tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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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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

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 before you go in you speak to the lady with the balloons, who sits just outside. This is as near to being inside as she may venture, because, if she were to let go her hold of the railings for one moment, the balloons would lift her up, and she would be flown away. She sits very squat, for the balloons are always tugging at her, and the strain has given her quite a red face. Once she was a new one, because the old one had let go, and David was very sorry for the old one, but as she did let go, he wished he had been there to see.

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

The Gardens are a tremendous big place, with millions and hundreds of trees; and first you come to the Figs, but you scorn to loiter there, for the Figs is the resort of superior little persons,