WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:06.960 Peter Pan by J. M. Barry, Chapter one, Peter breaks through. 2 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:13.640 All children except one grow up. They soon know that 3 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:16.039 they will grow up. And the way Wendy knew was 4 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:19.600 this One day, when she was two years old. She 5 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:22.559 was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower 6 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:25.519 and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she 7 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.679 must have looked rather delightful, for missus Darling put her 8 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:31.359 hand to her heart and cried, Oh, why can't you 9 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:35.600 remain like this forever? This was all that passed between 10 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.280 them on the subject. But henceforth Wendy knew that she 11 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:44.200 must grow up. You always know after your two two 12 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:48.960 is the beginning of the end. Of course, they lived 13 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:52.200 at fourteen, and until Wendy came, her mother was the 14 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:55.880 chief one. She was a lovely lady with a romantic 15 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:00.240 mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic tick 16 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:03.119 mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, 17 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.879 that come from the puzzling East. However many you discover, 18 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:10.879 there's always one more. And her sweet mocking mouth had 19 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:13.959 one kiss on it that Wendy could never get though 20 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:17.079 there it was perfectly conspicuous in the right hand corner. 21 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:22.359 The way mister Darling won her was this The many 22 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:24.719 gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl 23 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:28.439 discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran 24 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.280 to her house to propose to her, except mister Darling, 25 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:33.599 who took a cab and nipped in first, and so 26 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:37.040 he got her. He got all of her, except the 27 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.640 innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, 28 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:44.840 and in time he gave up trying for the kiss. 29 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:48.040 Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can 30 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:50.640 picture him trying and then going off in a passion, 31 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:55.159 slamming the door. Mister Darling used to boast to Wendy 32 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:58.480 that her mother not only loved him, but respected him. 33 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:01.879 He was one of those deep ones who know about 34 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:06.200 stocks and shares. Of course, no one really knows, but 35 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:09.280 he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks 36 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.520 were up and shares were down, in a way that 37 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:15.879 would have made any woman respect him. Missus Darling was 38 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.000 married and white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, 39 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.000 almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so 40 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:25.000 much as a Brussels sprout was missing, but by and 41 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:28.879 by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there 42 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:32.919 were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when 43 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:36.840 she should have been totting up. They were Missus Darling's guesses. 44 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:44.039 Wendy came first, then John, then Michael. For a week 45 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:46.719 or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they 46 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.039 would be able to keep her, as she was another 47 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:52.919 mouth to feed. Mister Darling was frightfully proud of her, 48 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:55.319 but he was very honorable, and he sat on the 49 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:59.080 edge of Missus Darling's bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, 50 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:03.039 while she looked at him imploringly. She wanted to risk it, 51 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:06.400 come what might, but that was not his way. His 52 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:08.520 way was with a pencil and a piece of paper, 53 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.319 And if she confused him with suggestions, he had to 54 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:16.240 begin at the beginning again. Now, ahem, don't interrupt. He 55 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.199 would beg of her. I have one pound seventeen here 56 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:22.039 and two and six at the office. I can cut 57 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:24.680 off my coffee at the office, say ten shillings making 58 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:27.560 two nine and six with your eighteen and three makes 59 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.400 three nine seven with five knot not in my check book, 60 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:31.759 makes eight nine seven. 61 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:32.960 Who is that moving? 62 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.840 Eight nine seven dot and carry seven. Don't speak my 63 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:38.960 own and and the pound you lent to that man 64 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.759 who came to the door. Quiet child, dot and carry child. 65 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:45.919 There you've done it, did I say nine nine seven? 66 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:46.360 Yes? 67 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:48.960 I said nine nine seven. The question is can we 68 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.919 try it for a year on nine nine seven? Of 69 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:56.120 course we can, George, she cried, but she was prejudiced 70 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:58.919 in Wendy's favor, and he was really the grander character 71 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:03.759 of the two. Remember mumps, he warned her, almost threateningly, 72 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:06.520 and off he went again. Mumps one pound, That is 73 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:08.240 what I have put down, but I dare say it 74 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:11.680 will be more like thirty shillings. Don't speak measles one 75 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:15.039 five German measles. Half a guinea makes two fifteen six, 76 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:19.800 don't waggle your finger whooping cough, say fifteen shillings. And 77 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:22.360 so on it went, and it added up differently each time. 78 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:25.480 But at last Wendy just got through with mumps reduced 79 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.199 to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles treated 80 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:32.160 as one. There was the same excitement over John and 81 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.399 Michael had even a narrower squeak, but both were kept, 82 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:37.839 and soon you might have seen the three of them 83 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.800 going in a row to miss Fulson's kindergarten school, accompanied 84 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:46.360 by their nurse. Missus Darling loved to have everything just so, 85 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:49.720 and mister Darling had a passion for being exactly like 86 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.720 his neighbors. So of course they had a nurse as 87 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:55.879 they were poor owing to the amount of milk the 88 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:59.759 children drank. This nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog called 89 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:02.439 ne who had belonged to no one in particular until 90 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:07.120 the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children important, however, 91 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:10.560 and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington gardens, 92 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:14.000 where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, 93 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:17.319 and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed 94 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.839 to their homes and complained of to their mistresses. She 95 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.759 proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse, how 96 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.759 thorough she was at bathtime and up at any moment 97 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:28.319 of the night if one of her charges made the 98 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.839 slightest cry. Of course, her kennel was in the nursery. 99 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:34.920 She had a genius for knowing when a cough is 100 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:37.199 a thing to have no patience with and when it 101 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:40.720 needs a stalking around your throat. She believed to her 102 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:44.000 last day in old fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and 103 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:47.000 made sounds of contempt over all this newfangled talk about 104 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:50.519 germs and so on. It was a lesson in propriety 105 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:53.800 to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately 106 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.319 by their side when they were well behaved, and betting 107 00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:00.000 them back into line if they strayed. On John's soccer day, 108 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:03.399 she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried 109 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:07.360 an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain. There's 110 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:09.680 a room in the basement of miss Fulsome's school where 111 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:12.959 the nurses wait. They sat on forms while Nana lay 112 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:16.399 on the floor, but that was the only difference. They 113 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:19.800 affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status 114 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:24.279 to themselves, and she despised their light talk. She resented 115 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:27.399 visits to the nursery from Missus Darling's friends, but if 116 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.439 they did come, she first whipped off Michael's pinafore and 117 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.839 put him into the one with blue braiding, and smoothed 118 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:36.759 out Wendy and made a dash at John's hair. No 119 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:40.720 nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and mister 120 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.399 Darling knew it. Yet he sometimes wondered uneasily whether the 121 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:48.560 neighbors talked. He had his position in the city to consider. 122 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:53.680 Nana also troubled him in another way. He had sometimes 123 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:57.439 a feeling that she did not admire him. I know 124 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:01.240 she admires you tremendously, George. Missus da Arling would assure him, 125 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:03.199 and then she would sign to the children to be 126 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:08.000 specially nice to father. Lovely dances followed, in which the 127 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:12.720 only other servant, Liza, was sometimes allowed to join such 128 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:15.319 a midget she looked in her long skirt and maid's cap, 129 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.199 though she had sworn when engaged that she would never 130 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:22.759 see ten again. The gayety of these romps, the gayest 131 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:25.720 of all was Missus Darling, who would pirouette so wildly 132 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:27.480 that all you could see of her was the kiss, 133 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:29.759 and then if you had dashed at her, you might 134 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:33.680 have got it. There never was a simpler, happier family 135 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:39.560 until the coming of Peter Pan. Missus Darling first heard 136 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.800 of Peter when she was tidying up her children's minds. 137 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:46.120 Is the nightly custom of every good mother, after her 138 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:48.920 children are asleep, to rummage in their minds and put 139 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:52.800 things straight for the next morning, repacking into their proper places. 140 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:56.759 The many articles that have wandered during the day if 141 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:59.639 you could keep awake, but of course you can't. You 142 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:01.879 would say, see your own mother doing this, and you 143 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.160 would find it very interesting to watch her. It is 144 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:08.360 quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on 145 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:12.439 her knees. I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, 146 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:15.079 wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, 147 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:19.720 making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to 148 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:21.720 her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, 149 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:25.319 and hurriedly stewing that out of sight. When you wake 150 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.000 in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which 151 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:30.360 you went to bed have been folded up small and 152 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.120 placed at the bottom of your mind, and on the top, 153 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.679 beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for 154 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:40.720 you to put on. I don't know whether you have 155 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:44.559 ever seen a map of a person's mind. Doctors sometimes 156 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:47.200 draw maps of other parts of you, and your own 157 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:51.039 map can become intensely interesting. But catch them trying to 158 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:53.320 draw a map of a child's mind, which is not 159 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:57.519 only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There's 160 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.639 zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card. 161 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.080 And these are probably roads in the island, for the 162 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.559 Neverland is always more or less an island with astonishing 163 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:10.720 splashes of color here and there, and coral reefs and 164 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:14.679 rakish looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely 165 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:18.639 lairs and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through 166 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.440 which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers 167 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.960 and a hut fast going to decay, and one very 168 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:28.600 small old lady with a hooked nose. It would be 169 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:30.879 an easy map if that were all, but there is 170 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:37.759 also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, 171 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:40.879 verbs that take the dative chocolate pudding day, getting into 172 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:44.759 braces say ninety nine threepence for pulling out your tooth yourself, 173 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:47.559 and so on. And either these are part of the 174 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.480 island or they are another map showing through, and it 175 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.919 is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still. 