![]() Once again he breaks free from his captors, this time disguised as a washerwoman. ![]() He subsequently steals another car after which he’s arrested by the police and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Toad’s adventures are particularly colourful: obsessed with cars despite his terrible driving skills (he proudly testifies that he has crashed no fewer than seven vehicles), he is placed under house arrest for his own good by Ratty and Mole, but escapes after fooling Ratty into thinking he’s mortally ill. En route, Mole and Ratty pay a call on the brash and roguish Toad of Toad Hall and travel to the Wild Wood in search of the wise but elusive Badger. At the river, he becomes friends with Ratty (in fact a water vole), who offers Mole a jaunt in his rowing boat with the famous insistence that ‘there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats’. ![]() The basic story is straightforward – the nervous, stay-at-home Mole yearns to break free, and decides to go on an adventure. ![]()
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