [laughs]
- Percy: Don't be frightened, Thomas! It's only me!
- Thomas: [bemused] Your ugly fizz is enough to frighten *anyone*! You're like...
- Percy: Ugly, indeed! I'm...
- Thomas: [continuing] ... a green caterpillar with red stripes. You crawl like one, too.
- Percy: [protesting] I don't!
- Thomas: Who's been late every afternoon this week?
- Percy: It's the hay!
- Thomas: I can't help that. Time's time, and the Fat Controller relies on me to keep it. I can't if you crawl in the hay til all hours.
- Percy: [fuming] Green caterpillar, indeed!
- [leaves to collect hay]
- Percy: Everyone says I'm handsome... or at least *nearly* everyone. Anyway, my curves are better than Thomas' corners.