176 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:59.600 Of course, the Neverlands vary a good deal. Johns, for instance, 177 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.600 had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which 178 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:06.000 John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had 179 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:09.559 a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in 180 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:12.320 a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in 181 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.720 a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. 182 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.559 John had no friends. Michael had friends at night, Wendy 183 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:23.679 had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents. But on 184 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.519 the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance. And if 185 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:28.360 they stood in a row, you could say of them 186 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.559 that they have each other's nose, and so forth. On 187 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.240 these magic shores, children at play a forever beaching their coracles. 188 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.360 We too have been there. We can still hear the 189 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:40.519 sound of the surf, though we shall land no more. 190 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:45.840 Of all delectable islands, the Neverland is the snuggest and 191 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:49.960 most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious 192 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:54.919 distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When 193 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:56.720 you play at it by day, with the chairs in 194 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.840 the tablecloth, it is not in the least alarming, But 195 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.120 in the two minutes before you go to sleep, it 196 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:08.679 becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night lights. Occasionally, 197 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:12.120 in her travels through her children's minds, missus Darling found 198 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.159 things she could not understand, and of these, quite the 199 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:19.799 most perplexing was the word Peter. She knew of no Peter, 200 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:21.960 and yet he was here and there in John and 201 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.200 Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over 202 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:28.639 with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than 203 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.440 any of the other words, and as missus Darling gazed, 204 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.879 she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance. Yes, 205 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:39.360 he is rather cocky, Wendy admitted, with regret. Her mother 206 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:40.399 had been questioning her. 207 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:42.480 But who is he? 208 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:43.039 My pet? 209 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:47.960 He is Peter Pan, you know, mother. At first Missus 210 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:51.440 Darling did not know, But after thinking back into her childhood, 211 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:54.320 she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to 212 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:58.159 live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him, 213 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:00.559 as that when children died, he was part of the 214 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:02.519 way with them, so that they should not be frightened. 215 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:05.879 She had believed in him at the time, but now 216 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:08.159 that she was married and full of sense, she quite 217 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:12.360 doubted whether there was any such person. Besides, she said 218 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:14.759 to Wendy, he would be grown up by this time. 219 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:19.039 Oh no, he hasn't grown up, Wendy assured her confidently. 220 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:22.919 And he is just my size. She meant that he 221 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.080 was her size in both mind and body. She didn't 222 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:29.879 know how she knew it. She just knew it. Missus 223 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:35.200 Darling consulted mister Darling, but he smiled, pooh, pooh, mark 224 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:38.279 my words. He said, it is just some nonsense Nana 225 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:40.720 has been putting into their heads, just the sort of 226 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:43.559 idea a dog would have. Leave it alone and it 227 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:47.759 will blow over. But it would not blow over, and 228 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:50.919 soon the troublesome boy gave Missus Darling quite a shock. 229 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:56.159 Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. 230 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:59.440 For instance, they may remember to mention a week after 231 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.080 the event that when they were in the wood they 232 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:03.960 met their dead father and had a game with him. 233 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.519 It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning 234 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.840 made a disquieting revelation. Some leaves of a tree had 235 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.360 been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not 236 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:17.279 there when the children went to bed, and Missus Darling 237 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:20.039 was puzzling over them, when Wendy said, with a tolerant smile, 238 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.600 I do believe it is that Peter again. Whatever do 239 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.240 you mean, Wendy. It is so naughty of him not 240 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:32.120 to wipe Wendy said, sighing, she was a tidy child. 241 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:36.600 She explained, in quite a matter of fact way, that 242 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:38.759 she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the 243 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:40.759 night and sat on the foot of her bed and 244 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:44.519 played on his pipes to her. Unfortunately, she never woke, 245 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:46.320 so she didn't know how she knew. 246 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:47.240 She just knew. 247 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:52.080 What nonsense you talk, precious. No one can get into 248 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:56.080 the house without knocking. I think he comes by the window, 249 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:00.919 she said, my love, it is three floors up. Were 250 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:02.519 not the leaves at the foot of the window? 251 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:02.840 Mother? 252 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:05.600 It was quite true. 253 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:06.519 The leaves had. 254 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.919 Been found very near the window. Missus Darling did not 255 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.320 know what to think, for it all seemed so natural 256 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:14.399 to Wendy that you could not dismiss it by saying 257 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:18.159 that she had been dreaming. My child, the mother cried, 258 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.480 why did you not tell me of this before I forgot, 259 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:24.480 said Wendy lightly. She was in a hurry to get 260 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:29.720 her breakfast. Oh, surely she must have been dreaming. But 261 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.840 on the other hand, there were the leaves. Missus Darling 262 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.240 examined them carefully. They were skeleton leaves, but she was 263 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.159 sure they did not come from any tree that grew 264 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:42.840 in England. She crawled about the floor peering at it. 265 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:45.600 With a candle for marks of a strange foot. She 266 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:47.960 rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls. 267 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:50.759 She let a tape down from the window to the pavement, 268 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.679 and it was a sheer drop of thirty feet, without 269 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:57.600 so much as a spout to climb up by. Certainly 270 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:01.879 Wendy had been dreaming. But Wendy had not been dreaming, 271 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.840 as the very next night showed the night on which 272 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:08.080 the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to 273 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:12.240 have begun. On the night we speak of, all the 274 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:15.440 children were once more in bed. It happened to be 275 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.320 Nana's evening off, and Missus Darling had bathed them and 276 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:20.679 sung to them till one by one they had let 277 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:23.320 go her hand and slid away into the land of sleep. 278 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.679 All were looking so safe and cozy that she smiled 279 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.159 at her fears now and sat down tranquility by the 280 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.759 fire to sew. It was something for Michael, who on 281 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:39.039 his birthday was getting into shirts. The fire was warm, however, 282 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:42.759 and the nursery dimly lit by three night lights, and 283 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:46.600 presently the sewing lay on Missus Darling's lap. Then her 284 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:53.039 head nodded, oh so gracefully she was asleep. Look at 285 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:56.759 the four of them, Wendy and Michael over there, John here, 286 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.759 and Missus Darling by the fire. There should have been 287 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:05.399 a fourth night light. While she slept, she had a dream. 288 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:08.720 She dreamt that the Neverland had come too near, and 289 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:12.120 that a strange boy had broken through from it. He 290 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:14.360 did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen 291 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:16.440 him before in the faces of many women who have 292 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:19.840 no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the 293 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:23.679 faces of some mothers also. But in her dream he 294 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.799 had rent the film that obscures the Neverland, and she 295 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:29.879 saw Wendy and John and Michael peeping through the gap. 296 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.519 The dream by itself would have been a trifle, But 297 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:37.240 while she was dreaming, the window of the nursery blew open, 298 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.879 and a boy did drop on the floor. He was 299 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:44.120 accompanied by a strange light, no bigger than your fist, 300 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:47.120 which darted about the room like a living thing. And 301 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:49.200 I think it must have been this light that wakened 302 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:53.600 Missus Darling. She started up with a cry and saw 303 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:56.039 the boy, and somehow she knew at once that he 304 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.759 was Peter Pan. If you or I or Wendy had 305 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:02.080 been there, we should have seen that he was very 306 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:06.200 like missus Darling's kiss. He was a lovely boy clad 307 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:09.000 in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees. 308 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:12.160 But the most entrancing thing about him was that he 309 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.160 had all his first teeth. When he saw she was 310 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:17.839 a grown up, he gnashed the little pearls at her. 311 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:31.000 End of chapter one, Chapter two, the shadow Missus Darling screamed, 312 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:33.799 and as if in answer to a bell, the door 313 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:38.480 opened and Nana entered. Returned from her evening out, she 314 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:42.160 growled and sprang at the boy, who leaped lightly through 315 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:42.680 the window. 316 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:44.359 Again. 