Why The Mole Lives Underground
A man was in love with a woman who disliked him and wanted nothing to do with him. He tried every way to win her favor, but with no success. As last he grew discouraged and made himself sick thinking about it.
Mole came along, and finding the man so low in his mind, ask what the trouble was. The mane told him the whole story, and when he had finished, the Mole said: "I can help. Not only will she like you, but she'll come to you of her own free will."
That night burrowing underground to the place where the girl was in bed asleep, Mole took out her heart. He came back by the same way and gave the heart to the discouraged lover, who couldn't see it even when it was in his hand. "There," said Mole. "Swallow it, and she will be so drawn to you that she has to come."
The man swallowed the heart, and when the girl woke up she somehow thought of him at once. She felt a strange desire to be with him, to go to him that minute. She couldn't understand it, because she had always disliked him, now the feelings grew so strong she was compelled to find the man and tell him that she loved him and wanted to be his wife. And so they were married.
All the those who knew them both were surprised and wondered how it had come about. When they found out it was the work of Mole, whom they had always thought too insignificant to notice, they were jealous and threatened to kill him. That's why Mole hid under the ground and still doesn't dare to come up.
