And off goes Mr. Toad

`No!' he said, a little sullenly, but stoutly; `I'm NOT sorry. And it wasn't folly at all! It was simply glorious!'

`What?' cried the Badger, greatly scandalised. `You backsliding animal, didn't you tell me just now, in there––––'

`Oh, yes, yes, in THERE,' said Toad impatiently. `I'd have said anything in THERE. You're so eloquent, dear Badger, and so moving, and so convincing, and put all your points so frightfully well – you can do what you like with me in THERE, and you know it. But I've been searching my mind since, and going over things in it, and I find that I'm not a bit sorry or repentant really, so it's no earthly good saying I am; now, is it?'

`Then you don't promise,' said the Badger, `never to touch a motor-car again?'

`Certainly not!' replied Toad emphatically. `On the contrary, I faithfully promise that the very first motor-car I see, poop- poop! off I go in it!'

(Illustrasjon av Michael Hague)

Sympati med de lavere klasser, rett illustrert

Ettersom Dronten, lat som den er, ikke tok seg bryet med å finne en tilstrekkelig egnet illustrasjon til det lille utdraget fra The Wind in the Willows som den gledet sine lesere med for noen poster siden, og ettersom Deerstalker snublet over de tilsynelatende nye sidene til The Kenneth Grahame Society, og ettersom vi er i det illustrative hjørnet her i selskapet i dag, bringer vi her Arthur Rackhams illustrasjon til episoden.