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continually joked with Bird
that he probably did taste like chicken after all!
    It was now late summer and Emily was sitting
in the garden drawing when her daddy came to speak to her.
    “Little Em?” he said.
    “Yes daddy” replied Emily.
    “I am afraid that I have some bad news” he
said and Emily looked intently at him. “We are going to have to
move sweetheart. You see, the people that I work for have given me
a job somewhere else…..”
    Emily did not let him finish. She ran as fast
as she could into the jungle, crying. She knew what this meant.
    The hours passed as Emily sat at the base of
a very large tree. Goliath was the first to find her, when everyone
was getting worried about where she was.
    “Emily, what’s the matter?” he said.
    “Oh, Goliath! My daddy says that we are
moving away and I don’t know when I will see you all again!”
    “Well, I suppose that I knew this day would
come. Children get older, spiders get bigger” he nodded to Bes, who
had just joined them at the tree. “I know it’s hard, but you must
go with your family” he said.
    “But, you’re my family too” Emily said
through her tears.
    “You can come visit” said Bird. “We don’t
want you to go either, but Goliath is right, you should go with
your family.”
    “No he isn’t” Bes said angrily as she crawled
up Emily’s arm. “Don’t leave me, I need you” she cried.
    Emily sat there sadly, with her friends, and
she knew that she would soon have to leave her friends. “I promise,
I promise you all, that one day I will come back ,come back here
and we can all be together. Together again. I am so sorry. I will
miss you all terribly” and with that she ran back to the house,
crying.
     

     
    Finally, the day had arrived, the day of the
move. Rather appropriately, it was raining and all in all a
miserable day.
    The large removal van was being loaded up
with all their possessions and ‘Little Em’ knew that, in just a
short time, she would leave this place.
    She had asked her daddy earlier, what had
happened to Miss Perivale and was told that she had mysteriously
disappeared. All Emily had replied was “oh, how sad”, not really
meaning it at all.
    She hadn’t seen her friends all day, but she
was glad of this. She was going to find it very difficult to say
goodbye to Bird, Bes and Goliath. In fact, she was dreading it.
     
    The rain poured down as Emily walked slowly
to the car. Her daddy opened the back door and she climbed in, her
heart as heavy as a rock. The car began to pull off and make its
way down the dusty driveway, when suddenly Emily’s dad stopped
sharply.
    “Emily, I think there’s someone who wants to
say goodbye” he said.
    He opened the Emily’s door and pointed. “Over
there” he whispered.
    Emily looked to where her dad had pointed.
There, by the roadside, just under a sign, was Bes, Bird and
Goliath, all soaking wet, waiting to say their final goodbyes to
Emily.
    “This is hurting” said Bes as she crawled up
Emily’s arm. “Please come back soon”.
    Goliath sat there, with Bird on his back, who
for the first time ever, had nothing to say. He just raised his
little blue and green wing and waved as ‘Little Em’ got back into
the car and drove off.
    Her crying could be heard for a long time,
mingled with the rain. Then all was quiet. Goliath, Bes and Bird
just sat there, in the rain, not speaking, not moving.

Chapter
16 – Return to old friends
    (20 years later)
     
     
    The large white house had stood empty for a
great many years. Vines and bushes had started to cover much of it
and it no longer looked as splendid as it once had. The ‘For Sale’
sign had been covered over now with a ‘Sold’ sign and this was
nailed to the front porch.
    Bes had gotten much bigger and had made a
nice home for herself up in the rafters, not too far from where she
was born.
    Bird lived up in the roof space with his wife
and five children!
    Goliath came and went. Every few months he
would