--- title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!») — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)», a lesson of the books course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: «What's become of them, the dear fellow --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/) [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 XI, p… # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!») Lesson 67 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 37 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/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/0/) — «What's become of them, the dear fellows? - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/1/) — I had forgotten all about them,» says Toad lightly about Mole and Badger. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/2/) — The Rat tells him off: while Toad rode about in cars and on horses, those two loyal friends have been camping out in all weathers, watching his house and planning to get it back. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/3/) — Toad sobs that he will go out into the dark night to share their hardships — then hears the chink of dishes and cries «Supper's here at last, hooray!» - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/4/) — After supper there is a heavy knock: Badger, muddy and rough from nights outdoors. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/5/) — He shakes Toad's paw — «Welcome home, Toad! - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/6/) — Alas! what am I saying? - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/7/) — Home, indeed!» — then turns his back and eats a large slice of cold pie. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/8/) — The Rat whispers that Badger is always gloomy when he is hungry. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/10/) — That is all Toad needs: he puffs up and boasts about the prison, the train, the disguises, and shows a handful of silver from «horse-dealing». - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/12/) — A thin, dry voice says «Be quiet at once, all of you!» — and there is silence. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/13/) — Badger finishes his cheese, stands by the fire and asks Toad what his father, Badger's old friend, would have said. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/14/) — Toad rolls over sobbing. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/15/) — Badger is kinder then: let bygones be bygones. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/17/) — And now he will tell them a great secret. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/18/) — Toad on Mole and Badger: «What's become of them, the dear fellows? - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/19/) — I had forgotten all about them.» - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/20/) — The Rat: they have been «camping out in the open, in every sort of weather, living very rough by day and lying very hard by night; watching over your house, patrolling your boundaries». - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/21/) — «You don't deserve to have such true and loyal friends, Toad, you don't, really.» (loyal = faithful, sticking by you) - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/22/) — Toad sobs «Let me go out and find them, out into the cold, dark night... - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/23/) — Hold on a bit! - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/25/) — The Rat makes «large allowances» because Toad had been «on prison fare» (prison food) for a long time (to make allowances = to forgive someone because of their situation). - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/26/) — Badger arrives muddy and «rough and touzled» (untidy, tousled); «Welcome home, Toad! - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/28/) — This is a poor home-coming.» - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/29/) — The Rat: «He's always rather low and despondent when he's wanting his victuals. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/32/) — Toad puffs up: «I'm not really clever, according to my friends. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/33/) — I've only broken out of the strongest prison in England, that's all!» - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/35/) — That's how I done it!» («I done it» is wrong grammar; it should be «I did it».) - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/36/) — Mole reports: «Sentries posted everywhere, guns poked out at us, stones thrown at us... and when they see us, my! how they do laugh! - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/37/) — That's what annoys me most!» - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/38/) — When all three shout at once, Badger says «Be quiet at once, all of you!» and «instantly every one was silent»; they wait until he has finished his cheese. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/39/) — Badger: «What do you think your father, my old friend, would have said if he had been here to-night, and had known of all your goings on?» - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/40/) — Badger: «We're going to let bygones be bygones, and try and turn over a new leaf.» (let bygones be bygones = forget past quarrels; turn over a new leaf = start behaving better) - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/42/) — Badger: «There are more ways of getting back a place than taking it by storm.» (taking by storm = attacking with force) - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/43/) — Badger: «I haven't said my last word yet. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/44/) — Now I'm going to tell you a great secret» — one that Toad's father told him and «wouldn't have dreamt of telling» his own son, because Toad «simply cannot hold his tongue» (cannot keep a secret). - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/45/) — Talk in this lesson: «hangry» = cross because hungry; «lowkey» = a bit, quietly; «bostin'» (Black Country) = great; «chur» (New Zealand) = thanks; «hun» (UK) = dear, love. - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/)