To the work of the shovel and the pick must be added that of the shears.

All this is perfectly logical and may be foreseen with complete lucidity.

Nevertheless, let us invoke experiment, the best of witnesses.
I borrow from the kitchen-range an iron trivet whose legs will supply a solid foundation for the engine which I am devising.

This is a coarse network of strips of raphia, a fairly accurate imitation of the network of couch-grass roots.

The very irregular meshes are nowhere wide enough to admit of the passage of the creature to be buried, which in this case is a Mole.