The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Goes Missing

Chapter 7 was often missing from later editions of Kenneth Grahame's children's book - The Wind in the Willows. Too strange perhaps - unlike the idea of a toad driving motor cars. As for the idea of a mendacious and unreliable toad becoming Prime Minister - preposterous.

It is a strange chapter though, mystical and somewhat pagan, placed there in the middle of the book and not at all essential to the story.