| Subject: Story of Samkin: Part five |
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Date Posted: 18:33:06 07/09/07 Mon
"Bob little hare. That's the best I could come up with. After that it's pool, but I can't see that in connection to 'Bob little hare."
Brondu encouraged Samkin. "Good work! I suggest you go play and exercize your mind. I'll see if I can come up with anything."
Samkin wandered off. Soon he came to find two hares swinging a rope for a young haremaid to skip. He could not resist tapping his footpaws to the infectious rhythm of what they were chanting.
"Down in the cellars where nobeast goes,
Littlebob hare went runnin'.
He ran an' ran an' followed his nose,
Where the rocks never let the sun in.
He got very tired and sat by a pool,
Then found out to his cost, sir,
That he was nought but a silly old fool,
Who'd gotten himself lost there.
'Oh, woe is me," cried Littlebob,
'Tis so dark an' unsightly.
I must find some way out o' here,
To where the sun shines brightly.'
So he climbed up to the coilin' snake,
All damp an' slippy feelin',
Then found beyond the big plum cake,
A hole right through the ceilin'.
He ran up through and chased the blue,
And made it home for tea, sir.
He beat the tide an' spinies to,
But his mama tanned his tailfur!"
It struck Samkin like a thunderbolt. "Of course! Not 'Bob little hare', but Littlebob Hare!" Then he was off, running down toward the cellars. Brondu came out of his study then and called after Samkin, "Ahoy, where're ye goin'?" Samkin shouted back over his shoulder, "To run in the cellars where nobeast goes, just like the rhyme says!"
Samkin slumped down against a wall, exhausted. He saw a small passage in the wall, barely significant, and climbed through. There was a pool in the center, casting a strange water pattern over the walls. Then Samkin noticed the shiny object in the pool. It reflected the light, and was not sinking because it was tied to a rope that was tied to a stalagmite. Samkin pulled the object out of the water and gasped. It was his father's armor, with the sword sheathed in a belt.
Brondu agreed to keep the armor here. Then he took Samkin and half the long patrol and set out for Redwall. When Samkin asked why they needed so many fighting hares to escort a Dibbun, Brondu merely laughed and replied as thus: "We're not just escorting you home, but we've got a war to win against this vermin leader attacking Redwall. Did you honestly think a war could be going on at Redwall in my knowledge and me not attack the vermin? The hares would leave with my permission or not!"
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