With mandibles for shears, you have patiently cut my threads as you would have gnawed the cordage of the grass-roots.

This is meritorious, if not deserving of exceptional glorification.

The most limited of the insects which work in earth would have done as much if subjected to similar conditions.
Let us ascend a stage in the series of difficulties.

The Mole is now fixed with a lashing of raphia fore and aft to a light horizontal cross-bar which rests on two firmly-planted forks.

It is like a joint of venison on a spit, though rather oddly fastened.