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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quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.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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