TAILIEUCHUNG - The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie. | THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS By Kenneth Grahame Author Of The Golden Age Dream Days Etc. Prepared and Published by Ebd 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 gaveled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air. So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself Up we go Up we go till at last pop his snout came out into the sunlight and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow. This is fine he said to himself. This is better than whitewashing The sunshine struck hot on his fur soft breezes caressed his heated brow and after the seclusion of the cellarage he had lived in so long the carol of happy birds fell on his dulled hearing almost like a shout. Jumping off all his four legs at once in the joy of living and the delight of spring without its cleaning he pursued his way across the meadow till he reached the hedge on the further side. Hold up said an elderly rabbit at the gap. Sixpence for the privilege of passing by the private road He was bowled over in an instant by the impatient and .

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