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When Mr . McGregor returned about half an hour later , he observed several things which perplexed him . It looked as though some person had been walking all over the garden in a pair of clogs — only the foot - marks were too ridiculously little ! Also he could not understand how the cat could have managed to shut herself up INSIDE the green - house , locking the door upon the OUTSIDE . WHEN Peter got home , his mother forgave him , because she was so glad to see that he had found his shoes and coat . Cotton - tail and Peter folded up the pocket - handkerchief , and old Mrs . Rabbit strung up the onions and hung them from the kitchen ceiling , with the rabbit - tobacco . THE END THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES FOR ALL LITTLE FRIENDS OF MR . McGREGOR & PETER & BENJAMIN IT 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 rabbit . They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies ! WHEN Benjamin Bunny grew up , he married his Cousin Flopsy . They had a large family , and they were very improvident and cheerful . I do not remember the separate names of their children ; they were generally called the " Flopsy Bunnies . " AS there was not always quite enough to eat , — Benjamin used to borrow cabbages from Flopsy's brother , Peter Rabbit , who kept a nursery garden . SOMETIMES Peter Rabbit had no cabbages to spare . WHEN this happened , the Flopsy Bunnies went across the field to a rubbish heap , in the ditch outside Mr . McGregor's garden . MR . McGREGOR'S rubbish heap was a mixture . 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 . One day — oh joy ! — there were a quantity of overgrown lettuces , which had " shot " into flower . THE Flopsy Bunnies simply stuffed lettuces . By degrees , one after another , they were overcome with slumber , and lay down in the mown grass . Benjamin 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 keep off the flies . THE little Flopsy Bunnies slept delightfully in the warm sun . From the lawn beyond the garden came the distant clacketty sound of the mowing machine . The blue - bottles buzzed about the wall , and a little old mouse picked over the rubbish among the jam pots . ( I can tell you her name , she was called Thomasina Tittlemouse , a woodmouse with a long tail . ) SHE rustled across the paper bag , and awakened Benjamin Bunny . The mouse apologized profusely , and said that she knew Peter Rabbit . WHILE she and Benjamin were talking , close under the wall , they heard a heavy tread above their heads ; and suddenly Mr . McGregor emptied out a sackful of lawn mowings right upon the top of the sleeping Flopsy Bunnies ! Benjamin shrank down under his paper bag . The mouse hid in a jam pot .
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