The Irelanders' Adventures of The Animals of Farthing Wood: The Wood in Danger/Transcript

This is the script for The Irelanders' Adventures of The Animals of Farthing Wood: The Wood in Danger.

[The film begins with a live action footage of Chris and Martin Kratt]

Chris Kratt: We're here in Europe, in the woodlands. Hey, it's us, the Kratt Brothers.

Martin Kratt: I'm Martin.

Chris Kratt: And I'm Chris. And today, we're going to see all the woodland creatures in the wood with our guest, Connor Lacey.

Connor Lacey: Thanks, guys. Good to be here.

[They walk through the woods til they saw some woodland animals]

Chris Kratt: There's a fox.

Martin Kratt: And a badger.

Connor Lacey: There some rabbits over there.

Chris Kratt: These animals live together in these woods for years.

Martin Kratt: But sadly, their homes sometimes got destroyed by human construction.

Connor Lacey: And that can cause problems for them like de-hydration and starvation.

Chris Kratt: But thankfully, humans managed to find ways to protect the animals.

Martin Kratt: By building nature preserves to give them homes and protection from destruction.

Connor Lacey: Imagine if a group of animals traveled to a nature preserve.

Chris Kratt: Imagine if we have fox powers.

Kratt Bros and Connor Lacey: What if?

[The Kratt Bros change into their animated forms and they run off with Connor following them. The intro starts playing then ends with the title "The Irelanders' Adventures of The Animals of Farthing Wood: The Wood In Danger". The scene changes to a view of Farthing Wood with it's trees and stream in them. Then humans start cutting down tress with chainsaws and construction vehicles moving to dig up the dirt with their shovels. A toad dragged himself to the roots of a tree, tired out]

Toad: (panting) Not.... much further.

[He gasps and hops as a tree falls down to the ground. He keeps hopping but still he's tired]

Toad: I'm sure I must be nearly there.

[As the shovel keeps moving, Toad saw the wood just ahead of him]

Toad: Yes. This is it. (chuckles) This is my place. If I can just... (pants) keep going a little bit longer, I'II soon be.. (pants) home and dry.

[He yells as he saw the shovel above him. It lowers down and scoops up him and some dirt. As Toad peers over the shovel, the human push a lever and the shovel drops the dirt and Toad to the ground, burying him. A large rock lands on the pile, acting like a gravestone. A kestrel flies through the wood. A badger and a weasel survey the destruction]

Badger: Look at this place.

[Weasel looks up at Badger]

Badger: Just look at it, Weasel.

Weasel: (laughs) Doesn't get any better.

Badger: I don't know what you're laughing at. (sighs) How many more homes have we lost today, Owl?

[Owl sits on a branch fidgeting with a dead field mouse]

Owl: Half a dozen semi-detached burrows, 3 fully-furnished squirrel and at least 15 immaculately kept nests.

[A tree collapses]

Owl: Oh. 16.

[Badger and Weasel look at each other]

Badger: Chopping away at us every day. Still they're not satisfied.

Weasel: (gulps) Don't look now. They'll be on us any minute. Any second.

Badger: (sighs) Our days are numbered.

[Kestrel arrives]

Kestrel: Won't be long now. Won't be long now. Now that they've filled in the pond.

[Badger and Weasel look at each other in shock]

Owl: [dropping her field mouse] Not Farthing Wood pond.

Kestrel: Correct.

Badger: Our last remaining watering hole

[Cut to a shot of a machine filling the pond with dirt]

Weasel: Hard luck on the ducks. (laughs) But we're alright. We've still got the stream.

[Badger walk over the pile of dirt where Toad was buried with Weasel]

Badger: Don't you mean the muddy trickle? Hmm?

[Weasel nods. A rabbit and a hedgehog are drinking from the trickle when a fox's shadow looms over the hedgehog who curls up in a ball. Fox drops the prey he's caught and surveys the scene]

Fox: Dear, oh, dear.

Badger: Ah, you here too, Fox? Just thought we'd wander down and, um... er... um...

Weasel: See the situation.

Badger: Oh, yes. For ourselves.

Fox: Doesn't look too good, does it, old son. And if those big rains don't come soon. Then our outlooks...

Badger: Skysy? Hmm?

[Rabbit turns back to the trickle. Fox crosses to the other side]

Fox: You took the words right out of my mouth.

Weasel: Looks like we've got a bit of a problem.

Badger: And a major one at that.

Fox: Important enough to warrant an assembly, I reckon.

