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diff --git a/old/14220.txt b/old/14220.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..876d11c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/14220.txt @@ -0,0 +1,644 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, by Beatrix Potter + +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 Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies + +Author: Beatrix Potter + +Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #14220] +[Last updated: October 19, 2020] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES *** + + + + +Produced by Michael Ciesielski and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team. + + + + + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + THE TALE OF + + THE FLOPSY BUNNIES + + BY + + BEATRIX POTTER + + _Author of + "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," &c._ + +[Illustration] + + FREDERICK WARNE & CO., INC. + NEW YORK + + 1909 + + + FOR ALL LITTLE FRIENDS + + OF + + MR. MCGREGOR & PETER & BENJAMIN + +[Illustration] + +It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is "soporific." + +_I_ have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then _I_ am not a +rabbit. + +They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies! + +When Benjamin Bunny grew up, he married his Cousin Flopsy. They had a +large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful. + +I do not remember the separate names of their children; they were +generally called the "Flopsy Bunnies." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +As there was not always quite enough to eat,--Benjamin used to borrow +cabbages from Flopsy's brother, Peter Rabbit, who kept a nursery garden. + +Sometimes Peter Rabbit had no cabbages to spare. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +When this happened, the Flopsy Bunnies went across the field to a rubbish +heap, in the ditch outside Mr. McGregor's garden. + +Mr. McGregor's rubbish heap was a mixture. There were jam pots and paper +bags, and mountains of chopped grass from the mowing machine (which always +tasted oily), and some rotten vegetable marrows and an old boot or two. +One day--oh joy!--there were a quantity of overgrown lettuces, which had +"shot" into flower. + +[Illustration] + +The Flopsy Bunnies simply stuffed lettuces. By degrees, one after another, +they were overcome with slumber, and lay down in the mown grass. + +Benjamin was not so much overcome as his children. Before going to sleep +he was sufficiently wide awake to put a paper bag over his head to keep +off the flies. + +The little Flopsy Bunnies slept delightfully in the warm sun. From the +lawn beyond the garden came the distant clacketty sound of the mowing +machine. The bluebottles buzzed about the wall, and a little old mouse +picked over the rubbish among the jam pots. + +(I can tell you her name, she was called Thomasina Tittlemouse, a +woodmouse with a long tail.) + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +She rustled across the paper bag, and awakened Benjamin Bunny. + +The mouse apologized profusely, and said that she knew Peter Rabbit. + +While she and Benjamin were talking, close under the wall, they heard a +heavy tread above their heads; and suddenly Mr. McGregor emptied out a +sackful of lawn mowings right upon the top of the sleeping Flopsy Bunnies! +Benjamin shrank down under his paper bag. The mouse hid in a jam pot. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +The little rabbits smiled sweetly in their sleep under the shower of +grass; they did not awake because the lettuces had been so soporific. + +They dreamt that their mother Flopsy was tucking them up in a hay bed. + +Mr. McGregor looked down after emptying his sack. He saw some funny little +brown tips of ears sticking up through the lawn mowings. He stared at them +for some time. + +Presently a fly settled on one of them and it moved. + +Mr. McGregor climbed down on to the rubbish heap-- + +"One, two, three, four! five! six leetle rabbits!" said he as he dropped +them into his sack. The Flopsy Bunnies dreamt that their mother was +turning them over in bed. They stirred a little in their sleep, but still +they did not wake up. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Mr. McGregor tied up the sack and left it on the wall. + +He went to put away the mowing machine. + +While he was gone, Mrs. Flopsy Bunny (who had remained at home) came +across the field. + +She looked suspiciously at the sack and wondered where everybody was? + +[Illustration] + +Then the mouse came out of her jam pot, and Benjamin took the paper bag +off his head, and they told the doleful tale. + +Benjamin and Flopsy were in despair, they could not undo the string. + +But Mrs. Tittlemouse was a resourceful person. She nibbled a hole in the +bottom corner of the sack. + +[Illustration] + +The little rabbits were pulled out and pinched to wake them. + +Their parents stuffed the empty sack with three rotten vegetable marrows, +an old blacking-brush and two decayed turnips. + +[Illustration] + +Then they all hid under a bush and watched for Mr. McGregor. + +[Illustration] + +Mr. McGregor came back and picked up the sack, and carried it off. + +He carried it hanging down, as if it were rather heavy. + +The Flopsy Bunnies followed at a safe distance. + +[Illustration] + +They watched him go into his house. + +And then they crept up to the window to listen. + +[Illustration] + +Mr. McGregor threw down the sack on the stone floor in a way that would +have been extremely painful to the Flopsy Bunnies, if they had happened to +have been inside it. + +They could hear him drag his chair on the flags, and chuckle-- + +"One, two, three, four, five, six leetle rabbits!" said Mr. McGregor. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +"Eh? What's that? What have they been spoiling now?" enquired Mrs. +McGregor. + +"One, two, three, four, five, six leetle fat rabbits!" repeated Mr. +McGregor, counting on his fingers--"one, two, three--" + +"Don't you be silly; what do you mean, you silly old man?" + +"In the sack! one, two, three, four, five, six!" replied Mr. McGregor. + +(The youngest Flopsy Bunny got upon the window-sill.) + +Mrs. McGregor took hold of the sack and felt it. She said she could feel +six, but they must be _old_ rabbits, because they were so hard and all +different shapes. + +"Not fit to eat; but the skins will do fine to line my old cloak." + +"Line your old cloak?" shouted Mr. McGregor--"I shall sell them and buy +myself baccy!" + +"Rabbit tobacco! I shall skin them and cut off their heads." + +[Illustration] + +Mrs. McGregor untied the sack and put her hand inside. + +When she felt the vegetables she became very very angry. She said that Mr. +McGregor had "done it a purpose." + +[Illustration] + +And Mr. McGregor was very angry too. One of the rotten marrows came flying +through the kitchen window, and hit the youngest Flopsy Bunny. + +It was rather hurt. + +[Illustration] + +Then Benjamin and Flopsy thought that it was time to go home. + +[Illustration] + +So Mr. McGregor did not get his tobacco, and Mrs. McGregor did not get her +rabbit skins. + +[Illustration] + +But next Christmas Thomasina Tittlemouse got a present of enough +rabbit-wool to make herself a cloak and a hood, and a handsome muff and a +pair of warm mittens. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES + +BY BEATRIX POTTER + +F. 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