X THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD

The front door of the hollow tree faced eastwards, so Toad was called at an early hour; partly by the bright sunlight streaming in on him, partly by the exceeding coldness of his toes, which made him dream that he was at home in...

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...

XII THE RETURN OF ULYSSES

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up* for the coming expedition. He was...

III THE WILD WOOD

The Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. But whenever the Mole mentioned his...

VII THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN

The Willow-Wren* was twittering his thin little song, hidden himself in the dark selvedge* of the river bank. Though it was past ten o’clock at night, the sky still clung to and retained some lingering skirts of light from the...

VI MR. TOAD

It was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and its accustomed pace, and a hot sun seemed to be pulling everything green and bushy and spiky up out of the earth towards him, as...

IV MR. BADGER

They waited patiently for what seemed a very long time, stamping in the snow to keep their feet warm. At last they heard the sound of slow shuffling footsteps approaching the door from the inside. It seemed, as the Mole remarked to the Rat,...