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Whimsical Fiction
The Problem With Phiddleberries
On the island of Phiddle
by Phineas Phiddlephaddle
On the island of Phiddle, there grows a berry so delicious that it caused considerable discord between the humans and birds who called Phiddle their home. This berry is known to all as the Phiddleberry, owing to the fact that it only grows on the island of Phiddle.
Birds and humans loved the berries so much that there were never enough to go around. Wild Phiddleberries were eaten off the bushes by birds before humans could harvest any. Humans resorted to growing Phiddleberries in greenhouses to get a sizable enough crop for making Phiddleberry Jam, a favorite of all Phiddle residents.
Well, the birds of Phiddle didn’t take kindly to this turn of events. Since birds have no farming skills to speak of, they were at the mercy of whatever the wild Phiddleberry bushes produced. Sadly, the bushes never seemed to produce enough berries to satisfy the birds’ yearnings.
One day Rebecca Wellington was carrying a basket of Phiddleberries from the greenhouse to the farmhouse when a hawk swooped down and snatched the basket from her hand and flew away. You can hardly blame the bird. Phiddleberries are that delicious. And being a bird, it is in their nature to swoop down and grab…
