king very undancey indeed

[Illustration: 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

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'

[Illustration: Kensington Gardens]

[Illustration: In the Broad Walk you meet all the people who are worth
knowing]

[Illustration: Headpiece to 'The Grand Tour of the Gardens']

I

THE GRAND TOUR OF THE GARDENS

You must see for yourselves that it will be difficult to follow Peter
Pan's adventures unless you are familiar with the Kensington Gardens.
They are in London, where the King lives, and I used to take David
there nearly every day unless he was looking decidedly flushed. No
child has ever been in the whole of the Gardens, because it is so soon
time to turn back. The reason it is soon time to turn back is that, if
you are as small as David, you sleep from twelve to one. If your
mother was not so sure that you sleep from twelve to one, you could
most likely see the whole of them.

The Gardens are bounded on one side by a never-ending line of
omnibuses, over which your nurse has such authority that if she holds
up her finger to any one of them it stops immediately. She then
crosses with you in safety to the other side. There are more gates to
the Gardens than one gate, but that is the one you go in at, and befo