317 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.440 Missus Darling screamed, this time in distress for him, for 318 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:51.400 she thought he was killed, and she ran down into 319 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.799 the street to look for his little body, but it 320 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:58.279 was not there, and she looked up, and in the 321 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:01.279 black night she could see nothing but what she thought 322 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:06.759 was a shooting star. She returned to the nursery and 323 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:10.319 found Nana with something in her mouth, which proved to 324 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.119 be the boy's shadow. As he leapt at the window, 325 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.880 Nana had closed it quickly, too late to catch him, 326 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:20.759 but his shadow had not had time to get out. 327 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:26.440 Slam went the window and snapped it off. You may 328 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:30.480 be sure Missus Darling examined the shadow carefully, but it 329 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:35.400 was quite the ordinary kind. Nana had no doubt of 330 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:37.519 what was the best thing to do with this shadow. 331 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:41.240 She hung it out at the window, meaning he is 332 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:43.480 sure to come back for it. Let us put it 333 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:46.440 where he can get it easily without disturbing the children. 334 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:52.759 But unfortunately Missus Darling could not leave it hanging out 335 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.039 at the window. It looked so like the washing and 336 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:59.720 lowered the whole tone of the house. She thought of 337 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:03.079 showing it to mister Darling, but he was totting up 338 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.640 winter greatcoats for John and Michael, with a wet towel 339 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:09.640 around his head to keep his brain clear, and it 340 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:14.400 seemed a shame to trouble him. Besides, she knew exactly 341 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:17.960 what he would say. It all comes of having a 342 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:22.640 dog for a nurse. She decided to roll the shadow 343 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.839 up and put it away carefully in a drawer until 344 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:30.160 a fitting opportunity came for telling her husband, ah Me. 345 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.480 The opportunity came a week later on that never to 346 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:42.599 be forgotten Friday. Of course, it was a Friday. I 347 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:46.039 ought to have been specially careful on a Friday, she 348 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:50.000 used to say. Afterwards, to her husband, while perhaps Nana 349 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:54.480 was on the other side of her holding her hand. No, no, 350 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:59.400 mister Darling always said, I am responsible for it all I, 351 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:04.920 George Darling, did it. Mayaculpa, Mayaculpa. He had had a 352 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:11.039 classical education. They sat thus night after night, recalling that 353 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:14.200 fatal Friday till every detail of it was stamped on 354 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:17.079 their brains and came through on the other side, like 355 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:22.279 the faces on a bad coinage. If only I had 356 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:26.319 not accepted that invitation to dine at twenty seven, Missus 357 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:30.759 Darling said, if only I had not poured my medicine 358 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:33.920 into Nana's bowl, said mister Darling. 359 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:37.880 If only I had pretended to like the medicine, was 360 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:39.519 what Nana's wet eyes said. 361 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:45.759 My liking for parties, George, my fatal gift for humor, Dearest, 362 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:53.039 my touchiness about trifles, dear Master and Mistress. Then one 363 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.960 or more of them would break down altogether. Nana at 364 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:00.920 the thought It's true, it's true, ought not to have 365 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:01.960 had a dog. 366 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:02.359 For a nurse. 367 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:06.440 Many a time it was mister Darling who put the 368 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:08.160 handkerchief to Nana's eyes. 369 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:10.200 That fiend. 370 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:14.240 Mister Darling would cry and Nana's bark was the echo 371 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:19.440 of it. But Missus Darling never upbraided Peter. There was 372 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:22.240 something in the right hand corner of her mouth that 373 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:26.839 wanted her not to call Peter names. They would sit 374 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:31.799 there in the empty nursery, recalling fondly every smallest detail 375 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:37.759 of that dreadful evening. It had begun so uneventfully, so precisely, 376 00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:41.240 like a hundred other evenings, with Nana putting on the 377 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:44.240 water for Michael's bath and carrying him to it on 378 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:49.160 her back. I won't go to bed, he had shouted, 379 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:51.880 like one who still believed that he had the last 380 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:52.920 word on the subject. 381 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:54.799 I won't. I won't, Nana. 382 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:57.279 It isn't six o'clock yet. Oh dear, oh dear, I 383 00:21:57.359 --> 00:21:59.880 shan't love you anymore, Nana, I tell you I won't 384 00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:04.519 be won't. I won't. Then missus Darling had come in 385 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:09.319 wearing her white evening gown. She had dressed early because 386 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:12.039 Wendy so loved to see her in her evening gown 387 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:16.079 with the necklace George had given her. She was wearing 388 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:19.519 Wendy's bracelet on her arm. She had asked for the 389 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:22.720 loan of it. Wendy loved to lend her bracelet to 390 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:27.519 her mother. She had found her two older children playing 391 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:31.039 at being herself and father on the occasion of Wendy's birth, 392 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:34.480 and John was saying, I am happy to inform you, 393 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:37.920 missus Darling, that you are now a mother, in just 394 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:41.119 such a tone as mister Darling himself may have used 395 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:45.839 on the real occasion. Wendy had danced with joy, just 396 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:50.880 as the real Missus Darling must have done. Then John 397 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:54.200 was born with the extra pomp that he conceived due 398 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:56.920 to the birth of a male, and Michael came from 399 00:22:56.920 --> 00:22:59.880 his bath to ask to be born also, but John's 400 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:04.240 and brutally that they did not want any more. Michael 401 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:08.680 had nearly cried, nobody wants me, he said, And of 402 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:11.759 course the lady in the evening dress could not stand 403 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:16.519 that I do. She said, I so want a third child, 404 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:21.000 boy or girl, asked Michael, not too hopefully. 405 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:22.319 Boy. 406 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:27.599 Then he had leapt into her arms. Such a little 407 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:30.920 thing for mister and Missus Darling and Nana to recall now, 408 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:34.039 but not so little if that was to be Michael's 409 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:35.519 last night in the nursery. 410 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:39.200 They go on with their recollections. 411 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:43.079 It was then that I rushed in like a tornado, 412 00:23:43.319 --> 00:23:48.200 wasn't it, mister Darling would say, scorning himself. And indeed 413 00:23:48.359 --> 00:23:53.599 he had been like a tornado. Perhaps there was some 414 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:58.160 excuse for him. He too had been dressing for the party, 415 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:00.960 and all had gone well with him until he came 416 00:24:01.079 --> 00:24:04.720 to his tie. It is an astounding thing to have 417 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:08.519 to tell, but this man, though he knew about stocks 418 00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:13.279 and chairs, had no real mastery of his tie. Sometimes 419 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:16.799 the thing yielded to him without a contest. But there 420 00:24:16.839 --> 00:24:19.480 were occasions when it would have been better for the 421 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:22.480 house if he had swallowed his pride and used a 422 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:28.200 made up tie. This was such an occasion. He came 423 00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:31.680 rushing into the nursery with the crumpled little brute of 424 00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:35.839 a tie in his hand. Why what is the matter, father, 425 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:42.319 dear matter? He yelled, He really yelled, this tie. It 426 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:49.039 will not tie. He became dangerously sarcastic. Not round my 427 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:53.599 neck round the bed post, oh, yes, twenty times have 428 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:58.119 I made it up round the bedpost? But round my neck, no, oh, dear, 429 00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:03.640 no begs to be excused, he thought. Missus Darling was 430 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:08.680 not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, I warn 431 00:25:08.759 --> 00:25:12.000 you of this mother, that unless this tie is round 432 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:14.759 my neck, we don't go out to dinner to night. 433 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:17.720 And if I don't go out to dinner tonight, I 434 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:20.480 never go to the office again. And if I don't 435 00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:23.319 go to the office again, you and I starve, and 436 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:27.759 our children will be flung into the streets. Even then, 437 00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:32.839 Missus Darling was placid. Let me try, dear, she said, 438 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:36.400 And indeed that was what he had come to ask 439 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:39.559 her to do. And with her nice, cool hands, she 440 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:43.279 tied his tie for him, while the children stood around 441 00:25:43.400 --> 00:25:48.240 to see their fate decided. Some men would have resented 442 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:51.319 her being able to do it so easily, but mister 443 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:55.200 Darling had far too fine a nature for that. He 444 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:59.359 thanked her carelessly, at once forgot his rage, and in 445 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:02.839 another moment was dancing round the room with Michael on 446 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:08.359 his back. How wildly we romped, says missus Darling, now 447 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:15.039 recalling it, our last romp. Mister Darling groaned, Oh, George, 448 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.440 do you remember? Michael suddenly said to me, how did 449 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:19.039 you get. 450 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:19.319 To know me? 451 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:19.680 Mother? 452 00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:21.640 I remember? 453 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:27.319 They were rather sweet, don't you think, George? And they 454 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:34.119 were ours ours, and now they are gone. The romp 455 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:38.359 had ended with the appearance of Nana, and most unluckily, 456 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:43.519 mister Darling collided against her, covering his trousers with hairs. 457 00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:47.279 They were not only new trousers, but they were the 458 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:50.640 first he had ever had with braid on them, and 459 00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:53.279 he had had to bite his lip to prevent the 460 00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:58.039 tears coming. Of course, Missus Darling brushed him, but he 461 00:26:58.119 --> 00:27:01.200 began to talk again about its being a mistake to 462 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:02.519 have a dog for a nurse. 463 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:04.240 George. 464 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:08.559 Nana is a treasure, no doubt, but I have an 465 00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:12.079 uneasy feeling at times that she looks upon the children 466 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:16.039 as puppies. Oh no, dear one, I feel sure she 467 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:21.319 knows they have souls. I wonder, mister Darling said thoughtfully, 468 00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:27.240 I wonder it was an opportunity his wife felt for 469 00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:31.079 telling him about the boy. At first he poop pooed 470 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:34.359 the story, but he became thoughtful when she showed him 471 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:39.160 the shadow. It is nobody, I know, he said, examining 472 00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:44.480 it carefully, but it does look a scoundrel. We were 473 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:48.920 still discussing it. You remember, says mister Darling, when Nana 474 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:52.839 came in with Michael's medicine. You will never carry the 475 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:55.480 bottle in your mouth again, Nana, And it is all 476 00:27:55.599 --> 00:28:00.759 my fault. Strong man though he was, there is no 477 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:05.680 doubt that he had behaved rather foolishly over the medicine. 478 00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:08.400 If he had a weakness, it was for thinking that 479 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:12.200 all his life he had taken medicine boldly. And so 480 00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:15.759 now when Michael dodged the spoon in Nana's mouth, he 481 00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:22.519 had said, reprovingly, be a man, Michael, won't, won't? Michael 482 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:26.920 cried naughtily. Missus Darling left the room to get a 483 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:30.799 chocolate for him, and mister Darling thought this showed want 484 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:36.519 of firmness. Mother, don't pamper him, he called after her. Michael, 485 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:39.720 when I was your age, I took medicine without a murmur. 