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Where’s Wabbitson? | Sherlock Holmes Mystery | Stories for Kids · Dorktales Storytime | Stories for Kids Who Love Big Adventures

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_05: Hello, Dork Squad.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_05: I'm Jonathan Cormer, and you're listening to Dork Tales Storytime, the podcast for kids and their pop culture loving grown-ups.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's a beautiful day for a story, adventuring glory, new friends and old ones too.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's an excellent day to get swept away in a tale, so let us regale you!
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_06: Reg Jonathan, thank goodness you're home.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_05: Well, I'm home.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_05: Reg doesn't live here.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_05: Not technically.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, just because you nap on the couch enough to have your own pillow doesn't mean oh never mind.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_05: Sherlock Nettlesby! Uh, to what do we owe the pleasure of you at my door this afternoon?
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_05: It's not pleasant news, I'm afraid.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_05: Oh goodness.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_05: Another mystery, I presume.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_06: Precisely!
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_05: But this one hits too close to home.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_05: How close?
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, and where's your trusty companion, John Wabbitson?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_05: That's precisely what it is!
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_06: Wabbitson is missing.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_06: Oh no! Gas! And I'm simply frantic about it! I can't keep my thoughts straight, which you know is highly unusual for me.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_06: Inconceivable.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_06: I figured it would be best to ask you two for assistance.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_05: To take on the role of Co-Chief Gumshoes with you?
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_05: It'd be a dream.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_05: And uh we'd retrieve Wabbitson, of course.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_05: Yes.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_05: We'll help you however we can, Sherlock.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_05: How can we start?
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_05: Let's head back to my nest.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_05: I've got some fresh acorns to share for lunch, and uh we can start sniffing for clues.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_05: Well, lead us there, Sherlock.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_05: Let's get sniffin'.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_05: Great! Let's leap to the treetops! Wow, Sherlock! I didn't know you meant uh literally leaping that much.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_05: After this case, oh, my calves will certainly burn.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_05: You do really jump to it, Sherlock.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_05: What can I say?
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_05: I'm a squirrel! Leaping's in my nature.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_05: So wow, I guess I've never been in a squirrel's nest before.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_05: You know, I've seen some of them for my walks, but not the inside.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_05: It's real cozy.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, larger than one might assume.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_05: On the inside So, Sherlock, what's different here?
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_05: Is anything out of place?
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_05: We should turn over every leaf.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_05: Leaf, no leaf unturned.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_04: Nope, yep.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_04: This one, no, nothing on here.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_04: Nope, this nope, this nope, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, ah, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_04: Hold on, Reg.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go about this, uh methodically.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_05: Indeed, my usual tactic, Jonathan, but I just can't think straight with Wabbitson in danger.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_05: Well, we don't know that he is yet, Sherlock.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_05: I promise we'll find him.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_05: Now, you were on the right track, Reg, but leaving no leaf, or leafing no leaf, unturned in a squirrel's nest is a bit like counting sand on the beach.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_05: We'll be here for days.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_06: It would help if Wabiton were simply to return.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, I do miss him.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_06: He usually leaves a note.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_05: Something serious must be afoot.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_05: Well, we'll keep raking through all these clues.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_05: We don't have enough time or enough rakes! What if something terrible happened to Wabiton?
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_05: You keep mentioning this.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_05: Could something terrible have happened?
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_06: Well, if it did, I know exactly who's behind the nefarious act.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_06: Who?
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_06: James More Eel Arti.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_06: More Eel Artie?
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_06: Yes! My fishy nemesis.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_06: He's a rotten nut if ever I saw one.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_06: Always escaping in a plume of ink with his squiddy cronies.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_05: Well, More Eel Arti lives in the lake, right?
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_05: That's where his lair is, yes.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_05: But the leaves in your home, they're all dry.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_05: Very clever of More Eel Arti to bring a tarp.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_05: Well.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_06: Ah yes! Ah yes! That's precisely what it must have been, Reg.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_06: A tarp.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_06: Uh when he kidnapped Rabbitson!
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_05: The Slithering Fiend.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_05: Don't you think you're leaping?
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_05: We must leap into the lake and investigate.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, friends, let's just take a second to.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_06: You're right! I don't know where my head is today.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks, Reg.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_06: To the lake!
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, listen, friends.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_05: I know we're hot on the trail, but maybe cold and slimy on the trail when it comes to Morail Arti, Jonathan.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_06: A good one! Oh how can I laugh?
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_06: It's such a worrisome time as this.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_06: Wabbitson must be somewhere hungry as can be.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_06: Hungry?
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_06: He left all his carrots at my nest.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_06: He never goes anywhere without a bushel.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_06: A whole bushel?
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_05: And look, in the sand leading to the lake.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_05: A clue.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_05: What?
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_05: That line in the sand?
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_05: Precisely.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_05: Oh! It could have been drawn by Morael Arty's slithering henchman.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_05: They drew it.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_05: As they dragged him under the water.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_06: That's Morail Arty.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_06: How could you?
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_06: Gasp!
