0:23:50 > 0:23:57.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10I've got you some water.
0:24:10 > 0:24:17What you need to do is sip the water backwards... Oh, hello. I'm Sanjeev.
0:24:17 > 0:24:18Elephant has the hiccups.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23Tiger and I are trying to help with ideas of how to stop them.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28Sorry, what's that Zebra? Oh, you've got some ideas too.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32Because you've had the hiccups before. Yep, I remember that.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35In fact, why don't I tell everyone that story?
0:24:35 > 0:24:40It's by David McKee and it's called Zebra's Hiccups.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44The animals loved to play.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48"Come and play, Zebra," they called, "this is fun!"
0:24:48 > 0:24:51"No, thank you. I'm busy," Zebra answered.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54He was a very serious and dignified zebra.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57One day, Zebra got hiccups.
0:24:57 > 0:25:02"Oh my, how extremely inconvenient, hic!" he said to himself.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05"I shall simply, hic, ignore them and go out for a walk.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07"Perhaps they'll disappear."
0:25:07 > 0:25:11"Hi there, Zebra," said Tiger.
0:25:11 > 0:25:16"Good, hic, good morning, hic," said Zebra. "Hiccups?" said Tiger.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18"Don't worry - I know a cure.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22"Hold your breath, close your eyes, and say the alphabet backwards."
0:25:22 > 0:25:26"That sounds much too, hic, silly," said Zebra.
0:25:26 > 0:25:33"Yoo-hoo, Zebra!" called Miss Pig. "Come skating with me."
0:25:33 > 0:25:36"Good morning, Miss P... hic," said Zebra.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40"Hiccups?" asked Miss Pig. "I know a great cure.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43"Put your head between your knees
0:25:43 > 0:25:45"and drink a glass of water upside down."
0:25:45 > 0:25:49"No, hic, thank you," said Zebra.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52"That's far too, hic, undignified, for me."
0:25:52 > 0:25:56"Zebra's got hiccups," said Little Elephant.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00"When I get hiccups, I stand on one leg and go
0:26:00 > 0:26:05"'toodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-ooo' as long as I can."
0:26:05 > 0:26:08"Me too," grinned Big Elephant.
0:26:08 > 0:26:15"But definitely not me, hic," said Zebra. Next, Zebra met Crocodile.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18"Shoot baskets with me," said Crocodile.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22"No, thank you Croco... hic," said Zebra.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25"Oh, oh, who has hiccups?" said Crocodile.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28"Here's a sure-fire hiccety cure.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32"Stand on your head, hold the ball between your legs
0:26:32 > 0:26:36"and sing 'clickety-click' - works every time."
0:26:36 > 0:26:40"I'm sure," said Zebra, "hic."
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Then something strange began to happen.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47The hiccuping began to move Zebra's stripes.
0:26:47 > 0:26:52The more he hiccuped, the more his stripes bumped together.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57Zebra never noticed. It was Mrs Duck who told him.
0:26:57 > 0:27:03"Is that you, Zebra?" she said. "You do look strange."
0:27:03 > 0:27:08"You mean, hic, sound strange," said Zebra. "It's hiccups."
0:27:08 > 0:27:14"I mean you look strange. Look at yourself," said Mrs Duck.
0:27:14 > 0:27:19"Oh, no!" groaned Zebra. "Just look what has happened.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24"I look hic...diculous. My wonderful stripes!
0:27:24 > 0:27:28"I should have tried the cures," said Zebra.
0:27:28 > 0:27:33"Though, what was it that Tiger said? I can't remember, hic."
0:27:33 > 0:27:36He hurried back to find Tiger.
0:27:36 > 0:27:43At Tiger's, Zebra took a deep breath, closed his eyes and said,
0:27:43 > 0:27:47"Z-Y-X-V-W...oh, oh dear, hic,
0:27:47 > 0:27:52"I mean Z-Y-X-W-V-U-T, hic, R-S, no, no, S-R, hic."
