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Title: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Author: J. M. Barrie

Illustrator: Arthur Rackham

Release Date: October 24, 2008 [EBook #26998]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: _The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King
lives_.]

PETER PAN

IN KENSINGTON GARDENS

BY

J. M. BARRIE

(_From 'The Little White Bird'_)

WITH DRAWINGS BY

ARTHUR RACKHAM

[Illustration: Title page art]

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1910

Copyright, 1902, 1906,

BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

THE GRAND TOUR OF THE GARDENS

CHAPTER II

PETER PAN

CHAPTER III

THE THRUSH'S NEST

CHAPTER IV

LOCK-OUT TIME

CHAPTER V

THE LITTLE HOUSE

CHAPTER VI

PETER'S GOAT

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. 'The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King
lives' . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

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

3. 'Old Mr. Salford was a crab-apple of an old gentleman
who wandered all day in the Gardens'

4. 'When he heard Peter's voice he popped in alarm behind a tulip'

5. 'Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw'

6. 'After this the birds said that they would help him no more
in his mad enterprise'

7. 'For years he had been quietly filling his stocking'

8. 'Fairies are all more or less in hiding until dusk'

9. 'These tricky fairies sometimes slyly change the board on
a ball night'

10. 'When her Majesty wants to know the time'

11. 'Peter Pan is the fairies' orchestra'

12. 'A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, "Hoity-toity,
what is this?"'

13. 'Shook his bald head and murmured, "Cold, quite cold."'

14. 'Fairies never say, "We feel happy"; what they say is,
"We feel _dancey_."'

15. 'Looking very undancey indeed'

16. 'Building the house for