“You need not pity me,” he said, “I prefer to live underground, where really there is no use for eyes.”
All the moles were so proud of this hero mole that they tried to be like him in every way.
They, too, went to live in a dark hole in the earth.
Their eyes, which they did not need to use, became so small that they were entirely hidden by their fur. Indeed it is now so hard to find them that many people think the entire mole family is blind.
HOW THE SPARK OF FIRE WAS SAVED.
ONG ago when fire was first brought to earth, it was given into the care of two beldams at the end of the world.