Mr Tau and a Trip Round the World

Mr Viola agrees to his grand-daughter Claudie's wish that they should set out into the wide world without a penny in their pockets, hitch-hike with lorries, and sleep in haystacks. Mr Tau is pleased that Claudie has cheered up and decides to help Viola ensure that everything will be just as she wants it. Viola believes Mr Tau to be a travel agency employee who is making all the necessary arrangements for the two globetrotters. Mr Tau does his best, but sometimes things go awry and he has hands full to get things back on track. Claudia and her grandfather set out, getting lifts on an ox-wagon and then a removals van, and then catching fish and sleeping in a haystack. Viola wants to eat in an inn and escape without paying, but before that he is supposed to vanquish over a gang of tough lads. Mr Tau arranges it all, but Viola and Claudie go to a different inn, where they get lots of good food and drink. When they try to make a furtive exit they have to move fast to escape the innkeeper and his locals. But they manage to jump onto a little train, and so evade their pursuers.