![]() She winds his pocket watch every day, places him in a chair that looks out the window and tells him that she’ll be home soon. Edward has an exquisite handmade wardrobe, and Abilene dresses him in a new outfit every day before she goes to school. Edward thinks of himself as an “exceptional specimen,” and his “mistress was a ten-year-old, dark-haired girl named Abilene Tulane, who thought almost as highly of Edward as Edward thought of himself” (4). The china rabbit’s name is Edward Tulane, and he has real rabbit-fur ears and a tail. His arms and legs were jointed and joined by wire so that his china elbows and china knees could be bent, giving him much freedom of movement(3). ![]() He had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose. Once, in a house on Egypt street, there lived a rabbit who was made almost entirely of china. ![]()
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