"As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination tha…"

"Monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings."

"Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this dr…"

"Look here, father, you know we've each of us got our line. You know about sheep, and weather, and things; I know abou…"

"Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't;' I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired."

"The most modest and retiring dragon in the world, if he's as big as four cart-horses and covered with blue scales, ca…"

"The dreadful beast must be exterminated, the country-side must be freed from this pest, this terror, this destroying …"

"St. George paced slowly up the street. The Boy's heart stood still and he breathed with sobs, the beauty and the grac…"

"O deary, deary me," moaned the dragon; "this is too awful. I won't see him, and that's flat. I don't want to know the…"

"To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, who passed the River on the 6 …"