Original subtitles

[soft music]

- Oh!

[giggling]

♪ Dancing through spring time flowers ♪

♪ Are raised in summer sun

♪ Catching wet snowflakes on your nose ♪

♪ Running through autumn leaves ♪

♪ That float from trees from high ♪

♪ With a love that is bigger than the sky ♪

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

March Like An Ant.

- [Narrator] It was a late afternoon in spring,

and was playing his favourite game with his father,

hide and...

[sniffs]

- Boo!

[laughs]

- You tricked me!

That was a good Hide and Boo!

Okay.

My turn to hide now!

[giggles]

- One dandelion, two dandelions, three dandelions,

Here I come!

Hmm?

[sniffs]

- Hmm.

- Oh?

[sniffs]

Ah.

You're not hiding?

- I found some berries.

Can we eat them?

[sniffs]

- Yes, these are safe to eat.

[gasping]

Oh, I remember them from last spring.

They were delicious.

- Mmm.

- And they still are.

- Really delicious!

- You've done well to find them!

But it's getting late.

I think it's time we went home.

- Oh, but wait!

There's just enough for breakfast tomorrow!

[giggling]

- Good idea!

That will be a delicious breakfast.

- There, the last ones.

[snoring softly]

Berries for breakfast!

Yum, yum, yum!

Oh?

[gasping]

Big Nutbrown Hare, wake up.

Our berries have gone!

[sniffs]

- What's that Little Nutbrown Hare?

- The berries we picked for breakfast, they're gone!

I left them on this leaf.

- Oh, so they have.

- But where could they have gone?

- Well maybe they blew away in the night.

- There were a lot of berries.

They couldn't have all blown away!

- You're right.

This is puzzling.

- And they were the last berries on the bush!

[sniffs]

Maybe I can find them by sniffing for them.

[sniffs]

[gasping]

Yes, I can smell them!

I'm going to find out just where our breakfast went to!

- Well, good luck Little Nutbrown Hare.

[sniffs]

- Hello!

- Whoa, Little Field Mouse You startled me.

[laughing]

[laughing]

- Yes, I did, didn't I?

You had no idea I was there!

[laughing]

- That's because I am on a very important hunt.

- What for?

- Yummy berries that I was saving for breakfast.

- Then your hunt is over!

It is?

- Yes, look what I just jumped out of!

A bush full of yummy blueberries!

Oh, the berries I lost were red.

- Ooh?

But these are still very delicious.

I ate some this morning with my family.

Why not have these for breakfast, instead?

- Thanks, but I want the special red berries.

Big Nutbrown Hare said they were

his favourite berries of all.

- Ooh, in that case, I might just eat some more of these,

just to see if they are still delicious.

Mmm, they are!

In fact, they're berry, berry delicious!

[laughs]

[laughs]

And now I'm berry ready to help you

find your special berries!

- Yay!

[panting softly]

[giggling]

- This is a very big meadow, those berries could be.

There!

The red berries!

[gasping]

- They're, running away!

- I'll get this end, you stop the other end!

Ooh!

Look, the runaway berry is taking an ant with it.

[giggles]

- No, it's the other way around.

The ants are taking the berries!

[giggles]

And they tickle!

[panting softly]

- Excuse me.

Ants!

Could you give me back my berries, please?

[panting softly]

I found them and picked themmyself, with Big Nutbrown Hare.

Oh, they are still not stopping.

I know!

You could do a little dance.

Then when the ants put down their berries to clap,

we can get them back!

- Great idea!

[panting softly]

Taa-daaa!

♪ La la la la la la la la

- Great!

Wonderful!

Isn't Little Field Mouse a lovely dancer?

♪ La la

Hmph!

They are being so, rude!

- I know!

Don't they want to be our friends?

[panting softly]

This is your last chance.

Little Nutbrown Hare and I will close our eyes

and count to three.

And if you return the berries, we can all be friends again.

One dandelion, two dandelions, three dandelions!

[gasping]

- O-ho!

We've lost the berries for good!

[soft music]

- We told them they were your berries

and they took them anyway!

- I don't think I like ants!

- Oh, the ants didn't mean to upset you.

Ants are very different from hares and field mice.

They don't understand the things we say.

- [Together] They don't?

- No.

So they didn't know they were your berries.

- That doesn't explain why they didn't watch me dance.

- Oh, they were probably just too busy to notice.

- Yes, too busy taking our berries!

- Ooh, I know you are upset Little Nutbrown Hare,

but the ants were probably taking the berries home

to their families, just like you brought them home for me.

- Ants have families?

- Of course.

They live in big underground nests with lots

and lots of other ants.

So they need plenty of food!

- Yes look!

Here's more ants taking food!

- How strong they must be to carry that big piece of food!

- Yes, it would be like Little Field Mouse carrying you!

I can carry Big Nutbrown Hare!

Almost!

[groaning]

[giggles]

[laughs]

- Look how hard they're working.

- [Little Nutbrown Hare] Yes, and they never give up,

- [Big Nutbrown Hare] And they never get lost,

- They just keep marching, marching, finding food.

- Marching, marching, finding food.

It's just what ants do!

- Hey, let's be ants!

We could find some food and bring it back to our nest!

Marching, marching, marching off to find some food,

- Using our feelers, to make sure the food is good.

- [Together] It's just what we ants do!

[giggles]

- One for me.

- One for me.

- One for me.

- And one for the ants.

[giggling]

- [Narrator] Later, after LittleField Mouse had gone home,

Little Nutbrown Hare and his father were relaxing

in the shade of the Old Oak Tree

and finishing up the last of their Spring berries,

[sniffs]

- Mm!

Nutbrown berry!

Ooh, delicious!

[giggles]

- You didn't use your feelers

to see if I was good to eat, first!

- Ooh, you're right!

Hm, my feelers tell me that this nutbrown berry

is good to eat, all up!

[giggles]

[giggles]

- Guess how much my feelers tell me I love you.

- As much as all the berries on a berry bush?

- More!

- As much as all the ants in the meadow?

- Even more!

- As much as all the feelers on all the ants in the meadow?

[laughs]

Exactly!

[giggles]

That certainly is a lot!

[soft music]