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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams,
+Illustrated by William Nicholson
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+Title: The Velveteen Rabbit
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+Author: Margery Williams
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+Release Date: March 29, 2004  [eBook #11757]
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+
+                                 THE
+                           Velveteen Rabbit
+
+                                  OR
+                         HOW TOYS BECOME REAL
+
+                         by Margery Williams
+                  Illustrations by William Nicholson
+
+                      DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC.
+                Garden City                   New York
+  _________________________________________________________________
+
+                         To Francesco Bianco
+                                 from
+                         The Velveteen Rabbit
+  _________________________________________________________________
+
+                        List of Illustrations
+
+                          Christmas Morning
+                   The Skin Horse Tells His Story
+                             Spring Time
+                             Summer Days
+                            Anxious Times
+                          The Fairy Flower
+                          At Last! At Last!
+  _________________________________________________________________
+
+HERE was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really
+splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was
+spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears
+were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged
+in the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his
+paws, the effect was charming.
+
+There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy
+engine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit
+was quite the best of all. For at least two hours the Boy loved him,
+and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great
+rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the
+excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was
+forgotten.
+
+                          Christmas Morning
+
+For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor,
+and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and
+being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite
+snubbed him. The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down
+upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended
+they were real. The model boat, who had lived through two seasons and
+lost most of his paint, caught the tone from them and never missed an
+opportunity of referring to his rigging in technical terms. The Rabbit
+could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn't know that
+real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust
+like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and
+should never be mentioned in modern circles. Even Timothy, the jointed
+wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have
+had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with
+Government. Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel
+himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who
+was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse.
+
+The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others.
+He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the
+seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled
+out to string bead necklaces. He was wise, for he had seen a long
+succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and
+by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they
+were only toys, and would never turn into anything else. For nursery
+magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that
+are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all
+about it.
+
+"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by
+side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does
+it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
+
+"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that
+happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just
+to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
+
+"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
+
+"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When
+you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
+
+"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit
+by bit?"
+
+"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It
+takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who
+break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
+Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved
+off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very
+shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are
+Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
+
+"I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had
+not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the
+Skin Horse only smiled.
+
+                    The Skin Horse Tells His Story
+
+"The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said. "That was a great many years
+ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for
+always."
+
+The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this
+magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know
+what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his
+eyes and whiskers was rather sad. He wished that he could become it
+without these uncomfortable things happening to him.
+
+There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she
+took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no
+reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled
+them away in cupboards. She called this "tidying up," and the
+playthings all hated it, especially the tin ones. The Rabbit didn't
+mind it so much, for wherever he was thrown he came down soft.
+
+One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china
+dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too
+much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked
+about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made
+a swoop.
+
+"Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!"
+And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's
+arms.
+
+That night, and for many nights after, the Velveteen Rabbit slept in
+the Boy's bed. At first he found it rather uncomfortable, for the Boy
+hugged him very tight, and sometimes he rolled over on him, and
+sometimes he pushed him so far under the pillow that the Rabbit could
+scarcely breathe. And he missed, too, those long moonlight hours in
+the nursery, when all the house was silent, and his talks with the
+Skin Horse. But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk
+to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he
+said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in. And they had
+splendid games together, in whispers, when Nana had gone away to her
+supper and left the night-light burning on the mantelpiece. And when
+the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close
+under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped
+close round him all night long.
+
+And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy-so happy
+that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting
+shabbier and shabbier, and his tail becoming unsewn, and all the pink
+rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him.
+
+Spring came, and they had long days in the garden, for wherever the
+Boy went the Rabbit went too. He had rides in the wheelbarrow, and
+picnics on the grass, and lovely fairy huts built for him under the
+raspberry canes behind the flower border. And once, when the Boy was
+called away suddenly to go out to tea, the Rabbit was left out on the
+lawn until long after dusk, and Nana had to come and look for him with
+the candle because the Boy couldn't go to sleep unless he was there.
+He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the
+burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled
+as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron.
+
+                             Spring Time
+
+"You must have your old Bunny!" she said. "Fancy all that fuss for a
+toy!"
+
+The Boy sat up in bed and stretched out his hands.
+
+"Give me my Bunny!" he said. "You mustn't say that. He isn't a toy.
+He's REAL!"
+
+When the little Rabbit heard that he was happy, for he knew that what
+the Skin Horse had said was true at last. The nursery magic had
+happened to him, and he was a toy no longer. He was Real. The Boy
+himself had said it.
+
+That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred
+in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst. And into his
+boot-button eyes, that had long ago lost their polish, there came a
+look of wisdom and beauty, so that even Nana noticed it next morning
+when she picked him up, and said, "I declare if that old Bunny hasn't
+got quite a knowing expression!"
+
+
+That was a wonderful Summer!
+
+Near the house where they lived there was a wood, and in the long June
+evenings the Boy liked to go there after tea to play. He took the
+Velveteen Rabbit with him, and before he wandered off to pick flowers,
+or play at brigands among the trees, he always made the Rabbit a
+little nest somewhere among the bracken, where he would be quite cosy,
+for he was a kind-hearted little boy and he liked Bunny to be
+comfortable. One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone,
+watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the
+grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near
+him.
