He was quite angry when these two ran away the moment they saw him.

PETER PAN

IN
KENSINGTON
GARDENS

FROM
THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD

BY

J. M. BARRIE

A NEW EDITION

ILLUSTRATED BY
ARTHUR RACKHAM

LONDON
HODDER & STOUGHTON
1906

TO SYLVIA AND ARTHUR LLEWELYN DAVIES
AND THEIR BOYS (MY BOYS)

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

Illustration:
The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives
(missing from book)

DAVID

COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

1. He was quite angry when these two ran away the moment they saw him ... Frontispiece

2. The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives (missing from book)

3. The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside

4. In the Broad Walk you meet all the people who are worth knowing

5. The Hump, which is the part of the Broad Walk where all the big races are run

6. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf (missing from book)

7. 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