He returned to his bedroom and undressed slowly, frowning to himself. The sense of danger was acute as ever. He went to a drawer to get out a handkerchief, and suddenly stood stock still. There was an unfamiliar lump in the middle of the drawer.
He was _________.

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 __________.

Was it wrong to make the Cherokee move? The United States Supreme Court thought so in a decision in 1832. But PresidentAndrew Jackson ignored that decision. He ordered soldiers to force the Cherokee from their homeland. For the next decade, theU.S. Army forced the Cherokee and four other tribes—the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole—to relocate west of the Mississippi.
The Cherokee's homeland was _______.

Like other babies, he cut teeth. He learned to sit alone and to crawl. When he was a year old, he toddled about like otherone-year-olds. At two, he carried around sticks and stones like other two-year-olds. He threw balls and built towers of blocks and knocked them down.
He was _________.