Old Mr. Toad in "Ryder Discovers Something More"

Ever since Ryder Rabbit was a little chap and had first ran away from home, he had known Old Mr. Toad, and never once had Ryder suspected that he could sing. Also he had thought Old Mr. Toad almost ugly-looking, and he knew that most of his neighbors thought the same way. They were fond of Old Mr. Toad, for he was always good-natured and attended strictly to his own affairs; but they liked to poke fun at him, and as for there being anything beautiful about him, such a thing never entered their heads.