Kenneth Grahame

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

"A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces."