The Wishing Box

## Premise

Kissyfur comes across a box, which he thinks can make his wishes come true.

## Story

The tale starts in a forested part of the swamp, where Kissyfur and Toot are getting tired in search of fresh honey. Nearby, as a riverboat passed on, a small box floated toward the gators, and it goes in Floyd’s mouth, causing him to wake up choking, and spitting out the box. Furious that his nap was interrupted, Floyd tosses the box away, which lands on a few branches, hits a beehive, and landing in Kissyfur’s honey bucket. Kissyfur tries unsuccessfully to open the box, and says “I just wish We could find some honey.” Since the box hit the hive, moments ago, a big droplet of honey falls in the honey bucket. Kissyfur and Toot notice it and celebrate, however, the gators hear the two and prepare to attack them. Soon, as Kissyfur and Toot eat the honey, The two think since Kissyfur wished for honey, the box granted their wish. The gators, thinking they could wish for all the food they could eat, goes to get the box. Floyd uses a rope to swing, while shouting like Tarzan, but misses and gulps up a giant rock.

Toot makes a wish on the box, and wishes for fresh strawberries, but nothing happened. Nearby, as Lennie picks the strawberries faster than the other cubs, He sees Toot singing that He has a secret. Lennie tries to get the young beaver to talk, but refuses. Lennie offers to give him a basket of strawberries if he tells the secret. Tempted, Toot tells Lennie that He and Kissyfur found a box, which can grant wishes. After hearing this, the rest of the cubs visit Kissyfur, including the gators who hide to get ready to attack, but back off when Gus comes out of the house, asking Kissyfur and the others to remove a rotten plank in the foot bridge, before supper. Kissyfur gets an idea and wishes the bridge fixed, and He and the others head off. At the foot bridge, Emmy Lou, while holding 10 pies, steps on the bad plank and falls knee-deep in water, and partially covered in pie, urging the unfortunate bear to replace the plank, then sneezes.

The Cubs arrive at the footbridge, and to their surprise, the rotten plank is replaced. Lennie goes to wish that School was cancelled tomorrow, and says it won’t work. Emmy Lou wearing a scarf around her neck tells the cubs that because She has a cold, There won’t be any school tomorrow. Lennie suggests that since school is canceled tomorrow, They should go swimming. But, Beehonie says it would be impossible with the gators around, so the warthog wishes the gators to disappear forever. Floyd and Jolene, disguised as boulders, overhear this and run away. But, to their surprise, they didn’t disappear. Jolene says that the box doesn’t work at all, and are determined to get the cubs.

At a watery part of the swamp, the cubs play with a ball as the gators hide under lily pads. Kissyfur notices one of them moving, and lifts it up, revealing Floyd. Kissyfur and the cubs run from the gators, as Gus in his Paddlecab, hears the chaos, and heads there. After a crazy chase, The gators corner the cubs, but are forced to run, when they see Gus, approaching. Outside Kissyfur’s house, Kissyfur explains all that happened, then Gus tells his son that it takes more than wishing to make them come true, and opens the box, revealing that it’s a music box, which makes the cubs plug their ears due to the loud playing. Kissyfur tosses the music box away, and lands in Floyd’s mouth, Floyd swallows it, and the box is playing loud, annoying the frogs, fish, dragonflies, and Jolene, who attacks Floyd to get him to stop the music.

## Trivia

* When Toot is eating his first strawberries, His nose turns black.