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The Wind in the Willows: spring cleaning

Author: Kenneth Grahame Year: 1908 Length: 498 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

A list of tools and tasks strung together with semicolons, which trains the right little finger over a long line.

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. 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 discontent and longing.

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Kenneth Grahame worked at the Bank of England and rose to be its Secretary before he retired in 1908, the year this book appeared. The story grew out of bedtime tales and letters he wrote for his son Alastair. Spring cleaning drives Mole out of his hole in the first paragraphs, and the river takes over the book from there. President Theodore Roosevelt read it so often that he wrote to Grahame about the animals as if he knew them.

About this text

Kenneth Grahame worked at the Bank of England and rose to be its Secretary before he retired in 1908, the year this book appeared. The story grew out of bedtime tales and letters he wrote for his son Alastair. Spring cleaning drives Mole out of his hole in the first paragraphs, and the river takes over the book from there. President Theodore Roosevelt read it so often that he wrote to Grahame about the animals as if he knew them.

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A list of tools and tasks strung together with semicolons, which trains the right little finger over a long line.

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