486 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:43.359 I said, thank you kind parents for giving me bottles 487 00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:47.880 to make me well. He really thought this was true, 488 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:51.799 and Wendy, who was now in her nightgown, believed it also, 489 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:56.759 and she said to encourage Michael, that medicine you sometimes take, 490 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:02.119 father is much nastier. Isn't it so much nastier? Mister 491 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:05.480 Darling said bravely, And I would take it now as 492 00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:09.000 an example to you, Michael. If I hadn't lost the bottle, 493 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:14.839 he had not exactly lost it. He had climbed in 494 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:17.079 the dead of night to the top of the wardrobe 495 00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:20.480 and hidden it there. What he did not know was 496 00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:23.279 that the faithful Liza had found it and put it 497 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:26.680 back on his washstand. I know where it is, father, 498 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.839 Wendy cried, always glad to be of service. I'll bring it, 499 00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:35.839 and she was off before he could stop her. Immediately 500 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:42.599 his spirit sank in the strangest way. John, he said, shuddering, 501 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:48.440 it's most beastly stuff. It's that nasty, sticky, sweet kind. 502 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:53.240 It will soon be over, father, John said cheerily, and 503 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:56.720 then in rushed Wendy with the medicine in a glass. 504 00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:59.759 I have been as quick as I could, she panted. 505 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:05.759 You have been wonderfully quick. Her father retorted with a 506 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:11.079 vindictive politeness that was quite thrown away upon her. Michael first, 507 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:16.319 he said doggedly. Father first, said Michael, who was of 508 00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:21.480 a suspicious nature. I shall be sick, you know, mister 509 00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:27.839 Darling said threateningly. Come on, Father said John, hold your tongue. John, 510 00:30:28.519 --> 00:30:33.920 his father rapped out. Wendy was quite puzzled. I thought 511 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:38.119 you took it quite easily, father. That is not the point, 512 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:41.680 he retorted. The point is that there is more in 513 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:46.000 my glass than in Michael's spoon. His proud heart was 514 00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:49.680 nearly bursting. And it isn't fair. I would say it 515 00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:54.279 though it were with my last breath. It isn't fair, father. 516 00:30:54.599 --> 00:30:59.599 I'm waiting, said Michael coldly. It's all very well to 517 00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:03.680 say you are waiting. So am I waiting? Father's a 518 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:09.559 cowardly custard. So are you a cowardly custard? I'm not frightened. 519 00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:14.759 Neither am I frightened. Well, then take it? Well, then 520 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:20.000 you take it. Wendy had a splendid idea. Why not 521 00:31:20.119 --> 00:31:24.720 both take it at the same time? Certainly, said mister Darling. 522 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:31.160 Are you ready Michael. Wendy gave the words one, two, three, 523 00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:35.519 and Michael took his medicine, but mister Darling slipped his 524 00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:40.519 behind his back. There was a yell of rage from Michael, 525 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:46.200 and oh father, Wendy exclaimed, what you mean by oh, father? 526 00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:50.400 Mister Darling demanded, stop that row, Michael. I meant to 527 00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:56.039 take mine, but I I missed it. It was dreadful 528 00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:58.799 the way all the three were looking at him, just 529 00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:02.599 as if they did not admire him. Look here, all 530 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:06.079 of you, he said entreatingly. As soon as Nana had 531 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:08.799 gone into the bathroom. I have just thought of a 532 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:12.200 splendid joke. I shall pour my medicine into Nana's bowl 533 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.960 and she will drink it, thinking it is milk. It 534 00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:19.039 was the color of milk. But the children did not 535 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.039 have their father's sense of humor, and they looked at 536 00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:25.559 him reproachfully as he poured the medicine into Nana's bowl. 537 00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:31.000 What fun, he said doubtfully, and they did not dare 538 00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:37.599 expose him. When Missus Darling and Nana returned, Nana, good dog, 539 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:41.359 he said, patting her, I have put a little milk 540 00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:46.240 into your bowl, Nana. Nana wagged her tail, ran to 541 00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:50.640 the medicine and began lapping it. Then she gave mister 542 00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:55.799 Darling such a look, not an angry look. She showed 543 00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:59.440 him the great red tear that makes us so sorry 544 00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:05.079 for noble day, and crept into her kennel. Mister Darling 545 00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:10.519 was frightfully ashamed of himself, but he would not give in. 546 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:15.920 In a horrid silence, Missus Darling smelt the bowl. Oh George, 547 00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:21.079 she said, it's your medicine. It was only a joke, 548 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:26.400 he roared. While she comforted her boys and Wendy hugged Nana. 549 00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:31.200 Much good, he said, bitterly, my wearing myself to the bone, 550 00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:36.000 trying to be funny in this house. And still Wendy 551 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:43.359 hugged Nana. That's right, he shouted, Coddle her. Nobody coddles me, Oh, dear, No, 552 00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.920 I am only the breadwinner. Why should I be coddled? 553 00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:47.799 Why? Why? 554 00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:48.119 Why? 555 00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.359 George, missus Darling, entreated him. 556 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:53.240 Not so loud. 557 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:57.759 The servants will hear you. Somehow they had got into 558 00:33:57.759 --> 00:33:59.279 the way of calling Liza. 559 00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:00.000 The sir. 560 00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:06.720 Let them, he answered, recklessly, Bring in the whole world. 561 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:10.119 But I refuse to allow that dog to lord it 562 00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:15.199 in my nursery. For an hour longer. The children wept, 563 00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:19.440 and Nana ran to him beseechingly, but he waved her back. 564 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:24.920 He felt he was a strong man again. In vain, 565 00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:28.440 In vain, he cried. The proper place for you is 566 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.960 the yard, and there you go to be tied up. 567 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:37.239 This instant George, George, missus Darling whispered, remember what I 568 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:42.760 told you about that boy Alas he would not listen. 569 00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:45.800 He was determined to show who. 570 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:47.159 Was master in that house. 571 00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:50.760 And when commands would not draw Nana from the kennel, 572 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:53.840 he lured her out of it with honeyed words, and 573 00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:58.239 seizing her roughly dragged her from the nursery. He was 574 00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:02.280 ashamed of himself, and yet he did it. It was 575 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:06.519 all owing to his too affectionate nature, which craved for admiration. 576 00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:11.000 When he had tied her up in the backyard, the 577 00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:14.119 wretched father went and sat in the passage with. 578 00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:15.519 His knuckles to his eyes. 579 00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:21.679 In the meantime, Missus Darling had put the children to 580 00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:26.719 bed in unwonted silence and lit their night lights. They 581 00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:31.039 could hear Nana barking, and John whimpered, it is because 582 00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:34.159 he is chaining her up in the yard. But Wendy 583 00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:39.440 was wiser. That is not Nana's unhappy bark, she said, little, 584 00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:42.440 guessing what was about to happen. That is her bark 585 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:43.559 when she smells danger. 586 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:45.639 Danger. 587 00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:53.280 Are you sure, Wendy? Oh yes, missus Darling quivered and 588 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:58.800 went to the window. It was securely fastened. She looked out, 589 00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:02.880 and the night was peppered with stars. They were crowding 590 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:06.039 round the house, as if curious to see what was 591 00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:09.199 to take place there. But she did not notice this, 592 00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:13.039 nor that one or two of the smaller ones winked 593 00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:17.199 at her, Yet a nameless fear clutched at her heart 594 00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:20.480 and made her cry, Oh, how I wish that I 595 00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:21.559 wasn't going to a. 596 00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:22.199 Party to night. 597 00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:29.079 Even Michael, already half asleep, knew that she was perturbed, 598 00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.119 and he asked, can anything harmless? 599 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:32.400 Mother? 600 00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:37.280 After the night lights are lit? Nothing precious? She said, 601 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:40.599 They are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to 602 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:46.159 guard her children. She went from bed to bed, singing 603 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:50.639 enchantments over them, and little Michael flung his arms round 604 00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:56.760 her mother. He cried, I'm glad of you. They were 605 00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.800 the last words she was to hear from him for 606 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:05.679 a long time. Number twenty seven was only a few 607 00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:09.320 yards distant, but there had been a slight fall of snow, 608 00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:13.599 and father and Mother Darling picked their way over it deftly, 609 00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:18.119 not to soil their shoes. They were already the only 610 00:37:18.199 --> 00:37:21.960 persons in the street, and all the stars were watching them. 611 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:27.119 Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active 612 00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:32.760 part in anything. They must just look on forever. It 613 00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:35.840 is a punishment put on them for something they did 614 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:39.639 so long ago that no star now knows what it was. 615 00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:44.880 So the older ones have become glassy eyed and seldom speak, 616 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:50.400 winking is the star language. But the little ones still wonder. 617 00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:54.599 They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a 618 00:37:54.639 --> 00:37:58.039 mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to 619 00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:01.559 blow them out. But they are so fond of fun 620 00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:05.119 that they were on his side tonight and anxious to 621 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:08.599 get the grown ups out of the way. So as 622 00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:11.519 soon as the door of twenty seven closed on mister 623 00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:14.840 and missus Darling, there was a commotion in the firmament, 624 00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:18.079 and the smallest of all the stars in the milky 625 00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:29.880 way screamed out, now, Peter. End of chapter two. 626 00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:35.400 Chapter three, come away, come away. For a moment. After 627 00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:38.760 mister and Missus Darling left the house, the night lights 628 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:42.079 by the beds of the three children continued to burn. Clearly. 629 00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:45.559 They were awfully nice little night lights, and one cannot 630 00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:48.199 help wishing that they could have kept awake to see Peter. 631 00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.159 But Wendy's light blinked and gave such a yawn that 632 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.159 the other two yawned also, and before they could close 633 00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:58.960 their mouths, all the three went out. There was another 634 00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:01.960 light in the room, now a thousand times brighter than 635 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:04.320 the night lights, And in the time we have taken 636 00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:06.519 to say this, it had been in all the drawers 637 00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:10.639 in the nursery. Looking for Peter's shadow, rummaged the wardrobe 638 00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:14.199 and turned every pocket inside out. It was not really 639 00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:17.639 a light. It made this light by flashing about so quickly. 