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Chapter 8
“Where’s Terry? Where have you put him?” demanded Drew.
“What happened to him?” Riley yelled. Mr Sandley looked confused.
“He was just here a minute ago. Where could he have gone?” Mr Sandley and the children
searched all through the house - in every room, under every cushion and behind every
curtain.
“Where could he be?” Riley sniffled. Drew suddenly pointed at an open window.
“He probably escaped out that way!”
They all ran around the back of the house. Luckily the children found Terry’s footsteps on the
dirt which they could follow. They tracked the faint trail all the way to the edge of a forest.
“The footsteps stop here.” sighed Riley.
“What do we do now?”
“We can’t give up now. We need to split up and look for him!” The children strode on
bravely through the forest, searching high and low for their beloved Tasmanian tiger. Minutes
turned to hours, and the children began to tire.
“It’s getting dark.”
“I want to go home.” The children collapsed onto the floor, feeling no more hope for their
impossible search.
“Terry is back, from the bush track. Clap, clap, clap…” Drew started singing softly.
“What did you eat Terry, what did you do?” sung Riley. The two looked hopefully at one
another.
“Did you eat bush tucker and dance with kangaroo’s?”