Short Stories For Children The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame Listen to the story  VIII. TOAD’S ADVENTURES                                   Previous Chapter            Next Chapter   When Toad found himself immured in a dank and noisome dungeon and knew that all the grim darkness of a medieval fortress lay between him and the outer world of sunshine and well-metalled high roads where he had lately been so happy, disporting himself as if he had bought up every road in England, he flung himself at full length on the floor, and shed bitter tears, and abandoned himself to dark despair. ‘This is the end of everything’ (he said),…