<p> Horton Hatches the Egg (Play performance) Mayzie: I’m tired and I’m bored from sitting just sitting here day after day. I’d take a vacation, fly off for a rest if I could find someone to stay on my nest.</p><p>Narrator: Then Horton the Elephant passed by her tree.</p><p>Mayzie: Hello! Would you like to sit on the egg in my nest?</p><p>Horton: Why, of all silly things! Me on your egg? Why, that doesn’t make sense.</p><p>Mayzie: I know you’re not small but I’m sure you can do it. No trouble at all.</p><p>Horton: I can’t!</p><p>Mayzie: Please!</p><p>Narrator: Begged the bird</p><p>Horton: Very well.</p><p>Narrator: Then carefully, Tenderly, Gently he crept up the trunk to the nest where the little egg slept. And he sat, and he sat, and he sat, and he sat. Mayzie was on vacation and decided she would never go back. </p><p>Horton: I’ll stay on this egg and I won’t let it freeze. I meant what I said and I said what I meant...An elephant’s faithful One hundred percent!”</p><p>Narrator: He was mocked by his friends and by all who could see. Everyone made fun of Horton in the tree. But Horton kept up hope. Horton: I meant what I said and I said what I meant...An elephant’s faithful –one hundred percent.</p><p>Narrator: Then finally, there let out the noisiest ear-splitting squeaks.</p><p>Horton: My egg, it’s hatching.</p><p>Narrator: But Mayzie had just happened to come along and said,</p><p>Mayzie: That’s my egg. You stole it from me.</p><p>Narrator: But all could see that this was no ordinary bird. It had ears, a tail, and a trunk just like Hortons. All the people shouted: An Elephant Bird! Yay!</p><p>Narrator: Horton was faithful, One Hundred Percent.</p>