A Jerboa in the Gobi Desert
Baptist (Sha Tin Wai) Lui Ming Choi Primary School, Kwok King Hay Kennis, Fiction: Group 1
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his is the largest and beautiful desert in the world. It is a vast plain of sands and it is full
of mystery. In this higher power and forces of nature, there is a little creature trotting off
down the track, up the sand hill. This Jerboa is looking for a place to live in this summer.
She hops and hops, from the left to the right, keeps looking for a good burrow to raise her
babies.
Jerboa still tries to find a dwelling place. She keeps jumping around and digging hardly.
Then, she has a big smile on her face as she is digging deep down to the earth. When she plans to
settle down in her burrow, an old plate-tailed Gecko comes sliding off the sands. He sticks out his
tongue and decides to attack her. Jerboa is very clever and she notices that someone is behind her.
She bristles and shakes the dust from her body. She digs up all the sands and drops into the old
plate-tailed Gecko. Jerboa manages to scare the old Gecko away and she finally succeeds.
This summer, three little babies were born in the burrow. They are warm and damp. They
sleep together all the times. Jerboa is always happy when she goes back home. Every day Jerboa
looks at her children growing bigger and stronger. She is a wonderful mother to these three little
Jerboas in the Gobi Desert.
