Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

I'm such a clever Toad.

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out

Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.

The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

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 shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!