Original subtitles

[cheerful music]

- [gasp] Oh!

[Little Field Mouse laughing]

♪ Dancing through spring time flowers ♪

♪ Embracing summer sun

♪ Catching wet snowflakes on your nose ♪

♪ Running through autumn leaves that ♪

♪ Float from trees from above

♪ With our 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

"Finders Keepers."

- [Narrator] It was a beautifulautumn day in the meadow.

The wind was blowing in the treetops,

and the leaves were falling.

Down below, two little friends were catching them.

Well, trying to.

- Orange leaf.

Got you!

- Yellow leaf, got you!

- Spotted acorn, [grunting] got you!

- Oh! So many leaves!

[Big Nutbrown Hare chuckles]

- Someone's having fun!

- Hello, Big Nutbrown Hare.

[Big Nutbrown Hare grunting]

[Little Nutbrown Hare giggling]

- I remember playing leaf catch when I was little.

Did you ever catch a leaf as big as this one?

- Ooh, maybe not that big.

But there is a tree I know of,

by the bend in the river that has lots of bright,

colorful leaves just waiting to fall,

and to be caught.

- Can we go?

- Please?

- [laughing] Of course.

Just make sure you look after each other.

- Aren't you coming too?

- Oh, I'm off to look for food.

If you need me, I'll be near the red rose briar.

Have fun!

[Big Nutbrown Hare whistles]

- Are you coming, Little Grey Squirrel?

- It does sound like fun!

But I have to put my acorns away.

[giggles]

Spotted acorns are my favorite of favorites!

- Oh, do come, Little Grey Squirrel!

It would be much more fun with three!

- And we'll help you when we get back.

Please?

- I suppose it's safe to leave them here.

Okay!

- The last one there's a spotted acorn!

- Leaves, here we come!

- Woohoo!

[panting]

[giggling]

[leaves rustling]

- I smell something very yummy!

[sniffs deeply]

Oh!

And I see something very yummy.

Spotted acorns are my favorite of favorites!

How lucky I am to find them!

- I love red leaves best.

- [Little Field Mouse] Yellow are best too!

- But there's nothing better than [gasps]

my acorns!

Where could they be?!

- I'm sorry, Little Grey Squirrel, I don't know.

We'll find some other acorns for you.

[Little Grey Squirrel sighs sadly]

- But those acorns were very special.

- Hello!

- Hello, Little Redwood Fox.

Little Grey Squirrel has lost his pile of acorns.

- Huh?!

Oh.

- They were the best,

most yummy spotted acorns

anyone could ever find.

- Spotted acorns?

- Do you think someone might have taken them?

- Yes, someone who likes spotted acorns.

- Well it wasn't me!

- Of course not!

We know you didn't take them, Little Redwood Fox.

- Because you would've given them right back.

- Those acorns have to be somewhere.

We'll look under every leaf

and behind every bush to find some.

[Little Grey Squirrel gasps]

- You will?

- You will?

- We will!

- Uh, yes we will.

My den is close by, I'll look around there.

- Where should we look?

- How about you,

you all go that way.

To the far end of the meadow.

And work your way back to here.

- Great idea!

Let's go.

Good luck, Little Redwood Fox!

- Thank you for helping me look for my acorns.

- Good luck!

Oh dear.

Oh, what should I do?

Should I give you back?

Or keep you?

Oh.

[sigh]

[bird chirping]

Blue Bird!

- Hello, Little Redwood Fox.

- What would you do if youfound a pile of the most yummy,

wonderful acorns, and they were the last in the meadow?

- Well, I'd think I was lucky, very lucky indeed.

- So you'd keep them?

- Why yes, of course.

- But what if you found out later

that they belonged to someone else?

- Then I'd give them right back.

It's not nice to keep that belong to someone else.

- Oh.

- Is everything all right?

- No, no it's okay.

- Well I'm off then.

Bye!

- But I can't give them back now!

I told my friends that I didn't take them.

I'll just have to hide you,

and I know the perfect

hiding spot.

[whimsical music]

No one will look under this red rose briar,

especially with all these prickly thorns.

[birds chirping]

- We've looked by the riverbank.

- We've looked in the woodlands.

- Where else could they be?

[Little Nutbrown Hare sighs]

- I wish Big Nutbrown Hare was here.

He'd know.

That's it!

Big Nutbrown Hare was going to the red rose briar,

we haven't looked there yet!

Come on!

- Wait for us! - Wait for us!

- Are you sure you looked everywhere?

Did you look in the woodland?

- Yes, everywhere.

- Okay, everyone.

Stop!

I have something to tell you.

- There are no acorns under here.

- What?! Are you sure?

[shocked gasp]

- Well, we've looked everywhere now.

My acorns really are gone.

Maybe we could look again tomorrow.

- Who would have taken the acorns?

The most spotted, the most yummy,

the most wonderful acorns in the whole meadow?

Oh.

- Hello, Little Redwood Fox.

Oh, is everything all right?

- Oh, Big Nutbrown Hare, I'm very sad.

And if I'm so sad, then Little Grey Squirrel

must be this sad too.

- When I'm sad, I have a nibble on some food.

It helps cheer me up.

- A spotted acorn!

Where did you find that?!

- Why, right there under the briar.

Along with all of these.

- The lost spotted acorns!

- I'm sorry, Little Redwood Fox, these acorns were lost?

- Yes, they're mine!

I mean, they're Little Grey Squirrel's,

and they need to go back where they belong.

- [Narrator] And so, LittleRedwood Fox returned the acorns,

and told her friends the whole truth.

But how would they feel?

- Thank you!

My beautiful acorns!

Thank you, Little Redwood Fox.

- I'm sorry I wasn't being a very good friend.

- That's okay, you are now!

- Well I'd like to make it up to you.

I have another surprise!

- Another surprise?!

- I was bring the spotted acorns back to you,

past the weeping willow,

and I saw this!

- [All] Surprise!

- Ah, a spotted oak tree!

It's even bigger than the other tree!

- Do you see what I see?

- It's the biggest,

most beautiful.

- Most yummy looking acorn

I've ever seen!

[leaves rustling]

- And it's coming our way!

- I've got it!

- I've got it!

[all exclaiming]

[animals laughing]

- Ah! Got you!

I think this is yours.

- We can all share it together!

[all cheering]

- [Narrator] The friends all shared that special acorn

along with many others,

and laughed and played in the autumn meadow,

until the moon began to rise.

- And then Little Redwood Fox

gave all the acorns right back.

- All of them?

Well that was a kind thing to do.

[grunting]

- Whoa!

[Little Nutbrown Hare laughing]

Guess how much I love you.

- Mmm, let me see.

More than all the spots on a spotty acorn?

More than all the spotty acorns that autumn can bring,

and their spots!

[Little Nutbrown Hare sighs contentedly]

Goodnight, sleep tight,

see you in the morning light.

- Goodnight.

[kisses]

My favorite of favorites.

[cheerful music]

[dog barking]