Moley

Mole is a major character in The Wind in the Willows, the first half of the 1949 Disney animated feature film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. He is a close friend of Mr. J. Thaddeus Toad, his best friend is Water Rat. He also speaks English with an English accent too.
He was played by Colin Campbell.
==History==
At the beginning of the story the narrator describes him as "kind and understanding type", Mole is seen late for tea by Rat in his house on the river, but when they are about to take the first sip, a letter arrives from Angus MacBadger asking for them to go to Toad Hall to talk.
Angus tells them that Toad is in the throes of another craze with a gypsy chariot, driven by a horse named Cyril Proudbottom. As soon as they find him, having also seen the disasters he and Cyril have wreaked, Toad invites them for a ride, which Mole is thrilled with, but Rat stops him by reminding them why they are there.
They tell him he'd better quit, but Toad doesn't want to know, and after trying to pull him down, just grabbing his pants, Toad and Cyril run off at full throttle. When they reach him, they discover that Toad is stranger than before: making noises and bouncing off the road.
Mole tries to deny what he fears it is, but Rat confirms that he has a new craze now: that of cars. So the two take the crazy toad home, lock him in his room to calm him down. Feeling guilty, Mole proposes to stop, but Rat refuses and confirms that they must do so. Unfortunately for them, Toad escapes and the next day is accused of stealing a car.
Mole, along with Ratty and MacBadger, go to court to witness the prosecution of Toad, Rat and he testify to the accuser that he dislikes him. After hearing Cyril's story and learning about the switch between the car and Toad Hall, they are shocked after hearing Mr. Winkie that Toad tried to sell him the stolen car, and everyone accuses Toad guilty. Mole and his friends try to reopen the case with other courts, but each time he's been shot
On Christmas Day, Mole and Rat pray for Christmas lunch and for Toad, after which Toad comes to their prison breaker soaked and looks like an old lady. Rat and Mole help "her" when something heavy hits Rat's foot and she lets go and they realize it's Toad. Mole is delighted to see Toad again, asks him if he's afraid of the police and Toad laughs at it until someone knocks and impatiently says to open the door. Believing it to be the police, Toad panics and asks for help, but Rat reminds him he owes a debt to society and tells Mole to let them in, which Mole is reluctant to, it turns out it's MacBadger tells the boys about his discovery of weasels in Toad Hall and their leader, Mr. Winkie who has Toad's contract. Mole apologizes to Toad and sets out to help him get the contract to prove his innocence.
Toad, Mole, Rat and Angus enter Toad Hall through the secret passage, Mole has been tied up on sheets to drop down and take the contract from Winkie while he sleeps. He makes it, but a night watchman blows cover and wakes everyone up. Thus begins a terrible fight, but the four manage to escape with the contract, and so they can prove Toad's innocence and have Mr. Winkie and the Weals arrested.
Mole is finally seen celebrating the New Year with a toast, along with Rat and Angus and the fact that Toad had stopped wagons and gypsy cars forever, when they hear a noise outside and see Toad with Cyril on an airplane, with great dismay of himself and of the others.
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