640 00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:20.159 But when it came to rest for a second, you 641 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:23.199 saw it was a fairy, no longer than your hand, 642 00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:27.320 but still growing. It was a girl called tinker Bell, 643 00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:32.000 exquisitely gowned in a skeleton, leaf cut low and square, 644 00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:36.119 through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage. 645 00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:40.800 She was slightly inclined to umboonpoin. A moment after the 646 00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:44.079 fairy's entrance, the window was blown open by the breathing 647 00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:47.559 of the little stars, and Peter dropped in. He had 648 00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:50.039 carried tinker Bell part of the way, and his hand 649 00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:54.239 was still messy with the fairy dust. Tinker Bell, he 650 00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:58.039 called softly, after making sure that the children were asleep, 651 00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:01.679 tink where are you? She was in a jug for 652 00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:04.760 the moment, and liking it extremely. She had never been 653 00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:08.039 in a jug before. Oh, do come out of that 654 00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:10.320 jug and tell me. Do you know where they put 655 00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:15.320 my shadow? The loveliest tinkle as of golden bells answered him. 656 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:19.239 It is the fairy language. You ordinary children can never 657 00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:21.199 hear it, but if you were to hear it, you 658 00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:24.960 would know that you had heard it once before. Ting 659 00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:27.880 said that the shadow was in the big box. She 660 00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:31.119 meant the chest of drawers, and Peter jumped at the drawers, 661 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:34.519 scattering their contents to the floor with both hands, as 662 00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:38.400 King's toss happens to the crowd. In a moment, he 663 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:41.360 had recovered his shadow, and in his delight he forgot 664 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:43.239 that he had shut tinker Bell up in the drawer. 665 00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:46.480 If he thought it all but I don't believe he 666 00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:49.480 ever thought it was that he and his shadow, when 667 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.280 brought near each other, would join like drops of water, 668 00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.679 and when they did not, he was appalled. He tried 669 00:40:55.719 --> 00:40:58.239 to stick it on with soap from the bathroom, but 670 00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:02.320 that also failed. Shudder passed through Peter, and he sat 671 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:06.360 on the floor and cried. His sobs woke Wendy, and 672 00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:09.480 she sat up in bed. She was not alarmed to 673 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:12.480 see a stranger crying on the nursery floor. She was 674 00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:17.800 only pleasantly interested. Boy, she said, courteously, why are you crying? 675 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:22.559 Peter could be exceeding polite, also, having learned the grand 676 00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:25.840 manner at fairy ceremonies and he rose and bowed to 677 00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:29.880 her beautifully. She was much pleased and bowed beautifully to 678 00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:35.199 him from the bed. What's your name, he asked, Wendy 679 00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:40.800 Moira Angela darling. She replied, with some satisfaction, What is 680 00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:45.400 your name? Peter Pan She was already sure that he 681 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:48.760 must be Peter, but it did seem a comparatively short name. 682 00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:54.480 Is that all? Yes, he said, rather sharply. He felt 683 00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:56.880 for the first time that it was a shortish name. 684 00:41:58.039 --> 00:42:03.000 I'm so sorry, said Wendy Mora Angela. It doesn't matter, 685 00:42:03.159 --> 00:42:07.760 Peter gulped. She asked where he lived. Second to the right, 686 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:11.320 said Peter, and then straight on till morning. What a 687 00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:15.719 funny address? Peter had a sinking. For the first time, 688 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:19.559 he felt that perhaps it was a funny address. No 689 00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:24.199 it isn't, he said, I mean, Wendy said, nicely, remembering 690 00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:27.039 that she was hostess. Is that what they put on 691 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:31.000 the letters? He wished she had not mentioned the letters. 692 00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:36.880 Don't get any letters, he said, contemptuously. But your mother 693 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:41.960 gets letters. Don't have a mother, he said. Not only 694 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:44.320 had he no mother, but he had not the slightest 695 00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:49.960 desire to have one. He thought them very overrated persons. Wendy, however, 696 00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:52.360 felt at once that she was in the presence of 697 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:56.880 a tragedy. Oh, Peter, no wonder you were crying, she said, 698 00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:00.239 and got out of bed and ran to him. I 699 00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:04.199 wasn't crying about mothers, he said, rather indignantly. I was 700 00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:07.679 crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, 701 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:12.760 I wasn't crying. It has come off. Yes. Then Wendy 702 00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:16.039 saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and 703 00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:19.760 she was frightfully sorry for Peter. How awful, she said, 704 00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:22.519 But she could not help smiling when she saw that 705 00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:24.760 he'd been trying to stick it on with soap. How 706 00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:28.719 exactly like a boy. Fortunately she knew at once what 707 00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:32.400 to do. It must be sewn on, she said, just 708 00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:38.400 a little patronizingly. What's sewn? He asked, You're dreadfully ignorant. 709 00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:42.199 No I'm not, but she was exulting in his ignorance. 710 00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:44.840 I shall sew it on for you, my little man, 711 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:47.880 she said, though he was tall as herself, and she 712 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:50.400 got out her housewife and sewed the shadow on to 713 00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:53.440 Peter's foot. I dare say it will hurt a little, 714 00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:57.440 she warned him. Oh, I shan't cry said Peter, who 715 00:43:57.480 --> 00:43:59.519 was already of the opinion that he had never cried 716 00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:02.159 in his life. And he clenched his teeth and did 717 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:05.800 not cry. And soon his shadow was behaving properly, though 718 00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:10.000 still a little creased. Perhaps I should have ironed it, 719 00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:15.000 Wendy said thoughtfully. But Peter, boylike, was indifferent to appearances, 720 00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:17.719 and he was now jumping about in the wildest glee. 721 00:44:18.039 --> 00:44:20.599 Alas he had already forgotten that he owed his bliss 722 00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:24.320 to Wendy. He thought he detached the shadow himself. How 723 00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:28.639 clever I am, he crowed rapturously. Oh, the cleverness of me. 724 00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:32.320 It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit 725 00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:35.800 of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To 726 00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:39.639 put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy. 727 00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:44.760 But for the moment Wendy was shocked. You conceit, she exclaimed, 728 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:49.280 with frightful sarcasm. Of course I did nothing, you did 729 00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:54.519 a little, Peter said, carelessly, and continued to dance a little. 730 00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:57.960 She replied with hauteur. If I am no use, I 731 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:01.000 can at least withdraw, And she sprang in the most 732 00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:03.760 dignified way into bed and covered her face with the 733 00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:07.400 blankets to induce her to look up. He pretended to 734 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:10.000 be going away, and when this failed, he sat on 735 00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:12.320 the end of the bed and tapped her gently with 736 00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:17.639 his foot. Wendy, he said, don't withdraw. I can't help crowing, 737 00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:21.360 Wendy when I'm pleased with myself. Still, she would not 738 00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:25.920 look up, though she was listening eagerly. Wendy, he continued 739 00:45:26.239 --> 00:45:28.239 in a voice, that no woman has ever yet been 740 00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:32.639 able to resist Wendy. One girl is more use than 741 00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:37.039 twenty boys. Now, Wendy was every inch a woman, though 742 00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:39.719 there were not very many inches, and she peeped out 743 00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:43.880 of the bedclothes. Do you really think so, Peter, Yes, 744 00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:48.199 I do. I think it's perfectly sweet of you, she declared, 745 00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:51.159 and I'll get up again, and she sat with him 746 00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:53.559 on the side of the bed. She also said she 747 00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:55.960 would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter 748 00:45:56.159 --> 00:45:58.599 did not know what she meant, and he held out 749 00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:02.559 his hand expectantly. Surely you know what a kiss is, 750 00:46:03.039 --> 00:46:06.679 she asked, aghast I shall know when you give it 751 00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:10.119 to me. He replied, stiffly, and not to hurt his feeling, 752 00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:14.000 she gave him a thimble now said he shall I 753 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:17.559 give you a kiss? And she replied with a slight primness, 754 00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:21.800 if you please. She made herself rather cheap by inclining 755 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.760 her face toward him, but he merely dropped an acorn 756 00:46:24.760 --> 00:46:28.119 button into her hand. So she slowly returned her face 757 00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:30.639 to where it had been before, and said nicely that 758 00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:33.159 she would wear his kiss on the chain around her neck. 759 00:46:33.800 --> 00:46:35.880 He was lucky that she did put it on that chain, 760 00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:40.039 for it was afterwards to save her life. When people 761 00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:43.119 in our set are introduced, it is customary for them 762 00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:46.360 to ask each other's age, and so Wendy, who always 763 00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:49.519 liked to do the correct thing, asked Peter how old 764 00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:52.559 he was. It was not really a happy question to 765 00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:56.519 ask him. It was like an examination paper that asks grammar, 766 00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:59.400 when what you want to be asked is kings of England. 767 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.239 I don't know, he replied uneasily. But I am quite young. 768 00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:08.239 He really knew nothing about it. He had merely suspicions, 769 00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:11.920 but he said, at a venture, Wendy, I ran away 770 00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:16.119 the day I was born. Wendy was quite surprised, but interested, 771 00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:20.079 and she indicated in the charming drawing room manner by 772 00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:22.199 a touch on her night gown that he could sit 773 00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:25.360 nearer her. It was because I heard father and mother, 774 00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:28.519 he explained in a low voice, Talking about what I 775 00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:30.880 was to be when I became a man, He was 776 00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:34.599 extraordinarily agitated. Now I don't want ever to be a man, 777 00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:37.119 he said, with passion. I want always to be a 778 00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:40.239 little boy and to have fun. So I ran away 779 00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:44.480 to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among 780 00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:47.480 the fairies. She gave him a look of the most 781 00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:50.199 intense admiration, and he thought it was because he had 782 00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:52.840 run away, but it was really because he knew fairies. 783 00:47:53.440 --> 00:47:55.840 Wendy had lived such a home life that to know 784 00:47:55.960 --> 00:47:59.559 fairies struck her as quite delightful. She poured out questions 785 00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:02.199 about them, to his surprise, for they were rather a 786 00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:04.800 nuisance to him, getting in his way and so on, 787 00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:08.320 and indeed he sometimes had to give them a hiding. Still, 788 00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:10.320 he liked them on the whole, and he told her 789 00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:13.760 about the beginning of fairies. You see, Wendy, when the 790 00:48:13.800 --> 00:48:17.159 first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke 791 00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:20.360 into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, 792 00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:24.559 and that was the beginning of fairies. Tedious talk this, 793 00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:27.880 but being a stay at home. She liked it, and 794 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:30.559 so he went on good naturedly. There ought to be 795 00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:34.159 one fairy for every boy and girl ought to be, 796 00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:38.880 isn't there no? You see, children know such a lot 797 00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:42.079 now they soon don't believe in fairies. And every time 798 00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:45.800 a child says I don't believe in fairies, there is 799 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:50.519 a fairy somewhere, that falls down dead. Really, he thought 800 00:48:50.760 --> 00:48:53.199 they had now talked enough about fairies, and it struck 801 00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:56.199 him that tinker Bell was keeping very quiet. I can't 802 00:48:56.239 --> 00:48:59.199 think where she's gone to, he said, rising, and he 803 00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:04.519 called Tink by. Wendy's heart went flutter with a sudden thrill. Peter, 804 00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:07.360 she cried, clutching him. You don't mean to tell me 805 00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:10.519 that there's a fairy in this room. She was here 806 00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:13.840 just now, he said, a little impatiently. You don't hear her, 807 00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:17.840 do you? And they both listened. The only sound I hear, 808 00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:21.960 said Wendy, is like a tinkle of bells. Well, that's 809 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.239 tink that's the fairy language. I think I hear her too. 810 00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:28.880 The sound came from the chest of drawers, and Peter 811 00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:31.800 made a merry face. No one could ever look quite 812 00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:34.840 so merry as Peter and the loveliest of gurgles was 813 00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:40.320 his laugh. He had his first laugh. Still, Wendy, he whispered, gleefully, 814 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:42.679 I do believe I shut her up in the drawer. 