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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Wind in the Willows - -Author: Kenneth Grahame - -Release Date: July, 1995 [eBook #289] -[Most recently updated: May 15, 2021] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Mike Lough and David Widger - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS *** - -[Illustration] - - - - -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 - - I. @@ -524,818 +486,15 @@ running water; and with his ear to the reed-stems he caught, at intervals, something of what the wind went whispering so constantly among them. +---- +NOTE: This book has been abridged to one chapter, you can find the +complete work at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/289 - -II. -THE OPEN ROAD - - -“Ratty,” said the Mole suddenly, one bright summer morning, “if you -please, I want to ask you a favour.” - -The Rat was sitting on the river bank, singing a little song. He had -just composed it himself, so he was very taken up with it, and would -not pay proper attention to Mole or anything else. Since early morning -he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the -ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads suddenly, as ducks will, -he would dive down and tickle their necks, just under where their chins -would be if ducks had chins, till they were forced to come to the -surface again in a hurry, spluttering and angry and shaking their -feathers at him, for it is impossible to say quite _all_ you feel when -your head is under water. At last they implored him to go away and -attend to his own affairs and leave them to mind theirs. So the Rat -went away, and sat on the river bank in the sun, and made up a song -about them, which he called - -“DUCKS’ DITTY.” - -All along the backwater, -Through the rushes tall, -Ducks are a-dabbling, -Up tails all! -Ducks’ tails, drakes’ tails, -Yellow feet a-quiver, -Yellow bills all out of sight -Busy in the river! - -Slushy green undergrowth -Where the roach swim— -Here we keep our larder, -Cool and full and dim. - -Everyone for what he likes! -_We_ like to be -Heads down, tails up, -Dabbling free! - -High in the blue above -Swifts whirl and call— -_We_ are down a-dabbling -Uptails all! - - -“I don’t know that I think so _very_ much of that little song, Rat,” -observed the Mole cautiously. He was no poet himself and didn’t care -who knew it; and he had a candid nature. - -“Nor don’t the ducks neither,” replied the Rat cheerfully. “They say, -‘_Why_ can’t fellows be allowed to do what they like _when_ they like -and _as_ they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and -watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things -about them? What _nonsense_ it all is!’ That’s what the ducks say.” - -“So it is, so it is,” said the Mole, with great heartiness. - -“No, it isn’t!” cried the Rat indignantly. - -“Well then, it isn’t, it isn’t,” replied the Mole soothingly. “But what -I wanted to ask you was, won’t you take me to call on Mr. Toad? I’ve -heard so much about him, and I do so want to make his acquaintance.” - -“Why, certainly,” said the good-natured Rat, jumping to his feet and -dismissing poetry from his mind for the day. “Get the boat out, and -we’ll paddle up there at once. It’s never the wrong time to call on -Toad. Early or late he’s always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, -always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!” - -“He must be a very nice animal,” observed the Mole, as he got into the -boat and took the sculls, while the Rat settled himself comfortably in -the stern. - -“He is indeed the best of animals,” replied Rat. “So simple, so -good-natured, and so affectionate. Perhaps he’s not very clever—we -can’t all be geniuses; and it may be that he is both boastful and -conceited. But he has got some great qualities, has Toady.” - -Rounding a bend in the river, they came in sight of a handsome, -dignified old house of mellowed red brick, with well-kept lawns -reaching down to the water’s edge. - -“There’s Toad Hall,” said the Rat; “and that creek on the left, where -the notice-board says, ‘Private. No landing allowed,’ leads to his -boat-house, where we’ll leave the boat. The stables are over there to -the right. That’s the banqueting-hall you’re looking at now—very old, -that is. Toad is rather rich, you know, and this is really one of the -nicest houses in these parts, though we never admit as much to Toad.” - -They glided up the creek, and the Mole shipped his sculls as they -passed into the shadow of a large boat-house. Here they saw many -handsome boats, slung from the cross beams or hauled up on a slip, but -none in the water; and the place had an unused and a deserted air. - -The Rat looked around him. “I understand,” said he. “Boating is played -out. He’s tired of it, and done with it. I wonder what new fad he has -taken up now? Come along and let’s look him