艾玛遇见怪家伙 Elmer
Elmer, the patchwork elephant, had juststarted his morning walk when Tiger arrived.
“Elmer,” he said, “there’s a strangeraround and he’s acting very strangely. He jumps and falls over.”
“Stranger often act strangely : that’s whythey’re stranger,” said Elmer.
“Well I don’t think he’s happy,” said Tiger
Soon they came to a clearing. “This iswhere he usually jumps,” said Tiger.
“and falls over,” added Lion, “And here hecomes.” With huge bounces, into the clearing came a kangaroo. Then he stopped heisted,and fell over . He picked himself up and sobbed, “I’m a failure.”
“Not a happy chappy,” said Lion, “Let’stalk to him,” said Elmer
“Hello,” said Elmer, “What’s the matter?”
“Hello,” Kangaroo sniffed. “ I can’tjumped. When I try to, I fall over. We’re going to have a jumping competitionand I came here to practice, secretly . But it’s no use, I can’t jump
I’ll will be laughed at.”
“But you were jumping beautifully,” saidTiger. “Oh no, I was just bouncing along getting ready to jump….I’m a goodbouncer,” said Kangaroo and , to prove it, bounced higher than Giraffe whohappened to be passing, “Very impressive,” said Tiger.
“But when I think about jump I fall over.” SighedKangaroo.”This need some thought,” said Elmer “We’ll be back tomorrow”
On the way home, Lion said, “Elmer I know I’ma bit slow, but isn’t a bounce a kind of jump ?” “Yes, Lion,” said Elmer “ButKangaroo thinks that a jump is something more difficult, more important, Likesometimes if you think about going to sleep, you can’t
When you don’t think about it , you soondrop off.” “Lion doesn’t have that problem,” said Tiger, Elmer laughed and leftthem
The next morning, after talking to Lion andTiger, Elmer went to meet Kangaroo.
“Come on, Kangaroo,” he said. “Lion andTiger will be by the river.”
Elmer set off at a steady pace whileKangaroo bounced behind him, in front of him, around him and even over him.
At the river, they saw Lion and Tiger onthe other side, where Elmer had hold them to wait
“Drat !” said Elmer. “We’ll get four feetwet.”
Kangaroo laughed, and with an enormousbounce landed beside Lion and Tiger.
“Fantastic jump,” Said Tiger. “ You mean “bounce”,said Kangaroo. “I can’t jump.”
Lion chuckled. “ A bounce IS a jump.” “Lion’sright,” said Elmer. “Forget jumping, just
Bounce. Now, let’s go to that competition!”
Kangaroo led the way, delighted that hisnew friends were going with him. They arrived just as the competition began
After a while , Elmer said, “Come on,Kangaroo, it’s time you had a go.”
There was a roar of applause as a whileKangaroo made an enormous jump. “That will be hard to beat,” said Kangaroo.
Elmer whispered to Lion and Tiger. Theygrinned and went to stand just past the spot where the white kangaroo hadlanded. As Kangaroo was getting ready, Elmer said,
“Drat! We’ll get our feet wet,”
Kangaroo gave a laugh, and with an enormousbounce once again landed beside Lion and Tiger. That jump won the competition.
Later , Kangaroo thanked Elmer, Lion andTiger for their help. “You made me remember the river,” he said, “ I didn’tthink about jumping.”
When they were back home, Lion said, “Strangething, I felt that we were the…aah….”
“Strangers,” finished Tiger.
“Yes,” laughed Elmer, “And now we’re all…aah….”
“Friends!,” they laughed together
艾玛遇见怪家伙
早晨，花格子大象艾玛正要动身去散步，老虎来了，“艾玛” 他说，不知道从哪里来了个不认识的外乡家伙，一举一动样子怪怪的，他好好地蹦蹦跳着，又一下子倒在地上，“
“外乡家伙我们看不惯，会觉得他们一举一动样子怪怪的，”艾玛说。
“我觉得他看上去很不快活，”老虎说。
就在这时候，狮子来了，“你好，艾玛，你好 老虎。”他说.”艾玛，这儿来了个不认识的外乡家伙，他这个…这个…”
“蹦蹦跳.” 老虎说，“艾玛知道了“
“然后，他又…他又…”
“然后，他又倒在地上，“老虎把狮子的话接下去说完，”艾玛也知道了。“
“对， 还有，他看上去…这个.. “
“很不快活，“ 老虎说，艾玛也知道了，”
“我们去看看吧，”艾玛平心静气地说.
