--- title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver) — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver)», a lesson of the books course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. 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How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/0/) — Free but dizzy with success, Toad hurries away from the town where the real washerwoman is so well known, and sees the red and green lights of a railway station: just what he needs, and a train for home leaves in half an hour. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/1/) — At the booking-office he reaches for his waistcoat pocket — and finds no money, no pocket and no waistcoat: he left them all in his cell, with his pocket-book, keys, watch and everything else. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/2/) — He tries his grand old manner, «I'm well-known in these parts», but the clerk laughs at the «madam», and an old gentleman pushes him away and calls him «my good woman», which makes Toad angrier than anything. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/3/) — Crying on the platform, he wonders about hiding under a seat, when a kind engine-driver says «Hullo, mother! - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/4/) — What's the trouble?» Toad tells him a tale of lost money and hungry children at home. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/8/) — He sees «red and green lights» and hears «the puffing and snorting of engines and the banging of shunted trucks» (shunted = pushed from one track to another): a railway station. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/9/) — He is glad not to go through the town and «support this humiliating character by repartees» (repartees = quick clever answers). - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/12/) — Struggling with the cotton gown, he reaches «where all waistcoat pockets are eternally situated» and finds «not only no money, but no pocket to hold it, and no waistcoat to hold the pocket!» - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/15/) — In «a blend of the Squire and the College Don» (a squire is a country landowner, a don a university teacher) he says: «I find I've left my purse behind ... - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/16/) — I'll send the money on to-morrow? - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/17/) — I'm well-known in these parts.» - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/18/) — The clerk laughs: «I should think you were pretty well known in these parts ... if you've tried this game on often»; «you're obstructing the other passengers» (obstructing = blocking). - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/19/) — An old gentleman pushes him away and calls him «his good woman, which angered Toad more than anything»: proud Toad hates being taken for a poor working woman, an old snobbish feeling. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/20/) — Toad blames «the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials» (pettifogging = fussy about small things) — really it is his own fault. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/22/) — Toad lies: he has «Any amount of 'em» (children) at home, «playing with matches — and upsetting lamps, the little innocents!» - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/55-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/)