THE CANNIBAL MOLE.
The mole is an animal who does everything as the Irishman playcl the fiddle at Donnybrook Fair—by main strength ; violently he tears his way through the ground with his loog-nailed, hand-like paws, and ravenously he seizes and crunchen th. n worms and bur roving grubs which are the object of his excavations.
With equal force he engages in conflicts with his rival moles, and dines on the body of the vanquished with a cannibal glee unequalled by South Sea islanders in their palmiest antemissionary days. He is always on the go.
He works and sleeps in three-hour shifts, day and night alike, for the fire that burns in his little soft body is so uerce that it needs free and frequent stoking with victuals. If he misses lunch he is likely to be dead by dinner time, and the amount of his daily meals would total up at least his own weight.— F. Finn, in the '"Graphic.-'
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 454, 6 April 1912, Page 7
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160THE CANNIBAL MOLE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 454, 6 April 1912, Page 7
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