"Now what do you think it is?" asked the lion.
"I think it must be a coconut," said the little hare.
"Then I think you had better go and tell the other beasts," said the lion.
So the little hare told the other beasts that the earth was not falling in, after all. It was a coconut that was falling.
THE SHOE
(A man once left his shoe in the woods. The beasts found it.
They had never seen anything like it before, so they came together and began to talk about it.)
Bear. It must be the husk or the outside of some fruit.
All the Birds. O, just hear him!