: In search of some water that Isn't so smeary.- - Good luck, boys,” he called. And: he sent them asl watched them all 90. 7 “-to the South! To the East! To the West! To the ” And: | biggered my money, which ‘everyone needs. ; when. that old nuisance Lorax came back. with more “4Once- ler’*-he cried with a cruffulous crdak, : “You! re glumping the pond where the Humming- ‘No :more can. they, hum, : for their gills are all ‘So I'm sending them off, ‘Oh, their future is deary. ’ THE HERALD, TERRACE. B.C. alm the’ Lorax who: speaks for ‘the: which. you seem to be. chopping ‘as fost as “you * please Pee : - Bot Um. also in charge of the Brown Bar-balools. _ who played in the shade: in their Bar-ba-loot suits. and. happily lived, eating Truffuta fruits. “NOW...thanks to your hacking my trees to the ‘ground, - “.there’s not enough Truffula fruit ta go ‘round. NEED "And: my: poor: Bar-ba- loots are all. getting . the ue ‘cruimmies |, |, _ because they have | “gas, ‘and no food, in their tummies! : : “They loved living here. But I can't let them stay. » They‘! have to find food. And | hope that they may. - “And: then | d got mad. got terribly mad. ~ 1 yelled at the Lorax, “Now listen here, Dad! All you dois yap-yap and say Bad! Bad! Bad! Bad! - _ Well, thave my rights, sir, and I’mtelling YOU - intend to goon doing just what Ido! . And, for. ‘your ‘information, you Lorax, I'm _ figgering. .on. biggering, biggering, BIGGERI NG, - BI. ' GGERING, . turning MORE Truffula Trees into Thneeds -‘which everyone, EVERYONE, EVERYONE » needs!" away.” 1, the Once: ler, felt’ sad wo ‘BUT... ‘Business is business! ‘And business must. grow ; rare regardless of crummies in jummies, you. know. | meantno harm, I most truly did not. we But | had to grow bigger. So bigger | got, T biggered my factory. I biggered my roads. ors | biggered my wagons. | blggeredthe loads. - "of the Thneeds | shipped out. | was shipping | them. ‘forth . And at that very moment, we heard a loud whack! “From outside in the fields came a sickening smack - ‘of an axe ona tree. Then we heard the tree fall. ~The very last Truffula Tree of them all! 5 *. Says: the Once-le Now: that you’re here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clar. _UNLESS : Someone ike you Northt.. oo I went right on biggering:. selling more Theeds. he Then again he came back! Iwas fixing some pipes gripes. ae “2Once- lert. You‘re making such smogulous smoke! My poor: Swomies- -Swaingi..why,: they: can’ notel 84: . No one can sing who has smog in his throat. “And 's0,"' said the Lorax, “(Please pardon my cough.) - they. cannot live here. So I'm sending them off. “Where will they 90...? ey es, | don't hopefully know, ee They ray have to fly for a month:..or a a year... ; to- escape from the smog. you" ve Smogged- “UP around here. cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get b better. “! Its not. "What's more," snapped the Lorax (his dander was up}, ‘Net me say a few words about Gluppity-Glupp. a Your machinery chugs on, day and night without , stop making what do you do'with this left-over goo..? 9. Now all that was left ‘neath the bad- -smelling ‘skye I'l show you. You dirty ¢ old Once-ler man, you! ., oA 9" Was my big empty factory... : oo ox" -*sthe Lorax... © -and: I, ; ‘in no 8, my uncles and aunts, every one; - all waved me good-bye, They jumped Into my cars” _and drove away under the smoke-smuggered stars. weet “$0... “Catch! calls the Once-ler, He'lets something fall. “Hs a Truffula Seed. 1's the last one of all! DBE 2 You're in charge of the last of the Troffula Seeds. “And -Truffula Treés are what everyone needs. “Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. . Give it clean water. And feeditfreshair.” “Growa forest. Protect it from axes that hack, “Then the Lorax. and: all of his friends - may. come: back." ae, pos The Lorax said nothing. Just gave. me a glance: ve just gave me a very sad, sad: backward glance. as he lifted himself by the seat of his pants... : And I'll never forget the grim look on his face ‘when. he heisted himself and: took leave of this. . place, | ee ~ through ahole in the smog, without leaving a trace : “And all that Lorax lefthere in this mess ; was asimall pile of rocks, with the one word... ». “UNLESS.” i Whatever that ‘meant, well, I. just couldn’ t g 55 That was iong, long ago. ; But-each day since -that.day ive sat here and. worried and ‘worried. away. " Fish hummed! gummed. They‘H walk.on their fins and get woefully weary , I hear things are |ust-as bad Up in Lake Erle.