815 00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:45.679 He let poor Tink out of the drawer, and she 816 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:49.079 flew about the nursery, screaming with fury. You shouldn't say 817 00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:52.480 such things, Peter retorted, of course, I'm very sorry, But 818 00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:55.119 how could I know you were in the drawer. Wendy 819 00:49:55.239 --> 00:49:58.400 was not listening to him. Oh, Peter, she cried, if 820 00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:00.519 she would only stand still and let me see her. 821 00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:04.559 They hardly ever stand still, he said, But for one moment, 822 00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:06.920 Wendy saw the romantic figure come to rest on the 823 00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:11.760 cuckoo clock. Oh the lovely, she cried, though Tink's face 824 00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:16.599 was still distorted with passion. Tink said, Peter amiably, this 825 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:20.440 lady says she wishes you were her fairy. Tinker Bell 826 00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:25.320 answered insolently, what does she say, Peter? He had to translate. 827 00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:28.400 She is not very polite. She says you are a 828 00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:31.719 great ugly girl, and that she is my fairy. He 829 00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:34.360 tried to argue with Tink, you know you can't be 830 00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:37.239 my fairy, Tink, because I am a gentleman, and you 831 00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:41.199 are a lady. To this, Tink replied in these words, 832 00:50:41.679 --> 00:50:46.039 you silly ass, and disappeared into the bathroom. She is 833 00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:50.280 quite a common fairy, Peter explained apologetically. She is called 834 00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:54.679 tinker Bell because she mends the pots and kettles. They 835 00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:57.159 were together in the arm chair by this time, and 836 00:50:57.199 --> 00:51:00.760 Wendy plied him with more questions. If you don't live 837 00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:05.320 in Kensington Gardens now? Sometimes I do still, But where 838 00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:09.199 do you live? Mostly now with the lost boys? Who 839 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:12.280 are they? They are the children who fall out of 840 00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:14.880 their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. 841 00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:18.039 If they are not claimed in seven days, they are 842 00:51:18.039 --> 00:51:22.639 sent far away to the Neverland to defray expenses. I'm captain, 843 00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:27.760 what fun it must be, yes, said cunning Peter. But 844 00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:32.000 we are rather lonely, you see, we have no female companionship. 845 00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:34.199 Are none of the others girls? 846 00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:34.960 Oh? 847 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:38.079 No, girls, you know are much too clever to fall 848 00:51:38.119 --> 00:51:42.760 out of their prams. This flattered Wendy immensely. I think, 849 00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:45.599 she said, it is perfectly lovely the way you talk 850 00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:50.679 about girls. John there just despises us for reply. Peter 851 00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:53.280 rose and kicked John out of bed blankets and all 852 00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:56.920 one kick. This seemed to Wendy rather forward for a 853 00:51:56.960 --> 00:51:59.519 first meeting, and she told him with spirit that he 854 00:51:59.639 --> 00:52:03.000 was not captain in her house. However, John continued to 855 00:52:03.039 --> 00:52:05.840 sleep so placidly on the floor that she allowed him 856 00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:08.760 to remain there. And I know you meant to be kind, 857 00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:11.840 she said, relenting, so you may give me a kiss 858 00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:15.159 for the moment. She had forgotten his ignorance about kisses. 859 00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:18.119 I thought you would want it back, he said, a 860 00:52:18.159 --> 00:52:22.480 little bitterly, and offered to return her the thimble. Oh dear, 861 00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:25.679 said the nice Wendy. I don't mean a kiss, I 862 00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:30.800 mean a thimble. What's that? It's like this, she kissed 863 00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:35.599 him funny, said Peter gravely. Now shall I give you 864 00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:39.199 a thimble if you wish to, said Wendy, keeping her 865 00:52:39.239 --> 00:52:44.159 head erect. This time, Peter thimbled her, and almost immediately 866 00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:48.320 she screeched, what is it, Wendy? It was exactly as 867 00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:51.599 if some one were pulling my hair. That must have 868 00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:55.599 been Tink. I never knew her so naughty before, And 869 00:52:55.719 --> 00:53:00.960 indeed Tink was darting about again using offensive language. She says, 870 00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:03.079 she will do that to you, Wendy, every time I 871 00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:09.239 give you a thimble. But why why tink again? Tink replied, 872 00:53:09.719 --> 00:53:14.599 you silly ass. Peter could not understand why, but Wendy understood, 873 00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:18.239 and she was just slightly disappointed when he admitted that 874 00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:20.440 he came to the nursery window not to see her, 875 00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:24.119 but to listen to stories. You see, I don't know 876 00:53:24.199 --> 00:53:27.440 any stories. None of the lost boys knows any stories. 877 00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:32.159 How perfectly awful, Wendy said, do you know, Peter asked, 878 00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:35.719 why swallows build in the eaves of houses. It is 879 00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:39.320 to listen to the stories. Oh, Wendy, your mother was 880 00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:43.199 telling you such a lovely story. Which story was it 881 00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:46.960 about the prince who couldn't find the lady who wore 882 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:52.079 the glass slipper, Peter said, Wendy excitedly, That was Cinderella, 883 00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:55.119 and he found her and they lived happily ever after. 884 00:53:56.239 --> 00:53:59.039 Peter was so glad that he rose from the floor 885 00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:01.639 where they had been seen and hurried to the window. 886 00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:05.639 Where are you going? She cried with misgiving to tell 887 00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:09.480 the other boys, don't go, Peter, She entreated, I know 888 00:54:09.599 --> 00:54:14.119 such lots of stories. Those were her precise words. So 889 00:54:14.239 --> 00:54:16.719 there can be no denying that it was she who 890 00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:20.400 first tempted him. He came back, and there was a 891 00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:22.960 greedy look in his eyes now, which ought to have 892 00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:27.000 alarmed her, but did not. Oh, the stories I could 893 00:54:27.039 --> 00:54:30.400 tell to the boys, she cried. And then Peter gripped 894 00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:33.199 her and began to draw her toward the window. Let 895 00:54:33.199 --> 00:54:37.079 me go, she ordered him. Wendy, do come with me 896 00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:40.599 and tell the other boys. Of course, she was very 897 00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:43.840 pleased to be asked, but she said, oh, dear, I 898 00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:49.800 can't think of mummy. Besides, I can't fly. I'll teach you, Oh, 899 00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:53.440 how lovely to fly. I'll teach you how to jump 900 00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:56.880 on the wind's back, and then away we go. Oh, 901 00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:03.119 she exclaimed rapturously, Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in 902 00:55:03.159 --> 00:55:05.599 your silly bed, you might be flying about with me 903 00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:12.199 saying funny things to the stars. Oh and Wendy, there 904 00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:21.880 are mermaids, mermaids with tails, such long tails, oh, cried Wendy, 905 00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:28.039 to see a mermaid. He had become frightfully cunning, Wendy, 906 00:55:28.239 --> 00:55:32.400 He said, how we should all respect you. She was 907 00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:35.360 wriggling her body in distress. It was quite as if 908 00:55:35.400 --> 00:55:38.760 she were trying to remain on the nursery floor. But 909 00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:42.719 he had no pity for her Wendy, he said, the 910 00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:46.719 sly one. You could tuck us in at night. Ooh, 911 00:55:48.199 --> 00:55:51.039 none of us has ever been tucked in at night. 912 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:52.480 Oh. 913 00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:55.960 And her arms went out to him. And you could 914 00:55:56.039 --> 00:55:59.920 darn our clothes and make pockets for us. None of 915 00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:05.719 us has any pockets. How could she resist? Of course, 916 00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:11.079 it's awfully fascinating, she cried, Peter, would you teach John 917 00:56:11.159 --> 00:56:15.960 and Michael to fly too, if you like? He said indifferently, 918 00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:18.679 and she ran to John and Michael and shook them. 919 00:56:19.159 --> 00:56:21.880 Wake up, she cried, Peter, Pan has come and he 920 00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:25.360 is to teach us to fly. John rubbed his eyes. 921 00:56:26.159 --> 00:56:29.039 Then I shall get up, he said, Of course, he 922 00:56:29.159 --> 00:56:33.039 was on the floor already. Hello, he said, I am up. 923 00:56:33.719 --> 00:56:36.599 Michael was up by this time, also looking as sharp 924 00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:39.199 as a knife with six blades and a saw. But 925 00:56:39.239 --> 00:56:44.840 Peter suddenly signed silence. Their faces assumed the awful craftiness 926 00:56:44.920 --> 00:56:48.320 of children listening for sounds from the grown up world. 927 00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:54.480 Paul was as still as salt. Then everything was right. No, stop, 928 00:56:55.039 --> 00:56:59.440 everything was wrong. Nana, who'd been barking distressfully all the evening, 929 00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:03.320 was quiet. Now it was her silence. They had heard 930 00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:08.159 out with the light hide quick cried John, taking command 931 00:57:08.199 --> 00:57:11.360 for the only time throughout the whole adventure. And thus, 932 00:57:11.639 --> 00:57:15.360 when Liza entered holding Nana, the nursery seemed quite its 933 00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:18.320 old self, very dark, and you would have sworn you 934 00:57:18.400 --> 00:57:22.800 heard its three wicked inmates breathing angelically as they slept. 935 00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:27.000 They were really doing it artfully from behind the window curtains. 936 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:30.679 Liza was in a bad temper, for she was mixing 937 00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:33.360 the Christmas puddings in the kitchen and had been drawn 938 00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:36.159 from them with a raisin still on her cheek by 939 00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:39.639 Nana's absurd suspicions. She thought the best way of getting 940 00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:41.920 a little quiet was to take Nana to the nursery 941 00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:45.960 for a moment. But in custody, of course, there, you 942 00:57:46.039 --> 00:57:49.800 suspicious brute, she said, not sorry that Nana was in disgrace. 943 00:57:50.239 --> 00:57:52.639 They are perfectly safe, aren't they. Every one of the 944 00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:57.760 little angels sound asleep in bed, listened to their gentle breathing. Here, Michael, 945 00:57:58.159 --> 00:58:01.480 encouraged by his success, breathe so loudly that they were 946 00:58:01.519 --> 00:58:05.679 nearly detected. Nana knew that kind of breathing, and she 947 00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:09.079 tried to drag herself out of Liza's clutches, but Liza 948 00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:12.519 was dense. No more of it, Nana, she said, sternly, 949 00:58:12.639 --> 00:58:14.679 pulling her out of the room. I warn you, if 950 00:58:14.760 --> 00:58:17.440 bark again, I shall go straight from Master and Missus 951 00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:19.920 and bring them home from the party. And then, oh, 952 00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:24.159 won't Master whip you? Just she tied the unhappy dog 953 00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:26.679 up again. But do you think Nana ceased to bark 954 00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:29.599 bring Master and Missus home from the party? Why? That 955 00:58:29.760 --> 00:58:32.159 was just what she wanted. Do you think she cared 956 00:58:32.199 --> 00:58:36.719 whether she was whipped, so long as her charges were safe. Unfortunately, 957 00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:40.119 Liza returned to her puddings, and Nana, seeing that no 958 00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:43.360 help would come from her, strained and strained the chain 959 00:58:43.639 --> 00:58:46.400 until at last she broke it. In another moment, she 960 00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:49.079 burst into the dining room of twenty seven and flung 961 00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:51.639 up her paws to heaven, her most expressive way of 962 00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:55.079 making a communication. Mister and Missus Darling knew at once 963 00:58:55.159 --> 00:58:57.920 that something terrible was happening in their nursery, and without 964 00:58:57.960 --> 00:59:00.480 a good bye to their hostess, they rushed into the street. 965 00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:04.239 But it was now ten minutes since three scoundrels had 966 00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:07.360 been breathing behind the curtains, and Peter Pan can do 967 00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:11.519 a great deal in ten minutes we now returned to 968 00:59:11.519 --> 00:59:15.639 the nursery. It's all right, John announced, emerging from his 969 00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:20.199 hiding place. I say, Peter, can you really fly? Instead 970 00:59:20.199 --> 00:59:22.639 of troubling to answer him, Peter flew around the room, 971 00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:27.159 taking the mantelpiece on the way. How topping, said John 972 00:59:27.199 --> 00:59:32.719 and Michael. How sweet, cried Wendy. Yes I'm sweet, Oh 973 00:59:32.760 --> 00:59:36.840 I am sweet, said Peter, forgetting his manners again. It 974 00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:39.679 looked delightfully easy, and they tried it first from the 975 00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:42.519 floor and then from the beds, but they always went 976 00:59:42.679 --> 00:59:47.000 down instead of up. I say, how do you do it? 977 00:59:47.199 --> 00:59:50.679 Asked John, rubbing his knee. He was quite a practical boy. 978 00:59:51.599 --> 00:59:55.639 You just think lovely, wonderful thoughts, Peter explained, And they 979 00:59:55.679 --> 00:59:58.760 lift you up in the air. He showed them again. 