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When three close friends Mole, Ratty and Badger find out that the infamous Mr. Toad of Toad Hall has been up to no good, they must find him and change his ways for good.
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00:00:27To be continued
00:00:37I don't want to see some ducklings.
00:00:39Of course we will.
00:00:41It's the good old ripper.
00:00:42I really want to see some ducklings.
00:00:43It's so sweet.
00:00:44Look, look, there's a coot.
00:00:46I think you'll find these are mallards.
00:00:47Mallards always have a green neck and yellow ears.
00:00:50Only the drakes can ever pass.
00:00:53Lady ducks don't have green necks.
00:00:55They're girls.
00:00:56There's nothing to say about it.
00:00:57Girls are nice.
00:00:58Girls?
00:00:59It's rubbish.
00:01:00Edward.
00:01:22Look, look, more ducks.
00:01:24I told you, sir.
00:01:25They're searching for food, poor fish.
00:01:27Look at him, Fisher.
00:01:28What about the poor ducks?
00:01:30Emma, you're always bothering about the animals.
00:01:34Don't know how to get washed away when the boats go past.
00:01:37Don't be silly, Emma.
00:01:39The water goes right in their front doors.
00:01:41How do you know?
00:01:43Well, as matter of fact, we both know.
00:01:46Don't we, Alexandra?
00:01:48Alexandra, the mole had been working very hard.
00:01:54It's all to do with the river.
00:01:57But a certain mole and rat and Mr. Badger.
00:02:01Alexandra and Mr. Toad.
00:02:05You must imagine what you can't see.
00:02:08And that there are voices to hear if I need to let them speak.
00:02:11That's right.
00:02:13You see, darlings, you must listen to the river.
00:02:16It's just the same as ever it was and as it always will be.
00:02:22Always changing and always the same.
00:02:35The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.
00:02:41First with rooms, then with dusters, then on ladders and steps and chairs with a pail of whitewash.
00:02:47Till he had dust in his throat and eyes and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur.
00:02:54Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him,
00:02:59penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of longing.
00:03:05It was small wonder, then, that suddenly...
00:03:08Oh, oh, blow.
00:03:12I'm spring cleaning.
00:03:22Up we go.
00:03:24Up we go.
00:03:27Up we go.
00:03:32Oh, my.
00:03:47Halt.
00:03:48Oh, private road.
00:03:50Onion sauce.
00:03:52Onion sauce.
00:03:54Clear the way.
00:03:56Did you see that?
00:03:57Absolute cheek.
00:03:58Well, I never...
00:03:59Oh, my.
00:04:00Oh.
00:04:11Oh, my.
00:04:15Oh.
00:04:27Oh, my.
00:04:37Oh, my.
00:04:40Oh, my.
00:04:58Hello, Mo.
00:05:01Hello, Rat.
00:05:04Would you like to come over?
00:05:06All very well to talk.
00:05:22Step lively.
00:05:30I've never been in a boat before.
00:05:33What?
00:05:34Never been?
00:05:38My young friend, there is nothing, absolutely nothing,
00:05:43in half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
00:05:48Messing about in boats.
00:05:51Messing about...
00:05:53Look ahead, Rat.
00:05:56In boats or with boats.
00:06:00Boats, in or out of them, it doesn't matter.
00:06:02That's the charm of it.
00:06:03Whether you get away, whether you don't,
00:06:05or whether you arrive at your destination or somewhere else,
00:06:07or whether you never get anywhere at all,
00:06:10you're always busy.
00:06:11Nothing in particular.
00:06:13And when you've done it, there's always something else to do.
00:06:15And you can do it if you'd like.
00:06:19But you're much better than it.
00:06:23Shove that on your feet.
00:06:27A cold chicken, cold tongue, cold ham, cold beef,
00:06:29pickled gherkin salad, French rolls,
00:06:30cress sandwiches, potted meat, ginger beer,
00:06:32lemonade, soda water.
00:06:33Stop too much.
00:06:34Only what I always take on these little excursions.
00:06:44So, this is a river.
00:06:48And you live by it?
00:06:52By it and with it and on it and in it.
00:06:56It's my world and I don't want any other.
00:06:58What it hasn't got is not worth having.
00:07:00Winter, summer, spring, autumn.
00:07:03Lord, the fun we have together.
00:07:05Just you and the river.
00:07:07No one else.
00:07:08No one else?
00:07:09The bank's far too crowded nowadays.
00:07:11And everyone's always wanting you to do something as if...
00:07:13What's over there?
00:07:19That is the wild wood.
00:07:21We riverbankers don't go there much.
00:07:23Er, aren't the people there very nice?
00:07:27Oh, squirrels, all right.
00:07:29Rabbits, some of them.
00:07:31And there's dear old badger.
00:07:32Wouldn't have anywhere else if you paid him.
00:07:34There are others, you see.
00:07:36Weasels, stoats, foxes.
00:07:40All right in a way,
00:07:41that you can't really trust him.
00:07:45And beyond the wild wood...
00:07:47Lies the wide world.
00:07:50I'm never going there,
00:07:51and nor will you,
00:07:52if you've got any sense.
00:07:53Don't ever refer to it again.
00:08:04Oh, my.
00:08:06Oh, my.
00:08:09Oh.
00:08:10Oh, my.
00:08:12Uh-oh.
00:08:29Teaching Portly to swim.
00:08:32Picnic.
00:08:33Why didn't you invite me, ratty?
00:08:35Greedy beggar.
00:08:36Er, an impromptu affair.
00:08:38By the way, my friend Mr Mole.
00:08:39Proud, I'm sure.
00:08:42Such a rumpus on the river today.
00:08:44Came here for some quiet.
00:08:45Stumble on you fellows.
00:08:47Beg pardon.
00:08:48I didn't mean, um...
00:08:50Hello?
00:08:52Badger.
00:08:53Phew.
00:08:54My dear old fellow.
00:08:55Do come and, uh...
00:08:57Company.
00:08:59Oh, dear.
00:09:00But that's just his way.
00:09:02We shan't be seeing any more of him today.
00:09:04Well, then, who's out on the river?
00:09:06The great man, for one.
00:09:08The boat, clothes, everything brand new.
00:09:12Ha!
00:09:12First it was sailing.
00:09:14Then it was punting.
00:09:16Then it was houseboating.
00:09:17Always the same.
00:09:18Whatever Toad takes up, he soon gets tired of it and starts on something fresh.
00:09:25Oh, boy, there.
00:09:26Phone.
00:09:28Company.
00:09:29Hello, you fellows.
00:09:32No!
00:09:34Wretched oars.
00:09:45Ah, yes.
00:09:53Look, old man, perhaps it's time we packed up too, hmm?
00:09:58About rowing back, Ratty, do you think that I might take...
00:10:02My dear fellow, I rather think not.
00:10:06I think I'd be rather good at it, you know, being rather a practical fellow.
00:10:09And good with my paws.
00:10:12Very quick on the uptake.
00:10:13It can't be as difficult as all that.
00:10:15Learn a thing by doing a thing.
00:10:17Now, see here.
00:10:17First you must learn the theory.
00:10:19Hang the beastly theory.
00:10:20I want to go.
00:10:21Sit down.
00:10:21Let go, let go, I say.
00:10:23No, no, sit down.
00:10:24I'm determined, I shall.
