The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-27
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MORE o MOLES.
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"We do lead a very interesting life,"
said Mr.. Mole.
Except when we're asleep" said
Mrs. Mole.
at is more Interesting to sleep in
the winter than TO do anything else,
If 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.
II 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:
"rNow we'll have a delightful after
noon discussing the Mole family No,
they don't think much of us. SO 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
and they 60 in the trains, / believe"
said Mrs. Mole.
ooh, 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
,ont, oroDJt SD biUh
Rents are or rents is or rents shall
be" began Mr.. Mole. Rents are, L
think, will be best" he said after a
moment.
you see I don't know much about
rents, so l don't Just know how to talk
about them, and I want to talk about
them, so / have to be careful with
them. They may be touchy. They
might go off before I had finished
with them"
They're not guns, are they?" asked
Mrs. Mole.
"Of course not" said Mr.. Mole. Il
mean they might go off from my talk"
ooh" 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, "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 opt" he added,
ain our lives for example. We might
get trampled on or driven across or
something like that. Under the
ground is far safer, less expensive in
every way"
81 agree with YOU" said Mrs. Mole.
So Mr.. and Mrs. Mole went on
building their tunnels as they went
along and living in them.
They had good meals from time to
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 eggs
and butter and lamb chops, while we
dig for our food and pick it up as we
go along"
1.-The life of a mole is much simpler
than that Of a person." said Mrs. Mole.
Much" said Mr.. Mole. II wouldn't
be a person for anything, not l."
Perhaps a person wouldn't be a
MOLE" asid Mrs. Mole. However, that
needn't concern us, for we aren't
people," she ended.