Once there was a pigeon named Cracker. Everyone called him Cracker, but he told them to call him Zulu the Mighty instead. Nobody listened to Cracker. People ignored his wish. This made Cracker very bitter. He'd walk around muttering to himself, "Nobody wants to call me Zulu the Mighty, well fine, I won't call anyone by their names either."
So he made up funny names for everyone. He called Jimmy the Crow "Flim-Flam," and Dimbo the Dove "Suckertash." Nobody really liked Cracker because of this.
Most of the time, Cracker would just fly off on his own, explore the forest on the edge of town. Everyone told Cracker this was a dangerous thing to do, but Cracker was not the type to listen, so he'd fly off anyway.
One day, Cracker was exploring the forest, shooting from tree to tree, when he heard a little sound come from below. It sounded a little like this:
Teetle-hee, teetle-hee.
"What's that?" Cracker thought. "Someone must be laughing at me. I'll show them to laugh at Zulu the Mighty."
So Cracker flew down and looked around on the ground. From beneath a pile of dead leaves, something was stirring, and the sound was coming from there:
Teetle-hee, teetle-hee.
Cracker went over to the pile and began to dig.
"So you think I'm funny, eh? I'll show you!"
He dug and dug till he saw that there was a little hole in the ground about as wide as his breast.
"Who's down there?" asked Cracker angrily.
"Teetle-hee, teetle-hee," was the only reply.
"That's it!" yelled Cracker. "You're asking for it!"
Cracker through his head, beak first, into the hole and started chomping, but alas! the hole was deeper that he had thought, and whatever was down there laughing, Cracker couldn't reach.
Cracker couldn't see in the dark, and he tried to pull his head back out of the hole, but he found that he was stuck. Then, OH NO! he heard a terrible noise:
PPPPPPPPFT...
A fart! And, oh, did it stink up that hole quick!
"Curse you!" shouted Cracker. "Tell me who you are, this instant!"
"I'm Stinky," said a creature with a high pitched voice. "The rabbit."
Cracker had heard this name before. Supposedly, a similar thing had happened to Cracker's uncle once.
"I've heard of yo," said Cracker. "Now help me out of here."
"Teetle-hee," said Stinky. "Answer this question right and I'll let you go free." (It seemed the rabbit was doing all of this solely for his enjoyment.)
Cracker agreed to Stinky's terms.
"OK," said the rabbit, "Who is the one with the sorrowful grin, the one who's tail goes a-spin, spin, spin? He looks at you once, and he makes you cry. He looks at you twice and he winks his eye?
Cracker thought.
"But that's just gibberish!" he said.
"It certainly is," said Stinky. "That was a fabulous guess. Now you can go free."
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