00:10:25I'm determined you shall not.
00:10:27Don't be so obstinate.
00:10:28Don't be such a fool.
00:10:28Oh!
00:10:39Oh, Ratty, whatever can I say?
00:10:42There's absolutely no need.
00:10:44Oh, but there is.
00:10:45When I think...
00:10:46Come now.
00:10:47Just think I might have lost your beautiful picnic basket.
00:10:50I'm so sorry.
00:10:52You've been so good and generous and I've been so stupid and ungrateful.
00:10:56Can you forgive me?
00:10:58My dear chap, water under the bridge.
00:11:01I say, that's quite funny.
00:11:05Look here.
00:11:06You'd better stop here with me for a while.
00:11:08Teach you to row and swim.
00:11:11Gain, um, experience of the river.
00:11:13And so it was agreed.
00:11:15And straight away, the contrite mole was eager to learn from his wise new friend,
00:11:20not only about the perils and dangers of the river and its weirs and its sudden floods,
00:11:25but also about its joys, night fishing with otter, excursions far afield with badger,
00:11:32these things and so much more, until the glowing tiredness of the long day finally overcame him
00:11:39and it was time for him to lay his happy head on the pillow,
00:11:43knowing his other new friend, the river, was lapping close to his window.
00:11:47And as summer ripened and he mastered the skills and learned the delights of running water,
00:11:54he caught something of what the wind was whispering so constantly in the reeds.
00:12:06Toad must be a very nice animal.
00:12:09The best of animals.
00:12:11So simple, so good-natured, so affectionate.
00:12:15Not very clever, perhaps.
00:12:17And it may be that he's both boastful and conceited.
00:12:20But, uh, he's got some great qualities as Toadie.
00:12:23He's rather rich, you know.
00:12:25And his house, really, is one of the nicest in these parts,
00:12:27though we never admit it to him.
00:12:30A banqueting hall.
00:12:33I wonder what he's taken up instead.
00:12:36We'll know soon enough.
00:12:43Toadie!
00:12:44You're one for you!
00:12:46Ratty!
00:12:47Hooray!
00:12:48Splendid!
00:12:48Toadie, this is my friend Mole.
00:12:50Mole, this is the famous toad.
00:12:53How do you do, Mole?
00:12:55It's a delightful residence.
00:12:57Oh, how kind of you!
00:12:58Oh, absolutely!
00:12:59Oh, it's the finest house on the whole river!
00:13:04It's only my way, you know.
00:13:07Now, look here.
00:13:08I was just going to send a boat for you, Ratty.
00:13:10Um, yes.
00:13:12With strict orders to come at once, no matter what you were doing.
00:13:15Come along!
00:13:16Oh, you don't know how lucky it is you're turning up just now.
00:13:20You've got to help me.
00:13:21If it's about your rowing.
00:13:22Oh, poo, boating?
00:13:24Ah, sheer waste of time.
00:13:26Gave that up long ago.
00:13:28No, I've discovered the real thing.
00:13:32And I propose to devote the rest of my life to it.
00:13:37There!
00:13:39Oh, there's real life for you.
00:13:42Oh, the open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the rolling hills, villages,
00:13:49towns, cities, here today, somewhere else tomorrow.
00:13:54Travel, change, excitement.
00:13:56A horizon that's always changing.
00:13:59And mind, this is the finest of its kind ever built.
00:14:03All the fittings planned by myself.
00:14:07Come on, Ratty.
00:14:10You see, all complete.
00:14:12Why?
00:14:13Everything you could possibly want.
00:14:15Nothing whatever has been forgotten you'll find when we make our start this afternoon.
00:14:19I beg your pardon?
00:14:21We start this afternoon?
00:14:26Now, you dear good old Ratty, don't talk in that sniffy way.
00:14:31You've got to come.
00:14:32I can't manage without you.
00:14:34Now, you surely don't mean to stick to your fussy old river all your life.
00:14:39I want to show you the world.
00:14:42Stop, will you?
00:14:44I don't care.
00:14:45I'm not going.
00:14:46And that's flat.
00:14:47And I do stick to my old river.
00:14:50And live in a hole.
00:14:51And boat.
00:14:52As I've always done.
00:14:53And what's more, you're going to stick to me and do as I do, aren't you, Mow?
00:14:55Well, I...
00:14:59Oh, the joy of the open road.
00:15:02No cares, no worries.
00:15:04Live for others.
00:15:06That's my motto in life.
00:15:07Hey, I say, Ratty, take some refreshment, too.
00:15:16I'll always stick to you, Rat.
00:15:19What you say is to be has got to be.
00:15:22Live for others.
00:15:24That's my motto in life.
00:15:26Talk about your old river.
00:15:28This is the real life of...
00:15:31A gentleman.
00:15:33I don't talk about my river.
00:15:35You know I don't.
00:15:38But I think about it.
00:15:40I think about it all the time.
00:15:48Just clear everything up, you good fellows, it is.
00:15:55Ratty, shall we run away tomorrow morning very early and go back to our dear old hole on the river?
00:16:03No, no, we'll see it out.
00:16:05What? He wouldn't be safe left to himself.
00:16:07But thanks awfully.
00:16:09Open road.
00:16:10It won't take long.
00:16:11His fads never do.
00:16:14Good night, Mowley.
00:16:15Good night, Ratty.
00:16:25And then you fit the oars, give a flick of the wrist, and away you skim.
00:16:29And so, of course, my dear Matty.
00:16:31I continued by stating my long-held philosophy that...
00:16:34Uh, precisely.
00:16:35And what did you say to her?
00:16:37Ever onwards and upwards, I said.
00:16:40Progress, I said.
00:16:41Ever forwards and faster.
00:16:42Onwards.
00:16:45And upwards.
00:16:47And forwards.
00:16:49And faster!
00:16:52And forwards!
00:16:59Villains!
00:17:00Scoundrels!
00:17:01I'll have the law on you!
00:17:02I'll get you, I will!
00:17:04You rotters!
00:17:05You villain!
00:17:07Poop.
00:17:08Poop.
00:17:09Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:17:11Poetry of motion.
00:17:13The only way to travel.
00:17:15Oh, bless!
00:17:16Oh, poop.
00:17:18Oh, poop.
00:17:19Ha, ha, ha.
00:17:19Oh, my.
00:17:20Oh, my.
00:17:21Oh, stop being an ass toad.
00:17:24I think I never knew.
00:17:25All those wasted years.
00:17:27I never even dreamt.
00:17:28But now, oh, what dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way!
00:17:35What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch!
00:17:38Horrid little carts!
00:17:40Common carts!
00:17:41Canary-coloured carts!
00:17:43What are we to do with him?
00:17:46Nothing.
00:17:48At all.
00:17:49Oh!
00:17:51But he's not safe there.
00:17:53Suppose another.
00:17:54Bother, toad!
00:17:55I've done with him!
00:17:56Catch me going on any more jaunts with that provoking!
00:17:59Poop, poop, poop, poop.
00:18:01Brr, brr, brr, brr, brr, brr, brr, brr, brr.
00:18:03Poop, poop, poop, poop, poop.
00:18:04Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:18:06Brr, brr, brr, brr, brr, brr, brr, brr.
00:18:07Brr, brr, brr, brr, brr, brr.
00:18:08Poop, poop.
00:18:09You see?
00:18:10Quite.
