Mole burrowed his way underground to where the
girl was in bed asleep and took out her heart. He came hack by the
same way and gave the heart to the man, who could not see it even
when it was put into his hand. ''There," said the Mole, "swallow it,
and she will be drawn to come to you and can not keep away." The
man swallowed the heart, and when the girl woke up she somehow
thought at once of him, and felt a strange desire to be with him, as
though she must go to him at once. She wondered and could not
understand it. because she had always disliked him before, but at last
the feeling grew so strong that she was compelled to go herself to the
man and tell him she lovedhim and wanted to be his wife. And so
they were married, but all the magicians who had known them both
were surprised and wondered how it had come about. When they
found that it was the work of the Mole, whom they had always before
thought too insignificant for their notice, they were very jealous and
threatened to kill him, so that he hid himself under the ground and
has never since dared to come up to the surface.
31. THE TERRAPIN'S ESCAPE FROM THE WOLVES
The Possum and the Terrapin went out together to hunt persim-
mons, and found a tree full of ripe fruit. The Possum climbed it and
was throwing down the persimmons to the Terrapin when a wolf came
up and began to snap at the persimmons as they fell, before the Ter-
rapin could