up. We shall hear all about -it quite soon enough.” - -They disembarked, and strolled across the gay flower-decked lawns in -search of Toad, whom they presently happened upon resting in a wicker -garden-chair, with a pre-occupied expression of face, and a large map -spread out on his knees. - -“Hooray!” he cried, jumping up on seeing them, “this is splendid!” He -shook the paws of both of them warmly, never waiting for an -introduction to the Mole. “How _kind_ of you!” he went on, dancing -round them. “I was just going to send a boat down the river for you, -Ratty, with strict orders that you were to be fetched up here at once, -whatever you were doing. I want you badly—both of you. Now what will -you take? Come inside and have something! You don’t know how lucky it -is, your turning up just now!” - -“Let’s sit quiet a bit, Toady!” said the Rat, throwing himself into an -easy chair, while the Mole took another by the side of him and made -some civil remark about Toad’s “delightful residence.” - -“Finest house on the whole river,” cried Toad boisterously. “Or -anywhere else, for that matter,” he could not help adding. - -Here the Rat nudged the Mole. Unfortunately the Toad saw him do it, and -turned very red. There was a moment’s painful silence. Then Toad burst -out laughing. “All right, Ratty,” he said. “It’s only my way, you know. -And it’s not such a very bad house, is it? You know you rather like it -yourself. Now, look here. Let’s be sensible. You are the very animals I -wanted. You’ve got to help me. It’s most important!” - -“It’s about your rowing, I suppose,” said the Rat, with an innocent -air. “You’re getting on fairly well, though you splash a good bit -still. With a great deal of patience, and any quantity of coaching, you -may——” - -“O, pooh! boating!” interrupted the Toad, in great disgust. “Silly -boyish amusement. I’ve given that up _long_ ago. Sheer waste of time, -that’s what it is. It makes me downright sorry to see you fellows, who -ought to know better, spending all your energies in that aimless -manner. No, I’ve discovered the real thing, the only genuine occupation -for a life time. I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and -can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in -trivialities. Come with me, dear Ratty, and your amiable friend also, -if he will be so very good, just as far as the stable-yard, and you -shall see what you shall see!” - -He led the way to the stable-yard accordingly, the Rat following with a -most mistrustful expression; and there, drawn out of the coach house -into the open, they saw a gipsy caravan, shining with newness, painted -a canary-yellow picked out with green, and red wheels. - -“There you are!” cried the Toad, straddling and expanding himself. -“There’s real life for you, embodied in that little cart. The open -road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the -rolling downs! Camps, villages, towns, cities! Here to-day, up and off -to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The -whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing! And mind! -this is the very finest cart of its sort that was ever built, without -any exception. Come inside and look at the arrangements. Planned ’em -all myself, I did!” - -The Mole was tremendously interested and excited, and followed him -eagerly up the steps and into the interior of the caravan. The Rat only -snorted and thrust his hands deep into his pockets, remaining where he -was. - -It was indeed very compact and comfortable. Little sleeping bunks—a -little table that folded up against the wall—a cooking-stove, lockers, -bookshelves, a bird-cage with a bird in it; and pots, pans, jugs and -kettles of every size and variety. - -“All complete!” said the Toad triumphantly, pulling open a locker. “You -see—biscuits, potted lobster, sardines—everything you can possibly -want. Soda-water here—baccy there—letter-paper, bacon, jam, cards and -dominoes—you’ll find,” he continued, as they descended the steps again, -“you’ll find that nothing what ever has been forgotten, when we make -our start this afternoon.” - -“I beg your pardon,” said the Rat slowly, as he chewed a straw, “but -did I overhear you say something about ‘_we_,’ and ‘_start_,’ and -‘_this afternoon?_’” - -“Now, you dear good old Ratty,” said Toad, imploringly, “don’t begin -talking in that stiff and sniffy sort of way, because you know you’ve -_got_ to come. I can’t possibly manage without you, so please consider -it settled, and don’t argue—it’s the one thing I can’t stand. You -surely don’t mean to stick to your dull fusty old river all your life, -and just live in a hole in a bank, and _boat?