`What's inside it?' asked the Mole, wriggling with curiosity.
`There's cold chicken inside it,' replied the Rat briefly; `coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkinssaladfrenchrollscresssan dwichespottedmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater----'
`O stop, stop,' cried the Mole in ecstacies: `This is too much!'
`Do you really think so?' enquired the Rat seriously. `It's only what I always take on these little excursions; and the other animals are always telling me that I'm a mean beast and cut it VERY fine!'
2 comments:
Hi AJ .. I love this part of the story .. so true, and so evocative of messing about on the river .. and that picnic description .. just a word of deliciousness!
I used the Vole's popping out of the river bank as my V in the A - Z .. as Ratty is a water rat (vole) .. lovely seeing your extract here ..
Grahame certainly does have magic in his words ..
Have a lovely weekend - perhaps a picnic or a 'messing about in a boat'? Happy times - Hilary
Like water rat I was brought up messing around in boats, we had three boats at one time and I learned to row almost before I could walk and of course Wind in the Willows was required reading, along with Swallows and Amazons.
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