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| 1 | +This is the story of the hare who lost his spectacles. |
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| 3 | +Owl loved to rest quietly whilst no one was watching. |
| 4 | +Sitting on a fence one day, |
| 5 | +He was surprised when suddenly a kangaroo ran close by. |
| 6 | +Now this may not seem strange, but when Owl overheard Kangaroo whisper to no one in |
| 7 | +Particular, |
| 8 | +"The hare has lost his spectacles," well, he began to wonder. |
| 9 | +Presently, the moon appeared from behind a cloud and there, lying on the grass was hare. |
| 10 | +In the stream that flowed by the grass a newt. |
| 11 | +And sitting astride a twig of a bush a bee. Ostensibly motionless, the hare was trembling with |
| 12 | +Excitement, for without his spectacles he was completely helpless. |
| 13 | +Where were his spectacles? |
| 14 | +Could someone have stolen them? |
| 15 | +Had he mislaid them? |
| 16 | +What was he to do? |
| 17 | +Bee wanted to help, and thinking he had the answer began: |
| 18 | +"You probably ate them thinking they were a carrot." |
| 19 | +"No!" interrupted Owl, who was wise. |
| 20 | +"I have good eye-sight, insight, and foresight. How could an intelligent hare make such a silly mistake?" |
| 21 | +But all this time, Owl had been sitting on the fence, scowling! |
| 22 | +Kangaroo were hopping mad at this sort of talk. |
| 23 | +She thought herself far superior in intelligence to the others. |
| 24 | +She was their leader, their guru. |
| 25 | +She had the answer: "Hare, you must go in search of the optician." |
| 26 | +But then she realized that Hare was completely helpless without his spectacles. |
| 27 | +And so, Kangaroo loudly proclaimed, "I can't send Hare in search of anything!" |
| 28 | +"You can guru, you can!" shouted Newt. |
| 29 | +"You can send him with Owl." |
| 30 | +But Owl had gone to sleep. |
| 31 | +Newt knew too much to be stopped by so small a problem |
| 32 | +"You can take him in your pouch." |
| 33 | +But alas, Hare was much too big to fit into |
| 34 | +Kangaroo's pouch. |
| 35 | +All this time, it had been quite plain to hare that the others knew nothing about spectacles. |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +As for all their tempting ideas, well Hare didn't care. |
| 38 | +The lost spectacles were his own affair. |
| 39 | +And after all, Hare did have a spare a-pair. A-pair. |
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