Occupation: Film Writer Birth: March 8, 1859 Death: July 6, 1932
Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world,"said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and….
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing..
Weasels--and stoats--and foxes--and so on. They're all right in a way--I'm very good friends with them--pass the time of day when we meet, and all th….
It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest….
An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of wat….
O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shal….
Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more ….
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a….
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working..
The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible M….
All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wonde….
There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes..
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reach….
Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads suddenly, as du….
The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad..
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings..
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hope….
I'm such a clever Toad..
All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!.
Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place..
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine ….