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MORE ABOUT HOLES.
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1--WE 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,
If that is what you are thinking Of"
said Mr.. Mole.
THAT is so, but it's not very inter
esting tosother people" said Mrs. Mole.
81 wasn't thinking of other people,"
said Mr. Mole. THAT is always such
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 well have 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 go in the trains, believe"
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.
You see I don't know much about
rents, so don't just know how to talk
about them, and | want TO talk about
i them, so I have to be careful with
them. They may be touchy. They
, might go of before l 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
"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 10 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.
I'VE, 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, I'VE mlghtn't
pay it out in dollars and cents"
J 'What are they?" asked Mrs. Mole,
Money" said Mr.. Mole.
$ "But we might pay it out" he added
a ain our lives for example. We might
get trampled on or driven across OF
something like that. Under tbs
! ground is far safer, less expensive in
: every way"
Il agree with you," said Mrs. Mole
So Mr.. and Mrs. Mole went o.
building their tunnels as they went
4 clong end living in them.
They had good meals from time .tC
time of insects and earthworms
: mostly.
, And above ground" said Alr. Mole
= people pay money for Their food
They go 10 the market and buy eggs
and butter and lamb chops. while We
Q dig for our food and pick it up as We
4 go along"
e The life of mole is much simpler
e than that Of person." said Mrs. Mole
Much" said Mr.. Mole. Il wouldn't
he person for anything, not l."
Perhaps Il person wouldn't be a
: mole" asid Mrs. Mole. However, tina
needn't concern US. for we aren't
people," she ended.
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