a problem and a change of plan...

when last we left the

roomontheleft

we had just found out that

little joe

had kept

Henri's navigating gadget

he told

 fu fu

that he had thought he could follow

Henri on it as the

traveller traveled

across the globe

on his way back

to Auntie's Beautiful English Country Garden

to find

his namesake

JOE

and no amount of explaining made

little joe understand the magnitude of his silliness

but how am I to know these things

said little joe

I am much too small to make the machine that knows all

tell me anything

no amount of me jumping up and down on the desk top makes the

machine show me anything

I am too small

well, you should have asked first

before you took something that is not yours

we would have explained it all to you

because the machine is not the only thing that knows

what is right and what is wrong

and

taking that which is not yours

is

wrong

fu fu read the note that Henri had left for her

and she knew that no matter what

Henri would keep his promise

and stay on his quest

but he would need a lot of help

to find his way back

across the big pond

to where

JOE

her slightly off course bun was

she looked at the image of

JOE

and his globe

and wondered what it was with male bunnies and 'ares

and

globes

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as she was wondering

the machine that sits on the desk top and hums

suddenly hummed a little louder

fu fu is so finely tuned in to its hums

she asked what it had found

and the thing that shows all

showed her

this

Henri 

 somewhere up a mountain

a mountian that is blue and very ridgey

he was not on 

an ocean

a sea

or even a big pond

he was up

when he should have been down

he was here

instead of there

and then it showed him next to this

a beautiful wonderful

waterfall

a message came in and it said

"'ello fu fu mon p'tite

I hope this finds you well

I am, how to say, superb

 and having a wonderful time

it is sooo verrry verrry beautiful here

where ever it is that I am

I have a funny tale to tell

it is not too tall so I will begin....

when I climbed into my bateau

and left you there so distraught and upset

I headed out over the big pond

that is not so big after all

a very strange and wonderful thing happened

a goose and his family were flying overhead

and they asked where I was going

 I told them

over the big pond to find my

third cousin, twice removed who was lost

and they asked if they could help and when I said oui...merci beaucoup...that would be very nice of you

the biggest goose swooped down and caught me in his beak and flew away with me

and my boat was carried by the second goose

and the third carried my bag

and the smallest

my fine hat with the colourful band

and they flew me here

to the top of these mountains

that are so blue and ridgey

 they could not hear me shouting

non non the other way

the other way to this way

and when I asked themif this was close to

Aunties English Country Garden

they said

don't know

whose Auntie?

I tried to explain but they were in a hurry to get to where they were going

and so I was left up here

wherever it is I am

I gathered up my things and started to walk

hoping I would see someone who could help me

but instead I found

this....

 a magnificent machine

that I can use to find my way

as soon as I can get my globe out

to plot the course

to Auntie

..............................

all that was heard in

theroomontheleft

was a

 teeny tiny little itsy bitsy

bunnie

groan

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^..^