00:18:11Oh.
00:18:24How about this, Moley?
00:18:26It's called Ducks' Ditty.
00:18:28All along the backwater, through the rush is tall.
00:18:32Ducks are a-dabbling, up-tails all.
00:18:35Everyone for what he likes, we like to be.
00:18:38Heads down, tails up, dabbling free.
00:18:41High in the blue above, swift, swirl and call.
00:18:44We are down and dabbling, up-tails all.
00:18:51I don't think much of that, Rat.
00:18:53Nor do they.
00:18:55They say why can't we do what we like, when we like and as we like,
00:18:59without having poetry made up about us.
00:19:01They say what a nonsense it all is.
00:19:03And so it is too.
00:19:05No, it isn't.
00:19:14There was always a restlessness in the countryside at this time of year.
00:19:18Ratty himself was feeling restless.
00:19:20Why all this craving for change?
00:19:24The swallows spoke of the stirring within them, their sweet unrest.
00:19:28Of course the day would come when they would be homesick again for lush meadows and insect-haunted ponds.
00:19:35But now they must answer the call of the South.
00:19:39The South!
00:19:40They yearned for the passionate touch of the Southern Sun.
00:19:44For one waft of the South's authentic odour.
00:19:48Their blood, they said, was dancing to a music he could not understand.
00:19:53But they were wrong.
00:19:55He too felt uncontrollable longing stirring within himself to travel far and wide.
00:20:02A voyage on a small trading vessel, perhaps, from Constantinople to the islands of Greece
00:20:08and then to the Adriatic Sea, whose shores swam in an atmosphere of amber, rose and aquamarine.
00:20:15In his mind's eye, he saw himself in and out of harbour all the time, sleeping through the heat of
00:20:21the day in some cool temple.
00:20:23And then after sundown, feasting under great stars, set in a velvet sky.
00:20:29In fairness it might be with friends, with the air full of music, lights flashing and shimmering and swaying gondolas.
00:20:37Then, by different ships, to Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Alasio, where the wine casks were dropped overboard,
00:20:46tied to one another in a long bobbing line, like a mile of porpoises.
00:20:51And where he, Ratty, that oarsman without equal, would be one of the singing boat crew that towed them towards
00:20:58the little town
00:20:58where the great olive woods began, as did rest in refreshment with friends in the South.
00:21:07Hello, Ratty. Been far?
00:21:10South. Ah, south.
00:21:12Is everything all right, Ratty?
00:21:14Way, hey, blow the mountain down.
00:21:17Hey, coming, on board.
00:21:19Ship, ship.
00:21:20Ratty, where are you off to?
00:21:22Why, with the rest of them.
00:21:24Seawards first and then on shipboard.
00:21:26To the shores that are calling me.
00:21:29Oh!
00:21:31No!
00:21:31Oh!
00:21:33Oh!
00:21:33Oh!
00:21:33Oh!
00:21:34Ah!
00:21:35Ah!
00:21:35Ah!
00:21:36Ah!
00:21:38Come on, old friend.
00:21:42A phantom song, peeling, high between vaporous grey, wave-lapped walls.
00:21:47I can't explain, Moly.
00:21:49Sea voices, magic, haunting.
00:21:53No, I can't explain.
00:21:55But I'd have gone after them.
00:21:57Gone.
00:21:58And left you.
00:22:00Nonsense.
00:22:01Leave at this time of the year.
00:22:03Why, the apples are almost rosy enough to pick.
00:22:07There's our jams and pickles to make and the nuts to gather.
00:22:10And remember how you said you loved watching the harvest being brought home?
00:22:14And the haystacks growing higher and higher?
00:22:17And how you'd take me to see Mr. Badger?
00:22:21You wouldn't miss the poetry of all that, would you, Ratty?
00:22:25There was a poetry, too, about wintertime when it came, when the pageant of summer flowers had long shrivelled.
00:22:32Ever since that first brief encounter long ago in the spring, Moly had yearned to meet again that imposing animal
00:22:40who lived in the heart of the wild wood.
00:22:44Perhaps now, when nature had kicked off her clothes and the woods seemed closer than ever to the riverbank, it
00:22:50was time to venture out and make the acquaintance of the elusive badger.
00:22:56Going for a stroll?
00:22:58Run into badger, maybe?
00:23:01It won't be long.
00:23:02Not, let's pet último on the ground.
00:23:06Little maid cannot have a chance.
00:23:24Uh.
00:23:25Uh-uh.
00:23:27Uh-uh.
00:23:28Uh-uh.
00:23:28Yeah, yeah.
00:23:45Oh, what's that?
00:24:03Oh, my, this is awful. I must find badger. I must find badgers.
00:24:16Get out of this, you fool. Get out.
00:24:19Help me. Help.
00:24:20Oh, oh, oh.
00:24:26Turn away, turn away.
00:24:29Ah! Ratty! Ratty! Ratty!
00:24:39Oh.
00:24:53Moley? Moley?
00:24:56I say, old chap, what rhymes with...
00:24:59Moley?
00:25:02Moley? Moley? I say?
00:25:14Drake. That sounded like...
00:25:17My word! The wild wood! Oh, Moley! Moley! My dear old friend!
00:25:38Oh, Moley. Oh, Moley.
00:25:44Moley! Moley!
00:25:48Moley!
00:25:49Moley!
00:25:50Mo!
00:25:51Moley, where are you, Mo?
00:25:52Moley!
00:25:55Moley!
00:25:57Moley!
00:26:00That's their game, is it?
00:26:03Moley!
00:26:06Moley!
00:26:08Moley!
00:26:13Moley!
00:26:17Moley!
00:26:19Moley!
00:26:21Moley!
00:26:21Moley!
00:26:34Oh, poor old Moly.
00:26:38Moly!
00:26:44Oh, oh!
00:26:46Mo!
00:26:47Ratty?
00:26:48Is that really you?
00:26:49Moly, where are you?
00:26:51Oh, oh!
00:26:52Oh, ratty.
00:26:54I've been so frightened you can't think.
00:26:56You really shouldn't have gone and done it, Mo.
00:26:59I did my best to keep you from it.
00:27:01If we river bankers have to come here, we come in pairs.
00:27:05We know things you don't yet.
00:27:07Passwords, signs.
00:27:09Without them, if you're small, you'll find yourself in trouble.
00:27:12If you were badger or otter, it'd be quite another matter.
00:27:15Surely brave Mr Toad.
00:27:16Toad?
00:27:17Wouldn't show his face here alone for a fortune.
00:27:20Now, we must make a start.
00:27:21Can't spend the night here.
00:27:24I'm dreadfully sorry, Ratty, but I'm dead beat.
00:27:26If I don't rest a while and get my strength back, I'll...
00:27:29All right, all right.
00:27:31Rest away.
00:27:32Anyhow, there should be a bit of a moon later.
00:27:35To help us find our way.
00:28:05Mo, time to be off.
00:28:07I'll just see if everything's quiet.
00:28:11Hello?
00:28:12What's up?
00:28:13Snow's up.
00:28:14Or rather, down.
00:28:15Oh.
00:28:16What shall we do?
00:28:18Well, we must take our chance, I suppose.
00:28:21The worst of it is, I don't know where we are.
00:28:23Everything looks so different.
00:28:34We'll have to push on.
00:28:36We're too deep to wade through, sir.
00:28:38Down there, we might find some shelter and have a rest.
00:28:41Something may turn up.
00:28:46Oh, my poor leg.
00:28:48Oh, my.
00:28:50I must have tripped on a branch.
00:28:52Poor old moly.
00:28:53Not having much luck, are you?
00:28:56It's a very clean cut.
00:28:58It wasn't a branch you tripped on.
00:29:00Sharp edge of something metal, more like.
00:29:03It's just the same.
00:29:04Whatever done it.
00:29:05Whatever did it.
00:29:07Yes.
00:29:09Oh, come on, rat.
00:29:11Hooray.
00:29:12Hooray.
00:29:12Hooray.
00:29:13Hooray.
00:29:13Hooray.
00:29:13Hooray.
00:29:13Hooray.
00:29:14Hooray.
00:29:14Guess what?
00:29:15What?
00:29:16A door scraper.
00:29:18A door scraper?
00:29:20Huh.
00:29:21Why dance jigs about a door?
00:29:22Don't you see what it means, you dull-witted animal?
00:29:25Yes.
00:29:26Some very careless person has left it when it's sure to trip everybody up.
00:29:30I shall go and complain.
00:29:31Stop arguing and help me.
00:29:34There.
00:29:35What did I tell you?
00:29:37You told me nothing whatever.
00:29:38Go on.
00:29:39Dance another jig.
00:29:41You found another piece of litter.
00:29:42I hope you're happy.
00:29:44Can we eat it?
00:29:45Sleep under it?
00:29:46Sit on it and sledge home on it?
00:29:48You exasperating rodent.
00:29:50Doesn't that doormat tell you anything?
00:29:53Doormats tell one nothing.
00:29:54Doormats know their place.
00:29:56Thick-headed beast.
00:30:09Rat!
00:30:10You're a wonder.
00:30:12That's what you are.
00:30:13A real wonder.
00:30:14Argued it out step by step.
00:30:16Looked at my shin.
00:30:18And door scraper, your majestic mind told you.
00:30:21And you found the very door scraper that done it.
00:30:24Did it?
00:30:24Quite.
00:30:25Did it stop there?
00:30:26It did not.
00:30:27Let me only find a doormat, says your intellect.
00:30:31And you found one.
00:30:32Now for the door, you said.
00:30:34And there is the door.
00:30:35Well, you're wasted here among us fellows.
00:30:38If only I had your head ratty.
00:30:40But as you haven't, I suppose you're going to sit there and talk all night.
00:30:52Now, the very next time this happens, I shall be exceedingly angry.
00:30:56Who is it this time, disturbing people on such a night?
00:31:00Speak up.
00:31:01Oh, Badger, it's me, Rat.
00:31:03And my friend Mole.
00:31:04We've lost our way in the snow.
00:31:06Please let us in.
00:31:10Why, Ratty, me dear little man.
00:31:13Come along in.
00:31:14You must be perished, both of you.
00:31:16Well, I never.
00:31:18Lost in the wild wood and in the snow.
00:31:20I don't know if it's time for me.
00:31:33Old Mr. Badger, gruff and alarming as he appeared on First Acquaintance,
00:31:37was in fact the kindliest and most welcoming of animals.
00:31:41Although he almost never went in search of society,
00:31:45he was always at home to his friends, whatever their needs,
00:31:49and for as long as they required to stay.
00:31:51His visitors could expect not only comfortable lodgings,
00:31:54but also all the pleasures of a well-loaded table.
00:31:58All he ever wanted in return was the latest news from the riverbank.
00:32:04Every week a new motor car.
00:32:06Bigger and shinier.
00:32:08And more expensive.
00:32:09And more powerful.
00:32:10With which to terrorise the neighbourhood.
00:32:12And everyone ends in disaster.
00:32:15His coach house is piled to the roof with wrecked machinery.
00:32:18He persists in the belief that he's a heaven-born driver.
00:32:21No respect for the law.
00:32:23Oh, it's disgraceful.
00:32:25And rich as he is, if he goes on like this, he'll finish up bankrupt.
00:32:29Oh, much, much worse.
00:32:30Oh, my.
00:32:34So, Badger, I think his friends ought to rally round and make him see sense.
00:32:38Now, look here.
00:32:40You know, of course, that I can't do anything now.
00:32:42Well, once the year has turned and the nights are shorter
00:32:46and one wants to be up and doing by sunrise, you know,
00:32:50well, then, the three of us will take Toad seriously in hand.
00:32:54Stand no nonsense, bring him back to reason.
00:32:56By force, if need be.
00:32:59We'll make him sensible.
00:33:01Right you are, Badger.
00:33:02We'll convert the poor unhappy animal.
00:33:04He'll be the most converted Toad that ever was before we've done with him.
00:33:09I fancy you know something about the creatures of the wild water.
00:33:13I know indeed, Mr. Badger.
00:33:15Well, well, well, they're not so bad, really.
00:33:17Live and let live.
00:33:18You'll have no further trouble.
00:33:20Come along, Mole.
00:33:21Don't fret, Ratty.
00:33:22I'll show you my boat cold shortcut to the edge of the water.
00:33:34Ratty!
00:33:34Hold on, come back!
00:33:36We can't stop now, Mole.
00:33:38Ratty, I want you, quick!
00:33:40It's close by here.
00:33:41Whatever it is, we'll come back for it tomorrow.
00:33:44Come now, be a good fellow.
00:33:45It's getting even worse.
00:33:46I'm not sure of the way.
00:33:47And I need your nose.
00:33:52Oh, please come back, Ratty.
00:33:53Don't catch up, Mole.
00:33:55Now look here, Mole.
00:33:58Why?
00:33:59Whatever is the matter, old friend.
00:34:01We really ought to step it out, you know.
00:34:32You don't understand, Ratty.
00:34:33I've been just a pig.
00:34:35A plain pig.
00:34:39Come on, Mole.
00:34:40Where to?
00:34:42To find that home of yours.
00:34:44With that nose of yours.
00:34:50You'll catch up, Ratty.
00:35:08Oh, Ratty, why ever did I do it?
00:35:10Why did I bring you to my poor, cold little place on a night like this?
00:35:15You might have been at Riverbank toasting your toes with all your own nice things about you.
00:35:21Most remarkable.
00:35:23Wonderful.
00:35:24Why did I do it?
00:35:26Let's see inside.
00:35:29Oh, Rat.
00:35:31What a neglected, cheerless place to bring you to.
00:35:35Mole, how can you possibly say it's cheerless?
00:35:37Yes, you have a capital little place here.
00:35:40So compact and snug.
00:35:44Oh, where do you keep the opener?
00:35:46It's all lovely.
00:35:48You really think so?
00:35:49In that drawer.
00:35:51Glasses on that shelf.
00:35:52They belong to my grandad.
00:35:54Everything you need.
00:35:55What a beautiful bedspread.
00:35:57Aunt Emily made me that.
00:35:59Light.
00:36:01Wolf.
00:36:03Love.
00:36:05Oh.
00:36:06If you say so, Ratty, then I couldn't be more pleased.
00:36:10And oh, Ratty, you are most, most welcome.
00:36:16And so comfortable and at ease in his own home, Mole entertained his loyal friend.
00:36:22What did it matter if he could not provide bread or butter?
00:36:26Or, as Ratty said with a sly grin, pâté or champagne?
00:36:32In the company of a good friend, the plainest of meals is a banquet.
00:36:37And what if Mole had always had to live a somewhat frugal and solitary life?
00:36:42There always came that time of the year, in deepest, darkest winter, when with the best
00:36:48of good cheer, he celebrated so much that had been good during the twelve months gone by.
00:36:55A time not only for looking back, but for looking forward.
00:36:59For looking forward yet again to the rebirth of the world, out of the dying remnants of the
00:37:05old year, in the spring.
00:37:33Bother!
00:37:34Be a good chap, Mole, and see who it is.
00:37:40Ratty, Ratty, it's Mr. Badger.
00:37:43Well then...
00:37:44It's Mr. Badger.
00:37:45Well then...
00:37:45Who?
00:37:47Who?
00:37:48Oh, yes.
00:37:53Mr. Badger.
00:37:56The hour has come.
00:37:58Er, what hour, Badger?
00:37:59Not what hour.
00:38:02Whose hour?
00:38:03Toad's hour, of course.
00:38:05The hour of Toad.
00:38:06I said I would take him in hand as soon as winter was over.
00:38:10Very well.
00:38:11His time has come.
00:38:13Yes, hooray.
00:38:13I remember.
00:38:15We're going to teach him to be a sensible Toad.
00:38:19This very morning, I happen to know that yet another new and exceptionally powerful motor car will
00:38:26arrive at Toad Hall on approval or return.
00:38:29We must act at once.
00:38:31You two animals will accompany me there instantly.
00:38:35The work of rescue shall be accomplished.
00:38:46Hello, you fellows.
00:38:48You're just in time.
00:38:49Just in time, I say for a...
00:38:51Restrain him.
00:38:52Grab him, Molly.
00:38:53What are you doing?
00:38:54I say, let's go.
00:38:54Come on, Toad.
00:38:55Let go of me.
00:38:56This is an accident.
00:38:57Back inside.
00:38:58I shall of course go inside.
00:38:59I'm going for a drive.
00:39:01You won't be wanted today.
00:39:03Mr. Toad has changed his mind.
00:39:05No.
00:39:06No, Badger.
00:39:06I demand a distant explanation.
00:39:08I haven't changed my mind.
00:39:10Let go at once.
00:39:11Right, Noel.
00:39:12Don't listen to me.
00:39:13This car is not required, my man.
00:39:15No.
00:39:16That is final.
00:39:17Call the police.
00:39:17They've all got mad.
00:39:19Start the engine.
00:39:19I'm coming with you.
00:39:20Keep coming, Molly.
00:39:21I'll get it.
00:39:23Get out.
00:39:25Get him down the way that comes.
00:39:26Come on.
00:39:27Oh, my car.
00:39:28My beautiful car.
00:39:30Badger, what have you done?
00:39:32No, no.
00:39:32Take those ridiculous things off.
00:39:34Shut up.
00:39:35Shut up, shut up, shut up.
00:39:36Take them off.
00:39:37Toad, Toad.
00:39:38Oh, no.
00:39:41You knew it must come for this sooner or later, Toad.
00:39:44You've taken no notice of warnings.
00:39:46You've been throwing away your money,
00:39:47getting us animals a bad name with your furious driving.
00:39:51I wanted to say you're sorry and to promise.
00:39:53Oh, no good.
00:39:54He'll say anything.
00:39:55To promise solemnly that you'll give up your motor cars entirely and forever.
00:40:02You're so eloquent, dear Badger, and so moving and so convincing.
00:40:07I faithfully promise that the next time I see a motor car,
00:40:13I'll find you in it.
00:40:14Poop, poop.
00:40:15Quick, Molly.
00:40:16Lock him up.
00:40:16No, stop it.
00:40:17No, no, let go of me.
00:40:18I will not have this.
00:40:20Ow.
00:40:21I'm not coming up there.
00:40:22I am not.
00:40:22It's for your own good, Toad.
00:40:24It's right.
00:40:25Let go.
00:40:25No more tumble with that, please.
00:40:26Just until you've got this fever out of your sister.
00:40:33Badger will know what to do.
00:40:36No!
00:40:38Oh, I'm so angry.
00:40:40It does not fare.
00:40:49Oh, I'm so angry.
00:40:54Oh, boy.
00:41:13It's going to be a tedious business.
00:41:15I've never seen Toad so determined.
00:41:18However, we shall see it out.
00:41:21He must never be left an instant unguarded.
00:41:24We shall have to take it in turns to be with him till the poison has worked itself out.
00:41:28Divide the day between us.
00:41:30I'll go first.
00:41:31Excellent, Moe.
00:41:33Let's see now.
00:41:34It's...
00:41:35It's Toad!
00:41:37How the dickens did...
00:41:38Why, that unrepentant...
00:41:44Rain against brute force.
00:41:48Toad!
00:41:49Toad returns once!
00:42:07Come on, you fool!
00:42:08Come on!
00:42:09Come back, you trickster!
00:42:12Get out of the way!
00:42:17Oh, joy!
00:42:18No ecstasy!
00:42:20Clear the way!
00:42:21Open the road!
00:42:27I say, that's my motor!
00:42:29Come back here, too!
00:42:30Villain, scoundrel!
00:42:31I'll have the law on you!
00:42:34To my mind, the only difficulty that presents itself in this otherwise very clear case is how we can possibly
00:42:45make it sufficiently hot for the incorrigible rogue and hardened ruffian whom we see cowering in the dock before us.
00:43:01Let me see.
00:43:03He has been found guilty, first, of stealing a very valuable motorcar, second, of driving to the public danger, and
00:43:11third, of the most gross impertinence to the police.
00:43:16Mr. Clark, will you tell us, please, what is the very stiffest penalty for each of these offences, without, of
00:43:25course, giving the prisoner the benefit of any doubt, because, of course...
00:43:33There is none.
00:43:37Some people would consider that stealing the motorcar was the worst offence, but cheeking the police should carry the severest
00:43:45penalty.
00:43:47Say, twelve months for the theft, which is wild.
00:43:51Three years for the furious driving, which is levian.
00:43:55And as for the cheek, which, as we have heard, was pretty bad, let us say, um, fifteen years.
00:44:05No!
00:44:05Making a grand total of nineteen years.
00:44:09Yes!
00:44:10Capital!
00:44:13Call it twenty to be on the safe side.
00:44:35Call it twenty to be on the safe side.
00:44:44Call it twenty!
00:44:50To the best guard keepers of the sagittal castle, and all the lengths that are treped the maids of the
00:44:59land.
00:45:00Oh!
00:45:03Oh!
00:45:06Oh!
00:45:07Oh!
00:45:08Oh!
00:45:09Oh!
00:45:09Is this going to be easy?
00:45:10Ever.
00:45:11Can't.
00:45:12No!
00:45:13We.
00:45:15March.
00:45:16Oh!
00:45:21Oh!
00:45:22Oh!
00:45:25Oh!
00:45:27Oh!
00:45:29Oh!
00:45:29Oh!
00:45:33I'll have a water and half a slice of bread tomorrow morning.
00:45:37Yes, Father.
00:45:41The very end of everything, Sir Toad.
00:45:45For the popular and handsome Toad.
00:45:49For the rich and hospitable Toad.
00:45:53How can I hope ever to be set free?
