One day when 
came home from school, he found
a 
on the kitchen table. At first he ignored it and opened the 
.
He took out all he needed for his favourite 
, peanut
butter and coconut sandwiches. He made five. As he was eating,
he noticed that the seemed to be moving.
He quickly took out his 
and began to make notes. First
the
coiled itself up and straightened itself out again. Then it began
to inch across the table. tried to block it with his ,
but it jumped over the and landed on top of the counter.
was in a panic. He put things around the to trap it in one
spot, but it made itself flat and squidged under the things
had put around it. began to pick up the tea kettle,
but the saw what it was doing and leapt back onto
the table. watched in horror as the crawled
across the table and began to eat his !
tried yet agin to trap it, but the jumped over all his
traps and hopped onto the .
saw this and immediately thought of a plan. He opened the .
The
thought was trying to make a wall with his body,
so it crawled into the . made sure the
was inside, so he shut the and locked them tightly.
Just then his mom came in the door. ", what
is all this mess in here?" she said. "Nothing, Mom,"
said modestly. "It wasn't my fault. It all
started with something that was sitting on the table..."