_ I want to show you the -world! I’m going to make an _animal_ of you, my boy!” - -“I don’t care,” said the Rat, doggedly. “I’m not coming, and that’s -flat. And I _am_ going to stick to my old river, _and_ live in a hole, -_and_ boat, as I’ve always done. And what’s more, Mole’s going to stick -to me and do as I do, aren’t you, Mole?” - -“Of course I am,” said the Mole, loyally. “I’ll always stick to you, -Rat, and what you say is to be—has got to be. All the same, it sounds -as if it might have been—well, rather fun, you know!” he added, -wistfully. Poor Mole! The Life Adventurous was so new a thing to him, -and so thrilling; and this fresh aspect of it was so tempting; and he -had fallen in love at first sight with the canary-coloured cart and all -its little fitments. - -The Rat saw what was passing in his mind, and wavered. He hated -disappointing people, and he was fond of the Mole, and would do almost -anything to oblige him. Toad was watching both of them closely. - -“Come along in, and have some lunch,” he said, diplomatically, “and -we’ll talk it over. We needn’t decide anything in a hurry. Of course, -_I_ don’t really care. I only want to give pleasure to you fellows. -‘Live for others!’ That’s my motto in life.” - -During luncheon—which was excellent, of course, as everything at Toad -Hall always was—the Toad simply let himself go. Disregarding the Rat, -he proceeded to play upon the inexperienced Mole as on a harp. -Naturally a voluble animal, and always mastered by his imagination, he -painted the prospects of the trip and the joys of the open life and the -roadside in such glowing colours that the Mole could hardly sit in his -chair for excitement. Somehow, it soon seemed taken for granted by all -three of them that the trip was a settled thing; and the Rat, though -still unconvinced in his mind, allowed his good-nature to over-ride his -personal objections. He could not bear to disappoint his two friends, -who were already deep in schemes and anticipations, planning out each -day’s separate occupation for several weeks ahead. - -When they were quite ready, the now triumphant Toad led his companions -to the paddock and set them to capture the old grey horse, who, without -having been consulted, and to his own extreme annoyance, had been told -off by Toad for the dustiest job in this dusty expedition. He frankly -preferred the paddock, and took a deal of catching. Meantime Toad -packed the lockers still tighter with necessaries, and hung nosebags, -nets of onions, bundles of hay, and baskets from the bottom of the -cart. At last the horse was caught and harnessed, and they set off, all -talking at once, each animal either trudging by the side of the cart or -sitting on the shaft, as the humour took him. It was a golden -afternoon. The smell of the dust they kicked up was rich and -satisfying; out of thick orchards on either side the road, birds called -and whistled to them cheerily; good-natured wayfarers, passing them, -gave them “Good-day,” or stopped to say nice things about their -beautiful cart; and rabbits, sitting at their front doors in the -hedgerows, held up their fore-paws, and said, “O my! O my! O my!” - -Late in the evening, tired and happy and miles from home, they drew up -on a remote common far from habitations, turned the horse loose to -graze, and ate their simple supper sitting on the grass by the side of -the cart. Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to -come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow -moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came -to keep them company and listen to their talk. At last they turned in -to their little bunks in the cart; and Toad, kicking out his legs, -sleepily said, “Well, good night, you fellows! This is the real life -for a gentleman! Talk about your old river!” - -“I _don’t_ talk about my river,” replied the patient Rat. “You _know_ I -don’t, Toad. But I _think_ about it,” he added pathetically, in a lower -tone: “I think about it—all the time!” - -The Mole reached out from under his blanket, felt for the Rat’s paw in -the darkness, and gave it a squeeze. “I’ll do whatever you like, -Ratty,” he whispered. “Shall we run away to-morrow morning, quite -early—_very_ early—and go back to our dear old hole on the river?” - -“No, no, we’ll see it out,” whispered back the Rat. “Thanks awfully, -but I ought to stick by Toad till this trip is ended. It wouldn’t be -safe for him to be left to himself. It won’t take very long. His fads -never do. Good night!” - -The end was indeed nearer than even the Rat suspected. - -After so much open air and excitement the Toad slept very soundly, and -no amount of shaking could rouse him out of bed next morning. So the -Mole and Rat turned to, quietly and manfully, and while the Rat saw to -the horse, and lit a fire, and cleaned last night’s cups and platters, -and got things ready for breakfast, the Mole trudged off to the nearest -village, a long way off, for milk and eggs and various necessaries the -Toad had, of course, forgotten to provide. The hard work had all been -done, and the two animals were resting, thoroughly exhausted, by the -time Toad appeared on the scene, fresh and gay, remarking what a -pleasant easy life it was they were all leading now, after the cares -and worries and fatigues of housekeeping at home. - -They had a pleasant ramble that day over grassy downs and along narrow -by-lanes, and camped as before, on a common, only this time the two -guests took care that Toad should do his fair share of work. In -consequence, when the time came for starting next morning, Toad was by -no means so rapturous about the simplicity of the primitive life, and -indeed attempted to resume his place in his bunk, whence he was hauled -by force. Their way lay, as before, across country by narrow lanes, and -it was not till the afternoon that they came out on the high-road, -their first high-road; and there disaster, fleet and unforeseen, sprang -out on them—disaster momentous indeed to their expedition, but simply -overwhelming in its effect on the after-career of Toad. - -They were strolling along the high-road easily, the Mole by the horse’s -head, talking to him, since the horse had complained that he was being -frightfully left out of it, and nobody considered him in the least; the -Toad and the Water Rat walking behind the cart talking together—at -least Toad was talking, and Rat was saying at intervals, “Yes, -precisely; and what did _you_ say to _him?_”—and thinking all the time -of something very different, when far behind them they heard a faint -warning hum; like the drone of a distant bee. Glancing back, they saw a -small cloud of dust, with a dark centre of energy, advancing on them at -incredible speed, while from out the dust a faint “Poop-poop!” wailed -like an uneasy animal in pain. Hardly regarding it, they turned to -resume their conversation, when in an instant (as it seemed) the -peaceful scene was changed, and with a blast of wind and a whirl of -sound that made them jump for the nearest ditch, It was on them! The -“Poop-poop” rang with a brazen shout in their ears, they had a moment’s -glimpse of an interior of glittering plate-glass and rich morocco, and -the magnificent motor-car, immense, breath-snatching, passionate, with -its pilot tense and hugging his wheel, possessed all earth and air for -the fraction of a second, flung an enveloping cloud of dust that -blinded and enwrapped them utterly, and then dwindled to a speck in the -far distance, changed back into a droning bee once more. - -The old grey horse, dreaming, as he plodded along, of his quiet -paddock, in a new raw situation such as this simply abandoned himself -to his natural emotions. Rearing, plunging, backing steadily, in spite -of all the Mole’s efforts at his head, and all the Mole’s lively -language directed at his better feelings, he drove the cart backwards -towards the deep ditch at the side of the road. It wavered an -instant—then there was a heartrending crash—and the canary-coloured -cart, their pride and their joy, lay on its side in the ditch, an -irredeemable wreck. - -The Rat danced up and down in the road, simply transported with -passion. “You villains!” he shouted, shaking both fists, “You -scoundrels, you highwaymen, you—you—roadhogs!—I’ll have the law of you! -I’ll report you! I’ll take you through all the Courts!” His -home-sickness had quite slipped away from him, and for the moment he -was the skipper of the canary-coloured vessel driven on a shoal by the -reckless jockeying of rival mariners, and he was trying to recollect -all the fine and biting things he used to say to masters of -steam-launches when their wash, as they drove too near the bank, used -to flood his parlour-carpet at home. - -Toad sat straight down in the middle of the dusty road, his legs -stretched out before him, and stared fixedly in the direction of the -disappearing motor-car. He breathed short, his face wore a placid -satisfied expression, and at intervals he faintly murmured “Poop-poop!” - -The Mole was busy trying to quiet the horse, which he succeeded in -doing after a time. Then he went to look at the cart, on its side in -the ditch. It was indeed a sorry sight. Panels and windows smashed, -axles hopelessly bent, one wheel off, sardine-tins scattered over the -wide world, and the bird in the bird-cage sobbing pitifully and calling -to be let out. - -The Rat came to help him, but their united efforts were not sufficient -to right the cart. “Hi! Toad!” they cried. “Come and bear a hand, can’t -you!” - -The Toad never answered a word, or budged from his seat in the road; so -they went to see what was the matter with him. They found him in a sort -of a trance, a happy smile on his face, his eyes still fixed on the -dusty wake of their destroyer. At intervals he was still heard to -murmur “Poop-poop!” - -The Rat shook him by the shoulder. “Are you coming to help us, Toad?” -he demanded sternly. - -“Glorious, stirring sight!” murmured Toad, never offering to move. “The -poetry of motion! The _real_ way to travel! The _only_ way to travel! -Here to-day—in next week to-morrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities -jumped—always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O -my!” - -“O _stop_ being an ass, Toad!” cried the Mole despairingly. - -“And to think I never _knew!