Beatrix Potter

The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies Beatrix Potter

The Flopsy Bunnies are six young rabbits, sons of Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny. One day, while they are eating some rotten vegetables in the garden of Mr. McGregor, the six rabbits fall asleep and are captured and imprisoned in a sack. Their parents, with the help of Thomasina Tittlemouse, will free them. Book illustrated with beautiful Potter's watercolorsIt 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 BunniesAs there was not always quite enough to eat, -Benjamin used to borrow cabbages from Flopsy's brother, Peter Rabbit, who kept a nursery garden