One day, the Giraffe and the Zebra decided to leave the grassy fields. They went to live in a great forest filled with trees and bushes that cast stripy, speckly, patchy- blatchy shadows where they could hide. They lived there safely for many seasons, standing half in the shade and half in the sun. In fact, they stood for so long in the slippery-slidy shadows of the great forest that the Giraffe became spotted and the Zebra became striped. For a very long time they led beautiful lives in thespeckly-spickly, uneven shadows of the forest