Badger: An assembly, Fox?

[Hedgehog and Rabbit look at Fox in surprise. Badger and Weasel look at each other]

Weasel: A get together, for all the animals?

Fox: It's not a party, Weasel.

[Weasel looks offended]

Badger: Is an, an assembly a bit drastic?

[Fox walks up to a small ridge near the trickle]

Fox: If this isn't drastic...

Hedgehog: Hmm. Exactly.

Fox: Then what is?

Badger: But a Farthing Wood assembly, Fox? Why we haven't had one of those in years. They're only ever called if there's an.... er...

Weasel: An emergency?

[Badger joins Fox near the trickle]

Fox: And I'd call this an emergency.

Weasel: You took the words right out of my mouth.

Fox: Not to put too fine a point on it, without water, we animals of Farthing Wood are hardly likely to survive.

Hedgehog: Hmm. Here, here.

Weasel: I mean, if you wouldn't call that an emergency, what would you call it? Alice? [laughs]

Badger: Very funny.

Hedgehog: But if you don't mind my asking, what will having some assembly achieve?

Female Rabbit: What can we mere animals do?

Fox: I'm not sure yet. But I reckon that if you and me and Badger and Weasel can get every single member of our woodland community together, fast, then maybe one of us might come up with...

Female Rabbit: A solution?

Weasel: Clever clogs, clever clogs.

Female Rabbit: Fox is absolutely right, you know, everyone. One just can't panic. No, no, no. One really has to roll up one's fur and do something.

Badger and Weasel: Right.

[Female Rabbit crosses her arms and nods]

Fox: Course. Persuading our not all together harmonious population to attend such an assembly would not be what you'd call easy. However, I'm sure you'll sort it out, Badger.

Badger: Yes. What? Who? Me?

[Weasel nods]

Fox: Who better?

Badger: Why that's awfully descent of you, Fox, but...

Fox: I mean after all, you know everyone of us here about, don't you.

Weasel: Biggest busy body in the wood. [laughs]

Badger: Shut up, Weasel.

Fox: And everybody knows you. So...

Badger: Of course, Fox. Just leave all the um, arrangements to me. Hmm?

Fox: That's my badger. Knew I could rely on you.

[Fox walks away]

Badger: Well, don't just sit there differing as usual, Rabbit. Off you go and...

Female Rabbit: And... And... Don't panic.

Badger: And alert Hare of course.

[Female Rabbit hops away]

Badger: And as for you, Hedgehog, old chap. Just roll yourself up and roll yourself off and start looking for the Newts.

[Hedgehog bumps into Weasel]

Weasel: OW!

Hedgehog: Right you are, Badger. Sorry, Weasel.

Weasel: Ooooh.

Badger: Mole? Did you say Mole? Well, he'll soon come scurrying once he hears all the commotion.

[Mole is fast asleep underground. Weasel looks at Badger]

Weasel: What are you going to tell them, Badger?

Badger: Tell me? Why, tell everyone that we're to meet at my place.

Weasel: Your set?!

Badger: And what is wrong with my set, Weasel?

Weasel: Oh, nothing, Badger. Nothing at all. Only...

Badger: Get to the point, Weasel.

Weasel: Well, it's alright for you and me and the shrews and the field mice. We're creatures of the underground right? We're used to it. Only...

Badger: Only what?

Weasel: The birds aren't gonna like it very much are they, Badger? Imagine Owly. [laughs]

[Owl sits on her branch with her back turned]

Weasel: And Kestrel. They aren't gonna like it, are they?

Badger: Well, it won't be for long. And I'm sure they'll realize it's in a good cause.

Weasel: Okay.

Badger: Well don't just stand there, Weasel. Make yourself useful.

Weasel: Me?

Badger: Let's go and alert a few Voles.

[Two Voles pop out of a hole in the ground]

Badger: And so, Mrs Vole, Fox and I are agreed that the situation that we're experiencing is so severe as to merit a meeting.

Mrs Vole: What's he going on about?

Weasel: He's worried whether you're eating!

Badger: Oh, shut up. We're having a meeting! In my chambers!

[Mrs Vole climbs out of the hole]

Mrs Vole: I meet where I like.

Badger: A meeting at...

Weasel: Sunset.

[Weasel bounds away. As Badger walks off, he turn to look back at the Voles]

Badger: And please don't be late, Mrs Vole. And tell the others.

[Weasel is talking to a shrew]

Weasel: Bring your brothers!

