How the Wombat came to dig by Caoimhe

How the Wombat came to dig

  By Caoimhe Deering

Long Long ago in the northern territory near Uluru lived a wombat . The wombat had no special talent . All the animals would tease him .

One day the wombat was walking through the bush  when he came across kookaburra . kookaburra was up in his favourite tree practicing his laughing. Wombat tried to stay low but he stepped on  a large brown stick and kookaburra saw him. Then kookaburra said  "so found your  ha ha ha special talent yet "  " Do you know when its gonna rain ha ha ha " . Right after that he fell out of his  big tree and said "I'm so thirsty "  ha ha ha ha.  

Kookaburra was not the only thirsty one all the animals were thirsty . the kangaroos the koalas the lorikeets and the possums were all dieing of thirst . They were nearly all dead . Late at night the wombat was just walking around the bush until he saw something like a shimmer on water .  he ran over as fast as he could and saw that it was water . he drank so so much water until he could drink no more . just as he walked away his foot sunk into the wet sand and he felt water. Suddenly his arms and legs went into a kind of trance and started digging.He didn't know what had come over him .Finally he stopped . He found another large pool of water . the wombat started digging again and again and again until he had 5 pools of water. Then he dug once more and saw he had made a nice burrow for him  to sleep in . Early that morning the wombat woke up and saw all the animals gazing over him . he didn't know what was happening. Then it hit him. the water . he was so happy with himself he had found his special talent . the wombat kept on digging for water and for burrows for him to sleep in.     

So that is how the wombat came to dig.