The Bird

A hermit, happily alone on an island, rejects the friendship of an uninvited bird and banishes him, only to miss him, while the bird has flown away to find his own friends, the animals and people from the Noah's ark. There were no animals or people on the island, so the hermit had it all to himself, the story opens. The hermit likes his solitude, but a dove lands and begins to--in the euphemism employed in the text--"splat" all over the place, including in the hermit's face. When the dove leaves, the hermit misses it; the bird returns, with Noah and the ark in tow. All the animals disembark and begin to cover the hermit's island with their own splat.