Bogged In Fog

## **Transcript**

**Mouse:** Hello!

There you are.

Have you ever seen fog like this?

It sure makes it hard to see.

But I kind of like it, 'cause it makes me pay attention to things I usually don't pay attention to; like today.

Oof!

**Rabbit:** Huh? Morning, Mouse.

**Mouse:** All ready to go?

**Rabbit:** Go where?

**Mouse:** To the pond.

Don't you remember?

Jasper invited us over this morning for a special surprise.

**Rabbit:** Oh, right.

I like surprises, especially special ones.

Let's go.

**Mouse:** Oh my woolly whiskers!

Does everything look blurry to you?

**Rabbit:** Maybe something's in our eyes.

**Mouse:** Nope, still blurry.

**Rabbit:** Hang on a hop.

**Mouse:** Rabbit, where's your paw?

**Rabbit:** Not to worry, Mouse.

This is fog; lots and lots of fog.

**Mouse:** Oh, of course.

Jasper says it's just like clouds.

Except they're down here instead of up in the sky.

**Rabbit:** Hey, watch this.

**Mouse:** Watch this.

Fog is fun.

But it's going to make it hard to get to Jasper's.

**Rabbit:** Why, we'll just...

Uh? Oh.

That is a problem. Huh?

Time for a hop think.

How can we get to Jasper's if we can't see where we're going?

**Mouse:** What if we blow the fog away?

**Rabbit:** Good idea!

**Mouse:** Hmm... It's not blowing away.

**Rabbit:** What if we use our tails, too?

Wiggle harder!

**Mouse:** I'm wiggling as hard as I can.

**Rabbit:** You keep going.

I'm gonna try to catch the fog in my arms.

**Mouse:** Rabbit, even if you do catch some fog, where will you put it?

**Rabbit:** Oh! Didn't think of that.

**Mouse:** This is a real tail twitcher.

How will we get to Jasper's if we can't get rid of the fog?

**Rabbit:** Think, think, think.

Don't think too far away, Mouse.

You might get lost in the fog.

**Mouse:** Don't worry.

Every time I go over here, I stop when I feel this bush.

Then I turn around and walk back until I feel this fern.

**Rabbit:** Thumpeka!

That's it!

We can feel our way to Jasper's.

The path to the pond has tall grass along the side.

So, as long as we feel the grass...

**Mouse:** We'll be going the right way.

**Rabbit:** Then, what are we waiting for?

To Jasper's!

Grass, grass,...

Whoops! Ouch!

Bristly bush.

Grass,...

Ouch! Ooh!

Hard, gnarly tree stump.

**Mouse:** I never noticed all the different feels around here.

**Rabbit:** This grass is tickly!

**Mouse:** And the branches are scratchy.

**Rabbit:** And the goose's bill is smooth.

**Rabbit and Mouse:** "Goose's bill"?

**Jade:** Hey, let go!

**Rabbit:** Whoops!

Hi, Jade.

Coral, Pearl, Amber, what are you doing here?

**Amber:** We were going to Jasper's.

**Coral:** For the surprise.

**Pearl:** But the fog is so thick, we stopped.

**Amber:** We don't want to get separated.

**Jade:** Or lost.

**Rabbit:** We're going to Jasper's, too.

**Mouse:** We're feeling our way there.

**Coral:** Oh, clever.

**Jade:** And very smart.

**Pearl:** Can we come, too?

**Amber:** But what if we get separated?

**Rabbit:** Hmm...

Ah! Grab on to this vine.

If we all hold on to this, we can't get separated.

**Jade:** Very smart.

**Coral:** Excellent!

**Pearl:** OK.

**Amber:** Good idea!

**Rabbit:** Ready, set... feel!

Tickly grass, tickly grass...

Whoops! Hard tree.

Tickly grass.

**Mouse:** Oh! Soggy salamanders!

I don't like that feel!

My feet are wet!

**Coral:** It's curvy creek.

**Mouse:** Wow!

We made it all the way to curvy creek just by feel.

But how will we get across?

**Gibble Goose Girls:** We'll swim, of course.

**Mouse:** Swim?

But I hate getting wet.

**Rabbit:** Not to worry.

You and I can cross on the fallen log instead.

**Mouse:** Thanks, Rabbit.

**Pearl:** Suit yourselves.

Meet you on the other side.

**Mouse:** Now we just need to find that log.

**Rabbit:** No problem.

See this stripey rock?

**Mouse:** Yes.

**Rabbit:** The log is downstream from here.

**Mouse:** But how will we know which way is downstream, without getting wet?

**Rabbit:** The creek will tell us.

Watch.

