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Horton siting on the egg very proudly.Horton(c) Dr. Seuss
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I really like this book so let’s read. Now once in a jungle, there lived a strange bird named Mayzie. She was mean as could be, and she never seemed happy while up in her tree. Sighed Mayzie, this lazy bird hatching her egg I’m tired and I’m bored
And I’ve got kinks in my leg
From sitting, just sitting here day after day. It’s work! How I hate it!
I’d much rather play!
I’d take a vacation, fly off for a rest
If only I could find someone to stay on my nest!!
“If I could find somebody, I’d fly away – free – “ Then Horton, the Elephant, passed by her tree. “Hello!” called the lazy bird, smiling her best. “You’ve got nothing to do and I do need a rest. Would YOU like to sit on the egg in my nest?”
The elephant laughed. “Why, of all silly things! I haven’t got feathers and I haven’t got wings
“ME on your egg? Why, that doesn’t make sense ... Your egg is so small, ma’am, and I’m so immense!”
“Tut, tut,” answered Mayzie. “I know you’re not small But I’m sure you can do it. No trouble at all. Just sit on it softly. You’re gentle and kind. Come, be a good fellow. I know you won’t mind.”
“I can’t,” said the elephant.
“P-L-E-A-S-E!” begged the bird.
“I won’’t be gone long, sir. I give you my word.
I’ll hurry right back. Why, I’ll never be missed ....” “Very well,” said the elephant, “since you insist .... You want a vacation. Go fly off and take it.
I’ll sit on your egg and I’ll try not to break it.
I’ll stay and be faithful. I mean what I say.” “Toodle-oo!” sang out Mayzie and fluttered away.
“H-m-m-m .. the first thing to do,” murmured Horton, “Let’s see ....
The first thing to do is to prop up this tree
And make it much stronger. That has to be done Before I get on it. I must weight a ton.”
Then carefully, tenderly, gently he crept
Up the trunk to the nest where the little egg slept. Then Horton the elephant smiled. “Now that’s that… And he sat And he sat And he sat And he sat And he sat all that day, and he kept the egg warm .... And he sat all that night through a horrible storm. It poured and it lightninged! It thundered! It rumbled! “This isn’t much fun,” The poor elephant grumbled
“I wish she’d come back ‘cause I’m cold and I’m wet. I hope that that Mayzie bird doesn’t forget.”
But Mayzie, by this time, was far beyond reach, Enjoying the sunshine way off in Palm Beach, And having such fun, such a wonderful rest, she decided she’d NEVER go back to her nest!
So Horton kept sitting there, day after day.
And soon it was Autumn. The leaves blew away. And then came the Winter ... the snow and the sleet! And the icicles hung
From his trunk and his feet.
But Horton kept sitting, and said with a sneeze,
“I’ll stay on this egg and I won’t let it freeze.” I meant what I said and I said what I meant an elephant's faithful 100 percent.
So poor Horton sat there the whole winter through ... And then came the springtime with troubles anew!
His friends gathered round and they shouted with glee. “Hey look! Horton the Elephant’s up in a tree!”
They taunted. They teased him. They yelled, “How absurd!” “Old Horton the Elephant thinks he’s a bird!”
They laughed and they laughed. Then they all ran away. And Horton was lonely. He wanted to play.
But he sat on the egg and boldly would say, I meant what I said and I said what I meant an elephant's faithful 100 percent.
“No matter WHAT happens, this egg must be tended!” Yet poor Horton’s troubles were far, far from ended.
For, while Horton sat there so faithful, so kind, Three hunters came sneaking up softly behind! He heard the men's footstep's then he turned with a start and 3 rifles were aiming right straight at his heart Did he run? No he did not! HORTON STAYED ON THAT NEST! He held his head high And he threw out his chest And he looked at the hunters As much as to say: “Shoot if you must But I won’t run away! I meant what I said And I said what I meant… An elephant’s faithful One hundred per cent! But the men didn’t shoot! Much to Horton’s surprise They dropped their three guns And they stared with wide eyes! “Look!” they all shouted, “Can such a thing be? An elephant sitting on top of a tree... it's strange, it's amazing and it's wonderful no don't shoot him we'll catch him that's just what we'll do.”
Let’s take him alive. Why, he’s terribly funny! We’ll sell him back home, to a circus for money!”
And the first thing he knew, they had built a big wagon With ropes on the front for the pullers to drag on.
They dug up his tree and they put it inside,
With Horton so sad that he practically cried.
“We’re off!” the men shouted. And off they all went With Horton unhappy, one hundred per cent.
"Up out of the jungle! Up into the sky! Up over the mountains ten thousand feet high! Then down, down the mountains And down to the sea Went the cart with the elephant, Egg, nest and tree… 10. Then out of the wagon And onto a ship! Out over the ocean… And ooh, what a trip! Rolling and tossing and splashed with the spray! And Horton said, day after day after day, “I meant what I said And I said what I meant… But oh, am I seasick! One hundred per cent!”
After bobbing around for two weeks like a cork, They landed at last in the town of New York. All ashore!” the men shouted, And down with a lurch Went Horton the Elephant Still on his perch, Tied onto a board that could just scarcely hold him… Bump! Horton landed! And then the men sold him!
Sold to a circus! Then week after week
They showed him to the people at ten cents a peek. They took him to Boston, to Kalamazoo,
Chicago, Weehawken and Washington, too; To Dayton, Ohio; St. Paul, Minnesota; To Wichita, Kansas; to Drake, North Dakota.
