Word: wombat
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Wombat. Near Sydney, Australia, a captive wombat,* the property of one Timothy Sermon, was chained to a post for the entertainment of visitors to Timothy Sermon's ranch. A lanky, nervous creature, this sly marsupial† spent his days in a hopscotch circular gallop, his nights in forlorn and ridiculous nightmares, or wild nostalgic visions. Last week, Timothy Sermon found his wombat, covered with dirt and excrement, his thin sensitive nose pushed far into the yellow loam, a suicide...
...large, clumsy, borrowing animal, not totally unlike a pig, which weighs up 100 Ibs. The wombat of Mr. Sermon weighed 67 lbs. when dead...
...marsupial is an animal with a pouch for carrying young-opossum, kangaroo, wombat...