The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter

She rustled across the paper bag, and awakened Benjamin Bunny.

(I can tell you her name, she was called Thomasina Tittlemouse, a woodmouse with a long tail.)

The bluebottles buzzed about the wall, and a little old mouse picked over the rubbish among the jam pots. From the lawn beyond the garden came the distant clacketty sound of the mowing machine. The little Flopsy Bunnies slept delightfully in the warm sun. Before going to sleep he was sufficiently wide awake to put a paper bag over his head to keep off the flies. By degrees, one after another, they were overcome with slumber, and lay down in the mown grass.īenjamin was not so much overcome as his children. The Flopsy Bunnies simply stuffed lettuces. One day–oh joy!–there were a quantity of overgrown lettuces, which had “shot” into flower. There were jam pots and paper bags, and mountains of chopped grass from the mowing machine (which always tasted oily), and some rotten vegetable marrows and an old boot or two. When this happened, the Flopsy Bunnies went across the field to a rubbish heap, in the ditch outside Mr. Sometimes Peter Rabbit had no cabbages to spare. I do not remember the separate names of their children they were generally called the “Flopsy Bunnies.”Īs there was not always quite enough to eat,–Benjamin used to borrow cabbages from Flopsy’s brother, Peter Rabbit, who kept a nursery garden. They had a large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful. When Benjamin Bunny grew up, he married his Cousin Flopsy. They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies! I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces but then I am not a rabbit. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific.”

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The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter