1 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I would 2 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: like to say hello to some more friends who filled 3 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: out our sleep Tight Stories survey. Hello to Thazry and 4 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: Thabshi Berdie, Isley Dublin, Alessandra Porter, Zara and O'Brien, Riley 5 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: and Isla, Caamanson, Lewis Kinley and Kyrie, Kea Harper and Lauren, 6 00:00:54,360 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: Daniel and Emily, Ezra and Axel, Joe and Gloria, Garrett, 7 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 1: Deacon and Bennett, Noah Atlas, b and Lou Ezra, Vita May, Kirby, 8 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: Mason and Asher, Max and Sirsha. I am sorry if 9 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: I said your name wrong. If you would like to 10 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: support us, please visit us at patreon dot com slash 11 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: sleep Tight Stories. A link can be found in the 12 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: show notes. Thank you. I enjoyed the episode with the 13 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: velveteen rabbits so much that I decided to continue with 14 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: the story. Reading this story made me remember all the 15 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: great times I had with my teddy bear. This is 16 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: the second episode about the velveteen rabbit. If you missed 17 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: the first episode, you might want to go back and 18 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: listen to it. The velveteen rabbit. Near the house where 19 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: they lived, there was a wood, and in the long 20 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: June evenings, the boy liked to go there after tea 21 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: to play. He took the velveteen rabbit with him, and 22 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: before he wandered off to pick flowers or play at 23 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: Brigand's among the trees, he always made the rabbit a 24 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: little nest somewhere among the bracken, where he would be 25 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: quite cozy, for he was a kind hearted little boy, 26 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 1: and he liked bunny to be comfortable. One evening, while 27 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: the rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that 28 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, 29 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall 30 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: bracken near him. They were rabbits like himself, but quite 31 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: furry and brand new. They must have been very well made, 32 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: for their seams didn't show at all, and they changed 33 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: shape in a strange way when they moved. One minute, 34 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: they were long and thin, and the next minute fat 35 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: and bunchy. Instead of always staying the same like he did, 36 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept 37 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: quite close to him, twitching their noses. While the rabbit 38 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: stared hard to see which side the clockwork struck out 39 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: for He knew that people who jumped generally have something 40 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: to wind them up, but he couldn't see it. They 41 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: were evidently a new kind of rabbit all together. They 42 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: stared at him, and the little rabbit stared back, and 43 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: all the time their noses twitched. Why don't you get 44 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: up and play with us, one of them asked, I 45 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: don't feel like it, said the rabbit, for he didn't 46 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: want to explain that he had no clockwork. Oh, said 47 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: the furry rabbit. It's as easy as anything, and he 48 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: gave a big hop sideways and stood on his hind legs. 49 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: I don't believe you can, he said. I can, said 50 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: the little rabbit. I can jump higher than anything he 51 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: meant when the boy threw him. But of course he 52 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: didn't want to say. So, can you hop on your 53 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: hind legs, asked the furry rabbit. That was a dreadful question, 54 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: for the velveteen rabbit had no hind legs at all. 55 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: The back of him was all in one piece, like 56 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: a pincushion. He sat still in the bracken and hoped 57 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: that the other rabbits wouldn't notice. I don't want to, 58 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: he said again. But the wild rabbit have very sharp eyes. 59 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: And this one stretched out his neck and looked. He 60 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: hasn't got any hind legs. He called out. Fancy a 61 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: rabbit without any hind legs, I have, cried the little rabbit. 62 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 1: I have got hind legs. I am sitting on them. 63 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: Then stretch them out and show me like this, said 64 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: the wild rabbit, and he began to whirl round and 65 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: dance till the little rabbit got quite dizzy. I don't 66 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: like dancing, he said, I would rather sit still. But 67 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: all the while he was longing to dance for a funny, 68 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: new tickly feeling ran through him, and he felt he 69 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: would give anything in the world to be able to 70 00:06:54,760 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 1: jump about like these rabbits did. The strange rabbit stopped 71 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: dancing and came quite close. He came so close this 72 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: time that his long whiskers brushed the velveteen rabbit's ear, 73 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: and then he wrinkled his nose suddenly and flattened his 74 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: ears and jumped backwards. He doesn't smell right, he exclaimed. 75 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: He isn't a rabbit at all. He isn't real. I 76 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: am real, said the little rabbit. I am real. The 77 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: boy said so, and he nearly began to cry. Just 78 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: then there was a sound of footsteps, and the boy 79 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: ran past near them, and with a stamp of feet 80 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: and a flash of white tails, the two strange rabbits disappeared. 81 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: Come back and play with me, called the little rabbit. Oh, 82 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: do come back, I know I am real, But there 83 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: was no answer. Only the little ants ran to and fro, 84 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: and the bracken swayed gently where the two strangers had passed. 