Produced by Al Haines (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: Cover art] [Frontispiece: _The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives_.] PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS BY J. M. BARRIE (_From 'The Little White Bird'_) WITH DRAWINGS BY ARTHUR RACKHAM [Illustration: Title page art] NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1910 Copyright, 1902, 1906, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 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 ILLUSTRATIONS 1. 'The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives' . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ 2. 'The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside' 3. 'Old Mr. Salford was a crab-apple of an old gentleman who wandered all day in the Gardens' 4. 'When he heard Peter's voice he popped in alarm behind a tulip' 5. 'Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw' 6. 'After this the birds said that they would help him no more in his mad enterprise' 7. 'For years he had been quietly filling his stocking' 8. 'Fairies are all more or less in hiding until dusk' 9. 'These tricky fairies sometimes slyly change the board on a ball night' 10. 'When her Majesty wants to know the time' 11. 'Peter Pan is the fairies' orchestra' 12. 'A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, "Hoity-toity, what is this?"' 13. 'Shook his bald head and murmured, "Cold, quite cold."' 14. 'Fairies never say, "We feel happy"; what they say is, "We feel _dancey_."' 15. 'Looking very undancey indeed' 16. 'Building the house for Maimie' PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS [Illustration: Map of Peter Pan's Kensington Gardens] I THE GRAND TOUR OF THE GARDENS [Illustration: David] 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. [Illustration: Nurse]