It was an easy going day in our happy little woodlands I recall, and an amazing sight it was.  The first competitor was a yellowish-white furred hare that always goes speeding around the woodlands.  His name is Rabbit.  Rabbit zipped by our second competitor one day, made a wager, and then there he was.  Our second competitor was the steady-paced green tortoise named Turtle.  His brown shell was no place to hide when Rabbit zoomed past, leaving him spinning.Turtle stuck up for himself and accepted Rabbit’s bet. 

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The unsettled desperate fog of the paved streets in the hot, breezy days of blinding sun and tortuous winds that would carve bruises into your arm, rose slightly when the last horrid day of inexplanatory conditions ceased to be.

In this universal time period of simmering temperatures and deadly potentials it made its devastating peak at exactly 6 o’clock P.M. the day before.  At this renouned time, the people of worn-out Sinrofe’ ducked under heated covers and hid in dark, cool closets as the smoldering fines of non-stop agony made their zigzagged way heavily towards the unsuspecting victims of Sinrofe’.

Only a handful of citizens remained after this unnecessary blow at Sinrofe’, all injured severely.  The blazing sunrise of Sinrofe’ gave global warming a scare.  The ash-filled fog still dissapating, citizens limped out to see the time of destruction finally at an end.

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Narrator: “First, an it like you, this house is a respected house;” (Measure For Measure, Act 2, Scene 1, lines 154-155) “Lives so in hope of early spring” (Henry IV, Part 2, Act 1, Scene 3, line 39) “Where in the purlieus of this forest stands.” (As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 3, Line 78) “You may as well use question with the wolf” (The Merchant Of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1, line 74)

Wolf: “And I, like one lost in a thorny wood, that is rent with the thorns seeking a way and straying from a way not knowing how to find the open air.” (Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, Scene 3, lines 190-193) “My wish shall show me the way to my will.” (Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2, line 326)

Hood: “I do remember well where I should be.” (Romeo & Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3, line 156) “See where it lies.” (Sonnett 137, line 3)

Wolf: “Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth.” (Sonnett 41, line 12) “Here is a path to’t.” (Cymberline, Act 3, Scene 6, line 18) “Go tread the path that thou shalt ne’er return.” (Richard III, Scene 1, Line 120) “But I bethink me what a weary way.” (Richard II, Act 2, Scene 3, line 8) “Shall make the way seem short as mine hath done.” (Richard II, Act 2, Scene 3, line 17)

Hood: “Which prove more short than waste and ruining?” (Sonnett 125, line 4) “But I’ll go in.” (King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4, line 29)

Narrator: “Deserve such pity of him as the wolf.” (Coriolanus, Act 4, Scene 6, line 141) “But tread the stranger paths of banishment.” (Richard II, Act 1, Scene 3, line 143) “And tread it under foot with ill contempt.” (Henry VI, Part 2, Act 5, Scene 1, line 211) “For there’s the house.” (The Comedy Of Errors, Act 3, Scene 1, line 142)

Hood’s Grandmother: “Here’s a knocking indeed!” (Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3, line 1) “Who’s there?” (Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3, line 18]

Wolf: “How shall I fashion me to wear a cloak?” (The Two Gentlemen Of Verona, Act 3, Scene 1, line 136) “Of Virtue for the name.” (All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 2, Scene 3, line 130)

Hood’s Grandmother: “Come in, come in.” (Trolius and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 2, line 59)
Narrator: “Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 6, line 15) “For when lenity and cruelty play.” (Henry V, Act 3, Scene 6, line 112) “Brought hither in the most unlucky hour.” (Titus Andronicus, Act 2, Scene 3, line 252) “Succeeds in unknown fate.” (Othello, Act 2, Scene 1, line 207)

Wolf: “Who knocks so loud at the door?” (Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 4, line 332)

Hood: “It is I” (Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 6, line 112)

Wolf: “Come your ways.” (Trollus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 2, line 44)
Hood: “Then lend your eye a terrible aspect.” (Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1, line 9)

Wolf: “It adds a precious seeing to the eye.” (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 4, Scene 3, line 342)

Hood: “A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear.” (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5, Scene 2, line 889)

Wolf: “The ear more quick the apprehension makes.” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, Act 3, Scene 2, line 182)

Hood: “That they’ll not show teeth in a way of smile.” (The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 1, line 57)

Wolf: “To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.” (Sonnett 1, line 14)

Narrator: “And there be souls must be saved.” (Othello, Act 2, Scene 3, line 99) “The ravenous wolf.” (Henry VI, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1, line 79) “Upon the pikes o’ the hunters.” (Cybeline, Act 5, Scene 3, line 44)