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The Velveteen Rabbit

How Toys Become Real

Christmas Morning

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.

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