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much for her now. She broke
down in her daddy’s arms.
Bird and Bes looked at Emily’s dad
accusingly.
“I am so sorry. I didn’t know. I just saw
Emily and thought…..well, I thought that she was in danger” he
said.
Bird was very angry. He flew up to his face.
“The only danger here is you! I’ve a good mind to peck out your
eyeballs! Coming here like you own the place, waving sticks and
taking ‘Little Em’ away from us…..”. Bird’s words began to trail
off as he began to realize that ‘Little Em’ would soon be leaving
them to go home.
Just then a strange noise could be heard. Not
quite a snore, not quite anything else. They all turned to where
the noise was coming from, only to see Goliath sitting up. He
looked around, bemused.
“Now how on god’s green earth did I end up
over here?”
Emily rushed down and seized him up in her
hand. “Oh, Goliath, you’re okay! Thank goodness!” she said and
turned to her daddy, smiling. “Daddy, let me introduce my
friends….”
Chapter
14 - Miss Perivale’s lunch
Monica stumbled along the dusty road, moaning
and cursing to herself. It was hot today, she was unemployed,
hungry and in need of a bath.
“Isn’t it a beautiful day? Just out for a
stroll are we?” said a deep, well-spoken voice that came from
behind Miss Perivale.
Miss Perivale turned around slowly, to see a
large tiger sitting there, leisurely licking his paws. Her face was
a mask of complete horror and she immediately began to scream.
“Oh no, please spare me, not a screamer” said
Stripe, “I have had such a troublesome day already”.
He looked straight at Miss Perivale. “You
know, I don’t normally go for road-kill, and there seems hardly
enough meat really….. but needs must and all that”.
The tiger leapt at Monica and she let out a
terrified scream. The last thing she ever saw was a large mouth,
full of sharp teeth, closing around her face!
Chapter
15 – Farewells
Today was the best and worst day of ‘Little
Em’s’ life. She hadn’t realized just how much she had missed her
mummy and daddy.
All she had thought about the last few days
was getting Bes back safely to her family. But, unfortunately, that
was not to be.
And now, as she sat there and introduced her
friends to her dad, who had took this all surprisingly well, under
the circumstances. (Well, it was not every day that your daughter
introduced two talking spiders and a talking bird as her friends,
now was it?) Emily thought sadly to herself.
Emily’s dad however, if truth be known, was
in shock. He was overwhelmed by all that had gone on, but he was
happy, happy that his daughter was safe again. She was precious to
both him and her mother.
‘Little Em’ told her daddy about all that had
happened. About the stool, about feeding Bes’s mum, the accident,
the adventures, the capture by the monkey’s and Bes biting the
tiger! She finally got to the Orbs and how Goliath had asked them
to help to save her when she jumped into the river.
She looked around at her daddy and her
friends. Her dad looked positively pale and Goliath had tears in
his eyes.
“Oh Goliath, please come and live with us,
all of you. It’s alright isn’t it daddy? They can stay in the
house, under the house, anywhere. Oh, please say that they
can!”
“Of course they can all come and live with
us. They saved your life didn’t they? I could never thank them
enough.” said ‘Little Em’s daddy.
“Oh, thank you daddy” she cried “I love
you”.
The weeks went by and ‘Little Em’ and her
friends lived and played happily at the large white house with the
veranda, of which, Emily could now run around in just 33 seconds.
It took Goliath half an hour to complete the same lap!
Bird would come and go whenever he pleased
and Bes just got bigger and bigger. Much to the terror of Bird, who
could still not believe that she didn’t want to eat him. Bes,
however, found this quite amusing and