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Home Sweet Home | The Wind in the Willows

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Health & Fitness, Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Tonight, we’ll read another excerpt from “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame, published in 1908. This story centers around four small animals: Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger. Their stories take place in the countryside of Edwardian England. If you’d like to start with the first episode, it aired on March 22, 2021. To follow along easily in order, go to snoozecast.com/series. In the last episode, the two little friends Water Rat and Mole spend more time in Mr. Badger’s cozy underground dwelling with Mr. Otter before returning safely home. — read by 'V' — Listen Ad-Free on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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1:31.0

The two friends, Moll and Rat, were returning across country after a long days outing with

1:39.6

order. Exploring on the wide uplands were certain streams tributary to their own river had their first

1:49.8

small beginnings. And the shades of the short winter day were closing in on them. And they had still

2:00.0

some distance to go. They found a beaten track that made walking a later business and responded

2:10.0

moreover to that small questioning something which all animals carry inside them, saying unmistakably,

2:20.6

yes, quite right. This leads home. The rapid nightfall of mid-December had quite beset the

2:33.6

little village as they journeyed through on soft feet over a first thin fall of powdery snow.

2:43.1

Once beyond the village, where the cottages ceased abruptly, on either side of the road,

2:53.2

they could smell through the darkness the friendly fields again. And they braced themselves

3:01.1

for the last long stretch, the home stretch. The stretch that we know is bound to end sometime

3:13.6

in the rattle of the door latch, the sudden fire light, and the sight of familiar things greeting

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