CHAPTER III. 



Strength of Moles Popular notion respecting them Badger 

 White Fox Fondness of Cows for bones Stinking 

 Goat Fascination of Human Eye on Birds Charming 

 away Warts Fancies taken by Animals Spaniel 

 Squirrel Macaw Kitten Cur baptism Dog's ear for 

 Music Growling at " strangers " in tea. 



strength of Moles must be prodigious in 

 proportion to their size. In a summer-house 

 I have seen the track of one distinctly marked by 

 the upheaval and complete displacement of the 

 large round pebbles, which, tightly rammed down 

 together, formed the pavement, and that too right 

 across the centre, where they had been subjected 

 to the greatest additional pressure from the tread 

 of persons passing in and out. There is a popular 

 notion current in the Isle of Wight that these 

 animals ("Wants," as they are there commonly 

 called) work only when the tide is flowing. It is 

 not unfrequently possible to trace these "vulgar 

 errors" to some source, but it would, I fancy, be 

 difficult to do so in this case. 