Badger: And tell all the field mice!

Weasel: [to some squirrels] And tell all the shrews!

Squirrels: Okie-dokie!

[They bound across the branches to where Owl is perched]

Squirrels: Sunset!

[A shrew runs over to a dirt mount. Badger and Weasel walk through the wood]

Badger: Is there any one at all that we've forgotten, Weasel?

Weasel: [stopping] There is.

Badger: [stopping] Yes?

Weasel: Your friend and mine. [makes hisses]

Badger: Oh, yes.

[A field mouse runs away from an Adder chasing it. Weasel steps on her tail and Adder hisses at her]

Badger: Well, just make sure that you impress upon her that we haven't called this meeting so that she scourge herself on everyone present.

Weasel: You'll be lucky.

[The scene changes to the Tortuga flying through the sky]

Chris Kratt: That's it, Jimmy. This is a good height.

Ash Ketchum: So where are we going this time?

Connor Lacey: Well, Ash, we're heading towards a place called Farthing Wood.

Twilight Sparkle: Chris and Martin want to check out that place for new animals to make new animal powers.

Fluttershy: Oh, I can't wait to see all the animals in that wood. It's makes me so happy when I'm with animals. (sighs happily)

Mewtwo: You really love animals, don't you?

Fluttershy: Yes. I really do.

Lightning McQueen: And we like you for that. Rainbow Dash should have the credit for helping you find your ability to talks to animals thanks to her sonic rainboom.

Sonic: Someone mention my name?

Dusty Crophopper: He wasn't talking about you, Sonic.

Rainbow Dash: He's referring to my sonic rainboom which has your name in it.

Sonic: Oh, right.

Martin Kratt: I bet I'II be the first to spot that wood.

Chris Kratt: Oh, you're on.

Maisie Lockwood: How are you gonna find that wood?

Martin Kratt: You'II see.

[He search through his bag and pull out a stuffed owl]

Martin Kratt: Ha-ha!

Fireman Sam: Huh? How's a stuffed owl gonna help you find Farthing Wood?

Martin Kratt: They're actually owl binoculars. They'II help me find that little wood.

Chris Kratt: Not a chance. They don't call me Eagle Eyes for nothing.

Aviva Corcovado: There it is!

Kratt Bros: Huh?

Aviva Corcovado: Better luck next time, brothers. (giggles)

Chris Kratt: Wow!

[They look down and saw the wood below]

Miles: Whoa.

Serena: What a mess.

Applejack: What in tarnation happened here?

The Mask: I don't know.

Lightning McQueen: I think I might know what happened. Look.

[They see the construction vehicles nearby]

Dusty Crophopper: Holy smokes.

Fluttershy: Oh, my. Why would the humans do this to sweet little animals?

Koki: Well, sometimes they need new locations to make towns and homes. But some animal habitats are preserved and are not destroyed.

Fluttershy: Thank goodness. I was starting to worry.

Melody: We better land and see if the animals are okay.

Brock: Land the Tortuga here, Jimmy.

Jimmy Z: Heading down, nice and easy.

[The Tortuga lands in a clearing in Farthing Wood]

Twilight Sparkle: There. We're here.

Martin Kratt: In order to see if the animals are alright, we need to get to weasel size to make our search easier.

Connor Lacey: Good idea, Martin. Miniaturizer time.

[Martin pull out the Miniaturizer and flip it to the ground before the Irelanders get on it]

Irelanders: Miniaturize!

[They miniaturize down to the size of weasels]

Mewtwo: OK. Now that we're down to weasel size, let's go and find those animals.

Raven Queen: Okay.

[They head off. The scene changes to Badger's set where Weasel is approaching and peeks in]

Weasel: Now what are you doing, Badger?

Badger: Why, enlarging my set of course. We have a lot of woodlanders coming this evening you know, Weasel. So, make yourself useful.

Weasel: How, Badger?

Badger: Hmm? Why, by collecting a few glowworms of course.

[Weasel goes off to do so. The squirrels and the rabbits head over to Badger's set. Owl sits on a branch]

Owl: Yoo-hoo! Yoo-hoo!

Badger: Ah, sounds like someone's here already.

[He and Weasel go outside and find Owl]

Badger: Oh, somehow, I thought it might be you, Owl.

Owl: Surely, you're not expecting us to go down there, are you?

Badger: Yes.

Owl: Out of the question. Won't get me down there. (she turns away)

Weasel: Told you so.

[Owl turns around again]

Owl: He who dwells in the soil, himself becomes soiled. He who dwells in the light, shall find enlightenment.

Badger: Owl, I know I can rely on you to set an example. And I assure that my home is quite spotless.

Owl: Well, if you put it that way...

[She turns back around then flies down. The squirrels, the rabbits, the voles and the field mice are heading towards Badger's set. Owl waddles over to the entrance, looks at Badger and Weasel with a humph then waddles into the set]

Weasel: One down and...

[Badger nods. A pair of newts walk into the set. Kestrel flies through the sky. The squirrels run up to the set]

Badger: Hello, squirrels. Just follow the newts.

[The mice run along the ground. A vole tries to push a rabbit down the hole but it's stuck. The rabbits run down the set. Fox watches this from a slope and nods as the hares jump into the set]

Badger: Follow the field mice, hares!

[The hares do so. Fox nods again. Two pheasants arrive]

Pheasant: Not late, are we, Badger? Only, you know what the females are like. Take so long to get ready, eh?

Female Pheasant: It's always my fault!

Pheasant: Of course.

Badger: Now, are we all here?

[Adder slithers over to the set]

Adder: Not last, am I, Badger?

Badger: Well, someone's got to be, Adder. Just follow the glowworms and don't eat.

[Adder slithers in and turns back to look at Badger]

Adder: Shucks, I was looking forward to a few glowworms.

[The Irelanders arrive outside]

Connor Lacey: Hello.

Badger: Hmm?

[He turns to see the Irelanders behind him]

Badger: Who are you?

Connor Lacey: I'm Connor Lacey.

Twilight Sparkle: I'm Twilight Sparkle.

Fireman Sam: I'm Fireman Sam.

Maisie Lockwood: I'm Maisie Lockwood.

Lightning McQueen: I'm Lightning McQueen.

Dusty Crophopper: Dusty. Dusty Crophopper.

Brock: My name's Brock...and I'm a Pokemon breeder.

Misty: And I'm Misty. My specialty is water Pokemon.

Ash Ketchum: My name's Ash Ketchum...and I'm trying|to be a Pokemon master.

Pikachu: Pika!

Ash Ketchum Oh, yeah, and this is Pikachu.

Pikachu: Pikachu!

Irelanders: We're the Irelanders.

Badger: Well, it is jolly good to meet you all. Care to join our little assembly?

Chris Kratt: Assembly?

Violet Parr: Why? What happened?

James Jones: Does this has to do with Farthing Wood's destruction?

Badger: Yes. Follow me.

[They followed Badger into the set. Adder slithers up and hisses at a field mouse who runs and hides behind a squirrel. Owl perches herself on a branch and dusts herself off]

Badger: Now, listen everybody.

Weasel: Someone's missing.

Badger: Who?

Weasel: You know who.

[Mole appears from the wall]

Mole: Sorry. Sorry. Am I late for something Badger?

Badger: You're always late for everything, Mole.

[Everyone laughs while Mole crosses his arms. Badger gets onto a slope and stands]

Badger: Now, friends, Adder, Irelanders and fellow woodlanders.

Farthing Wood Animals: [all talking over each other]

Owl: Do get on with it!

Badger: You don't need me to underline the gravity of our situation.

Fox: We're all aware that since the giant earth movers moved in.

Badger: Life in Farthing Wood has become steadily more and more hazardous. For one and all.

[The stone which acts like a tombstone shakes and falls over, letting Toad out]

Toad: I'm still here!

Badger: First they devastated our habit. And now...

Kestrel: They've even filled in our pond. Filled in our pond.

Badger: Yet still we've hung in there.

Kestrel: Blooded but unbowed.

[Toad gets out of the hole and hops off]

Badger: But is there any way out from this dilemma?

Owl: Where indeed is the solution to our problems?

[Toad hops through the wood]

Toad: I'm coming. I'm coming.

Badger: I'm sure for example that no one here needs reminding that once upon a time, our Farthing Wood pond was home 47 indigenous toads.

[Toad hops on]

Badger: But where are they now? we ask ourselves. What's happened to the last?

Owl: Pompous puffed up Toad.

Serena: (hearing that) Well, that's so rude and insulting.

Badger: Who was always so...

Mole: Dear to us all.

Fluttershy: Oh, this is so horrible. An poor animal has been gone for who knows how long and is probably dead now. (sobs)

Dottie: There, there, Flutters.

Chris Kratt: It sure is hard for animals to survive when humans build towns in their habitats.

