Another favorite pastime was digging a tunnel under his home; he attributed the secret of his success to “visits by elves” while he worked in the tunnel: “While I’m digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem.”
Wikipedia cited a rather entertaining Time article as a citation for this.
Who doesn’t understand the urge to dig?
The children yearn for the mines, but many of us lose that sense of wonder as we get older.
Thank god the Republicans are ushering in a new era of children working mines
“It’s Adam and Sneezy, not Adam and Stevey!”
TIL I’m a 30 year old child
My wife, unfortunately.