00:45:57Toad!
00:45:58Oh, how I pity me.
00:46:04They'll all forget me.
00:46:07Wise old badger.
00:46:09Clever, intelligent, wracked.
00:46:11Sensible moan.
00:46:15It really is.
00:46:17The end.
00:46:18The utter, bitter end.
00:46:22Good old.
00:46:22And...
00:46:25What the hell?
00:46:26Ah...
00:46:27Oh...
00:46:27Ah...
00:46:28Ah...
00:46:44Oh...
00:46:48Ah...
00:46:49Ah...
00:46:49Ah...
00:46:52Ah
00:47:05Oh no, no, it was only a dream, oh hapless toad, I must languish day and night.
00:47:23Night and day in this dungeon, till people who were proud to say they knew me have forgotten the very
00:47:30name of Toad, and imprisoned so justly, stupid animal that I was, for stealing so handsome a motorcar, in such
00:47:43an audacious manner, for such lurid and imaginative cheek,
00:47:49bestowed on so many fat, red-faced policemen.
00:48:03Oh, unhappy and forsaken Toad, cast into a cold, uncomfortable cell after the glories of Toad Hall,
00:48:12who now shall enjoy that desirable riverside residence, dating in part from the 14th century, but with all modern conveniences,
00:48:20five minutes from post office and gold club, boathouse, walled garden, pigsty, stables, pigeon house, head house, dairy, wash house,
00:48:28chime-out living cupboards,
00:48:30in the great banqueting hall, in which the wealthy and ever-generous Toad so royally entertained his guests with all
00:48:44that was best to eat and drink.
00:48:56Good morning, Mr. Toad.
00:48:58Yes, yes, good morning.
00:49:04Now, Mr. Toad, I've been a thinker.
00:49:07Well, seeing as how fond I am of animals, and seeing as how I do feel pity for you, and
00:49:14seeing as how you are rich...
00:49:15Very rich, Miguel.
00:49:17Very rich.
00:49:18And seeing as you wouldn't miss a pound or two...
00:49:22Well, see, I have an aunt who's a washerwoman.
00:49:27Well, never mind. Think no more about it.
00:49:30I have several aunts who ought to be washerwomen.
00:49:32Do be quiet. You do hurt my head.
00:49:35It's my aunt, as does the washing for the prisoners, see, because my father, the jailer, do like to keep
00:49:41any pay in business in the family.
00:49:44Now, my aunt is very poor.
00:49:48And if you, Mr. Toad, don't want to stay here for 20 years, and would come to an arrangement...
00:49:56To be free?
00:49:57See, when her comes directly, her could just slip her clothes off, and you could put her hands on, and
00:50:03then everything will be all right, you see, because we could get you out.
00:50:15Hello, old friend. Had a nice day.
00:50:18Phew. Hasn't it been hot?
00:50:20Hmm.
00:50:22Been on the river with some pals.
00:50:25How was your supper with the otters?
00:50:28Something's the matter.
00:50:29Out with it.
00:50:32I've been worrying about Toad.
00:50:35I've been wondering how he'll stick being in prison.
00:50:38Never mind Toad. He always falls on his feet.
00:50:42Ratty, how could you?
00:50:44Save your concern for the otters.
00:50:47Young Portley's been missing for several days.
00:50:49He's strayed before, but never for so long.
00:50:52And the river's swollen.
00:50:53And the lad's no great swimmer yet.
00:50:55The weir, suppose...
00:50:57He's quiet. His father's frantic.
00:50:59He's going to keep watch all night by the fall.
00:51:01It's where he caught his first fish, you see.
00:51:10Here, don't you find...
00:51:17Do you mind?
00:51:27Toad, old boy, you are a marvel!
00:51:44Oh no! My wallet! It's in my other clothes! I haven't got any money!
00:51:52Oh no! Wait, wait! Don't go!
00:51:57Oh, sir! Oh, sir! Look, I'm a poor unhappy washerwoman and I've lost all my money and I can't pay
00:52:05for a ticket and I must get home tonight!
00:52:07I've got some nippers waiting for you, dear Simon.
00:52:10Oh yes, any amount of them! Oh dear! Oh dear!
00:52:14I tell you what! You wash a few shirts for me, I'll give you a ride!
00:52:19Oh yes, yes! A thousand shirts!
00:52:22Up with you then!
00:52:29Ah, admit it, Toad, old boy. You are marvellous!
00:52:34Luck! Oh, luck doesn't come into it!
00:52:37Oh, with what brilliant theatrical skill you bamboozled the prison guards!
00:52:41With what subtle arts of persuasion you wrung the heart of this clod of a train driver!
00:52:45Why, you're probably the greatest actor in England! And you're once again free, my dear fellow! Free!
00:52:52Is a run-go washerwoman!
00:52:55Don't know as though I didn't ought to stop!
00:52:58No! I will confess! I am not a poor washerwoman, but rather the famous Mr Toad!
00:53:03I've just escaped from a loathsome jail! And if they recapture me, it will be chains and misery once again
00:53:09for poor innocent me!
00:53:11Innocent? What were you in prison for?
00:53:14Only borrowing a car!
00:53:17I ought by rights to turn you in!
00:53:19Oh no!
00:53:20But I don't hold with being ordered about by policemen when I'm on me own engine!
00:53:25Here's the tunneler coming!
00:53:26Huh?
00:53:27You must jump just before! Right?
00:53:30Yes!
00:53:31Are you ready? Now!
00:53:32Jump! Jump! Jump!
00:53:41So Toad was safe for the moment, but what of little Portly?
00:53:45Missed, looked for, not yet found, and leaving no clues to help the searchers.
00:53:51Ah, Ratty, dear old Ratty, who was so wise in the ways of the river, was following an instinct of
00:53:58his own.
00:53:58Something there was in the air, some spirit to draw him on, haunting, awesome.
00:54:06And once he heard its voice, he had no option but to follow.
00:54:10Sometimes the beauty of it hurt him.
00:54:13It would come and go, fainter now and then stronger, which was nowhere and yet everywhere at once.
00:54:20A merry bubble and joy, else a thin, clear, happy call that he had once heard at its loudest and
00:54:28strongest.
00:54:29At the place of what he called his song dream.
00:54:32A holy place, where, if anywhere at all, that spirit might be found.
00:54:39Ratty, are you afraid?
00:54:41Of him?
00:54:44Never.
00:54:45Never.
00:55:02Some great creature has been here.
00:55:13Here he is, Ratty.
00:55:16Oh, now we must get you back to your father, young Portly.
00:55:20Come along, Rat.
00:55:21Think of poor Otter waiting by the ford.
00:55:24Ah, you scoundrel!
00:55:27Where did you get to?
00:55:28Do you know I've had no sleep but two nights because of you?
00:55:33I'm so tired, Rat.
00:55:36Are you?
00:55:37Dead tired.
00:55:40Something very splendid and beautiful has happened, though.
00:55:46Hark to the wind in the reeds.
00:55:49Like far away music.
00:55:51Music, yes, but words too.
00:55:54I can't hear any words.
00:55:57Lest the oar should dwell
00:56:00And turn your frolic to fret,
00:56:03You shall look upon my power at the helping hour,
00:56:09But then you shall forget.
00:56:12Can't you hear those words in the reeds, Mole?
00:56:15No, Ratty.
