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1、Beatrix Potter 的兔子彼得丛书是一套有趣的童话故事集，内容丰富，语言浅显，是儿童和成人都喜欢阅读的书籍，也是常年被评为美国图书的上榜书藉。The OriginalPeter Rabbit BooksBy BEATRIX POTTERA LIST OF THE TITLES*indicates included here*The Tale of Peter RabbitThe Tale of Squirrel NutkinThe Tailor of Gloucester*The Tale of Benjamin Bunny*The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
2、*The Tale of Mr. Jeremy FisherThe Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse*The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck*The Tale of the Flopsy BunniesThe Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit*The Tale of Two Bad MiceThe Tale of Tom KittenThe Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse*The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes*The Tale of Mr. Tod*The Tale of Pigling Bland
3、*The Roly Poly Pudding*The Pie and the Patty-pan*Ginger and Pickles*The Story of Miss MoppetAppley Dapplys Nursery RhymesThe Tale of Little Pig Robinson?THE TALE OFPETER RABBITBYBEATRIX POTTERONCE upon a time therewere four little Rabbits,and their names were- Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail,and Peter.Th
4、ey lived with their Motherin a sand-bank, underneath theroot of a very big fir tree.NOW, my dears, said oldMrs. Rabbit one morning,you may go into the fieldsor down the lane, but dont gointo Mr. McGregors garden:your Father had an accidentthere; he was put in a pie byMrs. McGregor.NOW run along, and
5、 dontget into mischief. I amgoing out.THEN old Mrs. Rabbit tooka basket and her umbrella,to the bakers. She bought aloaf of brown bread and fivecurrant buns.FLOPSY, Mopsy, andCottontail, who were goodlittle bunnies, went down thelane to gather blackberries;BUT Peter, who was verynaughty, ran straigh
6、taway to Mr. McGregorsgarden and squeezed underthe gate!FIRST he ate some lettucesand some French beans;and then he ate some radishes;AND then, feeling rathersick, he went to look forsome parsley.BUT round the end of acucumber frame, whomshould he meet but Mr.McGregor!MR. McGREGOR was onhis hands an
7、d kneesplanting out young cabbages,but he jumped up and ran afterPeter, waving a rake and callingout, Stop thief!PETER was most dreadfullyfrightened; he rushed allover the garden, for he hadforgotten the way back to thegate.He lost one of his shoesamong the cabbages, and theother shoe amongst the po
8、tatoes.AFTER losing them, he ranon four legs and wentfaster, so that I think he mighthave got away altogether if hehad not unfortunately run intoa gooseberry net, and gotcaught by the large buttons onhis jacket. It was a blue jacketwith brass buttons, quite new.PETER gave himself up forlost, and she
9、d big tears;but his sobs were overheard bysome friendly sparrows, whoflew to him in great excitement,and implored him toexert himself.MR. McGREGOR came upwith a sieve, which heintended to pop upon the topof Peter; but Peter wriggledout just in time, leaving hisjacket behind him.AND rushed into the t
10、oolshed,and jumped into a can.It would have been abeautiful thing to hide in, if ithad not had so much water in it.MR. McGREGOR wasquite sure that Peterwas somewhere in the toolshed,perhaps hidden underneatha flower-pot. He beganto turn them over carefully,looking under each.Presently Peter sneezed-
11、Kertyschoo! Mr. McGregorwas after him in no time,AND tried to put his footupon Peter, who jumpedout of a window, upsettingthree plants. The window wastoo small for Mr. McGregor,and he was tired of runningafter Peter. He went back tohis work.PETER sat down to rest;he was out of breath andtrembling wi
12、th fright, and hehad not the least idea whichway to go. Also he was verydamp with sitting in that can.After a time he began towander about, going lippity-lippity-not very fast, andlooking all around.HE found a door in a wall;but it was locked, andthere was no room for a fatlittle rabbit to squeezeun
13、derneath.An old mouse was runningin and out over the stone doorstep,carrying peas and beansto her family in the wood.Peter asked her the way to thegate, but she had such a largepea in her mouth that she couldnot answer. She only shookher head at him. Peter beganto cry.THEN he tried to find hisway st
14、raight across thegarden, but he became moreand more puzzled. Presently,he came to a pond where Mr.McGregor filled his water-cans.A white cat was staring atsome gold-fish; she sat very,very still, but now and thenthe tip of her tail twitched asif it were alive. Peter thoughtit best to go away without
15、speaking to her; he had heardabout cats from his cousin,little Benjamin Bunny.HE went back towards thetool-shed, but suddenly,quite close to him, he heardthe noise of a hoe-scr-r-ritch,scratch, scratch, scritch. Peterscuttered underneath thebushes. But presently, asnothing happened, he cameout, and
16、climbed upon awheelbarrow, and peeped over. Thefirst thing he saw was Mr.McGregor hoeing onions. Hisback was turned towardsPeter, and beyond him wasthe gate!PETER got down veryquietly off the wheelbarrow,and started runningas fast as he could go, alonga straight walk behind someblack-currant bushes.
