'It's the most powerful torch
there is!' he said to Kipper.
He shone it at Big Owl.
He shone it at Hippo.
He shone it in Kipper's face.
'You should see it when it's
dark!' he said. 'It's REALLY good
when it's dark!'
He sat in Kipper's basket
and pulled the blanket over
his head.
Come on! We can make it dark
Under the blanket was one of
Kipper's storybooks.
'That's another thing!' said Tiger.
'You can read under the bed clothes
with a torch like this!'
'Deep in the middle of the
dark, dark wood, there lived a horrible,
horrendous, terrible, tremendous ... '
'That's it!' shouted Tiger, jumping up.
'We'll camp in the woods tonight!
It'll be really, REALLY dark in
the woods.'
'Shall I bring my
book?' said Kipper.
So they took the book and
some biscuits and they put up
their tent in the middle of the woods,
at the bottom of Big Hill.
But as it began to get dark
Tiger began to think that perhaps
it wasn't such a good idea after all.
“Come inside and have a
biscuit,' said Kipper. 'Do you
want Rabbit or
Big Owl?'
But Tiger didn’t reply. He waslooking nervously out of the door.
'Do you think there are any bears
in these woods?' he whispered.
No , I shouldn't think so,' said
Kipper. He began to read.
'Deep in the middle of the dark,
dark wood, there lived a horrible ... '
But Tiger wasn't ready. He asked
Kipper to sit next to the door, instead
of him. And when Kipper tried again
to read, Tiger got up and zipped the
door shut altogether.
No , I shouldn't think so,' said
Kipper. He began to read.
'Deep in the middle of the dark,
dark wood, there lived a horrible ... '
But Tiger wasn't ready. He asked
Kipper to sit next to the door, instead
of him. And when Kipper tried again
to read, Tiger got up and zipped the
door shut altogether.
But the third time Kipper tried
to read, from somewhere
outside the tent, there came the
most terrible, tremendous, horrible,
horrendous, “SCREECH”
Tiger said nothing.
'Let's go and look!' whispered
Kipper. So they crept out of the tent
and into the woods, shining Tiger's
torch ahead of them.
'I think it came from somewhere
near here,' said Kipper. The torch
beam lit up the enormous, grey
trunk of an old tree.
There in the middle was
a dark, dark hole.
Tiger said nothing.
'Let's go and look!' whispered
Kipper. So they crept out of the tent
and into the woods, shining Tiger's
torch ahead of them.
'I think it came from somewhere
near here,' said Kipper. The torch
beam lit up the enormous, grey
trunk of an old tree.
There in the middle was
a dark, dark hole.
