Hello there. Welcome to this episode of Down to Sleep. Tonight I will be continuing The Wind in

the Willows by Kenneth Graham, which was a children's book published in Britain in 1908. It focuses on

four anthropomorphized animals, the mole, the rat, the toad, and the badger. I hope that you

enjoy this reading and it helps you get down to sleep tonight.

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nice deep breath, tuck you in and let's get down to sleep. We start from chapter two,

The Open Road.

Rattie, said the Mole suddenly, one bright summer morning,

If you please, I want to ask you a favour.

The Rat was sitting on the riverbank, 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 head suddenly, as ducks will, he would dive down and tickle

their necks just under where their chins were.

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 underwater.

At last they implored him to go away and attend to his own affairs and leave them to mind theirs.

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