Martin Kratt: No kidding, bro.

Raven Queen: True.

[Then there's a cracking noise above them. Weasel and Mole look up and the ceiling cracks open and a green foot appears from the hole]

Badger: Hold on. Weasel, what's that?

Weasel: I am holding on. It appears to be...

Owl: Yes?

Weasel: A foot.

Bob Parr/Mr Incredible: Well, whose foot is it?

Chris Kratt: Better use my creature pod to see which animal has that foot.

[He's just about to scan the foot when Toad enters]

Toad: I'm here, Mateys. I'm coming.

[He drops to the floor]

Badger: Toad!

Fluttershy: You're okay!

Owl: Your powers of deduction are admirable, Badger!

Toad: [chuckles] Same old Owly.

Owl: Same old Toad!

Toad: Bet you never thought you would see me again, eh, mateys?

[Owl turns away]

Adder: We were so certain you'd snuffed it.

Rabbit: But where have you been?

Toad: Where haven't I been more like. Taken away against my will, weren't I? Captivated I were and took off in a jam jar. But the whole time I were away, I keep saying to myself "Toad, you must get home.". It was the thought of you lot that kept me going.

Adder: Fancy.

Fireman Sam: That's odd.

Ash Ketchum: What's odd, Sam?

Fireman Sam: That Toad was thinking about his friends while coming all the way back here.

Ash Ketchum: I'm not sure it's odd, Sam.

Pikachu: Pika.

Toad: Must get back to my mateys, I kept thinking. Must get back to my....

Mole: Pond?

Toad: Exactly.

[The Irelanders look at each other, nervously since Toad doesn't know that the pond has been filled in]

Badger: Speaking of which, I'm afraid...

Toad: What?

Owl: There's some rather bad news, Toad.

[Mole approaches Toad]

Mole: It's your poor pond, Toad. You see....

Owl: It's been filled in.

Toad: What?!

[He falls backwards]

Koki: Well, that's a shocker.

Owl: You see, Toad, you have to understand that there have been a great many changes. While you've been away...

Toad: But my pond!

Fox: Gone completely I'm afraid.

Toad: And the Newts' puddle?

[The newts hug each other and cry]

Toad: And the stream?

Fox: Just a muddy trickle. Which is why we've called this assembly, Toad.

Toad: (crying)

Owl: If we even get to hold this meeting.

Fluttershy: (to Toad sobbing) I'm so sorry.

Fox: You see, we've gotta face facts old son. As a community, we're all but finished here. Man and his machines have seen to that.

Toad: Don't talk to me about those machines! I know all about them!

Fox: In fact, it must be obvious to everyone here, that...

Owl: If we don't find a new watering hole within the next few days...

Fox: Then we're going to be in the very worse kind of distress, if you know what I mean.

[Everyone stares at Fox, knowing what he means]

Mater: Dadgum.

Chug: Their living chances are very slim.

Fluttershy: Those that mean (gulps) death?

Fox: Something like that, yellow Pegasus. Yes.

[Fluttershy's eyes welled up with tears]

Connor Lacey: There, there, Fluttershy.

Mole: Couldn't we try digging for water?

Owl: In earth as dry as a biscuit? Don't be silly, Mole.

[Mole looks down sadly. Fox looks at the birds]

Fox: What about you birds? You get about a bit, don't you? Got any idea of where we could go?

Pheasant: Not really, Fox. You see, being game birds, the wife and I don't venture out of the wood very much. All with the danger of being shot at you see.

Badger: Quite.

Maisie Lockwood: Oh, you poor things.

Toad: But I knows a place, that we could go to.

Owl: Who asked you?

Dilys Price: I wouldn't interrupt if I were you.

Brock: Besides, I think Toad may have the solution to your problem.

Toad: It's a great little place. A wonderful place.

Badger: Poor old Toad. Obviously rambling, poor fella.

Toad: Purpose built for animals like us.

Mole: Was it really, Toad?

Toad: They calls it White Deer Park, Molely.

Mole: White deer.

Toad: Tis a nature preserve.

Mole: Is it really?

Toad: It's a place where all wild creatures are protected by humans.

[Weasel laughs]

Apple White: It's not funny.

Owl: If such a place existed, I would know about it.

Chris Kratt: But you haven't been there so you don't.

Martin Kratt: Besides, we know that humans often build nature preserves for animals like you so that they can have a place to call home which it won't be destroyed by construction.