980 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.840 You're so nippy at it, John said, couldn't you do 981 01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:07.440 it very slowly? Once Peter did it both slowly and quickly. 982 01:00:08.519 --> 01:00:11.360 I've got it now, Wendy, cried John. But soon he 983 01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:14.280 found he had not Not one of them could fly 984 01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:17.800 an inch, though even Michael was in words of two syllables, 985 01:00:18.119 --> 01:00:22.199 and Peter did not know a from Z. Of course, 986 01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:24.920 Peter had been trifling with them for no one can 987 01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:28.679 fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him. Fortunately, 988 01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:31.239 as we have mentioned, one of his hands was messy 989 01:00:31.280 --> 01:00:33.320 with it, and he blew some one each of them 990 01:00:33.599 --> 01:00:37.920 with the most superb results. Now just wiggle your shoulders 991 01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:41.679 this way, he said, and let go. They were all 992 01:00:41.719 --> 01:00:45.679 on their beds, and gallant Michael let go first. He 993 01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:48.400 did not quite mean to let go, but he did it, 994 01:00:48.880 --> 01:00:52.960 and immediately he was born. Across the room. I flewed, 995 01:00:53.599 --> 01:00:56.880 he screamed, while still in mid air. John let go 996 01:00:57.079 --> 01:01:01.719 and met Wendy near the bathroom. Oh lovely, oh ripping, 997 01:01:02.119 --> 01:01:05.559 Look at me, Look at me, look at me. They 998 01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:08.119 were not nearly so elegant as Peter. They could not 999 01:01:08.199 --> 01:01:11.000 help kicking a little, but their heads were bobbing against 1000 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:14.480 the ceiling. And there is almost nothing so delicious as that. 1001 01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:18.320 Peter gave Wendy a hand at first, but had to desist. 1002 01:01:18.679 --> 01:01:22.079 Tink was so indignant. Up and down they went, the 1003 01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:27.639 round and round. Heavenly was Wendy's word, I say, cried John, 1004 01:01:28.039 --> 01:01:31.079 Why shouldn't we all go out? Of course it was 1005 01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:34.920 to this that Peter had been luring them. Michael was ready. 1006 01:01:35.159 --> 01:01:36.840 He wanted to see how long it took him to 1007 01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:44.960 do a billion miles, but Wendy hesitated. Mermaids, said Peter again. Ooh, 1008 01:01:45.920 --> 01:01:51.280 and there are pirates. Pirates, cried John, seizing his Sunday hat, 1009 01:01:51.639 --> 01:01:54.519 let us go at once. It was just at this 1010 01:01:54.679 --> 01:01:58.199 moment that mister and Missus Darling hurried with Nana out 1011 01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:00.800 of twenty seven. They ran into the middle of the 1012 01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:03.719 street to look up at the nursery window. And yes, 1013 01:02:04.079 --> 01:02:06.800 it was still shut, but the room was ablaze with 1014 01:02:06.920 --> 01:02:09.639 light and most heart gripping sight of all they could 1015 01:02:09.679 --> 01:02:13.000 see in shadow on the curtain three little figures in 1016 01:02:13.119 --> 01:02:17.280 night attire, circling round and round, not on the floor, 1017 01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:20.760 but in the air, not three figures. 1018 01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:21.639 Four. 1019 01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:25.840 In a tremble, they opened the street door. Mister Darling 1020 01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:28.920 would have rushed upstairs, but Missus Darling signaled him to 1021 01:02:28.920 --> 01:02:32.599 go softly. She even tried to make her heart go softly. 1022 01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:37.360 Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how 1023 01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:40.000 delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh 1024 01:02:40.039 --> 01:02:43.360 of relief. But there will be no story. On the 1025 01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:47.119 other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly 1026 01:02:47.199 --> 01:02:50.320 promise that it will all come right. In the end. 1027 01:02:51.639 --> 01:02:54.400 They would have reached the nursery in time, had it 1028 01:02:54.480 --> 01:02:58.239 not been that the little stars were watching them? Once again, 1029 01:02:58.280 --> 01:03:01.679 the stars blew the window open, and that smallest star 1030 01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:07.000 of all called out Cave Peter. Then Peter knew that 1031 01:03:07.039 --> 01:03:10.159 there was not a moment to lose. Come. He cried 1032 01:03:10.159 --> 01:03:13.639 imperiously and stared out at once into the night, followed 1033 01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:18.639 by John and Michael and Wendy. Mister and Missus, Darling 1034 01:03:18.880 --> 01:03:23.280 and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds 1035 01:03:23.800 --> 01:03:33.119 were flown end of chapter three, Chapter four, the flight. 1036 01:03:34.639 --> 01:03:39.119 Second to the right and straight on till morning. That 1037 01:03:39.199 --> 01:03:42.159 Peter had told Wendy was the way to the Neverland. 1038 01:03:43.119 --> 01:03:46.800 But even birds carrying maps and consulting them at Wendy 1039 01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:52.599 Corners couldnt have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, 1040 01:03:53.039 --> 01:03:56.800 just said anything that came into his head. At first. 1041 01:03:57.320 --> 01:04:01.159 His companions trusted him implicitly, and so great were the 1042 01:04:01.159 --> 01:04:04.880 delights of flying that they wasted time circling round church 1043 01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:08.079 spires or any of their tall objects on the way 1044 01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:13.199 that took their fancy. John and Michael raced Michael getting 1045 01:04:13.239 --> 01:04:17.159 a start. They recalled with contempt that not so long 1046 01:04:17.199 --> 01:04:20.159 ago they had thought themselves fine fellows for being able 1047 01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:24.480 to fly round a room not long ago, but how 1048 01:04:24.519 --> 01:04:27.480 long ago? They were flying over the sea before this 1049 01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:31.199 thought began to disturb Wendy seriously, John thought it was 1050 01:04:31.239 --> 01:04:36.079 their second sea, and their third night. Sometimes it was 1051 01:04:36.199 --> 01:04:40.320 dark and sometimes light, And now they were very cold 1052 01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:45.480 and again too warm. Did they really feel hungry at times? 1053 01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:49.000 Or were they merely pretending because Peter had such a 1054 01:04:49.079 --> 01:04:53.400 jolly new way of feeding them. His way was to 1055 01:04:53.440 --> 01:04:56.360 pursue birds who had food in their mouths suitable for 1056 01:04:56.440 --> 01:04:59.960 humans and snatch it from them. Then the birds would 1057 01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:03.239 follow and snatch it back, and they would all go 1058 01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:06.719 chasing each other gaily for miles, parting at last with 1059 01:05:06.840 --> 01:05:10.920 mutual expressions of good will. But Wendy noticed with gentle 1060 01:05:10.960 --> 01:05:13.360 concern that Peter did not seem to know that this 1061 01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:15.760 was rather an odd way of getting your bread and butter, 1062 01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:20.119 nor even that there were other ways. Certainly they did 1063 01:05:20.119 --> 01:05:23.800 not pretend to be sleepy. They were sleepy, and that 1064 01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:27.280 was a danger. For the moment they popped off down 1065 01:05:27.320 --> 01:05:30.880 they fell. The awful thing was that Peter thought this funny. 1066 01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:36.440 There he goes again. He would cry gleefully as Michael 1067 01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:40.760 suddenly dropped like a stone, Save him, save him, cried Wendy, 1068 01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:44.719 looking with horror at the cruel sea far below. Eventually 1069 01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:47.400 Peter would dive through the air and catch Michael just 1070 01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:50.039 before he could strike the sea. And it was lovely 1071 01:05:50.079 --> 01:05:52.320 the way he did it. But he always waited till 1072 01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:54.840 the last moment, and you felt it was his cleverness 1073 01:05:54.880 --> 01:05:58.719 that interested him and not the saving of human life. Also, 1074 01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:02.000 he was fond of her, and the sport then grossed 1075 01:06:02.039 --> 01:06:05.039 in one moment would suddenly cease to engage him. So 1076 01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:07.559 there was always the possibility that the next time you fell, 1077 01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:12.320 he would let you go. He could sleep in the 1078 01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:15.719 air without falling, by merely lying on his back and floating. 1079 01:06:16.360 --> 01:06:19.320 But this was partly at least because he was so 1080 01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:22.320 light that if he got behind him in blue, he 1081 01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:28.119 went faster. Do be more polite to him, Wendy whispered 1082 01:06:28.159 --> 01:06:31.599 to John when they were playing Follow My Leader. Then 1083 01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:35.920 tell him to stop showing off, said John. When playing 1084 01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:38.639 Follow My Leader, Peter would fly close to the water 1085 01:06:39.119 --> 01:06:42.000 and touch each shark's tail in passing, just as in 1086 01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:44.280 the street you may run your finger along an iron railing. 1087 01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:48.480 They cannot follow him in this with much success, so 1088 01:06:48.599 --> 01:06:51.480 perhaps it was rather like showing off, especially as he 1089 01:06:51.519 --> 01:06:53.639 kept looking behind to see how many tails they missed. 1090 01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:58.159 You must be nice to him, Wendy impressed upon her brothers. 1091 01:06:58.840 --> 01:07:00.440 What could we do if he were to leave us? 1092 01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:05.480 We could go back, Michael said, how could we ever 1093 01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:09.440 find our way back without him? Well, then we could 1094 01:07:09.480 --> 01:07:12.800 go on, said John. That is the awful thing. John, 1095 01:07:13.400 --> 01:07:15.840 We should have to go on, for we don't know 1096 01:07:15.880 --> 01:07:21.360 how to stop. This was true. Peter had forgotten to 1097 01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:25.320 show them how to stop. John said that if the 1098 01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:27.880 worst came to the worst, all they had to do 1099 01:07:28.239 --> 01:07:31.119 was to go straight on, for the world was round, 1100 01:07:31.239 --> 01:07:32.960 and so in time they must come back to their 1101 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:37.559 own window. And who is to get food for us? John? 1102 01:07:38.480 --> 01:07:40.960 I nipped a bit out of that eagle's mouth pretty neatly, Wendy. 1103 01:07:42.199 --> 01:07:46.760 After the twentieth try, Wendy reminded him, and even though 1104 01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:49.119 we became good at picking up food, see how we 1105 01:07:49.159 --> 01:07:51.239 bump against clouds and things. If he is not near 1106 01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:56.000 to give us a hand. Indeed, they were constantly bumping. 1107 01:07:56.599 --> 01:07:59.320 They could now fly strongly, though they still kicked far 1108 01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:01.599 too much. But if they saw a cloud in front 1109 01:08:01.599 --> 01:08:04.079 of them, the more they tried to avoid it, the 1110 01:08:04.119 --> 01:08:07.000 more certainly did they bump into it. If Nana had 1111 01:08:07.039 --> 01:08:09.280 been with them, she would have had a bandage round 1112 01:08:09.280 --> 01:08:13.519 Michael's forehead. By this time. Peter was not with them 1113 01:08:13.519 --> 01:08:16.239 for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there 1114 01:08:16.239 --> 01:08:19.680 by themselves. He could go so much faster than they 1115 01:08:20.199 --> 01:08:22.760 that he would suddenly shoot out of sight to have 1116 01:08:22.800 --> 01:08:25.840 some adventure in which they had no share. He would 1117 01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:28.319 come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been 1118 01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:31.439 saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what 1119 01:08:31.520 --> 01:08:34.680 it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales 1120 01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:37.279 still sticking to him, and yet not be able to 1121 01:08:37.319 --> 01:08:40.880 say for certain what had been happening. It was really 1122 01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:44.560 rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid. 1123 01:08:45.119 --> 01:08:49.359 And if he forgets them so quickly, Wendy argued, how 1124 01:08:49.399 --> 01:08:53.920 can we expect he will go on remembering us. Indeed, 1125 01:08:54.439 --> 01:08:58.000 sometimes when he returned he did not remember them, at 1126 01:08:58.079 --> 01:09:02.079 least not well. Wendy was sure of it. She saw 1127 01:09:02.199 --> 01:09:04.800 recognition come into his eyes as he was about to 1128 01:09:04.840 --> 01:09:08.560 pass them the time of day and go on. Once 1129 01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:12.399 even she had to call him by name. I'm Wendy, 1130 01:09:12.960 --> 01:09:17.880 she said, agitatedly. He was very sorry. I say Wendy, 1131 01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:21.319 he whispered to her. Always, if you see me forgetting 1132 01:09:21.319 --> 01:09:25.000 you just keep on saying I'm Wendy, and then I'll remember. 1133 01:09:26.920 --> 01:09:32.399 Of course, this was rather unsatisfactory. However, to make amends, 1134 01:09:32.520 --> 01:09:34.279 he showed them how to lie out flat on a 1135 01:09:34.279 --> 01:09:37.199 strong wind that was going their way. And this was 1136 01:09:37.239 --> 01:09:39.720 such a pleasant change that they tried it several times 1137 01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:43.720 and found that they could sleep thus with security. Indeed, 1138 01:09:43.760 --> 01:09:46.840 they would have slept longer, but Peter tired quickly of sleeping, 1139 01:09:47.439 --> 01:09:49.840 and soon he would cry in his captain's voice, we 1140 01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:54.439 get off here. So with occasional tips, but on the 1141 01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:58.479 whole rollicking they drew near the Neverland. For after many 1142 01:09:58.520 --> 01:10:02.399 moons did they reach it. And what is more, they 1143 01:10:02.439 --> 01:10:05.359 had been going pretty straight all the time, not perhaps 1144 01:10:05.399 --> 01:10:07.399 so much owing to the guidance of Peter or Tink 1145 01:10:07.840 --> 01:10:11.279 as because the island was looking for them. It was 1146 01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:16.239 only thus that any one may sight those magic shores. There, 1147 01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:21.880 it is, said Peter, calmly, where where where all the 1148 01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:27.039 arrows are pointing? Indeed a million golden arrows were pointing 1149 01:10:27.039 --> 01:10:29.760 it out to the children, all directed by their friend 1150 01:10:29.800 --> 01:10:32.760 the Sun, who wanted them to be sure of their way. 1151 01:10:32.920 --> 01:10:37.359 Before leaving them for the night, Wendy and John and 1152 01:10:37.399 --> 01:10:40.039 Michael stood on tiptoe in the air to get their 1153 01:10:40.039 --> 01:10:43.159 first sight of the island. Strange to say, they all 1154 01:10:43.199 --> 01:10:46.560 recognized it at once, and until fear fell upon them, 1155 01:10:46.840 --> 01:10:49.439 they hailed it not as something long dreamt of and 1156 01:10:49.479 --> 01:10:52.159 seen at last, but as a familiar friend to whom 1157 01:10:52.159 --> 01:10:55.359 they were returning home for the holidays. John, there is 1158 01:10:55.359 --> 01:10:59.119 the lagoon, Wendy. Look the turtles burying their eggs in 1159 01:10:59.159 --> 01:11:03.199 the sand, I say, John, I see your flamingo with 1160 01:11:03.199 --> 01:11:08.479 the broken leg. Look, Michael, there's your cave. John. What's 1161 01:11:08.520 --> 01:11:12.640 that in the brushwood? It's a wolf with her whelps, Wendy, 1162 01:11:12.880 --> 01:11:17.239 I do believe that's your little whelp. There's my boat, John, 1163 01:11:17.640 --> 01:11:20.680 WHI her sides stove in? No, it isn't why we 1164 01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:24.680 burned your boat. That's her at any rate, I say, John, 1165 01:11:25.239 --> 01:11:30.000 I see the smoke of the redskin camp. Where show 1166 01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:32.600 me and I'll tell you by the way smoke curls 1167 01:11:32.600 --> 01:11:36.399 whether there are on the war path there just to 1168 01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:41.199 cross the mysterious river. I see now, Yes, they are 1169 01:11:41.279 --> 01:11:45.600 on the war path right enough. Peter was a little 1170 01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:48.079 annoyed with them for knowing so much. But if he 1171 01:11:48.159 --> 01:11:50.680 wanted to lord it over them, his triumph was at hand. 1172 01:11:50.960 --> 01:11:54.359 For Heaven not told you that anon fear fell upon them. 1173 01:11:55.399 --> 01:11:58.800 It came as the arrows went leaving the island in gloom. 