THE FIELD MOUSE AND THE FARMER
When we remember how much soil the field mouse worked over, and so made better, long before man's time on earth—to say nothing of what the mice have done since—doesn't it give an added and deeper meaning to the lines of Burns?
"I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve.
What then? Poor beastie, thou maun live."
CHAPTER VII
(JULY)
Well said, old mole! Canst work i' the earth so fast?
—Shakespere: "Hamlet."