The Trip to Panama - Enhanced Edition. Janosch

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       Music and Sounds: Oliver Niemeier

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The Trip

      Once upon a time, a little bear

       and a little tiger lived down by

       the riverside. Where you can see

       smoke rising into the air, beside

       the big tree.

       They had a boat too.

      They lived in a nice little house with

       a chimney.

       »How happy we are!« said Little Tiger.

       »We have all we could wish for, and

       we don’t have to be afraid of anything.

       That’s because we’re so strong, aren’t we,

       Bear?«

       »Yes« said Little Bear. »I’m as strong

       as a bear, and you’re as strong as a tiger.

       That should do.«

      Every day, Little Bear took his rod

       and went fishing and Little Tiger

       went out in the woods looking for

       mushrooms.

      Litte Bear cooked their dinner eyery day,

       because he was a very good cook.

      »Would you rather have the fish cooked

       with salt and pepper or lemon and onion,

       Mr Tiger?«

       »All of them!« said Little Tiger.

       »And I want the biggest helping!«

       After the fish they ate stewed mushrooms,

       and then they had bilberry jam and honey.

       They really did lead a very happy life in

       their nice little house down by the riverside.

       Until one day…

      … a crate came floating down the river.

       Little Bear fished it out of the water,

       sniffed it, and said, »Oooh…bananas!«

      The crate did smell of bananas. And what

       was that word written on it?

       »Pa-na-ma,« read Little Bear.

       »This crate comes from Panama, and

       Panama smells of bananas!

       Oh, Panama is the land of my dreams!«

       He ran home and told Little Tiger.

       He went on talking about Panama far

       into the night.

      »Everything is much nicer in Panama, you

       know,« he said.

       »Panama smells of bananas all over. Panama is

       the land of our dreams, Tiger. We must start

       for Panama first thing tomorrow, mustn’t we, «

       Tiger?

       «First thing tomorrow,« agreed Little Tiger.

       »Because we don’t have to be afraid of

       anything, do we, Bear? But we must take my

       stripy tiger duck with us.«

       Next morning they got up much earlier than

       usual.

       »If you don’t know your way,« said Little

       Bear, »the first thing you need is a signpost.«

       And he made a signpost out of the crate.

      »We must take my fishing rod too,

       because if you have a rod you can always

       catch fish, and if you can catch fish

       you needn’t go hungry…«

       »And if you needn’t go hungry,«

       said Little Tiger,