When he heard Peter's voice he popped in alarm behind a tulip
13. A band of workmen, who were sawing down a toadstool, rushed away, leaving their tools behind them
14. Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw (missing from book)
15. Peter screamed out, 'Do it again!' and with great good-nature they did it several times
16. A hundred flew off with the string, and Peter clung to the tail
17. After this the birds said that they would help him no more in his mad enterprise
18. 'Preposterous!' cried Solomon in a rage
19. For years he had been quietly filling his stocking
20. When you meet grown-up people in the Gardens who puff and blow as if they thought themselves bigger than they are
21. He passed under the bridge and came within full sight of the delectable Gardens
22. There now arose a mighty storm, and he was tossed this way and that (missing from book)
23. Fairies are all more or less in hiding until dusk
24. When they think you are not looking they skip along pretty lively (missing from book)
25. But if you look, and they fear there is no time to hide, they stand quite still pretending to be flowers (missing from book)
26. The fairies are exquisite dancers
27. These tricky fairies sometimes slyly change the board on a ball night
28. Linkmen running in front carrying winter cherries
29. When her Majesty wants to know the time
30. The fairies sit round on mushrooms, and at first they are well behaved
31. Butter is got from the roots of old trees (missing from book)
32. Wallflower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit
33. Peter Pan is the fairies' orchestra
34. They all tickled him on the shoulder (missing from book)
35. One day they were overheard by a fairy
36. The little people weave their summer curtains from skeleton leaves
37. An afternoon when the Gardens were white with snow
38. She ran to St. Govor's Well and hid
39. An elderberry hobbled across the walk, and stood chatting with some young quinces
40. A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, 'Hoity-toity, what is this?'
41. They warned her
42. Queen Mab, who rules in the Gardens
43. Shook his bald head and murmured, 'Cold, quite cold'
44. Fairies never say, 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'
45. Looking very undancey indeed
The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside
46. 'My Lord Duke,' said the physician elatedly, 'I have the honour to inform your excellency that your grace is in love'
47. Building the house for Maimie
48. If the bad ones among the fairies happen to be out (missing from book)
49. They will certainly mischief you (missing from book)
50. I think that quite the most touching sight in the Gardens is the two tombstones of Walter Stephen Matthews and Phoebe Phelps
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
Headpiece to 'The Grand Tour of the Gardens'
One of the Paths that have Made Themselves
Tailpiece to 'The Grand Tour of the Gardens'
The birds on the island never got used to him. His oddities tickled them every day
Tailpiece to 'Peter Pan'
Headpiece to 'The Thrush's Nest'
Tailpiece to 'The Thrush's Nest'
Headpiece to 'Lock-out Time'
They are so cunning
A fairy ring
Tailpiece to 'Lock-out Time'
Headpiece to 'The Little House'
There was a good deal going on in the Baby Walk
She escorted them up the Baby Walk and back again
Tailpiece to 'The Little House'
Headpiece to 'Peter's Goat'
Tailpiece to 'Peter's Goat'
Kensington Gardens
In the Broad Walk you meet all the people worth knowing
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