Badger's Kitchen
" ... at once they found themselves
in all the glow and warmth of a large fire-lit kitchen."
"The floor was well-worn red brick, and on the wide hearth burnt a fire
of logs, between two attractive chimney-corners tucked away in the
wall, well out of any suspicion of draught. A couple of high-backed
settles, facing each other on either side of the fire, gave further
sitting accommodations for the sociably disposed. In the middle of
the room stood a long table of plain boards placed on trestles, with
benches down each side. At one end of it, where an arm-chair stood
pushed back, were spread the remains of the Badger's plain but ample
supper. 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. 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. 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."
Lily took this picture of Mole, Ratty and Badger the last time she
was in Badger's Kitchen.
(The mouse is just a stuffed animal.)
- Spoken Word - Audio Books -
Lily reading "The Wind in the Willows"
You may contact Lily:
Lily@BadgersKitchen.net
Thanks to David Aldridge
for the use of his image.
Thanks to The Project Guttenberg
for the text of
"The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame [1908].