Peter Pan in Kensington 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
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
,
who
are
forbidden
to
mix
with
the
commonalty
,
and
is
so
named
,
according
to
legend
,
because
they
dress
in
full
fig
.
These
dainty
ones
are
themselves
contemptuously
called
Figs
by
David
and
other
heroes
,
and
you
have
a
key
to
the
manners
and
customs
of
this
dandiacal
section
of
the
Gardens
when
I
tell
you
that
cricket
is
called
crickets
here
.
Occasionally
a
rebel
Fig
climbs
over
the
fence
into
the
world
,
and
such
a
one
was
Miss
Mabel
Grey
,
of
whom
I
shall
tell
you
when
we
come
to
Miss
Mabel
Grey
's
gate
.
She
was
the
only
really
celebrated
Fig
.
We
are
now
in
the
Broad
Walk
,
and
it
is
as
much
bigger
than
the
other
walks
as
your
father
is
bigger
than
you
.
David
wondered
if
it
began
little
,
and
grew
and
grew
,
until
it
was
quite
grown
up
,
and
whether
the
other
walks
are
its
babies
,
and
he
drew
a
picture
,
which
diverted
him
very
much
,
of
the
Broad
Walk
giving
a
tiny
walk
an
airing
in
a
perambulator
.
In
the
Broad
Walk
you
meet
all
the
people
who
are
worth
knowing
,
and
there
is
usually
a
grown-up
with
them
to
prevent
them
going
on
the
damp
grass
,
and
to
make
them
stand
disgraced
at
the
corner
of
a
seat
if
they
have
been
mad-dog
or
Mary-Annish
.
To
be
Mary-Annish
is
to
behave
like
a
girl
,
whimpering
because
nurse
wo
n't
carry
you
,
or
simpering
with
your
thumb
in
your
mouth
,
and
it
is
a
hateful
quality
;
but
to
be
mad-dog
is
to
kick
out
at
everything
,
and
there
is
some
satisfaction
in
that
.
If
I
were
to
point
out
all
the
notable
places
as
we
pass
up
the
Broad
Walk
,
it
would
be
time
to
turn
back
before
we
reach
them
,
and
I
simply
wave
my
stick
at
Cecco
Hewlett
's
Tree
,
that
memorable
spot
where
a
boy
called
Cecco
lost
his
penny
,
and
,
looking
for
it
,
found
twopence
.
There
has
been
a
good
deal
of
excavation
going
on
there
ever
since
.
Farther
up
the
walk
is
the
little
wooden
house
in
which
Marmaduke
Perry
hid
.
There
is
no
more
awful
story
of
the
Gardens
than
this
of
Marmaduke
Perry
,
who
had
been
Mary-Annish
three
days
in
succession
,
and
was
sentenced
to
appear
in
the
Broad
Walk
dressed
in
his
sister
's
clothes
.
He
hid
in
the
little
wooden
house
,
and
refused
to
emerge
until
they
brought
him
knickerbockers
with
pockets
.
You
now
try
to
go
to
the
Round
Pond
,
but
nurses
hate
it
,
because
they
are
not
really
manly
,
and
they
make
you
look
the
other
way
,
at
the
Big
Penny
and
the
Baby
's
Palace
.
She
was
the
most
celebrated
baby
of
the
Gardens
,
and
lived
in
the
palace
all
alone
,
with
ever
so
many
dolls
,
so
people
rang
the
bell
,
and
up
she
got
out
of
her
bed
,
though
it
was
past
six
o'clock
,
and
she
lighted
a
candle
and
opened
the
door
in
her
nighty
,
and
then
they
all
cried
with
great
rejoicings
,
'
Hail
,
Queen
of
England
!
'
What
puzzled
David
most
was
how
she
knew
where
the
matches
were
kept
.
The
Big
Penny
is
a
statue
about
her
.
Next
we
come
to
the
Hump
,
which
is
the
part
of
the
Broad
Walk
where
all
the
big
races
are
run
;
and
even
though
you
had
no
intention
of
running
you
do
run
when
you
come
to
the
Hump
,
it
is
such
a
fascinating
,
slide-down
kind
of
place
.
Often
you
stop
when
you
have
run
about
half-way
down
it
,
and
then
you
are
lost
;
but
there
is
another
little
wooden
house
near
here
,
called
the
Lost
House
,
and
so
you
tell
the
man
that
you
are
lost
and
then
he
finds
you
.
It
is
glorious
fun
racing
down
the
Hump
,
but
you
ca
n't
do
it
on
windy
days
because
then
you
are
not
there
,
but
the
fallen
leaves
do
it
instead
of
you
.
There
is
almost
nothing
that
has
such
a
keen
sense
of
fun
as
a
fallen
leaf
.
From
the
Hump
we
can
see
the
gate
that
is
called
after
Miss
Mabel
Grey
,
the
Fig
I
promised
to
tell
you
about
.
