For Children of All Ages
'The Adventures of Timothy'
A serial play by A. W. Dodd
4 - 'The Well of Lem-Aki'
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Captain Sly's ship, the Swallow, has arrived in Alexandria with Captain Boffin and Timothy looked in the cabin. Sly decides to take Bu-Bu to the mysterious well of Lem-Aki himself He gets rid of Mangus, and, accompanied by Hussein, sets off. But Hussein and the donkey are recognised by Mehmet of the king's guard. He arrests Hussein and returns Bu-Bu to the royal stables. Boffin and Timothy escape from the ship and, finding out what has happened, they go straight to the king and beg him to let them have Bu-Bu. The king demands that they pay him Bu-Bu's weight in gold. The friendly goldsmith sees a way of helping Boffin and Timothy to get possession of the donkey, but Mehmet arrests them and imprisons them in the same dungeon as the unfortunate Hussein.
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