 When the field mice inform them that Toad has been arrested, the pair become consumed with guilt for their friend.In the courtroom, the jury box is packed with weasels and the magistrate, Mrs. Carrington-Moss, sentences Toad to "twelve months for the theft, three years for furious driving, and fifteen years for the cheek", with another year added "for being green", a total of twenty years incarceration.The jailer's daughter feels bad about Toad's disproportionate punishment and decides to help him escape by disguising him as a washerwoman.