The 'Hoobub and the Grinch': Northern Pass edition

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With apologies to the oft-parodied Dr. Seuss, who first wrote about the Grinch in a short (32-line) rhyming fable called "The Hoobub and the Grinch," published in Redbook magazine in 1955 (Marlon Brando on the cover of that issue, by the way.)

In the original, Seuss's Hoobub is enjoying the sun. A Grinch approaches, and asks the Hoobub what he'll pay for the string, given that the string is worth so much more than the sun. This Northern Pass edition differs slightly:

The Hoobub was sitting looking out at the trees

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