Toad, the morning after his prison escape, wakes up from dreams of Toad Hall to find himself in a hollow tree in the middle of nowhere. The first thing he remembers is that he is free. This thought eases both the hunger in his belly and the cold of his body in the chill wood. Toad sets off to find a way out his situation. He encounters a back road with a winding canal running alongside, and he wonders which direction to go. Neither the road nor the canal will tell Toad where they lead, so he picks a direction, figuring it must lead somewhere. Just Toad's luck - , a horse, pulling a barge, appears around a bend in the canal. A big brawny woman steers the barge and greets Toad politely,.....
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