Cobb is a scarecrow with a pumpkin
for a head and lives in his own little cottage with a beautiful garden full of
flowers and vegetables. Before he lived in this cottage, he lived with the old
witch who had brought him to life with her magic. She also had a garden, but
was always having trouble with crows picking at her pumpkins. She loved making
pumpkin pies for her granddaughter, but it was always so troublesome to see how
many of her pumpkins had been eaten by those horrible crows.
So one
day she decided to make a scarecrow to deal with the little pests, but it sadly
didn’t help anything at all and the crows just kept coming back and ruining her
harvest. So she came up with a better plan. She sewed up another scarecrow and
picked one of her best-looking pumpkins from her garden to use as the head.
Then with a wave of her wand and the right magic words, Cobb was born.
She
figured that if a still, lifeless scarecrow wouldn’t work, then a living one ought
to do the trick; especially with how scary she made him. It wouldn’t be long
now until the crows would see him and lose all of their feathers trying to get
away from him, and finally she could harvest her pumpkins in peace. What she
didn’t expect, however, was for Cobb to refuse
to go out into the garden and scare all of the crows away.
Cobb,
despite his frightening appearance, turned out to be a very nice scarecrow and
he didn’t want to be mean and scare the crows, so instead he would just sit in
the garden and admire the flowers all day; and because he did that, the crows
would still come and just continue to eat the pumpkins again.
This
angered the witch, so she eventually kicked him out and left him on his own.
Cobb was anxious about living by himself at first, but it didn’t take him long
to see the bright side of things and start anew. So he found his cottage and
started planting his own garden, and he was living a happy life. That is, until
his garden started to get invaded by crows.
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