("It was really worse than the real waits," Winnie explained. "It was like a million little glass stoppers being squeaked out of bottles—and they didn't seem to mind the time a bit.")
The Great Green Grasshopper's wife looked at Winnie quite severely.
"I asked you to play softly," she said; "you're drowning the whole band."
The First Note sent the Great Green Grasshopper's Wife's Hind Legs straight Up in the Air
"I can't play more softly than that," said Winnie.
"Well, there's only one thing to be done then," said the Great Green Grasshopper's wife. "I must hunt up the Skipjacks."
The Skipjacks are the little grasshoppers who live in the fields, and it takes quite a number of them to play a tune that you can hear.
He had Backed Out of His Hole a Little Way and Lifted up His Wing-covers