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. 
HE strength of Moles must be prodigious in 
proportion to their size. In a summer-house 
T 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. 