17、Mr. McGregor caught sightof him at the corner, but Peterdid not care. He slipped underneaththe gate, and was safe atlast in the wood outside thegarden.MR. McGREGOR hung upthe little jacket and theshoes for a scare-crow tofrighten the blackbirds.PETER never stopped runningor looked behindhim till he
18、got home to thebig fir-tree.He was so tired that heflopped down upon the nicesoft sand on the floor of therabbit-hole, and shut his eyes.His mother was busy cooking;she wondered what he haddone with his clothes. It wasthe second little jacket andpair of shoes that Peter hadlost in a fortnight!I AM s
19、orry to say that Peterwas not very well duringthe evening.His mother put him to bed,and made some camomile tea;and she gave a dose of it toPeter!One table-spoonful to betaken at bed-time.BUT Flopsy, Mopsy, andCotton-tail had breadand milk and blackberries,for supper.THE ENDTHE TALE OFBENJAMIN BUNNYF
20、OR THE CHILDREN OF SAWREYFROMOLD MR. BUNNYONE morning a little rabbitsat on a bank.He pricked his ears andlistened to the trit-trot,trit-trot of a pony.A gig was coming along theroad; it was driven by Mr.McGregor, and beside him satMrs. McGregor in her bestbonnet.AS soon as they had passed,little Be
21、njamin Bunnyslid down into the road, andset off-with a hop, skip anda jump-to call upon his relations,who lived in the wood atthe back of Mr. McGregorsgarden.THAT wood was full ofrabbit holes; and in theneatest sandiest hole of all,cousins-Flopsy, Mopsy,Cotton-tail and Peter.Old Mrs. Rabbit was awid
22、ow; she earned her livingby knitting rabbit-wool mittensand muffetees (I once boughta pair at a bazaar). She alsosold herbs, and rosemary tea,and rabbit-tobacco (which iswhat WE call lavender).LITTLE Benjamin did notvery much want to seehis Aunt.He came round the back ofthe fir-tree, and nearly tumb
23、ledupon the top of his CousinPeter.PETER was sitting by himself.He looked poorly,and was dressed in a red cottonpocket-handkerchief.Peter,-said little Benjamin,in a whisper-who hasgot your clothes?PETER replied-The scarecrowin Mr. McGregorsgarden, and described how hehad been chased about thegarden,
24、 and had dropped hisshoes and coat.Little Benjamin sat down besidehis cousin, and assured himthat Mr. McGregor had goneout in a gig, and Mrs. McGregoralso; and certainly for the day,because she was wearing herbest bonnet.PETER said he hoped thatit would rain.At this point, old Mrs.Rabbits voice was
25、heard insidethe rabbit hole calling-Cotton-tail! Cotton-tail!fetch some more camomile!Peter said he thought hemight feel better if he wentfor a walk.THEY went away hand inhand, and got upon theflat top of the wall at the bottomof the wood. From here theylooked down into Mr. McGregorsgarden. Peters c
26、oatand shoes were plainly to beseen upon the scarecrow,topped with an old tam-o-shanter of Mr. McGregors.LITTLE Benjamin said,It spoils peoples clothesto squeeze under a gate; theproper way to get in, is toclimb down a pear tree.Peter fell down head first;but it was of no consequence,as the bed belo
27、w was newlyraked and quite soft.IT had been sown with lettuces.They left a great many oddlittle foot-marks all over thebed, especially little Benjamin,who was wearing clogs.LITTLE Benjamin said thatthe first thing to be donewas to get back Peters clothes,in order that they might beable to use the po
28、cket handkerchief.They took them off the scarecrow.There had been rainduring the night; there waswater in the shoes, and thecoat was somewhat shrunk.Benjamin tried on the tam-o-shanter, but it was too bigfor him.THEN he suggested thatthey should fill the pocket-handkerchief with onions, asa little p
29、resent for his Aunt.Peter did not seem to beenjoying himself; he kepthearing noises.BENJAMIN, on the contrary,was perfectly athome, and ate a lettuce leaf.He said that he was in thehabit of coming to the gardenwith his father to get lettucesfor their Sunday dinner.(The name of little Benjaminspapa w
30、as old Mr. BenjaminBunny.)The lettuces certainly werevery fine.PETER did not eat anything;he said he shouldlike to go home. Presently hedropped half the onions.LITTLE Benjamin said thatit was not possible to getback up the pear-tree, with aload of vegetables. He ledthe way boldly towards theother en
31、d of the garden. Theywent along a little walk onplanks, under a sunny red-brick wall.The mice sat on their door-steps cracking cherry-stones,they winked at Peter Rabbitand little Benjamin Bunny.PRESENTLY Peter let thepocket-handkerchief goagain.THEY got amongst flower-pots, and frames andtubs; Peter
