The Wind in the Willows, Part 1 of 12
The Sleepy Bookshelf
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Hold Up
It all seemed too good to be true. The sunshine struck hot on his fur. Soft breezes caressed his heated brow and after the seclusion of the celerage 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, 6 pence for the privilege of passing by the private road. He was boiled over in an instant by the impatient and contemptuous maul
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