About this story
You play Mole. Twenty-one chapters of a river you have never seen before, a Rat who rhymes badly and rows well, a Badger with no use for society, and a Toad whose enthusiasms cost him Toad Hall and everybody else a great deal of trouble.
Who you’ll meet
Rat, with Badger in the doorway — the reader is Mole.
How it opens
Whitewash fumes had thickened the underground morning into duty.
Spring pressed through the ceiling with smells no pail could answer.
Elder RabbitSixpence buys passage through this private gap.
This path has not earned sixpence.
Elder RabbitThen the public meadow may endure your company.
Choose
Does spring pay every rabbit it passes?
That private gap is not worth sixpence.
I have no sixpence, only a holiday.