They heard how he had always been an ungrateful and dangerous child, violently attacking another boy, and finally running away from the house where he had been working.
After a minute's weaving about through the whirl of rainbow feathers, he noticed a large silver key that had a bent wing, as if it had already been caught and stuffed roughly into the keyhole.
'Washerwoman indeed! You're a fat lazy little toad, that's what you are! 'she said rudely. 'Get off my barge! 'And she actually pushed Toad off the barge into the canal.
" It was horrible. Those people were accusing me of all sorts of things, they became more rough, they hit me in the chest, tore my shirt and treated me in a very rough manner."
The author also alleged that a woman sitting next to her was also rudely dismissed when seeking help in English to fill out the customs declaration card.