+
+They were rabbits like himself, but quite furry and brand-new. They
+must have been very well made, for their seams didn't show at all, and
+they changed shape in a queer way when they moved; one minute they
+were long and thin and the next minute fat and bunchy, instead of
+always staying the same like he did. Their feet padded softly on the
+ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses,
+while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck
+out, for he knew that people who jump generally have something to wind
+them up. But he couldn't see it. They were evidently a new kind of
+rabbit altogether.
+
+                             Summer Days
+
+They stared at him, and the little Rabbit stared back. And all the
+time their noses twitched.
+
+"Why don't you get up and play with us?" one of them asked.
+
+"I don't feel like it," said the Rabbit, for he didn't want to explain
+that he had no clockwork.
+
+"Ho!" said the furry rabbit. "It's as easy as anything," And he gave a
+big hop sideways and stood on his hind legs.
+
+"I don't believe you can!" he said.
+
+"I can!" said the little Rabbit. "I can jump higher than anything!" He
+meant when the Boy threw him, but of course he didn't want to say so.
+
+"Can you hop on your hind legs?" asked the furry rabbit.
+
+That was a dreadful question, for the Velveteen Rabbit had no hind
+legs at all! The back of him was made all in one piece, like a
+pincushion. He sat still in the bracken, and hoped that the other
+rabbits wouldn't notice.
+
+"I don't want to!" he said again.
+
+But the wild rabbits have very sharp eyes. And this one stretched out
+his neck and looked.
+
+"He hasn't got any hind legs!" he called out. "Fancy a rabbit without
+any hind legs!" And he began to laugh.
+
+"I have!" cried the little Rabbit. "I have got hind legs! I am sitting
+on them!"
+
+"Then stretch them out and show me, like this!" said the wild rabbit.
+And he began to whirl round and dance, till the little Rabbit got
+quite dizzy.
+
+"I don't like dancing," he said. "I'd rather sit still!"
+
+But all the while he was longing to dance, for a funny new tickly
+feeling ran through him, and he felt he would give anything in the
+world to be able to jump about like these rabbits did.
+
+The strange rabbit stopped dancing, and came quite close. He came so
+close this time that his long whiskers brushed the Velveteen Rabbit's
+ear, and then he wrinkled his nose suddenly and flattened his ears and
+jumped backwards.
+
+"He doesn't smell right!" he exclaimed. "He isn't a rabbit at all! He
+isn't real!"
+
+"I am Real!" said the little Rabbit. "I am Real! The Boy said so!" And
+he nearly began to cry.
+
+Just then there was a sound of footsteps, and the Boy ran past near
+them, and with a stamp of feet and a flash of white tails the two
+strange rabbits disappeared.
+
+"Come back and play with me!" called the little Rabbit. "Oh, do come
+back! I know I am Real!"
+
+But there was no answer, only the little ants ran to and fro, and the
+bracken swayed gently where the two strangers had passed. The
+Velveteen Rabbit was all alone.
+
+"Oh, dear!" he thought. "Why did they run away like that? Why couldn't
+they stop and talk to me?"
+
+For a long time he lay very still, watching the bracken, and hoping
+that they would come back. But they never returned, and presently the
+sun sank lower and the little white moths fluttered out, and the Boy
+came and carried him home.
+
+
+Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the
+Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that he loved all his
+whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his
+brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely
+looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was always
+beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. He
+didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic
+had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
+
+And then, one day, the Boy was ill.
+
+His face grew very flushed, and he talked in his sleep, and his little
+body was so hot that it burned the Rabbit when he held him close.
+Strange people came and went in the nursery, and a light burned all
+night and through it all the little Velveteen Rabbit lay there, hidden
+from sight under the bedclothes, and he never stirred, for he was
+afraid that if they found him some one might take him away, and he
+knew that the Boy needed him.
+
+It was a long weary time, for the Boy was too ill to play, and the
+little Rabbit found it rather dull with nothing to do all day long.
+But he snuggled down patiently, and looked forward to the time when
+the Boy should be well again, and they would go out in the garden
+amongst the flowers and the butterflies and play splendid games in the
+raspberry thicket like they used to. All sorts of delightful things he
+planned, and while the Boy lay half asleep he crept up close to the
+pillow and whispered them in his ear. And presently the fever turned,
+and the Boy got better. He was able to sit up in bed and look at
+picture-books, while the little Rabbit cuddled close at his side. And
+one day, they let him get up and dress.
+
+It was a bright, sunny morning, and the windows stood wide open. They
+had carried the Boy out on to the balcony, wrapped in a shawl, and the
+little Rabbit lay tangled up among the bedclothes, thinking.
+
+The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. Everything was arranged,
+and now it only remained to carry out the doctor's orders. They talked
+about it all, while the little Rabbit lay under the bedclothes, with
+just his head peeping out, and listened. The room was to be
+disinfected, and all the books and toys that the Boy had played with
+in bed must be burnt.
+
+"Hurrah!" thought the little Rabbit. "To-morrow we shall go to the
+seaside!" For the boy had often talked of the seaside, and he wanted
+very much to see the big waves coming in, and the tiny crabs, and the
+sand castles.
+
+Just then Nana caught sight of him.
+
+"How about his old Bunny?" she asked.
+
+"That?" said the doctor. "Why, it's a mass of scarlet fever
+germs!-Burn it at once. What? Nonsense! Get him a new one. He mustn't
+have that any more!"
+
+                            Anxious Times
+
+And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old
+picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the
+garden behind the fowl-house. That was a fine place to make a bonfire,
+only the gardener was too busy just then to attend to it. He had the
+potatoes to dig and the green peas to gather, but next morning he
+promised to come quite early and burn the whole lot.
+
+That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new
+bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with
+real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about
+it. For to-morrow he was going to the seaside, and that in itself was
+such a wonderful thing that he could think of nothing else.
+
+And while the Boy was asleep, dreaming of the seaside, the little
+Rabbit lay among the old picture-books in the corner behind the
+fowl-house, and he felt very lonely. The sack had been left untied,
+and so by wriggling a bit he was able to get his head through the
+opening and look out. He was shivering a little, for he had always
+been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had
+worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any
+protection to him. Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry
+canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow
+he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings. He thought of those
+long sunlit hours in the garden-how happy they were-and a great
+sadness came over him. He seemed to see them all pass before him, each
+more beautiful than the other, the fairy huts in the flower-bed, the
+quiet evenings in the wood when he lay in the bracken and the little
+ants ran over his paws; the wonderful day when he first knew that he
+was Real. He thought of the Skin Horse, so wise and gentle, and all
+that he had told him. Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's
+beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real
+tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the
+ground.
+
+And then a strange thing happened. For where the tear had fallen a
+flower grew out of the ground, a mysterious flower, not at all like
+any that grew in the garden. It had slender green leaves the colour of
+emeralds, and in the centre of the leaves a blossom like a golden cup.
+It was so beautiful that the little Rabbit forgot to cry, and just lay
+there watching it. And presently the blossom opened, and out of it
+there stepped a fairy.
+
+She was quite the loveliest fairy in the whole world. Her dress was of
+pearl and dew-drops, and there were flowers round her neck and in her
+hair, and her face was like the most perfect flower of all. And she
+came close to the little Rabbit and gathered him up in her arms and
+kissed him on his velveteen nose that was all damp from crying.
+
+"Little Rabbit," she said, "don't you know who I am?"
+
+The Rabbit looked up at her, and it seemed to him that he had seen her
+face before, but he couldn't think where.
+
+"I am the nursery magic Fairy," she said. "I take care of all the
+playthings that the children have loved. When they are old and worn
+out and the children don't need them any more, then I come and take
+them away with me and turn them into Real."
+
+"Wasn't I Real before?" asked the little Rabbit.
+
+"You were Real to the Boy," the Fairy said, "because he loved you. Now
+you shall be Real to every one."
+
+                           The Fairy Flower
+
+And she held the little Rabbit close in her arms and flew with him
+into the wood.
+
+It was light now, for the moon had risen. All the forest was
+beautiful, and the fronds of the bracken shone like frosted silver. In
+the open glade between the tree-trunks the wild rabbits danced with
+their shadows on the velvet grass, but when they saw the Fairy they
+all stopped dancing and stood round in a ring to stare at her.
+
+"I've brought you a new playfellow," the Fairy said. "You must be very
+kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbit-land, for he
+is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
+
+And she kissed the little Rabbit again and put him down on the grass.
+
+"Run and play, little Rabbit!" she said.
+
+But the little Rabbit sat quite still for a moment and never moved.
+For when he saw all the wild rabbits dancing around him he suddenly
+remembered about his hind legs, and he didn't want them to see that he
+was made all in one piece. He did not know that when the Fairy kissed
+him that last time she had changed him altogether. And he might have
+sat there a long time, too shy to move, if just then something hadn't
+tickled his nose, and before he thought what he was doing he lifted
+his hind toe to scratch it.
+
+And he found that he actually had hind legs! Instead of dingy
+velveteen he had brown fur, soft and shiny, his ears twitched by
+themselves, and his whiskers were so long that they brushed the grass.
+He gave one leap and the joy of using those hind legs was so great
+that he went springing about the turf on them, jumping sideways and
+whirling round as the others did, and he grew so excited that when at
+last he did stop to look for the Fairy she had gone.
+
+He was a Real Rabbit at last, at home with the other rabbits.
+
+
+                          At Last! At Last!
+
+Autumn passed and Winter, and in the Spring, when the days grew warm
+and sunny, the Boy went out to play in the wood behind the house. And
+while he was playing, two rabbits crept out from the bracken and
+peeped at him. One of them was brown all over, but the other had
+strange markings under his fur, as though long ago he had been
+spotted, and the spots still showed through. And about his little soft
+nose and his round black eyes there was something familiar, so that
+the Boy thought to himself:
+
+"Why, he looks just like my old Bunny that was lost when I had scarlet
+fever!"
+
+But he never knew that it really was his own Bunny, come back to look
+at the child who had first helped him to be Real.
+
+
+
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