Hello there, and welcome to Down to Sleep. This is a podcast of softly spoken stories to help you get a good night's rest.

Every week I read stories to you to help you relax and drift off. If it's your first time here, welcome.

If you're returning, thank you. It's good to see you again. I hope you're well.

Tonight, we continue with the wind in the willows. A book that I have been

loving so much falling back in love with it. It's so cozy and wholesome and sleepy. We had a lot of

TV shows about this story when I was younger and I loved them, but I had never read the book.

I'm so happy to get to do that with you now. If you want to hear the rest of this book, we've finished

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Let's tuck you in, take a nice deep breath, and let's get down to sleep.

With the Wind and the Willows, Chapter 10, 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 on him, partly by the exceeding coldness of his toes, which made him dream that he was at home

in bed in his own handsome room with the Tudor window on a cold winter's night, and his bedclothes

had got up, grumbling and protesting, they couldn't stand the cold any longer,

then run downstairs to the kitchen fire to warm themselves,

and he had followed, on bare feet,

along miles and miles of icy stone-paved passages,

arguing and beseeching them to be reasonable. He would probably have been aroused much

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