--- title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were) — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)», a lesson of the books course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Mole comes tumbling in, very pleas --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/) [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 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were) Lesson 69 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 28 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/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/0/) — Mole comes tumbling in, very pleased with himself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/1/) — He found Toad's old washerwoman dress drying by the kitchen fire, put it on with the bonnet and shawl, and walked boldly up to the sentries at Toad Hall: «Good morning, gentlemen! - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/2/) — Want any washing done to-day?» «We don't do any washing on duty,» they said. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/4/) — When the Sergeant told the «good woman» to run away, Mole said it wouldn't be her running away soon. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/5/) — Then, as a washerwoman who washed for Mr. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/6/) — Badger, he «warned» them: tonight a hundred badgers with rifles would attack from the paddock, six boatloads of Rats would land in the garden, and the fierce Death-or-Glory Toads would storm the orchard! - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/7/) — Mole ran off, crept back along a ditch and peeped through the hedge. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/8/) — The stoats were in a flap, running all ways, falling over each other, the Sergeant sending parties off to far corners and then fetching them back — and grumbling that the weasels would be feasting in the warm while they were cut to pieces in the cold. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/9/) — «You silly ass, Mole! - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/11/) — But Badger says Mole has «more sense in your little finger than some other animals have in the whole of their fat bodies. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/12/) — Clever Mole!» Toad is wild with jealousy and can't see what was clever. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/13/) — After lunch Badger takes forty winks, and Mole kindly lets Toad tell all his adventures — with plenty of things that might have happened, if only he'd thought of them in time. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/14/) — Mole got the idea in the kitchen, where he found «that old washerwoman-dress that he came home in yesterday, hanging on a towel-horse before the fire» (a towel-horse = a wooden frame for drying cloths). - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/15/) — «Good morning, gentlemen!» says I, very respectful. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/18/) — «Some of the stoats turned quite pink» — they were embarrassed. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/19/) — The Sergeant: «Now run away, my good woman, run away! - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/20/) — Don't keep my men idling and talking on their posts.» Mole: «it won't be me that'll be running away, in a very short time from now!» - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/21/) — Mole's made-up story: «My daughter, she washes for Mr. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/22/) — Badger»; «A hundred bloodthirsty badgers, armed with rifles, are going to attack Toad Hall this very night, by way of the paddock.» - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/23/) — Also: «Six boatloads of Rats, with pistols and cutlasses, will come up the river» and land in the garden (a cutlass = a short curved sword). - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/24/) — And «a picked body of Toads, known as the Die-hards, or the Death-or-Glory Toads, will storm the orchard» (picked = specially chosen; die-hards = fighters who never give up). - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/26/) — The Sergeant kept «sending off parties of stoats to distant parts of the grounds, and then sending other fellows to fetch 'em back again». - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/27/) — The stoats grumbled that the weasels would «stop comfortably in the banqueting-hall, and have feasting and toasts and songs», while they guarded «in the cold and the dark». - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/28/) — Badger: «Mole, I perceive you have more sense in your little finger than some other animals have in the whole of their fat bodies. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/29/) — You have managed excellently... - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/32/) — Lunch was «bacon and broad beans, and a macaroni pudding»; then Badger took «forty winks» (a short nap) with a handkerchief over his face. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/33/) — The Rat went on: «Here's-a-belt-for-the-Rat, here's-a-belt-for-the-Mole...» with «every fresh accoutrement» (piece of equipment). - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/34/) — Toad told Mole his adventures and «rather let himself go»: much of it was «what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards». - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/)