Mel Blanc credited as playing...
Animal • Small Hunter • Audience Member
- Narrator: So, poor Horton sat there the whole winter through, and then came the springtime with troubles anew. His friends gathered around, and they shouted with glee.
- Mouse: Look, Horton the Elephant's up in a tree!
- Narrator: They taunted, they teased him, they yelled.
- Various: How Absurd! Blimey, Horton the Elephant thinks he's a bird!
- Narrator: They laughed, and they laughed, and they all ran away. And Horton was lonely, he wanted to play, but he sat on the egg and continued to say...
- Horton: I meant what I said,
- [he makes his tears go back in]
- Horton: and I said what I meant.
- [he makes his tears go back in again]
- Horton: An elephant's faithful
- [he makes his tears go back in again]
- Horton: one-hundred percent.
- [he makes his tears go back in one last time]
- Narrator: But, while Horton sat there so faithful, so kind, three hunters came sneaking up softly behind.
- [They sneak up in the jungle with their elephant gun to make an aim at Horton]
- Narrator: He heard the men's footsteps, he turned with a start! A rifle was aiming right straight at his heart!
- [POV shot from the rifle clearly showing it aiming at his rear end]
- Narrator: Did he run? No, not Horton. He stayed on that nest, he held his head high and he threw out his chest, and looked at the hunters and he said, plain as day...
- Horton: Shoot if you must, but I won't run away!
- Narrator: But, the men didn't shoot, much to Horton's surprise, they lowered the gun, and they stared with wide eyes.
- Hunter #1: We'll take him away, why, he's terribly funny!
- Hunter #2: We'll sell him back home!
- Hunter #3: To a circus for money!
- Hunter #1: You're coming with us!
- Hunters: To join the big show!
- Narrator: But, Horton just answered...
- Horton: You can't make me go!
- Hunters: Oh, yes we can!
- Horton: Oh, no you can't!
- Hunters: Oh, yes we can!
- Horton: Oh, no you can't!
- Hunters: Oh, yes we can!
- Horton: Oh, no you can't! Oh, no!
- [the hunters carried Horton in a wagon while he's still sitting on the egg in the nest]
- Horton: Oh, yes they can.