[Allen Tice]

Here comes a lazy engineering student mongoose; its name is Rover. It's a stay-in-dorm mongoose. None of its relatives are geese. Rover isn't interested in anything but cucumber sandwiches for its lunch. Rover wonders why it's so long until lunch time today. Its next meal seems so far off, and its tummy is rumbling with mongoose rumbles. It's amazing how loud mongoose tummies can rumble when it's time for a cucumber sandwich. A smart young lady heard it. She had some cucumber sandwiches. They were hers, but she liked Rover, and she thought Rover needed one for lunch. So she took out a cucumber sandwich for it to eat. Rover ran up and bit into its crust. It's then that Rover's amazing laziness went away: Rover's student speed accelerated. Its small feet moved faster than hers did, and Rover ran away with that cucumber sandwich that had been hers but was now its sandwich. Rover the student mongoose was very happy and its tummy became very quiet. That's all the story.