00:56:16I'm sorry, I just can't.
00:56:18Helper and healer I cheer,
00:56:22Small waifs in the woodland wet,
00:56:25Strays I find in it,
00:56:28Wounds I bind in it,
00:56:31Pidding them all forget.
00:56:40I shan't forget Mr. Toad.
00:56:43Not ever.
00:56:47Oh.
00:57:01Nice morning, missus.
00:57:03I dare say it...
00:57:04I dare say it is to them,
00:57:06As isn't a poor washerwoman,
00:57:08As needs to wear her poor old feet out,
00:57:11To visit her daughter as lives near Toad Hall.
00:57:14Toad Hall?
00:57:15Toad Hall?
00:57:16Canal joins the river near there.
00:57:18I'll give you a lift.
00:57:20Thank you, ma'am, indeed.
00:57:23It's the charm that does it toad, me old lad.
00:57:25Pure charm.
00:57:29Washerwoman, you says, missus?
00:57:31Eh, laundry lady, I should have said.
00:57:34I run a very vital...
00:57:36Oh, my idiot, I'm in hot water again.
00:57:39Oh, never mind.
00:57:41Poo, I say.
00:57:42Any fool can wash.
00:57:43Now then, eh, you put these things...
00:57:46In here.
00:57:48And, eh...
00:57:49Rub a bit of soap on, like this.
00:57:52And...
00:57:53Oh, come here.
00:57:55Then, eh, you're supposed to do something with this.
00:58:00Like that, I think.
00:58:02And, eh...
00:58:04Oh, get back in there, will you?
00:58:06Well, I never...
00:58:07I don't know.
00:58:08And you've mentioned it!
00:58:09Oh, I've called it.
00:58:09And, eh...
00:58:13And what I'll say is, washing should be left to fools!
00:58:17How dare you mock me, you come and low, fat, barge-woman!
00:58:21Eugh!
00:58:22Who are you to be calling me names?
00:58:25I'll have you know that I am in reality the very well-known, highly respected and distinguished Toad.
00:58:32So there.
00:58:33What? A nasty, creepy, crawly Toad?
00:58:38On my lovely clean barge?
00:58:41Here.
00:58:42Get off your pie.
00:58:43Gotcha.
00:58:44Good go, I say.
00:58:52I in your face, washerwoman, and you'll pass for a fair-looking Toad.
00:58:59But I'll tear you out.
00:59:00Oh, yes.
00:59:03Here, horsey.
00:59:04Come to Toad.
00:59:06Stop!
00:59:07Stop!
00:59:09Stop!
00:59:12You clumsy, you clumsy, you clumsy.
00:59:15Stop!
00:59:16You clumsy, you clumsy.
00:59:19Ow!
00:59:19Ow!
00:59:20Stop!
00:59:22Ha-ha!
00:59:23The world has held great heroes, as history books have shown.
00:59:28But never a name to go into fame, compared with that of Toad.
00:59:35Ah-ha!
00:59:37Toads are the right home in style.
00:59:42Oh, no!
00:59:43Oh, no!
00:59:44Oh, prison and chains again, oh, hapless Toad.
00:59:54Oh, poor old washerwoman.
00:59:57Overcome by the heat, I dare say.
01:00:06Why, she looks better already.
01:00:09How do you feel now, Mo?
01:00:10Ah, a great deal better, sir.
01:00:13Thank you kindly.
01:00:15Except, sir, I was...
01:00:17I was just thinking.
01:00:18Yes?
01:00:20I've never been in a motor car before.
01:00:23How do they work, I wonder?
01:00:25I'll be more than glad to show you.
01:00:27But I fear it's a rather complicated business for an old lady to understand.
01:00:34What a woman!
01:00:36Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
01:00:37I am not a man of the famous Toad, motor car snatcher and prison rater!
01:00:42Oh, grab it!
01:00:44Stop it!
01:00:44Sit still and you shall know what's right in me.
01:00:46Now, for you, I am the habit of the famous, skilful, entirely fearless Toad!
01:01:00You rip-a-bates!
01:01:01How dare you kidnap me?
01:01:04I shall have a more rest in you.
01:01:05Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
01:01:07The bobbies!
01:01:10Catch me if you ca-an!
01:01:16Come on!
01:01:17Stop!
01:01:19Stop!
01:01:23He's gone!
01:01:27Oh, poor Toad.
01:01:34Hold fast, madam. Hold fast.
01:01:37Oh, kind sir, help me, poor wretch that I am.
01:01:42Toad?
01:01:44Toad?
01:01:47You simply won't believe what I have to tell you, my dear fellows.
01:01:50With one bound, I was free from prison.
01:01:52Took a short cruise on a luxury ship.
01:01:54Took up my old interest in motorcars once again.
01:01:57Oh, Toad, it is lovely to have you back.
01:02:00Just wait till I tell you my last exploit.
01:02:02Now, see here, Toad.
01:02:03We don't want to give you pain after all you...
01:02:06No, we don't. Hooray for old Toad.
01:02:08However did you do it, you clever intelligent...
01:02:11But it's like this.
01:02:13As soon as you got into your scrape,
01:02:15we riverbankers...
01:02:16Who all stuck up for you.
01:02:17Be quiet, Moly.
01:02:19We decided to keep an eye on Toad Hall for you.
01:02:21Keep it aired and dusty.
01:02:23Very civil of you.
01:02:24And so Badger and Mole here
01:02:27moved in with some of their things.
01:02:29But the Wild Wooders came and surprised us
01:02:31with a raiding party.
01:02:32Weasels armed to the teeth
01:02:34and stoats and ferrets and...
01:02:36And beat the living daylights out of the two of them
01:02:38with sticks.
01:02:39And threw them out.
01:02:40And they say they're staying in Toad Hall for good.
01:02:44Huh?
01:02:44Eating your grub?
01:02:46Drinking your drink?
01:02:47What?
01:02:47And making up rude songs and jokes about you.
01:02:50What?
01:02:51We will jolly soon see about that.
01:02:55It's no use.
01:02:56Armed sentries everywhere.
01:02:58Ferret on the gate with a rifle.
01:03:00Stokes on the roof with rocks.
01:03:01I know.
01:03:02I'll dry out Toad's washerwoman clothes
01:03:05and put them on.
01:03:06And go up to Toad Hall
01:03:07and ask them if they want any washing done.
01:03:09And they'll say,
01:03:10Run away, old woman.
01:03:11And I'll say,
01:03:13Won't be me running away before long
01:03:15because there's a great army of badgers
01:03:16and rats and moles
01:03:17coming up through the paddock tonight
01:03:19armed to the teeth.
01:03:21Not to mention the death or glory toads.
01:03:23And oh my,
01:03:24won't that get them flustered?
01:03:26A great army.
01:03:27Poor frivolous animal.
01:03:29Good day to you, Toad.
01:03:32Unhappy creature.
01:03:33I have high hopes of you, mole.
01:03:37Tonight,
01:03:37they're having a banquet for the chief weasel.
01:03:40If the good moles washerwoman ruse works,
01:03:42the stoats and ferrets
01:03:43would be mainly posted sentinel in the paddock.
01:03:46I'm not best pleased with the weasels
01:03:48who will all be eating and drinking
01:03:50in the dining hall.
01:03:51None of them armed
01:03:52and little suspecting
01:03:53how we shall overpower them.
