Oxford.
_Origin of Moles._--Meeting with an octogenarian molecatcher a few weeks
since, in the neighbourhood of Bridgwater, the old man volunteered the
following account of the origin of moles, or _wants_ as they are sometimes
called in Somerset. "It was a proud woman, sir, too proud to live on the
face of the earth, and so God turned her into a mole, and made her live
_under_ the earth; and that was the _first mole_." My informant was
evidently much confirmed in his belief, by the fact of "moles having (as he
said) hands and feet like Christians."