Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. J. M. Barrie

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СКАЧАТЬ 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. The island on which all the birds are born that become baby boys and girls (missing from book)

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

      10. Away he flew, right over the houses to the Gardens

      11. The fairies have their tiffs with the birds

      12. 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

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       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

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