Whoa! It's this-a-way!

**Mouse:** Whoa!

Are you sure this is the way?

We should've found the log by...

**Rabbit:** Ow!

**Mouse:** ... now.

**Rabbit:** Ta-da!

Told you we'd find it.

**Pearl:** You made it.

**Amber:** I knew they would.

**Coral:** But we have a new problem.

**Jade:** The path has no grass.

**Mouse:** Uh-oh! How can we feel our way to Jasper's place with no grass?

**Rabbit:** Hmm...

That is a problem.

Let's hop-think.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Whoa!

**Jade:** Hazel!

**Hazel:** Oh, hi!

Are you all going to Jasper's, too?

**Pearl:** Yes.

**Amber:** We were...

**Coral:** Until our path ran out.

**Mouse:** We were feeling our way there, but we ran out of grass to follow.

**Hazel:** You don't need grass.

Just do what I'm doing.

Sniff your way there!

**Rabbit:** OK.

What are we sniffing for?

**Hazel:** If we follow the smell of pine cones until we smell violets, then violets until we smell goldenrod, then we're almost there!

**Mouse:** What a great idea.

We can't use touch anymore, so we'll use our sense of smell.

**Rabbit:** Everyone ready to sniff?

Then follow those pine cones.

**Pearl:** I smell pine cones.

**Amber:** And mushrooms.

**Coral:** And flowers.

**Jade:** And wet feathers.

**Mouse:** I never realized how many smells there are in the forest.

Achoo!

**Hazel:** I smell goldenrod flowers!

**Amber:** So do I.

**Rabbit:** I can smell them, to...

Achoo!

Hey! Now I can't smell anything.

**Mouse:** Achoo!

Me neither.

My nose is all stuffed up.

**Edwina:** Achoo!

**Amber:** What was that?

**Mouse:** It sounded like...

**Both:** Edwina!

**Edwina:** Achoo!

**Mouse:** But where is she?

**Edwina:** Achoo!

**Rabbit:** That way.

**Edwina:** Achoo!

**Rabbit:** You guys, look!

**Edwina:** Oh, hi!

'Scuse me, I'm sneezy.

Hey! How'd you find me in this fog?

**Rabbit:** We followed your sneezes.

**Edwina:** Oh, it's pollen from the goldenrod.

Achoo!

**Mouse:** Oh, goldenrod pollen.

That must be why we're all snorfling, too.

**Hazel:** But we need our noses to smell the way to Jasper's.

Now what'll we do?

**Mouse:** Too bad Jasper isn't sneezing.

Then we could follow his sneezes.

**Rabbit:** Maybe he doesn't have to be sneezing.

We can still use our ears.

We just have to listen for something else to find the pond.

**Pearl:** I hear a crow.

**Amber:** Is that the wind?

**Coral:** Deer flies!

**Jade:** Ow! One bit me!

**Pearl, Amber and Coral:** Shh!

**Mouse:** I never knew the forest was so noisy.

**Jade:** A frog.

**Mouse:** And frogs live in the pond.

**Hazel:** And Jasper lives at the pond.

**Rabbit:** Follow that ribbit.

Jasper! We made it!

**Jasper:** Oh! There you are.

I wasn't sure you'd find me in this terrible fog.

**Rabbit:** It's not terrible.

It's fun.

We used our sense of touch to follow the path.

**Pearl:** Then we used our sense of smell.

**Edwina:** Until we got all stuffed up.

Then we used our ears to listen for the sounds of the pond.

**Jasper:** Well.

Sounds like you had to use all your senses to get here.

**Mouse:** Not all of our senses; we didn't have to taste our way here.

**Jasper:** That reminds me.

I asked you here for a special surprise.

Close your eyes, everybody... and hold out your paws, or your wings, or trunk.

Now... taste.

**Hazel:** Quaking acorns!

These are the best berries I've ever tasted!

**Jasper:** Mm-hm.

I found them yesterday, but I still need a name for them.

Any ideas?

**Pearl:** Well, they're sticky...

**Amber:** And red...

**Coral:** And sweet...

**Jade:** And delicious!

**Rabbit:** Sticky, red, sweetalicious berries?

**Mouse:** That's a mouthful.

So in the end, we didn't have to see well to find the pond, because we used our other senses.

Our forest is just full of feels and smells and sounds... and yummy tastes, too.

Mmm! Oops!

I've got sticky, red, sweetalicious berry juice all over me.

**Rabbit:** Don't worry, Mouse.

In all this fog, who's gonna see it?