Thor weighed a thousand pounds; a mountain gopher is six inches long and weighs six ounces.

Yet Thor would dig energetically for an hour, and rejoice at the end by swallowing the fat little gopher like a pill; it was his _bonne bouche_, the luscious tidbit in the quest of which he spent a third of his spring and summer digging.
He found a hole located to his satisfaction and began throwing out the earth like a huge dog after a rat.

He was on the crest of the slope.

Once or twice during the next half-hour he lifted his head, but he was no longer disturbed by the strange smell that had come to him with the wind..