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The Wind in the Willows

GB - International Year of the Child, 11-JUL-1979

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by E. H. Shepard

so he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by E. H. Shepard

Talpa europaea via

Skeleton of Talpa europaea

  … they can move much quicker than you might imagine.

A Dead Mole

Strong-shouldered mole,
That so much lived below the ground,
Dug, fought and loved, hunted and fed,
For you to raise a mound
Was as for us to make a hole;
What wonder now that being dead
Your body lies here stout and square
Buried within the blue vault of the air?

Andrew Young