Mole: Did you come upon this Deer White place on your travels, Toad?

Toad: That I did, Molely. [chuckles]

Mole: Deer White Park, eh?

Badger: White Deer Park.

Tails: That sounds like a interesting place.

Owl: Never heard of either of them.

Toad: Well, I know it well. And nowhere's better I reckon.

Badger: Well, Fox, what do you think?

Fox: Have we any alternative?

Connor Lacey: I don't think so.

Badger: Quite. Then White Deer Park it is everyone.

Owl: What?!

Fox: All those in favor.

Animals: Aye.

Irelanders: Aye.

[Toad chuckles]

Badger: Well done, Toad.

Lucius Best/Frozone: Yep, clever little slimy guy.

Animals: Hooray!

Irelanders: Hooray!

[The rabbits and squirrels skip around while holding each other's paws]

Rabbit: We're going away, we're going away~

We're going to White Deer Park~

[Mole dances with Toad]

Mole: We're going away~

[The voles and shrews dance around Hare, holding each others' paws while Hedgehog dance with Squirrel]

Rabbit: We're going away, we're going away~

We're going to White Deer Park~

Weasel: We're not gonna stay~

[Mouse dances while Adder hisses]

Weasel: And it's all gonna be...~

Toad: A great lark~

Hare: Will you just hang on a minute you lot?

Squirrel: We're going away, we're going away~

We're going to White Deer Park~

Hare: Excuse me!

[Everyone stops dancing and looks at Hare]

Hare: Happens there's somebody else as like to be...

Fox: Hared?

Pheasant: Typical hare. Trust him to spoil things.

Pinkie Pie: Tell me about it. What a party pooper.

Badger: Well, Hare, what is it?

[Hare shoves Toad out of the way]

Rabbit: We're all ears, Hare.

Hare: Do I hear right or do I not hear right, that you are actually suggesting, Badger, that we travel to this here...

Animals: White Deer Park...

Hare: Together?!

Toad: Of course, Hare.

Badger: Naturally.

Jimmy Z: Wait, I think he has a point.

Hare: You mean, vegetarians like us alongside our natural enemies, the carnivores?!

[Kestrel and Owl look at each other]

Badger: Well...

Hare: You're expecting us to accept having a fox along with us and a thing with claws?!

Owl: Steady on, Hare!

Hare: And as for that slithery, slimy, sneaky snake...

Adder: Did someone mention moi?

Hare: It's eaten half our field mouse population already!

Adder: Yes. They're so tasty.

Hare: (referring to the Irelander human members) And you also expecting us to have humans coming along with us when they just tore our homes apart?!

Sarah Jones: What?! We had no part in that!

Connor Lacey: Besides, most humans like us actually likes animals and wants to see and being friendly to you.

Mole: Hare's got a point, Badger.

Badger: Which is easily overcome.

Vole: How, Badger?

Badger: By the reintroduction of the ancient woodland vow.

Hare: Well, what the heck's that when it's Toad?

Badger: My late father remembered it when those men first start cutting down our trees to build their little brick and glass boxes. It was called the Oath of Mutual Protection.

Animals: Oath of Mutual Protection?

Martin Kratt: Of course!

Applejack: Why didn't I think about that?

Finn McMissile: What are you all going on about?

Raven Queen: The Oath of Mutual Protection.

Connor Lacey: (to Badger, not knowing what the oath is) What is the Oath of Mutual Protection?

Badger: It is a promise not to...

Fox: Frighten...

Owl: Terrorizes, nor consume one another.

Adder: Not eat one another?! How's a snake supposed to survive?

Badger: Quite. So if you all please raise your right paw.

[Owl looks at herself, she doesn't have paws]

Badger: Or claw.

[Owl raises a wing]

Badger: And repeat after me "I, name of animal,".

Toad: I, name of animal.

Badger: No. I, Toad. Or...

[Baby Rabbit holds up his paw]

Baby Rabbit: I, Rabbit.

Badger: Yes.

Animals: [all saying their names at once]

Badger: To solemnly swear.

Animals: To solemnly swear.

Badger: Not to swallow anybody.

Adder: Not to swallow. [quietly to herself] Except when nobody's looking.

Badger: While on route to this place of Toad's. Toad will obviously be our guide on our journey.

Toad: And leader.

Badger: Just guide, I think, Toad.

[Toad looks annoyed]

Badger: But Toad is right. We will need a leader. Someone we can look up to. Someone cunning and courageous and eh....

Weasel:

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