The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

They were strolling along the high-road easily, the Mole by the horse’s head, talking to him, since the ho ...

faintly murmured ‘Poop-poop!’ The Mole was busy trying to quiet the horse, which he succeeded in doing after ...

The Rat knotted the horse’s reins over his back and took him by the head, carrying the bird cage and its hy ...

could about the cart and its contents. Eventually, a slow train having landed them at a station not very ...

III. THE WILD WOOD The Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed ...

chat, and consequently there was a good deal of story-telling and comparing notes on the past summer an ...

in her annual slumber and seemed to have kicked the clothes off. Copses, dells, quarries and all hidden places, w ...

Very faint and shrill it was, and far behind him, when first he heard it; but somehow it made him hurr ...

his verses, pored over them for a minute, and then looked round for the Mole to ask him if he knew a g ...

hardly ever come here by ourselves. If we have to come, we come in couples, at least; then we’re ...

pitfalls, and other black menaces to the wayfarer were vanishing fast, and a gleaming carpet of faery wa ...

his leg in both his front paws. ‘Poor old Mole!’ said the Rat kindly. ‘You don’t seem to be having much ...

After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view. ‘There, w ...

found the very door-scraper that done it! Did you stop there? No. Some people would have been quite ...

IV. MR. BADGER THEY waited patiently for what seemed a very long time, stamping in the snow to keep ...

at once they found themselves in all the glow and warmth of a large fire-lit kitchen. The floor was well-w ...

these things belonged to the things that didn’t really matter. (We know of course that he was wrong, and t ...

His two friends assented, quite understanding his point. No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ...

oatmeal porridge out of wooden bowls. The hedgehogs dropped their spoons, rose to their feet, and ducked thei ...

‘Thought I should find you here all right,’ said the Otter cheerfully. ‘They were all in a great state ...