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[cheerful flute music]

[squeaky laughter]

♪ Dancing through springtime flowers ♪

♪ And rays of summer sun

♪ Catching wet snowflakes on your nose ♪

♪ Running through Autumn leaves ♪

♪ That float from trees somehow ♪

♪ 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

- [Little Nutbrown Hare] All Fall Down

- [Narrator] It was a bright Autumn morning,

and leaves were lying in the meadow

like a crinkly, colored carpet.

Much to the delight of Little Nutbrown Hare,

who was out walking with his father.

[crinkling leaves]

- That looks like a fun game, Little Nutbrown Hare.

- It's not a game, Big Nutbrown Hare.

It's and important job!

- An important job?

- Yes! [grunts] I'm looking for acorns.

Ah ha!

- Oh, you're collecting acorns now?

- Not for me, I'm helping Little Gray Squirrel.

He has to collect lots of food for winter.

See?

Hey! Little Gray Squirrel!

- Oh, Hello!

- I've got some acorns for you.

- Thank you!

- Here.

[laughing]

- Could you help me carry them to my tree, please?

- Of course.

I'm just going to Little Grey Squirrel's tree.

- All right! Have fun!

- Thank you for thinking of me.

- That's what friends are for.

- Yes, and for playing with.

- Yes! I know a good game we can play.

- What?

- A race to your tree!

- You're on.

[panting and laughing]

I'm winning!

- No you're not!

[loud grunt]

Are you all right?

[loud grunt]

Yay! I win the race!

- What makes you think that?

- My acorn got to your tree first!

- Oh, I guess you're right.

That gives me an idea for a whole new game!

Uh. Ah ha!

- Hello. What are you doing?

- Playing Acorn Rolling.

- We roll an acorn to the tree and

whoever gets closest to the tree

without actually touching it, wins.

Do you want to play?

- Yes, please!

- I'll be really good at this!

- I'll go first, because I thought of the game.

- Okay.

[scattered laughter]

[grunt]

- Whoa! Beat that!

- Okay.

[deep inhale]

Go acorn go!

Little bit closer.

Yes!

- My turn!

[squeaking and giggling]

[piano crescendo]

- Wow! That's the closest one yet!

- I've got the closest to the tree!

- I can get even closer.

[dramatic crescendo]

- Yay! I win! I win! I win!

[sighing]

- You're not supposed to knock our acorns out of the way.

- Yes, that's not fair.

- Yes it is.

- Hold on, hold on!

Why don't we play a different game, like Acorn Stacking?

[confused gasp]

We stack the acorns on top of each other.

- Good idea.

- That sounds fun.

- Let's give that a go.

[sigh]

- Oh! I can only stack two acorns.

- Ugh. Me too.

This is hard.

- I know, but I'm good with acorns.

I've got three!

- Wow!

- Shh, I'm going for four!

- You can do it Little Field Mouse! You can do it!

- Oh No!

- Little Redwood Fox!

- You startled me!

- I didn't mean to.

I just get very excited sometimes.

- It's all right. Never mind.

Let's play a different game.

- Can it be with acorns?

- All right, let's play

Acorn-Throwing!

- What? We just throw an acorn around?

- Yes, but you never know

who is going to get the acorn next. Like this!

- I get it!

- That sounds like a good game!

- We'll all have to be on our toes!

- Now spread out.

Here is the acorn, around it goes,

who gets it next, nobody knows!

- I caught it!

[grunting and laughing]

- You almost tricked me, Little Field Mouse!

- Got it again!

[grunting]

- My turn now!

- Ohhh!

- Little Redwood Fox!

- Oh

- That's not how you play the game!

- I could never catch that!

- I'm sorry. It was a bit high.

I got a bit carried away again.

I'll go and get the acorn.

- It's no fun playing acorn games

with Little Redwood Fox because

she gets too excited and ruins everything.

- Why don't we play without her?

She threw that acorn a long way away,

and she'll be away for quite some time.

- Okay.

[laughing and grunting]

It's not right that we're not playing

with Little Redwood Fox.

- But we can't play with her.

She gets too excited.

- That's just who she is.

She can't help getting excited.

- Does this mean we can never play with her again?

- No, we just have to play the right sort of game.

[loud gasping]

- [Little Redwood Fox] And I'll try to play better, too.

I'm sorry for playing roughly.

When I get excited, I sometimes forget

that I'm bigger and stronger than you.

I'll try and think of you more

when we're playing games.

- Thank you, Little Redwood Fox.

We know you will.

- And we'll try to think of games

that we can all play [laughs] even

very excited Redwood Foxes!

- But what kind of game would that be?

- I think I have an idea

- This is a much better game.

- Three against one!

- Perfect for a fox who's bigger and stronger than us!

- Now catch!

- Whoa, good throw!

- I've got it!

- No, I've got it.

- Yay! I've got it!

Oh [giggling]

- That was fun.

Let's do it again! Let's do it again!

- Yeah!

- [Narrator] And so the four friends found

that there was a way they could all play together,

and they played and played until the sun

and the fun, had to go to bed.

[crickets chirping]

- And Little Redwood Fox had trouble playing at first,

but we found a way that she could.

- It's nice that you all found a way to play together.

- And now we can all play together

again [yawn] tomorrow.

- Yes, after a good night's sleep.

- Guess how much I love you.

- As much as all the acorns you collected today?

- No, as much as all the acorns we rolled and

stacked and threw and caught today!

And I saved one for you!

- Oh. Thank you, Little Nutbrown Hare.

[giggles]

[upbeat music]

[dog bark]