mattocked

Updated: May 2, 2025

I had always been told, too, that the sound of a footstep would frighten a mole, but this mole only began to show fright at the sound of voices. Then it began to tear its way into the undergrowth with paws and snout ever trying to overtake each other. Mr Blunden has described how The lost mole tries to pierce the mattocked clay In agony and terror of the sun.

Robert Lynd - The Pleasures of Ignorance