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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
Author Of "The Golden Age," "Dream Days," Etc.
Contents
CHAPTER I. THE RIVER BANK
CHAPTER II. THE OPEN ROAD
CHAPTER III. THE WILD WOOD
CHAPTER IV. MR. BADGER
CHAPTER V. DULCE DOMUM
CHAPTER VI. MR. TOAD
CHAPTER VII. THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
CHAPTER VIII. TOAD'S ADVENTURES
CHAPTER IX. WAYFARERS ALL
CHAPTER X. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD
CHAPTER XI. "LIKE SUMMER TEMPESTS CAME HIS TEARS"
CHAPTER XII. THE RETURN OF ULYSSES
I.
THE RIVER BANK
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said "Bother!" and "O blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residen…