Show MARY GRAHAM BONNEZ II 11 W V arlon SMART BABY MOLES im going to eil you this e evening said daddy about the smart baby moles and the mole family famey As you know tile the mules moles live underground der ground their homo home nest Is of leaves and grass crass and it Is too under the ground arow their home nest Is a long winding tunnel which they build through the earth they must keep otlie the earth out ot of tie the nest and so it Is pushed upward to the surface you can imagine the rutx it is id for or these little creatures so BO tiny and yet so clever from the nest there Is a special runway by which the moles can escape if danger suddenly overtakes them when in tb their belr nest so that they really have fortresses too you seel see I 1 I 1 and all this Is dune by little creatures who are almost blind they have lived underground so much and alid so constantly that they can hardly see at all some of them cannot see sed at all the moles have pointed noses ilitch alch are very and which help them in their burr burrowing they also lave have front paws which too are ery strong but these are their only tools they do not have the help of 0 carpenters tools but they work only with what they have themselves it Is so wonderful and often they will burrow great great distances in a short time for they work steadily and so powerfully and so energetically these moles im telling you about this evening are cousins of the star nosed MOM moles and are sometimes known as the orgon oregon moles molea now there were three little baby moles holes who had bad been born in the early spring they did not remain helpless for long and in less than two months they had grown to be almost as big as their parents landwere and were helping in the building of tunnels and the planning of their home the moles as you know build mounds and they chave have tunnels tor for ro roadways to their nests and also other tunnels which they us use for hunting at night the moles come to the surface and look tor for food thay have a long tunnel under lunder a fence which Is used as a general road that Is in much the same way as we have a main road along which lots of people walk or run or ride and as we have our little private kar gardo 00 not waste your time den path rind and our own halls balls leading into different now little moles said mother mole this Is mole advice do not waste your time doing nothing A mole would consider that a disgrace often I 1 wonder nonder it if people up on the earth kow know how steadily the little creatures orea tures under the earth are M working we for example a re working almost all of the time we do not believe in resting we belleve b elleve in working we want to build and we want to look for food insects and nice worms are what we like of course we like drinks of water mater too and to be good providers of food weve always found we must look tor for it we sit still and have bare it come to bs good earth makes a difference too as in rich soil we can find more to tc eat but I 1 cannot talk to you any more I 1 have given you mole advice and mole schooling last long little moles graduate from their schools very tory very soon fancy children graduating at two months so the smart baby moles began th the work oil nil moles must do |