بریده‌ای از کتاب خرگوش مخملی اثر مارجری ویلیامز

Site 8: As the boy becomes healthier, there is discussion by adults in the room  of an upcoming trip to the seashore, where the air will help the boy’s further  restoration. There is also discussion of the need to burn all the bedding and  toys that surrounded the boy during his illness. The rabbit is portrayed as not  recognizing himself as a toy or as something that might be burned: 

He is convinced that he, too, will accompany the boy on the seashore trip. Returning  to the level of the third-person narrative of the story, Williams describes the  rabbit as being gathered with other bedroom belongings and put into a bag to be burned at a later time by the gardener. As the velveteen rabbit is tossed  out, the boy sleeps in a new bed with a new toy rabbit he has been given. The  boy is described as not even noticing the disappearance of the velveteen rabbit, perhaps, the story recounts, because of his enthusiasm for his upcoming  travels to the seaside--“itself such a wonderful thing that he could think of  nothing else.”