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Editor’s Page: The Insights of Ratty and Mole
Even if you haven’t read Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, you may well have heard the oft-repeated declaration Water Rat made to Mole while they were out for a row: “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing-absolutely nothing— half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats” … Continued on Page 4 of PDF version.
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