85 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: The velveteen rabbit was all alone. Oh dear, he thought, 86 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: Why did they run away like that? Why couldn't they 87 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: stop and talk to me. For a long time he 88 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: lay very still, watching the bracken and hoping that they 89 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: would come back. But they never returned, and presently the 90 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 1: sun sank lower, and the little white moths fluttered out, 91 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: and the boy came and carried him home. Weeks passed, 92 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: and the little rabbit grew very old and shabby, but 93 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: the boy loved him just as much. He loved him 94 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and 95 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: the pink lining to his ears turned gray, and his 96 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, 97 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: and he scarcely looked like a rabbit anymore except to 98 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 1: the boy. To him, he was always beautiful, and that 99 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: was all that the little rabbit cared about. He didn't 100 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery 101 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: magic had made him real, and when you are real, 102 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: shabbiness doesn't matter. And then one day the boy was ill. 103 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: His face grew very flushed, and he talked in his sleep, 104 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 1: and his little body was so hot that it burned 105 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 1: the rabbit when he held him close. Strange people came 106 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: and went in the nursery, and a light burned all night, 107 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: and through it all little velveteen rabbit lay there, hidden 108 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: from sight under the bedclothes, and he never stirred, for 109 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 1: he was afraid that if they found him, someone might 110 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: take him away, and he knew that the boy needed him. 111 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: It was a long, weary time, for the boy was 112 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: too ill to play, and the little rabbit found it 113 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: rather dull, with nothing to do all day long. But 114 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: he snuggled down patiently and looked forward to the time 115 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: when the boy should be well again, and they would 116 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: go out in the garden amongst the flowers and the butterflies, 117 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,719 Speaker 1: and play splendid games in the raspberry thicket. Like they 118 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: used to, all sorts of delightful things. He planned, and 119 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: while the boy lay half asleep, he crept up close 120 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: to the pillow and whispered them in his ear. And 121 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: presently the fever turned and the boy got better. He 122 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 1: was able to sit up in bed and look at 123 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: picture books, while the little rabbit cuddled close at his side. 124 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: And one day they let him get up and get dressed. 125 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: It was a bright sunny morning, and the window stood 126 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 1: wide open. They had carried the boy out onto the balcony, 127 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 1: wrapped in a shawl, and the little rabbit lay tangled 128 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: up among the bedclothes, thinking the boy was going to 129 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: the seaside tomorrow. Everything was arranged, and now it only 130 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 1: remained to carry out the doctor's orders. They talked all 131 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: about it while the little rabbit lay under the bedclothes 132 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: with just his head peeping out, and listened. The room 133 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: was to be disinfected, and all the books and toys 134 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 1: that the boy had played with in bed must be 135 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: gotten rid of. Hooray, thought the little rabbit. Tomorrow we 136 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: shall go to the seaside. For the boy had often 137 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: talked of the seaside, and he wanted very much to 138 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,559 Speaker 1: see the big waves coming in, and the tiny crabs 139 00:12:53,120 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: and the sea castles. Just then Nana caught sight of him. 140 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: How about his old bunny, she asked that, said the doctor, 141 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: Why it's a mass of germs. Get rid of it 142 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: at once, what nonsense, Get him a new one. He 143 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: mustn't have that any more. And so the little rabbit 144 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: was put into a sack with the old picture books 145 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: and lots of other things, and carried out to the 146 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: end of the garden behind the fowl house. The gardener 147 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: was too busy just then to attend to the bag. 148 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: He had the potatoes to dig and the green peas 149 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 1: to gather. But the next morning he promised to come 150 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: quite early and deal with it. That night, the boy 151 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new 152 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, 153 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: all white plush, with real glass eyes. But the boy 154 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: was too excited to care very much about it, for 155 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: tomorrow he was going to the seaside, and that in 156 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: itself was such a wonderful thing that he could think 157 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: of nothing else. And while the boy was asleep, dreaming 158 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: of the seaside, the little rabbit lay among the old 159 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: picture books in the corner behind the fowl house, and 160 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: he felt very lonely. The sack had been left untied, 161 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: and so by wriggling a bit, he was able to 162 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: get his head through the opening and look out. He 163 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: was shivering a little, for he had always been used 164 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time 165 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: his coat was worn so thin and threadbare from hugging 166 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: that it was no longer any protection to him. Near 167 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 1: By he could see the thicket of raspberry canes growing 168 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: tall and close, like a tropical jungle in whose shadow 169 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: he had played with the boy on by gone mornings. 