The Raven And The Cougar

By Gareth Davies

While confronting poachers in the forest, a Wildlife Officer is hit twice by a crossbow bolt and pinned to a tree. A giant grizzly comes down the path staring at her muttering about people on his land. Convinced the end has arrived and she is dreaming, a raven and a cougar appear and tell her they will save her life! Animals that talk? However, when they save her life she knows it was no dream!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gareth Davies
• Release date: Feb 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301511167

Gareth Davies

Gareth Davies, short story writer and novelist from the United Kingdom but based in Prague. Author of two novels, Maggie's Milkman and Extraordinary Rendition and a short story blog which is updated daily.

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The Raven And The Cougar

A short story for children

By Gareth Davies

Copyright 2004 Gareth Davies

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Brief Book Description:

While confronting poachers in the forest, a Wildlife Officer is hit twice by a crossbow bolt and pinned to a tree. A giant grizzly comes down the path staring at her muttering about people on his land. Convinced the end has arrived and that she is dreaming, a raven and a cougar arrive and tell her they will save her life! When they save her life she knows it was no dream!

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Table of Contents [toc]

Chapter 1 - Great Forest

Chapter 2 - Forest Rangers

Chapter 3 - Poachers!

Chapter 4 - Confrontation

Chapter 5 - Raven

Chapter 6 - Cougar

Chapter 7 - Pillar of Light

Chapter 8 – I dreamed a dream

Chapter 9 – A Friend Calls By

For information on the author, see about the author [toc].

Further information on the author can also be found at his blog address:

http://mypoemsandstories.com/?page_id=58

Chapter 1 - Great Forest [toc]

Just how old Big Tree is nobody knows. Her trunk is tenfold the girth of any other tree around; besides, all the other trees that make up the forest are her children anyway. All that the others know is that Big Tree has always been there at the center of the forest, taller, stronger and wiser than any other living thing on Earth. And that is also where one could find Raven, sitting on one of the lower branches of Big Tree, though sometimes they would see her at the top.

All the creatures round and about, including the rabbits, snakes, porcupines, bears, foxes, eagles and owls, especially the owls, think that Raven is almost as old as Big Tree herself and almost as wise for she had never been known not to be there with Big Tree. The other trees know that this isn't the case at all, of course, but in the manner of trees they say nothing!

Now, not many people know, but each tree shares its knowledge of something with all the other trees in the forest through their networking, which they do by using their extensive root system. What one tree knows the next knows also and so do the trees across the other