Status Updates From The Wind in the Willows

"By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds on one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea."