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The Wind in the Willows, through the meadows

Author: Kenneth Grahame Year: 1908 Length: 398 characters Difficulty: demanding Public domain

A long list of things seen on a walk, separated by commas, with one quoted word to catch the Shift key at the end.

Hither and thither through the meadows he rambled busily, along the hedgerows, across the copses, finding everywhere birds building, flowers budding, leaves thrusting—everything happy, and progressive, and occupied. And instead of having an uneasy conscience pricking him and whispering “whitewash!” he somehow could only feel how jolly it was to be the only idle dog among all these busy citizens.

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A man in a dark broad hat and jacket painted in thick strokes against a shadowed wall, The Juvenile Lead, Walter Sickert, 1908.
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Kenneth Grahame published The Wind in the Willows in 1908, the year he left his post as Secretary of the Bank of England. The book grew out of bedtime stories and letters written for his son Alastair. This walk comes from the first chapter, once the Mole has abandoned his spring cleaning. Project Gutenberg carries the full text.

What it trainsA long list of things seen on a walk, separated by commas, with one quoted word to catch the Shift key at the end.

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Kenneth Grahame published The Wind in the Willows in 1908, the year he left his post as Secretary of the Bank of England. The book grew out of bedtime stories and letters written for his son Alastair. This walk comes from the first chapter, once the Mole has abandoned his spring cleaning. Project Gutenberg carries the full text.

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