_” went on the Toad in a dreamy monotone. -“All those wasted years that lie behind me, I never knew, never even -_dreamt!_ But _now_—but now that I know, now that I fully realise! O -what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What -dust-clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! -What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my -magnificent onset! Horrid little carts—common carts—canary-coloured -carts!” - -“What are we to do with him?” asked the Mole of the Water Rat. - -“Nothing at all,” replied the Rat firmly. “Because there is really -nothing to be done. You see, I know him from of old. He is now -possessed. He has got a new craze, and it always takes him that way, in -its first stage. He’ll continue like that for days now, like an animal -walking in a happy dream, quite useless for all practical purposes. -Never mind him. Let’s go and see what there is to be done about the -cart.” - -A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in -righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles -were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into -pieces. - -The Rat knotted the horse’s reins over his back and took him by the -head, carrying the bird cage and its hysterical occupant in the other -hand. “Come on!” he said grimly to the Mole. “It’s five or six miles to -the nearest town, and we shall just have to walk it. The sooner we make -a start the better.” - -“But what about Toad?” asked the Mole anxiously, as they set off -together. “We can’t leave him here, sitting in the middle of the road -by himself, in the distracted state he’s in! It’s not safe. Supposing -another Thing were to come along?” - -“O, _bother_ Toad,” said the Rat savagely; “I’ve done with him!” - -They had not proceeded very far on their way, however, when there was a -pattering of feet behind them, and Toad caught them up and thrust a paw -inside the elbow of each of them; still breathing short and staring -into vacancy. - -“Now, look here, Toad!” said the Rat sharply: “as soon as we get to the -town, you’ll have to go straight to the police-station, and see if they -know anything about that motor-car and who it belongs to, and lodge a -complaint against it. And then you’ll have to go to a blacksmith’s or a -wheelwright’s and arrange for the cart to be fetched and mended and put -to rights. It’ll take time, but it’s not quite a hopeless smash. -Meanwhile, the Mole and I will go to an inn and find comfortable rooms -where we can stay till the cart’s ready, and till your nerves have -recovered their shock.” - -“Police-station! Complaint!” murmured Toad dreamily. “Me _complain_ of -that beautiful, that heavenly vision that has been vouchsafed me! -_Mend_ the _cart!_ I’ve done with carts for ever. I never want to see -the cart, or to hear of it, again. O, Ratty! You can’t think how -obliged I am to you for consenting to come on this trip! I wouldn’t -have gone without you, and then I might never have seen that—that swan, -that sunbeam, that thunderbolt! I might never have heard that -entrancing sound, or smelt that bewitching smell! I owe it all to you, -my best of friends!” - -The Rat turned from him in despair. “You see what it is?” he said to -the Mole, addressing him across Toad’s head: “He’s quite hopeless. I -give it up—when we get to the town we’ll go to the railway station, and -with luck we may pick up a train there that’ll get us back to riverbank -to-night. And if ever you catch me going a-pleasuring with this -provoking animal again!”—He snorted, and during the rest of that weary -trudge addressed his remarks exclusively to Mole. - -On reaching the town they went straight to the station and deposited -Toad in the second-class waiting-room, giving a porter twopence to keep -a strict eye on him. They then left the horse at an inn stable, and -gave what directions they could about the cart and its contents. -Eventually, a slow train having landed them at a station not very far -from Toad Hall, they escorted the spell-bound, sleep-walking Toad to -his door, put him inside it, and instructed his housekeeper to feed -him, undress him, and put him to bed. Then they got out their boat from -the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour -sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat’s -great joy and contentment. - -The following evening the Mole, who had risen late and taken things -very easy all day, was sitting on the bank fishing, when the Rat, who -had been looking up his friends and gossiping, came strolling along to -find him. “Heard the news?” he said. “There’s nothing else being talked -about, all along the river bank. Toad went up to Town by an early train -this morning. 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