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_05: We solved it! Now, wait a minute.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, let's leap one more time.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_05: To the depths of the lake! Okay, I'm no swimmer, but I'm ready to do it for Wabitzin.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_05: Righto! Let's bring him back! Friends, stop! I fear you're leaping Precisely! To conclusions.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_05: Jonathan?
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_05: Whatever good you mean.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_05: Well, you said you thought it was More Ilarty, right, Sherlock?
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_05: Precisely.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_05: Righto.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_05: So who's that swimming towards us now?
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_03: Moreti! And my squid cronies.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_02: Squish and Squirt Squid Howl, Squid Howl, Squin Howl, Squin Howl.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_02: Squid How Squid How.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_02: Squid How Squid How.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_03: Squid Owl, Squid How, Squid How, Squid How What's This I Hear You're saying about Me, Nettles Bee?
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_06: Better not Be stirring Uny Trouble Give him Back Yes The Jing is Uh You've Got Wabbitsin What?
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_05: Absolutely not Though It would have been Hilarious To do So We've had a Lazy Sunday in the Reeds No Bunnies Here Just Us No Rabbits?
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_05: You didn't Kidnap Him How could I?
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_05: I'm Frankly Insulted You Th'd even World Your Side Kick That Much?
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_05: I couldn't Cass Toodles Squid House Squid House Squid How Squid How Squid How Squid How Squid How Wow He really just Left In a Cloud of Smoke Uh Squid Ink.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, That was Impressive.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_05: But it Doesn't Mean We Found Any Clues.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, Come Now.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_05: Some of our Leaps Were Helpful.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_05: We Foem Yes, And even Though We Didn't Find Any Carrots, We Dule Out More Ilati.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_05: That's a Start.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_05: But we Gotta Stop Leaping To Conclusion.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_05: I know it Feight In the M, But We need to Follow Real Evidence The Things We Can Touch, Smell, See, And Hear.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_05: I get it.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_05: We must go with things like the sand, the time of day, maybe even over here.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_05: I see some reeds I can look through.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, we can look at what's around us.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_05: Like the furry paw prints of Wabison!
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_04: I John Wabbison in the fur, that's me.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_05: But I thought you were missing! Kidnapped! And we just figured out it wasn't More Yolarte.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_05: Sherlock! Didn't you see my note?
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_05: No.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_06: You left a note?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yes.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_02: I left Sherlock a note.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_06: Well, I was just so worried.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_05: I must have blown off your desk as you blusted about, my friend.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_05: Or maybe after you whipped through my office announcing something about needing to go get tea poured?
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_05: Huh?
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_02: Oh Sherlock, you weren't listening.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_02: I said to you, in both the note and as I was leaving, see you in a few days.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to the seashore.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_05: Well, now I feel really silly.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_05: That's all right, mate.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_05: I uh egged you on.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_05: Leaping like a squirrel.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_05: Leaping to conclusions, as Jonathan kept saying.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_05: You heard me?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yes.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_05: But I think it was a lesson we needed to learn ourselves.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_05: No matter how much you tell it to us, we needed to have first paw experience in the pitfall of making assumptions.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_05: It could have ended dangerously.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_05: Sometimes it's really hard not to assume the worst and get lost in worry.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_05: So I understand.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_05: It was really smart to seek out your friends who could help you think things through.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_06: Yes, now that my mind is a little calmer, and I have my wits again, I can say we weren't really following the evidence.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_05: In fact, we were letting our anxiety make it up.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_05: To appear worse than it really was.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_05: And I've been safe in my aunt's home the entire time, knitting and eating cinnamon rolls.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_06: Now, I truly do feel silly.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_06: How do I avoid feeling that anxious when we're next apart, Wabbitzen?
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_05: First things first, remember to look for the notes I leave.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_06: Might I suggest a paperweight next time?
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_02: Aye, fair play, Sherlock.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_05: But also, you can start to recognize when your brain might be leaping a little too quickly into a scary place before it guides you to make frantic choices.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_05: And if it's too hard not to get lost in your worries, you already did the best thing you can possibly do.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_05: You asked for help.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you, friends, for your assistance today.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_05: You are truly excellent co-detectives.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_05: And we'll always be here to show you the evidence that sometimes worries are nettle they're cracked up to be.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, good one, Reg! Well, at least we didn't get to do a scuffle with More Larty.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that was a close one.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_06: Now that we've cracked the case, does anyone want to come back to my nest for some acorn soup?
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_06: No leaf investigation required.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_06: Oh yes.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_06: I do, I do! Can mine be carrot soup?
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_06: What did I tell you?
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_06: He loves those carrots! Good to have you back home, old chum!
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_05: This has been a John in character production.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_05: Today's story was written by Amy Thompson and edited by Molly Murphy.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_05: Special thanks to Eric O'Keefe from What If World, who voiced Sherlock Nettlesby.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_05: All other characters were performed by Jonathan Cormer.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_05: Sound recording and production by Jermaine Hamilton at Hamilton Studio Recordings.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_05: Reach out to us on Instagram or email us at DorkTaleStorytime at gmail.com.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_05: You can find links in the show notes.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_05: Now, go be the hero of your own story, and we'll see you next once upon a time.