Then he fetched them dressing-gowns and slippers, and himself bathed the Mole’s shin with warm water and mended the cut with sticking-plaster till the whole thing was just as good as new, if not better. The kindly Badger thrust them down on a settle to toast themselves at the fire, and bade them remove their wet coats and boots. The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over everything without distinction. It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment. “Rows of spotless plates winked from the shelves of the dresser at the far end of the room, and from the rafters overhead hung hams, bundles of dried herbs, nets of onions, and baskets of eggs. The illustrations here are from the edition illustrated by Michael Hague.

Badger’s den of stores and pantries, and then end back again at Mole End for a meal from pantry and kitchen stores, and then Toad Hall’s pantry to retake the Hall via a secret passage. When Mole leaves his home and begins his adventures with his new friend Ratty, they venture to the Wild Wood to find Mr. Badger’s pantry descriptions are throughout the children’s book The Wind in the Willows. Pantry descriptions from the Wind in The Willows, written by Kenneth Grahame, and published in 1908.

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