Did you know …
That the author Kenneth Grahame used to trap a variety of animals together in his carriage house and then watch them fight? It’s true!
The story of “Wind in the Willows” arose from a particular cage match in which a mole, a rat, a toad, and a badger all refused to fight each other. Graham thought that that was very sweet, and went on to write the book about them. However, he apparently didn’t think it was so sweet that he shouldn’t drop in a bushel basket full of weasels, which he did, and after which everything went to hell. The real-life “Battle of Toad Hall” resulted in far more blinded characters, and a severely damaged testicle (belonging to Grahame himself.)
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