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Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens

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Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens (1912)
by James Matthew Barrie

Expanded from The Little White Bird, a serialized fiction first published in Scribner's Magazine, Volume XXXII

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Peter Pan
in
Kensington
Gardens
From

The·Little·White·Bird

by
J·M·Barrie
A·New·Edition

Illustrated·by

Arthur·Rackham

LONDON
HODDER·&·STOUGHTON

TO SYLVIA AND ARTHUR LLEWELYN DAVIES

AND THEIR BOYS (MY BOYS)

CONTENTS

Chapter I
page
The Grand Tour of the Gardens 1
Chapter II
Peter Pan 18
Chapter III
The Thrush’s Nest 36
Chapter IV
Lock-out Time 52
Chapter V
The Little House 76
Chapter VI
Peter’s Goat 108
The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives . . .Page 1


David

COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Frontispiece page
2. The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives iv
3. The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside viii
4. In the Broad Walk you meet all the people who are worth knowing 1
5. The Hump, which is the part of the Broad Walk where all the big races are run 2
6. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf 6
7. The Serpentine is a lovely lake, and there is a drowned forest at the bottom of it. If you peer over the edge you can see the trees all growing upside down, and they say that at night there are also drowned stars in it 8
8. The island on which all the birds are born that become baby boys and girls 10
9. Old Mr. Salford was a crab-apple of an old gentleman who wandered all day in the Gardens 14
10. Old Away he flew, right over the houses to the Gardens 16
11. The fairies have their tiffs with the birds 18
12. When he heard Peter’s voice he popped in alarm behind a tulip 22
13. A band of workmen, who were sawing down a toadstool, rushed away, leaving their tools behind them 24
14. Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw 26
15. Peter screamed out, ‘Do it again!’ and with great good-nature they did it several times 30
16. A hundred flew off with the string, and Peter clung to the tail 32
17. After this the birds said that they would help him no more in his mad enterprise 34
18. ‘Preposterous!’ cried Solomon in a rage 38
19. For years he had been quietly filling his stocking 40
20. When you meet grown-up people in the Gardens who puff and blow as if they thought themselves bigger than they are 42
21. He passed under the bridge and came within full sight of the delectable Gardens 46
22. There now arose a mighty storm, and he was tossed this way and that 48
23. Fairies are all more or less in hiding until dusk 50
24. When they think you are not looking they skip along pretty lively 54
25. But if you look, and they fear there is no time to hide, they stand quite still pretending to be flowers 56
26. The fairies are exquisite dancers 58
27. These tricky fairies sometimes slyly change the board on a ball night 62
28. Linkmen running in front carrying winter cherries 64
29. When her Majesty wants to know the time 66
30. The fairies sit round on mushrooms, and at first they are well behaved 70
31. Butter is got from the roots of old trees 72
32. Wallflower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit 74
33. Peter Pan is the fairies’ orchestra 78
34. They all tickled him on the shoulder 80
35. One day they were overheard by a fairy 82
36. The little people weave their summer curtains from skeleton leaves 86
37. An afternoon when the Gardens were white with snow 88
38. She ran to St. Govor’s Well and hid 90
39. An elderberry hobbled across the walk, and stood chatting with some young quinces 94
40. A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, ‘Hoity-toity, what is this?’ 96
41. They warned her 98
42. Queen Mab, who rules in the Gardens 102
43. Shook his bald head and murmured, ‘Cold, quite cold’ 104
44. Fairies never say, ‘We feel happy’: what they say is, ‘We feel dancey 106
45. Looking very undancey indeed 110
46. ‘My Lord Duke,’ said the physician elatedly, ‘I have the honour to inform your excellency that your grace is in love’ 112
47. Building the house for Maimie 114
48. If the bad ones among the fairies happen to be out 116
49. They will certainly mischief you 120
50. I think that quite the most touching sight in the Gardens is the two tombstones of Walter Stephen Matthews and Phœbe Phelps 122

KENSINGTON GARDENS

The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside . . . Page 2

In the Broad Walk you meet all the people who are worth knowing . . . Page 3

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


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