Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-20
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DT f1ARY GDAHAM R0NNED
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MORE ABOUT MoLES.

I'VE do lead very interesting life"
said Mr.. Mole.
Except when we're asleep" said
Mrs. Mole.
| 1T is more interesting to sleep in
the winter than to do anything else,
II that is what you are thinking of"
said Mr. Mole.
THAT is So but it's not very inter-
esting to other people," said Mrs. Mole.
Il wasn't thinking of other people"
said Mr.. Mole. "That is always such
a waste of time. They don't think
much of US, so why should we think
much OF them?''
''People very, very seldom sit down
and say:
Now We'll have delightful after
noon discussing the Mole family No,
they don't think much of US. So I am
not going to compliment them by
/ thinking too much of them.
Besides their ways are not our
ways. Do people build tunnels for
themselves?"
"They have tunnels for their trains
anu Iney go III lne lralnS, Del1eNe,
said Mrs. Mole.
"Oh, well, that may be-" said Mr..
Mole. But they don't know enough
to live in the tunnels most of the time
as we do. We do come above the
ground, but goodness! underneath is
so much more interesting. And the
rents aren't so high"
"Rents are or rents is or rents shall
be- began Mr.. Mole. "Rents are, I
think, will be best,'' he said after a
moment,
"YoH see 1 don't know much about
rentE so 1 don't just know how to talk
abfdt them, and want to talk about
Sem, so have to be careful with
khem. They may be touchy. They
4 might go off before I had finished
with them"
They're not guns, are they?" asked
Mrs. Mole.
"Of course not" said Mr.. Mole. 81
mean they might go off from my talk"
"Oh," said Mrs. Mole, as if she didn't
understand at all, but as she didn't
suppose she ever would she didn't
think it worth while to try.
"Tell me about the rents" she said
after a moment.
you see," said Mr.. Mole, people
pay rent to live in houses. Sometimes
they own their houses. They've built
them or they've bought them. But
very often people pay rent for the
place they live in.
''In other words" said Mr.. Mole,
"they pay money to live above the
ground.
"We, on the other hand, are sensible
enough not to pay money, and to live
most of the time underground"
"Would we pay rent if we lived
above ground?" asked Mrs. Mole.
'Well," said Mr.. Mole, 1--WE mightn't
pay it out in dollars and cents"
"What are they?" asked Mrs. Mole,
Money" said Mr.. Mole.
'But we might pay it out" he added
Sin our lives for example. We might
get trampled on or driven across OF
4 something like that. Under the
ground is far safer, less expensive in
every way"
'I agree with you," said Mrs. Mole
So Mr.. and Mrs. Mole went or
building their tunnels as they went
along and living in them.
They had good meals from time tt
time of insects and earthworms
mostly.
} "And above ground said Mr.. Mole
people pay money for their food
They go to the market and buy egg:
and butter and lamb chops, while VIZ
dig for our food and pick it up as w'
| 20 along"
: The life of a mole is much simplel
: than that of a person." said Mrs. Mole
Much" said Mr. Mole. 81 wouldn'
he a person for anything, not l."
+ Perhaps person wouldn't be ,
MOLE" asid Mrs. Mole. However, tha
: needn't concern US, for we aren'
!, people," she ended.