The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

him for an age.’ So the good-natured Mole, having cut some slices of ham, set the hedgehogs to fry it, and retu ...

uncomfortable, inconveniently situated, and horribly expensive. Take Toad. I say nothing against Toad Hall; qu ...

for a time, but we wait, and are patient, and back we come. And so it will ever be.’ ‘Well, and when th ...

further than you think, and I’ve bolt-holes to the edge of the wood in several directions, though I don’t ...

V. DULCE DOMUM The sheep ran huddling together against the hurdles, blowing out thin nostrils and stamping ...

one theatre to another, the two spectators, so far from home themselves, had something of wistfulness in their ...

these mysterious fairy calls from out the void that suddenly reached Mole in the darkness, making him ...

Mole, so come on quick, there’s a good fellow!’ And the Rat pressed forward on his way without waiting for an a ...

me with a rush—and I WANTED it!—O dear, O dear!—and when you WOULDN’T turn back, Ratty—and I ...

fell back a pace, and waited, all attention. The signals were coming through! Mole stood a moment rigid, ...

poor, cold little place, on a night like this, when you might have been at River Bank by this ...

a bottle of beer in each paw and another under each arm, ‘Self-indulgent beggar you seem to be, Mole,’ h ...

little, sniffing and applying coat-sleeves a good deal. As the door opened, one of the elder ones that ...

‘You leave all that to me,’ said the masterful Rat. ‘Here, you with the lantern! Come over this ...

coaxed and encouraged him, and the Rat went so far as to take him by the shoulders and shake him; but noth ...

anchorage in one’s existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn ...

VI. MR. TOAD It was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and it ...

perhaps, Toad is busy arraying himself in those singularly hideous habiliments so dear to him, which ...

before they could get to work properly. Then the Rat sat on him, and the Mole got his motor-clothes off him ...

promise to that effect.’ ‘That is very good news,’ said the Mole gravely. ‘Very good news indeed,’ ...