The Three~Legged Tiger

By Rachael Anne Long

The fourth story in the Lost Forest series sees life in the forest being as unpredictable as ever...

Once there was a time when after breakfast there was nothing... Nothing except the stork being chased, nothing except a tiger falling from the sky, nothing except two tree monkeys discussing tea... Oh, a tiger falling from the sky?
"My name is Typhon-the-Tiger and I am the last of the great Greek tigers." And so begins not so much an adventure but a series of discoveries. Some are unsettling; at one point the stork is perturbed by the thought, of all things, zombie African bush squirrel babies! Others are quite deadly; what is the cause of wild and strange hypnotise? What happened in a certain valley in Peru and will it happen in the Lost Forest? What is the difference between High Tea and Afternoon Tea? And what does yak butter tea have to do with any of this?

Then there is the dragon...the stork tells Typhon to let him know when it's all sorted. Sorted how? Does the Sloth of Gloom know? What about the chess playing hyenas? But before all this, Typhon-the-Tiger smiled, “You must have done something very bad to have upset that many hippo and rhino beasts.” Yes, but who upset them?

Grumpy lions, unreliable griffon vultures, the Cape Vultures Aerobatic Team, a stripe-stripped zebra all mix and swirl together around the Typhon-the-Tiger, the Last of the Great Greek Tigers, the stork and the two tree monkeys and their quest to defeat the one known as... "a name that is spoken only in hushed whispers..."

How will it all end? Hopefully with a well-stocked larder, at least that is what the tree monkeys hope. But before then there is much, much to discover.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rachael Anne Long
• Release date: Apr 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310730757

Rachael Anne Long

Rachael Anne Long is the author of several ebooks, including the anarchic animal adventure series, The Lost Forest and the adult short story collection, First Person Singular. Rachael has previously worked for government departments and a national children’s charity. She lives in Somerset, England with her daughter and their orange rescue cat where she writes, bakes, eats cake and enjoys being herself.

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The Quite Unusual Tale of

The Three Legged Tiger

A tale from the Lost Forest

By Rachael Long

Copyright 2015 Rachael Long

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What is the Lost Forest?

Once, on the African savannah,

a group of trees decided to join together and form a wood.

Over many years the wood grew into a forest and even got itself a name...

However, the forest’s name soon became forgotten

and instead everyone called the forest,

The Lost Forest.

Inside the forest lived many different animals ~

this is the quite unusual tale of just one...

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The Quite Unusual Tale of

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Contents

Part One

Being where it all begins

The stork gets chased, a tiger falls from the sky,

Some spying goes on

and it all comes together to

form the beginning.

Part Two

The bit that only makes sense

after the beginning

Things happen…the tree monkeys discuss tea,

The tiger jumps off a branch,

rides a hippo and

discovers the forest has a dragon…

Part Three

Being the part sometime before

The Ending

The tree monkeys fall out of a tree,

team up with the tiger,

and come across a pack of

chess-playing hyenas.

Part Four

Being the part that comes

just before, and leads onto and into

The End

The sloth’s gloomy clearing is visited,

the dragon shows itself,

the tree monkeys get rescued and

someone leaves the forest quite quickly.

The Three Legged Tiger

Once there was a time when after breakfast there was nothing, saving that is, for a cup of coffee and a piece of cake, a biscuit or perhaps a bun at eleven o' clock. This was universally known to all those in-the-know, as elevenses. Then there was nothing. Nothing until lunchtime. This led to some quite serious problems, particularly for those arising after breakfast time but before lunchtime. For them, there was nothing to eat; nothing to fill the gaping, hungerous void of mid-morning. More so indeed if they were not observers of the 11.00 o' clock ritual of elevenses…

It is often said that for want of a missed breakfast and a far-too-off lunchtime, many a battle was lost, many a creative impulse undeveloped and many a love affair unrequited. La douleur exquise as the French were wont to mutter whilst their tumblies did go rumbly.

To remedy this crevice-like hole, Brunch was invented; a delightful portmanteau of breakfast and lunch and able to be partaken until as late as 3.00 pm. The world rejoiced! Especially the late sleepers. And so it is at brunch time that we venture into the Lost Forest, most likely on a Saturday...

The stork, self-appointed caretaker of the Lost Forest, was not having a particularly nice Saturday experience. He would have called it a bad day but having recently