32、 heard noises worsethan ever, his eyes were as bigas lolly-pops!He was a step or two infront of his cousin, when hesuddenly stopped.THIS is what those littlerabbits saw round thatcorner!Little Benjamin took onelook, and then, in half a minuteless than no time, he hid himselfand Peter and the onionsu
33、nderneath a large basket. . . .THE cat got up and stretchedherself, and came andsniffed at the basket.Perhaps she liked the smellof onions!Anyway, she sat down uponthe top of the basket.SHE sat there for FIVE HOURS. * * * * *I cannot draw you a pictureof Peter and Benjamin underneaththe basket, beca
34、use itwas quite dark, and becausethe smell of onions was fearful;it made Peter Rabbit and littleBenjamin cry.The sun got round behindthe wood, and it was quite latein the afternoon; but still thecat sat upon the basket.AT length there was a pitter-patter, pitter-patter, andsome bits of mortar fell f
35、romthe wall above.The cat looked up and sawold Mr. Benjamin Bunnyprancing along the top of thewall of the upper terrace.He was smoking a pipe ofrabbit-tobacco, and had a littleswitch in his hand.He was looking for his son.OLD Mr. Bunny had noopinion whatever of cats.He took a tremendous jumpoff the
36、top of the wall on tothe top of the cat, and cuffedit off the basket, and kicked itinto the garden-house, scratchingoff a handful of fur.The cat was too much surprisedto scratch back.WHEN old Mr. Bunny haddriven the cat into thegreen-house, he locked thedoor.Then he came back to thebasket and took o
37、ut his sonBenjamin by the ears, andwhipped him with the littleswitch.Then he took out his nephewPeter.THEN he took out the handkerchiefof onions, andmarched out of the garden.When Mr. McGregorreturned about half anhour later, he observed severalthings which perplexed him.It looked as though somepers
38、on had been walking allover the garden in a pair ofclogs-only the foot-markswere too ridiculously little!Also he could not understandhow the cat could havemanaged to shut herself upINSIDE the green-house, lockingthe door upon the OUTSIDE.WHEN Peter got home,his mother forgave him,because she was so
39、glad to seethat he had found his shoesand coat. Cotton-tail andPeter folded up the pocket-handkerchief, and old Mrs.rabbit strung up the onionsand hung them from thekitchen ceiling, with therabbit-tobacco.THE ENDTHE TALE OFTHE FLOPSY BUNNIESFOR ALL LITTLE FRIENDSOFMR. McGREGOR & PETER & BENJAMINIT i
40、s said that the effect ofeating too much lettuceis soporific. _I_ have never felt sleepy aftereating lettuces; but then _I_ amnot a rabbit.They certainly had a verysoporific effect upon the FlopsyBunnies!WHEN Benjamin Bunnygrew up, he marriedhis Cousin Flopsy. They hada large family, and they wereve
41、ry improvident and cheerful.I do not remember the separatenames of their children;they were generally called theFlopsy Bunnies.AS there was not alwaysquite enough to eat,-Benjamin used to borrowcabbages from Flopsysbrother, Peter Rabbit, whokept a nursery garden.SOMETIMES Peter Rabbithad no cabbages
42、 to spare.WHEN this happened, theFlopsy Bunnies wentacross the field to a rubbishheap, in the ditch outsideMr. McGregors garden.MR. McGREGORS rubbishheap was a mixture.There were jam pots and paperbags, and mountains of choppedgrass from the mowing machine(which always tasted oily), andsome rotten v
43、egetable marrowsand an old boot or two. Oneday-oh joy!-there were aquantity of overgrown lettuces,which had shot into flower.THE Flopsy Bunnies simplystuffed lettuces. Bydegrees, one after another,they were overcome withslumber, and lay down in themown grass.Benjamin was not so muchovercome as his c
44、hildren.Before going to sleep he wassufficiently wide awake to puta paper bag over his head tokeep off the flies.THE little Flopsy Bunniesslept delightfully in thewarm sun. From the lawnbeyond the garden came thedistant clacketty sound of themowing machine. The blue-bottles buzzed about the wall,and
45、 a little old mouse pickedover the rubbish among thejam pots.(I can tell you her name, shewas called Thomasina Tittlemouse,a woodmouse with along tail.)SHE rustled across the paperbag, and awakened BenjaminBunny.The mouse apologizedprofusely, and said that she knewPeter Rabbit.WHILE she and Benjaminwere
