Buncombe County Government, NC Library, 8 May 2012

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From YouTube: Summer Reading Program - Mountain Story Magic

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Buncombe County Public Library System's Summer Reading Program - Mountain Story Magic was held at the East Asheville Library. Join librarian Lauren Biehl as she tells a story about "The Rabbit Hole" and "The Story of the Turnip."

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All right well, thank you for listening to all of our story. So far, I have two more to tell you one that I'm going to tell you is called the rabbit hole, and this is told in the style that Heather forest tells this tale.

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Rabbit came home one night: oh, he saw 1,000 footprints in the dust in front of his home a hole in the ground, but what rabbit didn't know was that earlier in the day, while he was away a caterpillar had creeped and crawled along in the dust in front of his hole and left all those footprints, the caterpillar had crawled down into his whole way at the bottom. The caterpillar had discovered an echo that could make his voice loud and powerful.

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Indeed, the caterpillar practiced his new loud voice all day so that, when rabbit came home, Oh somebody's in my hole, I wonder who it could be rabbit, crept up to his hole, but not too close and said. Tell me tell me: I want to know who's in rabbits hole. Tell me tell me: I want to know who's in rabbit hole and that teeny tiny caterpillar picked up his teeny tiny head and said a.

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Monster I eat rabbits. Oh.

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No said rabbit, there's a monster in my hole, I'm going to get some help. Leopard Leopard come here, quick, there's a terrible monster in my hole. Oh he's got a thousand legs he's terrible he's horrible he's ugly and he eats rabbit it well. Leopard was asleep in the Sun on a rock and he lifted up his big spotted head and he said who a monster a real one. Did you see it well said rabbit not exactly, but he told me he was a monster. Well, that was good enough for leopard.

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So leopard and rabbit crept carefully up to rabbits hole, but not too close, and they said tell me tell me: I want to know who's in rabbit hole. Tell me tell me I want to know who's in rabbits hole and that teeny tiny caterpillar lifted up his teeny tiny head, and he said a.

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Monster I can lick the spots off of a leopards back. Oh.

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No said rabbit if he could lick the spots on the leopards back, he must have a tongue as sharp as a razor we're going to need more help. Leopard leopard come here, quick elephant, giraffe lion too there's a terrible monster in my hole. He's got a thousand legs a tongue as sharp as a razor he's, hideous he's horrible he's ugly and he eats rabbit.

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It's well elephant looked down her long, saggy, baggy trunk and she said a monster. Did you see it well said rabbit not exactly, but he told me he was a monster. Well, that was good enough for all the animals. They gathered around rabbits hole, but not too close, and they said.

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What did they say, you remember tell me, tell me I want to know who's in rabbits hole. Tell me tell me, I want to know who's in rabbit hole and that teeny tiny caterpillar picked up his teeny tiny head and he said a.

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Monster I eat elephants for dessert, I use the neck of a giraffe for a toothpick and I can chew the teeth of the lion like candy card. Oh.

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No said rabbit I'm, never ever ever, gonna be able to go home. Well at that very moment who should be walking through the forest, but frog frog took one look at all the big beasts of the jungle quaking and shaking with fear- and he said excuse me, but what is so frightening around here the lion stepped forward and said: scoot scat little frog. You are just a small creature and we have a big problem.

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There is a monster in the bottom of rabbits hole be gone and let the big beasts of the jungle see to this emergency, so Frog, hopped, past rabbits hole, but frog was curious and frog was the only one who was short enough to see down into rabbits hole to see who was in there when Frog looked and when frog saw who was in rabbits hole.

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He looked at the big beasts of the jungle and said: I think you have let your imaginations run away with you come out of that hole, you horrible monster, he cried and he fell on his green side laughing as out of the hole climbed the terrible horrible ferocious caterpillar had the end.

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Thank you, and my story goes like this.

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Once there was a grandpa who planted a turnip seed and it grew so big and so round that no one could pull it out. So grandpa asked grandma.

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Grandma hold on grandpa, they.

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Oh, but they could.

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So grandma asked father to help father pulled on grandma and grandma pulled on grandma.

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But they couldn't pull the turning, so father asked mother to help and murder.

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My father and father Ramon, grandma and.

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Grandma pulled on her Emma.

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But they could turn it out. So mother asked brother to help brother.

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Old on mother and mother, mother and.

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Pulled on grandma.

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And grandma pulled.

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On grandma ah there.

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Oh, but they could.

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So mother asked brother to help brother pulled on mother and mother, pulled on father and father.

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And grandma pulled on grandma.

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But they couldn't pull out so brother asked sister to help sister pulled on her mother and brother Mulan, mother and mother. For my father and father.

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And grandma and grandma Mangrum.

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But they could so sister asked the dog to help the dog hold on sensor and sister bull, not brother and brother pull.

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Mother and mother pulled on father.

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And father pulled on grandma and grandma pulled on grandma I.

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They could so who do you think the dog asked to help the cats very good. The Catalan.

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Dog and the dog, mom and sister and sister pulled on brother and brother pulled.

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On mother and mother and father and father Columba, Ranma and grandma.

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But they couldn't hold it so who did the cat asked to help? The mouse is very good, so the mouth on that and the cattle on the.

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The dog hold on sister and sister pulled.

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On brother and brother, fool on mother and mother, pulled on father and father, mother, grandma and grandma.

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And they finally pulled the turnip.

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So when they pulled the turnip out, it was so big and so round that grandpa.

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Fell on grandma and grandma fell on father and father fell.

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On mother and mother fell on brother and brother fell on sister and the sister fell on the dog and the dog velum cat and the cat fell on the most, not.

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But they all work to get.

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And that's the story of the furnace. Thank you for helping me tell that tale.

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