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To Francesco Bianco from The Velveteen Rabbit

THERE 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…..