01:03:55Pooh!
01:03:56Only four of us?
01:03:57And we'd be seen?
01:03:58My young friend,
01:04:00your father,
01:04:00who was a worthier animal than some,
01:04:03told me things he'd never have dreamt
01:04:05of telling you.
01:04:06Huh?
01:04:06As a secret underground passage.
01:04:08What?
01:04:08Which leads right up
01:04:09under your butler's paddock.
01:04:11That squeaky board.
01:04:32Now, boys, all together.
01:04:35I should like to say
01:04:36one word about our kind host,
01:04:39Mr. Toad.
01:04:41We all know Toad.
01:04:46Good Toad.
01:04:47Modest Toad.
01:04:49Honest Toad.
01:04:52Oh, let me add in.
01:04:54Hold me hard.
01:04:55Get ready, one of you.
01:04:56The hour has come.
01:04:57Let me sing you a little song
01:05:00on the subject of Toad.
01:05:04Toad, he went to pleasuring
01:05:06daily down the street.
01:05:08Money in his pocket.
01:05:11What's this?
01:05:13Oh, my...
01:05:31Eat my food, would you?
01:05:34Drink my drink, would you?
01:05:36Sleep in my beds, would you?
01:05:41That's it!
01:05:42Clear out and then come back,
01:05:44you rotters!
01:05:48That's it then, badger.
01:05:51Mole, you're the best of fellows.
01:05:53You and old ratty go outside
01:05:54and send those ferrets and stoats
01:05:56about their business
01:05:57while I have a word with Toad.
01:05:59Oh, badgers, badger.
01:06:01Did you see how I sent
01:06:02that chief weasel flying?
01:06:04Sit down, Toad.
01:06:06Shortly, you will attend
01:06:07to our immediate needs.
01:06:09And tomorrow,
01:06:10you will give a splendid banquet
01:06:12to celebrate this affair.
01:06:13Of course!
01:06:14And it'll be the finest...
01:06:15You will immediately
01:06:15make out a guest list
01:06:17and then write invitations
01:06:18to all our friends.
01:06:26It's all over.
01:06:27Threw down their rifles and fled.
01:06:29Not all of them.
01:06:30Some stood fast for a bit
01:06:32and there was stoats
01:06:33fighting with weasels
01:06:34and there was wrestling
01:06:36and wriggling and...
01:06:37Excellent and deserving animal.
01:06:39How's that guest list
01:06:40coming on for our feast tomorrow?
01:06:42Oh, bother the guest list!
01:06:44Here's the programme of entertainment.
01:06:46We'll open with a speech by Toad.
01:06:48There'll be other speeches
01:06:49by him later in the evening,
01:06:50of course.
01:06:50Then an address by Toad
01:06:52about the prison system,
01:06:54the canals,
01:06:54horse stealing, etc.
01:06:56Followed by a song
01:06:57from Toad
01:06:58and other pieces
01:06:59performed by
01:07:00the composer
01:07:01Toad.
01:07:03Well,
01:07:05I say,
01:07:06not one speech tomorrow?
01:07:08Not one
01:07:10song?
01:07:34When the Toad
01:07:38came home,
01:07:40when the Toad
01:07:44came home,
01:07:46there was smashing
01:07:49in a window
01:07:50and crashing
01:07:51in a door.
01:07:52There was chivvying
01:07:54of weasels
01:07:55that fainted
01:07:56on the floor
01:07:57when the Toad
01:07:59came home.
01:08:03Bang!
01:08:04Go the drums!
01:08:05The trumpeters
01:08:06are tooting
01:08:07and the soldiers
01:08:08are saluting!
01:08:09Cannon
01:08:09they are shooting
01:08:10and the major cars
01:08:12are hooting!
01:08:13Poop!
01:08:14Poop!
01:08:15Poop!
01:08:17As the
01:08:19hero
01:08:21comes!
01:08:27Don't want my songs, eh?
01:08:30Well, it's entirely
01:08:32their loss, of course.
01:08:33Oh, poor fellows.
01:08:35Oh, poor fellows.
01:08:36Oh, poor fellows.
01:08:43Shout
01:08:45hooray
01:08:46and let
01:08:48each one of the crowd
01:08:49try and shout it
01:08:50very loud
01:08:51in honour
01:08:52of an animal
01:08:53of whom
01:08:54you're very proud
01:08:56for it
01:08:58turns
01:08:59great
01:09:02great
01:09:16all the animals
01:09:18cheered
01:09:19when he entered
01:09:19and crowded round
01:09:21to praise
01:09:22his great courage
01:09:23and cleverness.
01:09:24that toad
01:09:26only smiled
01:09:27haintly
01:09:27and murmured
01:09:28Oh, not at all.
01:09:31Badger was the mastermind
01:09:32and mole
01:09:33and water rat
01:09:34bore the brunt
01:09:35of the fighting.
01:09:36I merely
01:09:37served in the ranks
01:09:39and did little
01:09:40or nothing.
01:09:41So,
01:09:43so,
01:09:44he was indeed
01:09:45an altered toad.
01:09:52there,
01:09:53we wanted a board
01:09:54come along
01:09:54all hands
01:09:55to the packing.
01:09:55I wanted to hear
01:09:56some more.
01:09:57Is that the end?
01:09:58Not quite.
01:10:00At badger's command
01:10:01toad
01:10:02sent presents
01:10:03or money
01:10:03to the jailer's daughter
01:10:05and the engine drivers
01:10:07and the barge woman
01:10:08and the barge woman.
01:10:21Sometimes
01:10:22on long
01:10:23summer evenings
01:10:24four friends
01:10:26would take a stroll
01:10:26together
01:10:27in the wild wood.
01:10:28Mother weasels
01:10:30would bring
01:10:30their young ones
01:10:31to the mouths
01:10:32of the house
01:10:32and say,
01:10:33look,
01:10:34there's the great
01:10:35Mr. Toad
01:10:35and that's
01:10:37the gallant
01:10:37water rat
01:10:38and yonder's
01:10:40the famous
01:10:40Mr. Mole.
01:10:42Whenever
01:10:43their children
01:10:44were naughty
01:10:45they would be told
01:10:46if they didn't behave
01:10:48the terrible
01:10:49grey badger
01:10:50would up
01:10:50and get them.
01:10:51But this was
01:10:52very unfair
01:10:53on badger
01:10:54because he was
01:10:55rather fond of children.
01:10:57And so am I.
01:10:58I dare say
01:10:59rat is out
01:11:00with the others
01:11:01messing about
01:11:02in boats.
01:11:02Gosh, yes.
01:11:03We might
01:11:04even see them.
01:11:06The very next time
01:11:07this happens
01:11:08I shall be
01:11:09exceedingly angry.
01:11:10Bother.
01:11:11Oh, blow.
01:11:13Thanks,
01:11:14Britain Cleaning.
01:11:16I'm not always
01:11:17talking about
01:11:17my old river
01:11:18but I think
01:11:19about it
01:11:19all the time.
01:11:21Been in prison?
01:11:22I got out,
01:11:22of course.
01:11:23Thrown into a canal,
01:11:25swam ashore,
01:11:26stole a horse.
01:11:28I'm such a
01:11:29clever toad.
01:11:33I wasn't on such
01:11:35fun.
01:11:35What adventures
01:11:36did they have next?
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