And everywhere thousands of folks were flocked to see And laugh at the elephant up in a tree. Poor Horton grew sadder the farther he went, But he said as he sat in the hot noisy tent: “I meant what I said, and I said what I meant… An elephant’s faithful—one hundred per cent!”
Then ... ONE DAY the circus show happened to reach A town way down south, not so far from Palm Beach. And dawdling along way up high in the sky,
Who (of all people!) should chance to fly by
But that old good-for-nothing bird, runaway Mayzie! Still on vacation and still just as lazy. And, spying the flags and the tents just below, She sang out, “What fun! Why, I’ll go to the show!”
And she swooped from the clouds through an open tent door ... “Good gracious!” gasped Mayzie, “I’ve seen YOU before!”
Poor Horton looked up with his face white as chalk!
He started to speak, but before he could talk ...
There rang out the noisiest ear-splitting squeaks
From the egg that he’d sat on for fifty-one weeks!
A thumping! A bumping! A wild alive scratching!
“My egg!” shouted Horton. “MY EGG! WHY, IT’S HATCHING!”
“But it’s MINE!” screamed the bird, when she heard the egg crack. (The work was all done. Now she wanted it back.) “It’s my egg!” she sputtered. “You stole it from me! Get off my nest and get out of my tree!”
Poor Horton backed down With a sad, heavy heart ....
But at that very instant, the egg burst apart!
And out of the pieces of red and white shell,
From the egg that he’d sat on so long and so well,
Horton the Elephant saw something whizz!
IT HAD EARS A TAIL AND A TRUNK JUST LIKE HIS!
And the people came shouting, “What’s all this about ...?” They looked! And they stared with their eyes popping out! “My goodness! My gracious!” they shouted. “MY WORD! It’s something brand new!
IT’S AN ELEPHANT-BIRD!! then they cheered and they cheered and they cheered more and more. They’d never seen anything like it before! Then the elephant bird perched on Horton's proud head and he opened his mouth. And do you know what he said? He said eeeeaaaaakkkkkkkkkkk which an elephant birds language means daddy. And it should be, it should be, it should be like that! Because Horton was faithful! He sat and he sat!
He meant what he said
And he said what he meant...”
...And they sent him home Happy,
One hundred per cent!
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Yeah, so maybe make a blue sky studios film about this film!
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Nice picture!
BTW, Did you know that "Horton Hatches an Egg" is NOT a sequal to "Horton Hears A Who", but a prequal?
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you are speaking book wise, but with themeusical seussical hortons clover is taken then thrown into a great patch of clovers Mayzie LaBird comes and asks horton to watch the egg wile she goes on vacation and he says ok, she ditches him he sits on the egg then hunters come and take him the egg and the nest ti NewYork where he is auctioned off to the circus, 7 weeks after that he is still incubating the egg andthen Gertrude McFuzz finds him and gives him his clover that she found and then after a court scene and jojo yells yopp the egg hatches and gertrude and horton decide to raicethe baby together.
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Well, in fact, Yes. HHtE is the first story about Horton and his adventures. Then, HHaW starts after... I don't know... "so many many days?"
Actually, HHtE is the "non-sequel sequel" of the movie. Is so confuse, but it works... I think.
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THIS. IS. AWESOME!
Horton looks great, and it makes me all the more excited for the upcoming sequel. Much yay and w00tness!
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I've certainly heard rumors around the internet about a possible sequel. Of course, I think Morton might become a potential "life partner" for Horton (mainley because the elephantbird Horton hatches is also named Morton); its all a set-up.
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Unless Maisy, the egg's mother, doesn't turn out to be so rotten like she was in the book...
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That is a possibility; if they can make Rudy into more than just a clone of his mother, anything is possible.
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OMG did you know that Blue Sky is making this one a movie too!! 8D Im sOO excited, im just sad teh Whos wont be in it
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LOL I love his face 
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HE'S GONNA BE A DADDY~!!!!!! LoL I just literly said that. XD
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Ah! I remember this cartoon!
Haha, he certainly does look proud.
Nice job on the Seuss style
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Again, wonderfully cute picture. 
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Oh my god, he looks so happy and proud, it's adorable.
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I LOVE THIS BOOK! Even now, I still read it sometimes! This is such a sweet picture!
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i saw that!! well i should have ead it but i couldnt find the book
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Ooo, did you know that they are making a Horton movie sequel?^^ Its called, "Horton Hatches the Egg" it planned to come out in 2010!
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"Im kinda pretty and pretty damn smart. I like romantic things like music and art! And as you know i have a gigantic heart, so why.....DON'T I HAVE A BOYFRIEND!?!?FUCK!It sucks to be me!"
-Avenue Q
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I knew it!! I knew there were already set for a sequel!! I could tell the moment Horton said his line from the other book in-film: "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one-hundred percent." I SO cannot wait. *jumps up and down with unbridled glee*
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Yeah I know^^
But I'm woundering how there going to pull it off in the book Horton never leaves that nest.
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Yes! That's the concept! That's the ----- concept!!!!!!!! (word censored with "-")
The planned movie-sequel will be showed in 2010?
OMG I can't wait! If HHaW is awesome, HHtE will be MUCH MORE awesome
Man, this image will be going to my top-favs!!!
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how come you used a censored sware word
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omg that poor egg ....... lol silly horton ......
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oh,i remember that in a book my grandma gave to me.
never noticed it was horton
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I loved that story!!! I felt so bad for Horton when the hunters decided to take him to a circus to be displayed! How embarassing! Oh well, at least he was faithful all the way, and he looks so proud in this picture so nothing bad has happend yet. Great job! Keep up the great work!
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At lest the hunters didn't shoot him that was lucky^^
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Heh, cute and amusing! 
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