170 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: He thought of those long sunlit hours in the garden, 171 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: how happy they were, and a great sadness came over him. 172 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: He seemed to see them all pass before him, each 173 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: more beautiful than the other, the fairy huts in the 174 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: flower bed, the quiet evenings in the wood, when he 175 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: lay in the bracken, and the little ants ran over 176 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: his paws, the wonderful day when he first knew that 177 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: he was real. He thought of the skin horse, so 178 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: wise and gentle, and all that he had told him. 179 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: Of What use was it to be loved and lose 180 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: one's beauty? And become real if it ended like this. 181 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little 182 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground. And then 183 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: a strange thing happened, for where the tear had fallen, 184 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: a flower grew out of the ground, a mysterious flower, 185 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: not at all like any that grew in the garden. 186 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: It had slender green leaves the colors of emeralds, and 187 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: in the center of the leaves a blossom like a 188 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: golden cup. It was so beautiful that the little rabbit 189 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: forgot to cry and just lay there watching it. And 190 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: presently the blossom opened, and out of it there stepped 191 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: a fairy. She was quite the loveliest fairy in the 192 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: whole world. Her dress was of pearl and dewdrops, and 193 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: there were flowers round her neck and in her hair, 194 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: and her face was like the most perfect flower of all. 195 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: And she came close to the little rabbit and gathered 196 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: him up in her arms and kissed him on his 197 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:49,719 Speaker 1: velveteen nose that was all damp from crying, little rabbit. 198 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 1: She said, don't you know who I am? The rabbit 199 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 1: looked up at her, and it seemed to him that 200 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: He had seen her face before, but he couldn't think 201 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: where I am the nursery magic fairy. She said, I 202 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: take care of all the playthings that the children have loved. 203 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 1: When they are old and worn out, and the children 204 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 1: don't need them anymore, then I come and take them 205 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:29,959 Speaker 1: away with me and turn them into real wasn't I 206 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: real before? Asked the little rabbit. You were real to 207 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 1: the boy. The fairy said, because he loved you. Now 208 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 1: you shall be real to everyone. And she held the 209 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 1: little rabbit close in her arms and flew with him 210 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: into the wood. It was light now, for the moon 211 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: had risen. All the forest was beautiful, and the fronds 212 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: of the bracket shone like frosted silver. In the open 213 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: glade between the tree trunks, the wild rabbits danced with 214 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: their shadows on the velvet grass, but when they saw 215 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: the fairy, they all stopped dancing and stood round in 216 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,439 Speaker 1: a ring to stare at her. I've brought you a 217 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 1: new playfellow, the fairy said. You must be very kind 218 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: to him and teach him all he needs to know 219 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 1: in rabbit Land, for he is going to live with 220 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: you forever and ever. And she kissed the little rabbit 221 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 1: again and put him down on the grass. Run and play, 222 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: little rabbit, she said. But the little rabbit sat quite 223 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: still for a moment and never moved, for when he 224 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: saw all the wild rabbits dancing around him, he suddenly 225 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,160 Speaker 1: remembered about his hind legs, and he didn't want them 226 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: to see that he was made all in one piece. 227 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: He did not know that when the fairy kissed him 228 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: that last time, she had changed him all together, and 229 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: he might have sat there a long time, too shy 230 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:28,159 Speaker 1: to move, if just then something hadn't tickled his nose. 231 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: And before he thought what he was doing, he lifted 232 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: his hind toe to scratch it, and he found that 233 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: he actually had hind legs. Instead of dingy velveteen, he 234 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 1: was brown, fur soft and shiny. His ears twitched by themselves, 235 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: and his whiskers were so long that they brushed the grass. 236 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 1: He gave one leap, and the joy of using those 237 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: hind legs was so great that he went springing about 238 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: the turf on them, jumping sideways and whirling round as 239 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: the others did, and he grew so excited that when 240 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: at last he did stop to look for the fairy, 241 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: she had gone, he was a real rabbit at last, 242 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: at home with the other rabbits. Autumn passed and winter, 243 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: and in the spring, when the days grew warm and sunny, 244 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 1: the boy went out to play in the wood behind 245 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:48,360 Speaker 1: the house, and while he was playing, two rabbits crept 246 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: out from the bracken and peeped at him. One of 247 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 1: them was brown all over, but the other had strange 248 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: markings under his fur, as though long ago he had 249 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: been spotted, and the spots still showed through and about 250 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: his little soft nose. In his round black eyes, there 251 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: was something familiar, so that the boy thought to himself, 252 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: why he looks just like my old bunny that was 253 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: lost when I was sick. But he never knew that 254 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,360 Speaker 1: it really was his own bunny come back to look 255 00:22:32,359 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: at the child who had first helped him to be real.