--- title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg») — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)», a lesson of the books course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Laughed at, Toad loses his temper compl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa… # The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg») Lesson 62 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 32 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/0/) — Laughed at, Toad loses his temper completely. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/1/) — He shouts that she is a «common, low, fat barge-woman» and that he is a well-known, distinguished Toad. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/2/) — She peers under his bonnet — a Toad! — grabs him by a front leg and a back leg, and flings him spinning through the air into the canal. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/3/) — Toad swims to the bank, the wet cotton gown dragging at him, and runs after the barge wanting revenge. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/4/) — She calls out a last joke about ironing his face. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/6/) — Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a pot of stew bubbling over a fire. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/7/) — The smell makes Toad truly hungry for the first time. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/10/) — «Shillin' a leg,» says the man: four shillings. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/11/) — He raises it to five. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/12/) — Toad bargains for six shillings and sixpence and as much stew as he can eat, and gets it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/13/) — Full, dry and with money in his pocket again, Toad sets off in the best of spirits — though the horse he sold was never his. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/14/) — Toad shouts: «You common, low, fat barge-woman! ... - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/15/) — I will not be laughed at by a bargewoman!» — rude, snobbish words; calling someone «common» or «fat» to hurt them is unkind. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/16/) — She peers under his bonnet: «Why, so you are! ... - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/17/) — A horrid, nasty, crawly Toad! - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/18/) — And in my nice clean barge, too!» - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/19/) — She grabs him by a fore-leg and a hind-leg and throws him; «the world turned suddenly upside down» and he lands in the canal with a loud splash, with duck-weed in his eyes. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/20/) — The barge-woman's last joke: «Put yourself through your mangle, washerwoman, and iron your face and crimp it, and you'll pass for quite a decent-looking Toad!» (a mangle = a machine with rollers for squeezing water out of wet washing; to crimp = to press into little waves) - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/21/) — «Solid revenge was what he wanted, not cheap, windy, verbal triumphs.» He unties the tow-rope, jumps on the horse and gallops off; that is stealing the horse. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/22/) — The barge runs aground (gets stuck on the bottom) on the other side of the canal; the woman shouts «Stop, stop, stop!», just as the policemen on the engine shouted in chapter VIII. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/23/) — The horse's gallop soon became a trot, and the trot a steady walk; at last it stopped on a common to nibble the grass. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/24/) — On a common (open wild land with gorse and bramble) he finds a caravan and a man sitting on an upturned bucket, smoking, with an iron pot of stew on a fire of sticks. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/25/) — The book calls the man a «gipsy» and says gipsies were «very fond of horse-dealing». - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/26/) — That is an old idea about a whole people; today we know it is wrong to judge anyone by the group they come from. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/27/) — Gypsy and Traveller people are just people, each different. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/28/) — Selling the horse had not occurred to Toad before. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/29/) — At first he said he couldn't: who would take the washing home to his customers? - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/30/) — He loved the horse too much, he said; the man answered «Try and love a donkey. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/35/) — Toad's last word: six shillings and sixpence, cash, plus «as much breakfast as I can possibly eat, at one sitting», and the harness thrown in. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/36/) — He gets it. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/37/) — The stew is made of partridges, pheasants, chickens, hares, rabbits, pea-hens, guinea-fowls «and one or two other things»; Toad «stuffed, and stuffed, and stuffed». - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/39/) — Talk in this lesson: «tamping» (Wales) = furious; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «bussin'» = really tasty; «mid» = just average; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station. - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/)