他们一起来到林子里一块空地上，“他一直在这里蹦蹦跳的，”老虎说。
“然后倒在地上，”狮子加上一句说，“瞧，他来了，”
一只袋鼠一大跳一大跳的跳到空地上来，接着他停下来，不知怎么办好，然后就倒在地上了，最后他看爬起来，哭鼻子说：“我没办法做到。”
“他很不快活。”狮子说。
“我们来跟他谈谈吧，”艾玛说。
“你好，袋鼠”艾玛说。“出什么事了？”
“你们好。”袋鼠吸吸鼻子说。“我没办法跳起来，我一跳就倒在地上，就要比赛跳了，我特地偷偷到这里来练跳，可是没有用，大家要笑话我的，”
“可你刚才不是跳得好好的吗？”老虎说。
“ 噢，不对，我刚才只是一路蹦蹦跳，做好跳的准备，蹦 我倒是个能手，”袋鼠说。这时候长颈鹿正好经过，他蹦的比长颈鹿还高，
“太棒了太棒了”老虎说。
“可是我一想到跳，我就倒在地上。”袋鼠叹着气说。
“这件事得想一想。”艾玛说，“我们明天再来。”
一路回家的时候，狮子问：“艾玛，我知道我有点笨，可蹦不就是跳码？”
“是的，狮子”艾玛说，“不过袋鼠认为跳是很难的事，很不得了的事，就像你有时候越想入睡越没法入睡那样，当你不去想它的时候，你很快就入睡了。”
“狮子从来没有这个问题。”老虎说。
艾玛哈哈笑着，离开了他们。
第二天早晨，艾玛跟狮子和老虎交代了几句以后，就去见袋鼠。
“来吧，怠忽，”他说，“狮子和老虎在河边等着呢，”
艾玛一步一步走，袋鼠蹦蹦跳着，一会儿在他后面，一会儿在他前面，一会儿在他身边，有时候还从他头上跳过去。
到了河边，他们看到狮子和老虎在河对岸，是艾玛叫他们等在那里的。
“见鬼！”艾玛说。“我们要湿脚了。”
袋鼠听了哈哈大笑，他狠狠一跳，就跳到了狮子和老虎身边。
“跳的真了不起！”老虎说。
“你是说 蹦 吧？袋鼠说，”我不会跳“
狮子咯咯笑，“蹦就是跳啊。”
“狮子说得对，”艾玛说，“你就别管什么跳不跳，蹦就是了，好了，现在让我们去参加比赛吧！”
袋鼠带路走，很高兴有几位新朋友陪着她去，他们到那里时，比赛正好开始。
过了一会儿，艾玛说。“去吧，袋鼠，现在轮到你上场了。”
这时候只听到掌声雷动，一直白袋鼠刚跳完，跳得好高。
“很难赢过他的，站在艾玛身边的袋鼠说。
艾玛对狮子和老虎说了两句悄悄话，他们做了个鬼脸，就走到比那只白袋鼠刚才落地的地方还要远的地方，
袋鼠正准备跳这会儿，艾玛说了声；“见鬼！我们要湿脚了。”
袋鼠哈哈大笑，又是一蹦，正好落在狮子和老虎身边，就是这一跳夺得了金牌。
袋鼠很感谢艾玛，狮子和老虎帮了他的忙，“你们让我想起了那条河。”他说。“我再也没想跳这回事”
一路回家的时候，狮子说。“我觉得真怪，我们原本是..是..”
“是不认识的“ 老虎把他的话说完。
“不错，”艾玛笑着说。“可现在我们全部是..是..”“是朋友！“ 他们一起哈哈大笑起来。
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