210 FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



for ? No, I never knowed bad feed where moles 

 worked ; but I got my livin' to get:, an' they moles 

 has to be killed, so I does it. It makes it a bit' 

 awk'ard when they gets in they big grass-medders 

 where they uses these here new mowin'-machines ; 

 but moles was about long afore they was. If you 

 asks my 'pinion on it, mister, I says they does a 

 lot more good than they does harm. Massy, oh ! it 

 does make thet mowin'-machine bump when there's 

 many on 'em. But that's about all the harm they 

 do ; they don't thin the grass crop ; where they has 

 their hills the grass is oncommon thick. 



" But you an' . me knows thet these 'ere ideas 

 about things don't help a poor man to get his livin', 

 an' if moles wasn't killed the mole-catching trade 

 would go to ruin. There ain't such a heap on 'em 

 arter all; one family on 'em — four, five, or even 

 three — will chuck up a rare lot o' hills. They 

 works like 'osses, and is as hungry as wolves, though 

 they be but such little uns. I've seen 'em running 

 about like rats in the daylight, lots o' times. They'll 

 fight most ' desprit ; some on 'em gets so artful 

 there's no trappin' on 'em. Then you has to let 

 'em bide a bit. An' that's just about all as can be 



