Foreword
A Night of Serious Drinking (1938)
“when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.”
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Kenneth Grahame
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The Wind in the Willows
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