A lumbering wombat came creeping out of his ground den. His short stumpy body forced a way through the underscrub, his longfood-foraging snout plowing through the sandy earth in search of his favorite roots. Suddenly he stopped, sniffed; his nostrilsdilated. He followed the strange new scent. Soon he came to the gully. He looked the children over, thoughtfully, not hungrily, for hewas a vegetarian, an eater of roots. His curiosity satisfied, he shambled away.
He went back looking for a __________.