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72: Watership Down (1978)
Section 13: Efrafa
Scripted by Newell Fisher and John Ruths
72.2(1) Watership Down (1978)
Section 13: Efrafa
This section covers from 38 minutes 40 to 40 minutes 30 and the equivalent chapters from the book are Chapters 21 and 27.
After Fiver has made his statement about how humans will never rest until they have spoiled the Earth, we learn the little Holly tells us about his journey to WD.
He says he was trying to find them. That he wandered for days. He says that the "Efrafans" wouldn't let him go. That they ripped his ear.
In the book, Holly's ear is ripped as he escapes from the enraged rabbits of the Warren of the Snares. Fortunately they are not very good fighters, so he is able to get away.
Holly, who has been getting more animated, repeats that he tried to find them, as he collapses again.
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