Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens

by James Matthew Barrie

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

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

	page
David	v
Kensington Gardens	xi
Porthos	12
One of the Paths that have Made Themselves	13
Tailpiece to ‘The Grand Tour of the Gardens’	17
Headpiece to ‘Peter Pan’	18
The birds on the island never got used to him. His oddities tickled them every day	29
Tailpiece to ‘Peter Pan’	35
Headpiece to ‘The Thrush’s Nest’	36
Tailpiece to ‘The Thrush’s Nest’	51
Headpiece to ‘Lock-out Time’	52
They are so cunning	53
A fairy ring	61
Tailpiece to ‘Lock-out Time’	75
Headpiece to ‘The Little House’	76
There was a good deal going on in the Baby Walk	85
She escorted them up the Baby Walk and back again	91
Tailpiece to ‘The Little House’	107
Headpiece to ‘Peter’s Goat’	108
Tailpiece to ‘Peter’s Goat’	123

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