THE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY
May 01, 2015THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES BY BEATRIX POTTER AUTHOR OF “THE TAIL OF PETER RABBIT” FOR EXAMPLE FOR ALL LITTLE FRIENDS OF MR. MCGREGOR…
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May 06, 2015It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific.” I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a…
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May 28, 2015When Benjamin Bunny grew up, he married his Cousin Flopsy. They had a large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful. I do not…
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May 29, 2015As there was not always quite enough to eat,—Benjamin used to borrow cabbages from Flopsy’s brother, Peter Rabbit, who kept a nursery garden…
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June 29, 2015Sometimes Peter Rabbit had no cabbages to spare.
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July 29, 2015When this happened, the Flopsy Bunnies went across the field to a rubbish heap, in the ditch outside Mr. McGregor’s garden.
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August 29, 2015Mr. McGregor’s rubbish heap was a mixture. There were jam pots and paper bags, and mountains of chopped grass from the mowing machine (which…
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September 29, 2015Benjamin was not so much overcome as his children. Before going to sleep he was sufficiently wide awake to put a paper bag over his head to…
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October 29, 2015The little Flopsy Bunnies slept delightfully in the warm sun. From the lawn beyond the garden came the distant clacketty sound of the mowing…
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November 29, 2015She rustled across the paper bag, and awakened Benjamin Bunny. The mouse apologized profusely, and said that she knew Peter Rabbit.
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December 29, 2015While she and Benjamin were talking, close under the wall, they heard a heavy tread above their heads; and suddenly Mr. McGregor emptied out…
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January 29, 2016The little rabbits smiled sweetly in their sleep under the shower of grass; they did not awake because the lettuces had been so soporific…
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February 29, 2016Presently a fly settled on one of them and it moved. Mr. McGregor climbed down on to the rubbish heap— “One, two, three, four! five! six…
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March 29, 2016Mr. McGregor tied up the sack and left it on the wall. He went to put away the mowing machine.
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April 29, 2016While he was gone, Mrs. Flopsy Bunny (who had remained at home) came across the field. She looked suspiciously at the sack and wondered…
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May 29, 2016Then the mouse came out of her jam pot, and Benjamin took the paper bag off his head, and they told the doleful tale. Benjamin and Flopsy…
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June 29, 2016The little rabbits were pulled out and pinched to wake them. Their parents stuffed the empty sack with three rotten vegetable marrows, an…
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July 29, 2016Then they all hid under a bush and watched for Mr. McGregor.
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August 29, 2016Mr. McGregor came back and picked up the sack, and carried it off. He carried it hanging down, as if it were rather heavy. The Flopsy…
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September 29, 2016The watched him go into his house. And then they crept up to the window to listen.
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October 29, 2016Mr. McGregor threw down the sack on the stone floor in a way that would have been extremely painful to the Flopsy Bunnies, if they had…
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November 29, 2016“Eh? What’s that? What have they been spoiling now?” enquired Mrs. McGregor. “One, two, three, four, five, six leetle fat rabbits!” repeated…
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December 29, 2016Mrs. McGregor took hold of the sack and felt it. She said she could feel six, but they must be old rabbits, because they were so hard and…
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January 29, 2017Mrs. McGregor untied the sack and put her hand inside. When she felt the vegetables she became very very angry. She said that Mr. McGregor…
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Invalid dateAnd Mr. McGregor was very angry too. One of the rotten marrows came flying through the kitchen window, and hit the youngest Flopsy Bunny. It…
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March 29, 2017Then Benjamin and Flopsy thought that it was time to go home.
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April 29, 2017So Mr. McGregor did not get his tobacco, and Mrs. McGregor did not get her rabbit skins. But next Christmas Thomasina Tittlemouse got a…
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