One morning, in a far far away land called, LandThatsFarAway, a big big fat hippo slept upon its grass bedding in the early crack of dawn. This hippo's name was, Hippo Jr, he loved to jump and run, eat and sleep, and roll around in the wet grass.
"Wake up, wake up!" Cried Hippo's brother, Heppo.
Hippo groggily sat up, feeling fresh and as fat as ever. Hippo went outside, saying bye to his brother, and sat in the pond to begin his "after morning wake-up nap." He started to close his eyes when a big, bad, ferocious grass hopper landed on top of Hippo's pudgy nose.
"Well, hello there," Squeaked Hippo.
"Howdy do..." replied the grass hopper, "Ma name is Grass....Hopper Grass."
They sat there for a while, when, all of a sudden, Hopper wrapped Hippo with a large net and dragged him away with his surprising strength.
"Hep Hep!" Cried poor baby Hippo, although not loud enough, for the grass hopper dragged him into the depths of the safari... Unseen from the rest of the hippo colony. Now, Hippo was terribly scared! What was going to happen?...
To be continued....
