Legend Has It That Shrek Is Born

Once, while out hunting, the turkey ran into the deer. The deer asked the turkey how he hunted game. "I can kill anything I can get my beak on," said the turkey. Then the deer said, the homosapiens cherish our flesh and come into the woods to put our flesh on their tables. "Indeed," replied the turkey, "but they never get us all. We have safe haven here in Mr. Terry's Neighborhood."

Then the wise old crow said to the deer and turkey, "A ghostly buck will rise up to put a curse on the men and women who come to the woods seeking your flesh. They wear pumpkin suits so they don't shoot each other. They trample through the woods and make a mess everywhere they go. But the ghostly buck will have the final say on who survives and who doesn't."

This ghostly buck named Shrek, will become so famous, homosapiens will honor him in movies that other homosapiens will watch, said the crow. But being a ghostly buck, the old crow said, he will never fall to the zinging sticks or booming clubs the men and women in pumpkin suits carry to do their dirty deeds.

Even when the cold and blowing snow comes, the old crow said, Shrek will keep a watchful eye on Mr. Terry's Neighborhood. For legend has it that Shrek will live a thousand years and will never be destroyed by the men and women who trash the woods in Genocide Season.

And, the old crow said, Shrek will protect the gentle ones, who sneak through the frozen woods at night in Mr. Terry's Neighborhood. For even the gentle ones, the old crow said, will escape the zinging sticks and booming clubs of those who come here seeking the flesh.

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The end.