HIS STORY

I think you may recall me telling about that time when there wasn't much to speak of at all. When Murdleigh had given up bashing and taking, soon after discovering that giving and smiling were 'nicer'. Well as with all wonderful and not so wonderful secrets it wasn't long before Murdleigh was out and about trying to convince everyone that his way was best. Now Gloog, Howk and Lester caught on to the giving and smiling very quickly, but since Marvin Ouk didn't really have anything to give and he was only able to smile with the left side of his face, a condition which surely came from falling face forward when getting bashed so many times, therefore Marvin never had more than half a feeling of 'nicer'.

It wasn't long before Gloog, Howk, Murdleigh and Lester realized that one could find 'nicer' rather boring and it wasn't all that comfortable just hanging and smiling. They tried smiling in different ways and positions, but it wasn't long before they ran out of ways to contort.

One day Murdleigh said to Gloog, Howk and Lester,"I wonder what it would be like if we went hunting and gathering all together?" They didn't really invite Marvin Ouk to come but he became a tag along. Once they were hunting and gathering they discovered that even though Marvin wasn't much good at hunting or gathering he was really good at carrying. This was important since it was long before uprights had begun to convince those who walked on all four to do their carrying for them.

Gloog, Howk, Murdleigh and Lester soon discovered that by hunting and gathering together, along with the carrying of Marvin, they had a lot more time to hang and smile at each other. One day with the coming of the day light, Murdleigh, for absolutely no reason at all, decided to make a / on the wall of his dwelling. This took a fair amount of time since he had to get a burnt pointed stick from the fire and then make one end a point so that he could make a perfect / and not one that looked /. It wasn't long before Murdleigh realized that every time he made /////////////////////////// the night light was biggest and brightest so he started putting a O between the // on those days so that soon his dwelling had long stings of //////O/////// patterns.

Murdleigh was very happy with his markings which were pretty much perfect except on those times when he,Gloog, Howk, Lester and Marvin Ouk wandered too far from their dwellings and were gone for many day and night lights. Murdleigh had shown the soft one who dwelt with him and brought the little things into the dwelling how to make the marks, but of course the soft one never could quite make them right and they came out looking / or ) or| or \ or (, and sometimes they would even look /. Murdleigh was able to overlook her obvious lack of talent, because besides making him feel 'nicer' for no reason at all, she also made him feel aaa and eee and iii and ooo and uuu and sometimes even yyy.

One day Murdleigh got weary of making // and an appropriate O and decided to try to draw some of the things that he Gloog, Howk, Lester and Marvin Ouk had hunted or gathered and carried during the last O///////////////////////////O.

One day while hanging with Gloog, Howk, Lester and Marvin, Murdleigh was asked what he was doing with all that messing up the walls of his dwelling and almost without thinking Murdleigh quickly replied that he was marking His Story.

In order to keep themselves status quoed with Murdleigh, it wasn't long before Gloog, Howk, Lester and even Marvin Ouk started making markings on their dwellings and keeping His Story on their walls. Actually Marvin Ouk seemed to have been made a little soft with all the bashing and falling he had done before the days of 'nicer', and so his markings were mostly / or ) or | or \ or ( , but sometimes they were even /. It wasn't long, however, that everyone agreed that Marvin's markings of what had been hunted or gathered looked very much like the real thing unlike those of Gloog, Howk, Murdleigh and Lester.

Since the status had once again been quoed, Murdleigh begin at times to feel a little 'unnicer'. He wondered for a long time how to unquo the status and finally decided to think on what he might be able to do during the next few O///////////////////////////O. After trying: reluk, guf, rabas, gules what sounded best to him were resolves and goals. Yes, he thought I will do some resolves and some goals. He was somewhat puzzled about whether one resolved to overcome bad things or resolved to do better things. He also wondered whether one set goals to overcome bad things or to do better things. In the end he decided it didn't really matter just so that he would be causing the quo of the status to change.

Although we will never be quite sure, but His Story goes that it was on the day when the O////////////////////////////O/////////////////////////////O///////////(//////////////////O////////////////////////////////O//////////////////////////////O//////////////|///////////////O/////////////////////////////////O//////////////////////////////////O///////////////////////////O///////////////////////////O////////////\)//////////////O////////////////////////////O//////////\|////////////////O started all over again.