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    The Greatest Gift of All
    The Greatest Gift of All
    The Greatest Gift of All
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    The Greatest Gift of All

    By Marg Watt

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    The most unlikely of friendships ever is formed between a young badger, and an aging fox that is not approved of by the other badgers living in and around Hallowed Hollow and Saxby Wood.

    However, it sees the fox becoming the hero of the hour when most needed, and shows those who disapproved that you should never judge a book by only it's cover, or in this instance, a fox by his birthright.

    In this tale Marg Watt uses her unique story telling method of delivering a powerful message to people of all ages that none of us should turn away from another person just because they fail to meet our own, sometimes foolish pre-conceived expectations of how they should look and act.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoorna Publications
    Release dateJan 18, 2012
    ISBN9780987271501
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      The Greatest Gift of All - Marg Watt

      Tales from Hallowed Hollow

      The Greatest Gift of All

      Written by

      Marg Watt

      Moorna Publications

      Text copyright © Marg Watt 2010

      Illustrations copyright © Jenny Finn 2010

      ISBN: 978-0-9871069-4-0

      Published by Moorna Publications at Smashwords

      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.

      *****

      The summer season cycle that followed the spring season when young Cass, the badger dog pup was born, would long be remembered as being the year of the worst floods in living memory for humans. But for all the creatures living in and around the area of Hallowed Hollow and Saxby Wood, it would be remembered forever as the summer Quern, the aging dog fox, gave Cass the greatest gift of all.

      In doing so, Quern saved the young badger’s life while unintentionally ensuring his own name became a legion. This legion would be passed on from mouth to mouth, and beak to beak, throughout the animal kingdom forever. He would be regarded as the great hero of Hallowed Hollow.

      Cass was one of three badger pups, born during that early springtime, to Meako the sow badger, deep within her clan sett dug into one of the steeper parts of Wharley Brook’s bank among a small copse of trees.

      Of the two male, and one female badger pups born to Meako that year, Cass was the most adventurous, inquisitive and daring of them, even though they enjoyed all the many and varied experiences that most brothers and sisters do while growing up together.

      However, neither his brother, nor his sister took much notice of, or cared much about it, Cass loved the very sight of Wharley Brook.

      He was constantly thrilled by everything Wharley Brook offered in its constantly changing moods. It flowed quietly, almost gently at some of the open sections, and tumbled, tossed and foamed where the banks closed it in, while submerged rocks caused eddies and ever changing patterns to the surface waters.

      The brook’s ever changing patterns and shapes gripped his imagination, and the way the sun caught ripples of water, causing them to sparkle and dim, delighted and saddened him in turn.

      Even the ever-changing sound of the running waters of the brook also thrilled him as it changed at different points along its course. The more exciting sounds came from where the water tumbled over small waterfalls that had been created long before, when the soft earth had been washed away leaving large exposed rocks and boulders to become smoothed and worn.

      Cass found it exciting, almost frightening sometimes, when he thought about what may lie beneath the deeper sections of the brook where the water ran almost silently by, and only the sudden sounds of a jumping fish broke the quietness as it flopped back into the water again.

      Then there was the totally different sound of a large beetle, or flying bug, hitting the surface at high speed; only to

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