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diff --git a/11757.txt b/11757.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a14703f --- /dev/null +++ b/11757.txt @@ -0,0 +1,892 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams, +Illustrated by William Nicholson + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Velveteen Rabbit + +Author: Margery Williams + +Release Date: March 29, 2004 [eBook #11757] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VELVETEEN RABBIT*** + + + + This eBook is courtesy of the Celebration of Women Writers, online at + http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/. + + 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. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VELVETEEN RABBIT*** + + +******* This file should be named 11757.txt or 11757.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/7/5/11757 + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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