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The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple
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The Odd Couple

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'The Odd Couple' tells the tale about a beautiful longhaired, fawn coloured Persian cat, who teams up with a tubby little jet black, smooth haired guinea pig when they escape from a Veterinary clinic and find their way into Hallowed Hallow.

Here they make a new life for themselves.

This is a tale of deep and lasting friendship bought about by personal needs.

It tells of the ways, and the things they did to overcome their worst handicaps, and shows, if those suffering any hardship join together and help each other to fix the difficult problems, the most unlikely of combinations can work together successfully.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 15, 2012
ISBN9780987106964
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    The Odd Couple - Marg Watt

    Tales from Hallowed Hollow

    The Odd Couple

    Written by

    Marg Watt

    Published by Moorna Publications at Smashwords

    Moorna Publications

    Text copyright © Marg Watt 2010

    Illustrations copyright © Jenny Finn 2010

    ISBN: 978-0-9871069-6-4

    The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted.

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any means or entity, including internet search engines or retailers, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying (except under statutory exceptions provisions of the Australian Copyright Act 1968), recording, scanning, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the prior written permission of Moorna Publications.

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    The Odd Couple

    Don’t worry Folic, we’ll be able to rest soon and perhaps find something nice to eat. Arabesque told the plump little guinea pig clinging tightly onto the long fur at the scruff of the back of her neck. He struggled to keep his balance as she made her way through the undergrowth.

    Anyone seeing the two animals together could be forgiven for finding the odd combination very strange, as the sight of a totally blind, glossy coated, jet black, short haired guinea pig riding on the back of a long haired, pale fawn Persian cat who had mere stumps of ears was very unusual indeed.

    These two however had become inseparable as Folic totally trusted, and wholly depended upon the cat to help him find his way when getting about.

    In turn Arabesque relied upon the guinea pig for his keen sense of hearing. She was all but totally deaf and could only hear certain pitches of sound, but as luck would have it, Folic’s squeaky, high pitched voice hit just the right level, making his help essential to her.

    Yes, indeed they were an odd couple to see together, but they had been through a great deal together since being placed into separate cages within the sterile confines of a testing laboratory, before they managed to escape by lucky accident.

    After arriving in the laboratory, Arabesque had had numerous kinds of creams, drops, lotions and potions forced into and around her ears during the months that followed.

    Folic had had his eyes continually filled with various kinds of creams and liquids since he had been placed into his cage a while before Arabesque’s arrival.

    The result of these unwanted attentions upon them both was that Folic had become blinded permanently.

    Arabesque had not only lost the greater part of her hearing range, but had also suffered serious chemical burns to her sensitive ears, which over time had caused ulcers and sores.

    Her ears had become so badly affected after a while it had been necessary for a vet to operate on her to remove the greater part of both of her ears, almost level with the top of her head.

    It was this operation that had resulted in giving this otherwise beautiful looking cat her now unusual appearance.

    After both animals had suffered in such terrible ways the people who ran the laboratory had decided that neither of them were suitable subjects for further use.

    They arranged for a local veterinary surgeon to collect them both from the laboratory to take them away to be humanely put to sleep.

    After collecting the two animals from the laboratory the vet returned to his surgery on the outskirts of town.

    He had

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