Show A MILLION MOLES INVADE THE TO TOWN the Moles ITI I Mice Alice Fled Fled Fled- o Fl Thousand Cats Sour boon Ull In InI I Demand Patten Pallen Me le Nov ov 7 7 IC 7 If If a million blind mice or moles didn't Invade In he the sparsely settled district to tho the y north of of here the tanners farmers declare that th he number reached so close to the million mark that the round figure 11 fives a Idea of or what thc they have ha had to suffer Accent Is placed upon the word suffer For Pot a couple of days das the foll folks s were wen so o hus busy trying to get rid rit of the invaders In In- c that the they didn't have a chance chance- t to o find out whence thO they came When they l oy did In e Investigate ate it was discovered that liat forest fires were etc responsible Moles Holes can smell smoke farther than thai a deer and when some campers set seta a blaze going the moles headed for forlie forthe the lie windward spreading the alarm as they licy thc proceeded ant and picking up scores C Cof of f colonies of ever every variety There were vero star nosed peak-nosed peak silver silver- nosed Hosed anal anu an plow-nosed plow members of tho the alpine family and ant when they the struck civilization the they hadn't the slightest notion of how to appear In polite so- so Tho They invaded In barns butteries cellars cel- cel lars 9 corn cribs and outbuildings ant and dug duS burrowed wormed sneaked and butted bUlled Into all kinds ot or places where they hey made themselves unwelcome obnoxious ob- ob noxious disagreeable Intolerable and Impossible They scudded from rom beHe beneath be- be He neath th the feet of or alarmed housewives harassed hired girls until thc they threw up UI their Jobs made matle men swear and frightened horses cows ant and sheep h by getting Into their fodder and sometimes sometimes some some- t times mes Into their It was distressing dis dis- aggravating maddening disgusting disgusting dis dis- gusting and demoralizing Haunt for fOl for Cats 71 When hen the moles arrived the mice f. f they led they couldn't seem to stand the scaler ot of o their woodland brothers brothers- ant and the hou house c cats fell to feeding heavily Moles are arc easier to catch than mice and soon tho the cuts cats got sot full tull tat fat and stupid The farmers despair despair- ed They rhey kicked cuffed ant and beat the lie cats but this lint had no effect so MO they thoy hot got ot after the Invaders with brooms broom hoes rakes pepper mustard hot water traps and rat poison All these little devices had no more inure effect than a summers summer's summers summer's summers summer's sum sum- mers mer's breeze one farmer formel hitched up to a covered co hay rick and set sel off to collect tt L fresh supply of or hungry cats I want cats to I kill III moles he told toM the first man he met That number will I kill III all the moles In the world said the astonished man J I know no it swore shore the other But weve we've got em em all over our way The new nett cats took one look at the Job huddled hu In the barns over night and Mid lied fied at al sunup Now ow the they are chasing chas chas- chasing ing over the countryside trying to get back home Some are ure said to have gone sone crazy from the experience What would have happened to the community If the moles hadn't gone gono off of their own volition can cnn only bo ho guessed Tho They went went disappeared disappeared In one night ant night and now no tho the district maybe may maybe maybe be said ald to lo bo be convalescing con What took em off ort no one knows know but hut Is it suspected sus sus- that they didn't cotton colton overmuch overmuch overmuch over over- much to civilization and the fires haying died out returned to their bur bur- rows |