0:27:52 > 0:27:56Tiger chuckled, and Zebra opened his eyes.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59"This will never work," he sighed.
0:27:59 > 0:28:05"I'm off to try Miss Pig's, hic. It's not funny, hic, you know."
0:28:05 > 0:28:09"I think it's very funny," said Tiger. "Wait for me."
0:28:09 > 0:28:13Miss Pig gave Zebra a glass of water and said,
0:28:13 > 0:28:18"Head between your knees and drink this upside down."
0:28:18 > 0:28:23Zebra sat and drank and coughed and spluttered and choked
0:28:23 > 0:28:27and finally...hiccuped. Hic!
0:28:27 > 0:28:31"Absolutely, hic, hopeless and very, hic, messy,"
0:28:31 > 0:28:33said Zebra with a little smile.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36"Let's try Elephant's cure."
0:28:36 > 0:28:39"I'll help you, Zebra," said Little Elephant.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41"Stand on one leg,
0:28:41 > 0:28:46"and 'toodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-ooo' for as long as you can."
0:28:46 > 0:28:53Zebra went, "Toodle-oodle, hic, toodle-oodle, hic, loodle-ooo,"
0:28:53 > 0:28:56until the others laughed. Zebra grinned.
0:28:56 > 0:28:59"Totally useless. Come on, hic, maybe, hic,
0:28:59 > 0:29:04"Crocodile's clickety cure can stop these hickety hiccups."
0:29:04 > 0:29:07"First, a headstand," said Crocodile.
0:29:07 > 0:29:11"Ball between your legs. Now sing."
0:29:11 > 0:29:14Zebra just laughed, and so did all the others.
0:29:14 > 0:29:19"It doesn't work if you laugh," giggled Crocodile.
0:29:19 > 0:29:23"I can't, hic, help, hic, it!" said Zebra
0:29:23 > 0:29:26and he fell over, still laughing.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29Mrs Duck came along to see what all the noise was about.
0:29:29 > 0:29:33"He can't 'hic' forever," she said.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37And keeping her voice low, so that Zebra wouldn't hear,
0:29:37 > 0:29:40she told the others what to do.
0:29:40 > 0:29:43Zebra was recovering from the laughing,
0:29:43 > 0:29:47when he was drenched by cold water.
0:29:47 > 0:29:51"Now, that's not funny," he said. "Not funny at all."
0:29:51 > 0:29:54There was not one hic.
0:29:54 > 0:29:59"The shock has worked. He is cured," said Mrs Duck.
0:29:59 > 0:30:02"Hooray!" shouted all the animals.
0:30:02 > 0:30:06"But I do feel strange without my stripes," said Zebra.
0:30:06 > 0:30:13The cold water made him shiver. And then, he sneezed a huge sneeze.
0:30:13 > 0:30:14"Aaa-choo!"
0:30:14 > 0:30:20The sneeze did the trick. It shook the stripes back into place.
0:30:20 > 0:30:25"Two cures in one," said Zebra. "Thank you, all!"
0:30:25 > 0:30:29"You've caught a chill," said Tiger, "and I know a great cure."
0:30:29 > 0:30:33"So do I, so do I!" the others all shouted together.
0:30:33 > 0:30:39"And so do I," laughed Zebra, as he waved goodbye to his friends.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42"I wonder what we'll play tomorrow," he thought,
0:30:42 > 0:30:49as he hurried home to a hot bath, a hot drink and a nice, warm bed.
0:30:49 > 0:30:53And that story was called Zebra's Hiccups.
0:30:53 > 0:30:57And it's time for you to hurry off to your nice, warm bed too,
0:30:57 > 0:31:03while Zebra, Tiger and me try to cure Elephant's hiccups.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07See you soon for another story. Night-night.
0:31:07 > 0:31:12You have to go backwards. Are you going to...? I'll help you.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15Right back. No, no, not with your trunk!