J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens


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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

       Table of Contents

       David

       Kensington Gardens

       Headpiece to 'The Grand Tour of the Gardens'

       Porthos

       One of the Paths that have Made Themselves

       Tailpiece to 'The Grand Tour of the Gardens'

       Headpiece to 'Peter Pan'

       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

Headpiece to 'The Grand Tour of the Gardens'