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A heavy thicket of thorns was ahead and Peter Sam squeezed his eyes shut, but before he hit them something stopped him with a crash.

"What's...going on?" He wondered, opening one eye. His driver got off the footplate to investigate.

"Hand me your shovel, fireman!" He called. The fireman gave him his shovel and the driver cut through the thicket of thorny shrubs to find a truly surprising sight. Sitting on a well wagon was a life-sized statue of an engine on a plinth. On the plinth was a plate inscribed with a name which made him recoil in shock upon reading it. Rusty came soon trundled in to help Peter Sam out of his mess and he, too was surprised.

"If that's what I think it is..." Rusty said, awed. "Peter Sam, this is the long lost statue of Proteus. It was moved out here to protect it from bombing raids by the Germans during World War II and it's been forgotten until now!" Peter Sam was amazed at his sudden discovery of such a precious relic to the Island's history, coincidentally on the same day as the book signing about the engine to whom the statue was made in the image of.

"Then we have to get it out of here! And what timing, too!" Peter Sam said, which reminded him of another important thing on his list of things to do.

Description
A heavy thicket of thorns was ahead and Peter Sam squeezed his eyes shut, but before he hit them something stopped him with a crash.

"What's...going on?" He wondered, opening one eye. His driver got off the footplate to investigate.

"Hand me your shovel, fireman!" He called. The fireman gave him his shovel and the driver cut through the thicket of thorny shrubs to find a truly surprising sight. Sitting on a well wagon was a life-sized statue of an engine on a plinth. On the plinth was a plate inscribed with a name which made him recoil in shock upon reading it. Rusty came soon trundled in to help Peter Sam out of his mess and he, too was surprised.

"If that's what I think it is..." Rusty said, awed. "Peter Sam, this is the long lost statue of Proteus. It was moved out here to protect it from bombing raids by the Germans during World War II and it's been forgotten until now!" Peter Sam was amazed at his sudden discovery of such a precious relic to the Island's history, coincidentally on the same day as the book signing about the engine to whom the statue was made in the image of.

"Then we have to get it out of here! And what timing, too!" Peter Sam said, which reminded him of another important thing on his list of things to do.