1174 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:03.199 In the old days at home, the Neverland had always 1175 01:12:03.199 --> 01:12:05.479 begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. 1176 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:10.720 Then unexplored patches arose in it, and spread black shadows 1177 01:12:10.760 --> 01:12:13.560 moved about in them. The roar of the beasts of 1178 01:12:13.600 --> 01:12:17.520 prey was quite different now, and above all, you lost 1179 01:12:17.560 --> 01:12:21.079 the certainty that you would win. You were quite glad 1180 01:12:21.079 --> 01:12:24.000 that the night lights were on. You even liked Nana 1181 01:12:24.039 --> 01:12:26.199 to say that this was just the mantelpiece over here, 1182 01:12:26.680 --> 01:12:31.319 and that the Neverland was all make believe. Of course, 1183 01:12:31.359 --> 01:12:34.000 the Neverland had been make believe in those days. But 1184 01:12:34.079 --> 01:12:36.439 it was real now, and there were no night lights, 1185 01:12:37.039 --> 01:12:40.199 and it was getting darker every moment, And where was Nana? 1186 01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:45.680 They had been flying apart, but they huddled close to Peter. 1187 01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:50.840 Now his careless manner had gone at last. His eyes 1188 01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:53.560 were sparkling, and a tingle went through them every time 1189 01:12:53.560 --> 01:12:57.880 they touched his body. They were now over the fearsome island, 1190 01:12:58.399 --> 01:13:01.239 flying so low that sometimes a tree he grazed their feet. 1191 01:13:02.319 --> 01:13:05.359 Nothing horrid was visible in the air, Yet their progress 1192 01:13:05.359 --> 01:13:08.199 had become slow and labored exactly as if they were 1193 01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:11.960 pushing their way through hostile forces. Sometimes they hung in 1194 01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:14.199 the air until Peter had beaten on it with his fists. 1195 01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:20.439 They don't want us to land, he explained, Who are they? 1196 01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:27.319 Wendy whispered, shuddering, But he could not or would not say. 1197 01:13:28.279 --> 01:13:30.640 Tinker Bell had been asleep on his shoulder, but now 1198 01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:34.479 he wakened her and sent her on in front. Sometimes 1199 01:13:34.520 --> 01:13:37.560 he poised himself in the air, listening intently with his 1200 01:13:37.600 --> 01:13:40.199 hand to his ear, and again he would stare down 1201 01:13:40.239 --> 01:13:42.159 with eyes so bright that they seemed to bore two 1202 01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:45.600 holes to earth. Having done these things, he went on again. 1203 01:13:47.279 --> 01:13:52.000 His courage was almost appalling. Would she like an adventure now, 1204 01:13:52.439 --> 01:13:55.239 he said casually to John, or would you like to 1205 01:13:55.279 --> 01:14:00.960 have your tea first? Wendy said tea first quickly, and 1206 01:14:01.079 --> 01:14:04.760 Michael pressed her hand in gratitude. But the braver John hesitated. 1207 01:14:05.319 --> 01:14:10.640 What kind of adventure? He asked, cautiously, there's a pirate 1208 01:14:10.680 --> 01:14:13.600 to sleep in the pumpas just beneath us. Peter told 1209 01:14:13.680 --> 01:14:17.479 him if you like we'll go down and kill him. 1210 01:14:18.840 --> 01:14:21.840 I don't see him, John said, after a long pause. 1211 01:14:22.399 --> 01:14:22.720 I do. 1212 01:14:24.600 --> 01:14:29.560 Suppose, John said a little huskily, he were to wake up. 1213 01:14:31.439 --> 01:14:34.600 Peter spoke indignantly. You don't think I would kill him 1214 01:14:34.600 --> 01:14:36.800 while he was sleeping. I would wake him first and 1215 01:14:36.840 --> 01:14:41.640 then kill him. That's the way I always do. I say, 1216 01:14:41.960 --> 01:14:49.840 do you kill many tons? John said, how ripping, but 1217 01:14:49.920 --> 01:14:52.720 decided to have tea first. He asked if there were 1218 01:14:52.720 --> 01:14:55.680 many pirates on the island just now, and Peter said 1219 01:14:56.000 --> 01:14:59.479 he had never known so many. Who is captain now? 1220 01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:04.680 Hook answered Peter, and his face became very stern as 1221 01:15:04.720 --> 01:15:13.359 he said that hated word. Just Hook. I then, indeed, 1222 01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:16.680 Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps, 1223 01:15:16.680 --> 01:15:21.600 only for they knew Hook's reputation. He was Blackbeard's bosin. 1224 01:15:22.600 --> 01:15:26.800 John whispered huskily. He's the worst of them all. He's 1225 01:15:26.840 --> 01:15:31.119 the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid. That's him, 1226 01:15:31.199 --> 01:15:36.239 said Peter. What is he like? Is he big? He's 1227 01:15:36.239 --> 01:15:39.199 not so big as he was. How do you mean 1228 01:15:40.680 --> 01:15:41.960 I cut off a bit of him? 1229 01:15:42.880 --> 01:15:43.000 You? 1230 01:15:44.279 --> 01:15:49.520 Yes, me, said Peter sharply. I wasn't meaning to be disrespectful. 1231 01:15:50.560 --> 01:15:54.680 Oh all right, but uh, as I say, which bit 1232 01:15:55.600 --> 01:16:00.199 his right hand? Then he can't fight now? Oh? Can he? 1233 01:16:00.399 --> 01:16:04.560 Just left hander? He has an iron hook instead of 1234 01:16:04.560 --> 01:16:08.880 a right hand, and he claws with it. Claws, I say, 1235 01:16:08.960 --> 01:16:14.640 John said Peter. Yes, say ay ay sir, ay ay sir. 1236 01:16:16.439 --> 01:16:19.720 There is one thing, Peter continued, that every boy who 1237 01:16:19.800 --> 01:16:22.279 serves under me has to promise, and so must you, 1238 01:16:23.960 --> 01:16:24.680 John Paled. 1239 01:16:26.359 --> 01:16:26.760 It is this. 1240 01:16:27.560 --> 01:16:30.199 If we meet hook and open fight, you must leave 1241 01:16:30.279 --> 01:16:35.960 him to me. I promise, John said loyally. For the moment, 1242 01:16:36.119 --> 01:16:39.479 they were feeling less eerie because Tink was flying with them, 1243 01:16:40.119 --> 01:16:44.079 and in her light they could distinguish each other. Unfortunately, 1244 01:16:44.760 --> 01:16:47.760 she cannot fly so slowly as they, and so she 1245 01:16:47.840 --> 01:16:49.720 had to go round and round them in a circle 1246 01:16:49.880 --> 01:16:53.000 in which they moved as in a halo. Wendy quite 1247 01:16:53.039 --> 01:16:58.439 liked it, until Peter pointed out the drawbacks. She tells me, 1248 01:16:58.760 --> 01:17:02.479 He said that the pirates sighted us before the darkness came, 1249 01:17:03.239 --> 01:17:08.720 and got long tom out the big gun. Yes, and 1250 01:17:08.800 --> 01:17:11.000 of course they must see her light, and if they 1251 01:17:11.000 --> 01:17:12.960 guess we are near it, they are sure to let 1252 01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:19.239 fly Wendy. John Michael tell her to go away at 1253 01:17:19.279 --> 01:17:25.520 once Peter. The three cried simultaneously, but he refused. She 1254 01:17:25.760 --> 01:17:29.640 thinks we have lost the way, he replied stiffly, And 1255 01:17:29.760 --> 01:17:32.920 she is rather frightened. You don't think I would send 1256 01:17:32.960 --> 01:17:37.479 her away all by herself. When she's frightened for a moment, 1257 01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:40.840 the circle of light was broken, and something gave Peter 1258 01:17:40.920 --> 01:17:45.680 a loving little pinch. Then tell her Wendy begged to 1259 01:17:45.720 --> 01:17:50.439 put out her light. She can't put it out. That 1260 01:17:50.560 --> 01:17:53.520 is about the only thing fairies can't do. It just 1261 01:17:53.560 --> 01:17:56.119 goes out of itself when she falls asleep, same as 1262 01:17:56.119 --> 01:18:00.960 the stars. Then tell her to sleep at once. John 1263 01:18:00.960 --> 01:18:05.039 almost ordered, she can't sleep except when she's sleepy. It 1264 01:18:05.159 --> 01:18:09.319 is the only other thing fairies can't do, seems to me, 1265 01:18:09.920 --> 01:18:13.960 growled John, These are the only two things worth doing. 1266 01:18:15.640 --> 01:18:15.840 Here. 1267 01:18:15.880 --> 01:18:20.159 He got a pinch, but not a loving one. If 1268 01:18:20.159 --> 01:18:23.000 only one of us had a pocket, Peter said, we 1269 01:18:23.039 --> 01:18:26.159 could carry her in it. However, they had set off 1270 01:18:26.159 --> 01:18:27.920 in such a hurry that there was not a pocket 1271 01:18:27.920 --> 01:18:31.800 between the four of em. He had a happy idea, 1272 01:18:32.600 --> 01:18:37.840 John's hat. Tink agreed to travel by hat if it 1273 01:18:37.920 --> 01:18:41.319 was carried in the hand. John carried it. Though she 1274 01:18:41.319 --> 01:18:45.039 had hoped to be carried by Peter. Presently, Wendy took 1275 01:18:45.079 --> 01:18:47.439 the hat because John said it struck against his knee 1276 01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:50.640 as he flew, and this, as we shall see, led 1277 01:18:50.680 --> 01:18:53.399 to mischief, for tinker Bell hated to be under an 1278 01:18:53.399 --> 01:18:57.800 obligation to Wendy. In the black topper. The light was 1279 01:18:57.840 --> 01:19:01.560 completely hidden, and they flew on in silence. It was 1280 01:19:01.600 --> 01:19:05.119 the stillest silence they had ever known, broken once by 1281 01:19:05.119 --> 01:19:08.720 a distant lapping, which Peter explained was the wild beasts 1282 01:19:08.840 --> 01:19:11.920 drinking at the ford, and again by a rasping sound 1283 01:19:11.960 --> 01:19:14.279 that might have been the branches of trees rubbing together, 1284 01:19:15.159 --> 01:19:17.560 but he said it was the redskins sharpening their knives. 1285 01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:24.399 Even these noises ceased. To Michael, the loneliness was dreadful. 1286 01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:30.159 If only something would make a sound, he cried, as 1287 01:19:30.199 --> 01:19:33.199 of In answer to his request, the air was rent 1288 01:19:33.279 --> 01:19:36.560 by the most tremendous crash he had ever heard. The 1289 01:19:36.640 --> 01:19:41.520 pirates had fired long tom at them. The roar of 1290 01:19:41.560 --> 01:19:44.960 it echoed through the mountains, and the echo seemed to 1291 01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:48.680 cry savagely, where are they? Where are they? 1292 01:19:49.199 --> 01:19:50.119 Where are they? 1293 01:19:52.600 --> 01:19:55.760 Thus sharply that the terrified three learned the difference between 1294 01:19:55.760 --> 01:20:00.560 an island of make believe and the same island come true. 1295 01:20:01.439 --> 01:20:04.760 When at last the heavens were steady again, John and 1296 01:20:04.800 --> 01:20:08.720 Michael found themselves alone in the darkness. John was treading 1297 01:20:08.720 --> 01:20:12.159 the air mechanically, and Michael, without knowing how to float, 1298 01:20:12.720 --> 01:20:21.359 was floating. Are you shot, John whispered tremulously. I haven't 1299 01:20:21.399 --> 01:20:27.319 tried myself out yet, Michael whispered back. We know now 1300 01:20:27.359 --> 01:20:31.600 that no one had been hit. Peter, however, had been 1301 01:20:31.640 --> 01:20:33.920 carried by the wind of the shot far out to sea, 1302 01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:37.520 while Wendy was blown upwards with no companion but tinker Bell. 1303 01:20:39.479 --> 01:20:41.279 It would have been well for Wendy if at that 1304 01:20:41.319 --> 01:20:44.800 moment she had dropped the hat. I don't know whether 1305 01:20:44.840 --> 01:20:47.840 the idea came suddenly to Tink or whether she had 1306 01:20:47.840 --> 01:20:51.079 planned it on the way, but she at once popped 1307 01:20:51.079 --> 01:20:53.520 out of the hat and began to lure Wendy to 1308 01:20:53.600 --> 01:21:00.399 her destruction. Tink was not all bad, or rather, she 1309 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:03.760 was all bad just now. But on the other hand, 1310 01:21:04.159 --> 01:21:08.000 sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one 1311 01:21:08.000 --> 01:21:12.000 thing or the other, because being so small, they unfortunately 1312 01:21:12.079 --> 01:21:16.119 have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, 1313 01:21:16.600 --> 01:21:20.039 allowed to change, only it must be a complete change. 1314 01:21:21.319 --> 01:21:25.239 At present, she was full of jealousy of Wendy. What 1315 01:21:25.359 --> 01:21:28.039 she said in her lovely tinkle. Wendy could not, of 1316 01:21:28.039 --> 01:21:31.640 course understand, but I believe some of it was bad words, 1317 01:21:32.039 --> 01:21:35.439 but it sounded kind. And she flew back and forward, plainly, 1318 01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:41.600 meaning follow me and all will be well. What else 1319 01:21:41.600 --> 01:21:44.880 could poor Wendy do? She called to Peter and John 1320 01:21:45.239 --> 01:21:50.399 and Michael, and got only mocking echoes in reply. She 1321 01:21:50.520 --> 01:21:53.119 did not yet know that Tink hated her with the 1322 01:21:53.159 --> 01:21:58.239 fierce hatred of a very woman, And so bewildered and 1323 01:21:58.319 --> 01:22:04.960 now staggering in her flight, she followed Tink to her doom. 1324 01:22:05.279 --> 01:22:06.840 End of chapter four. 1325 01:22:07.680 --> 01:22:14.159 Chapter five, The Island come true, Feeling that Peter was 1326 01:22:14.199 --> 01:22:17.840 on his way back. The Neverland had again woken to life. 1327 01:22:18.319 --> 01:22:20.840 We ought to use the plue perfect and say wakened, 1328 01:22:21.279 --> 01:22:23.720 but woke is better, and was always used by Peter 1329 01:22:24.880 --> 01:22:28.000 in his absence. Things are usually quiet on the island. 1330 01:22:28.239 --> 01:22:30.880 The fairies take an hour longer in the morning. The 1331 01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:34.520 beasts attend to their young, The redskins feed heavily for 1332 01:22:34.600 --> 01:22:37.920 six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys 1333 01:22:37.960 --> 01:22:41.479 meet they merely bite their thumbs at each other. But 1334 01:22:41.640 --> 01:22:44.439 with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy. They are 1335 01:22:44.600 --> 01:22:47.439 under weigh again. If you put your ear to the 1336 01:22:47.439 --> 01:22:50.840 ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life. 1337 01:22:52.319 --> 01:22:54.720 On this evening the chief forces of the island were 1338 01:22:54.720 --> 01:22:58.800 disposed as follows. The lost Boys were out looking for Peter. 1339 01:22:59.399 --> 01:23:02.399 The pirates were out looking for the lost boys. The 1340 01:23:02.479 --> 01:23:05.840 Redskins were out looking for the pirates. And the beasts 1341 01:23:05.960 --> 01:23:09.279 were out looking for the Redskins. They were going round 1342 01:23:09.319 --> 01:23:12.319 and round the island, but they did not meet, because 1343 01:23:12.520 --> 01:23:16.560 all were going at the same rate. All wanted blood, 1344 01:23:16.640 --> 01:23:19.039 except the boys, who liked it as a rule. But 1345 01:23:19.199 --> 01:23:23.119 tonight were out to greet their captain. The boys on 1346 01:23:23.159 --> 01:23:26.640 the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they 1347 01:23:26.640 --> 01:23:29.720 get killed and so on, And when they seemed to 1348 01:23:29.720 --> 01:23:32.880 be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins 1349 01:23:32.960 --> 01:23:36.159 them out. But at this time there were six of them, 1350 01:23:36.199 --> 01:23:39.960 counting the twins as two. Let us pretend to lie 1351 01:23:40.039 --> 01:23:42.520 here among the sugar cane and watch them as they 1352 01:23:42.600 --> 01:23:46.119 steal by in single file, each with his hand on 1353 01:23:46.239 --> 01:23:50.399 his dagger. They are forbidden by Peter to look in 1354 01:23:50.479 --> 01:23:53.359 the least like him, and they wear the skins of 1355 01:23:53.399 --> 01:23:56.840 the bears slain by themselves, in which they are so 1356 01:23:57.079 --> 01:24:01.520 round and furry that when they fall they roll. They 1357 01:24:01.520 --> 01:24:05.720 have therefore become very sure footed. The first to pass 1358 01:24:05.880 --> 01:24:10.079 is Tootles, not the least brave, but the most unfortunate 1359 01:24:10.359 --> 01:24:14.039 of all that gallant band. He had been in fewer 1360 01:24:14.079 --> 01:24:17.600 adventures than any of them, because the big things constantly 1361 01:24:17.680 --> 01:24:21.319 happened just when he had stepped round the corner, all 1362 01:24:21.399 --> 01:24:24.279 would be quiet. He would take the opportunity of going 1363 01:24:24.319 --> 01:24:27.640 off to gather a few sticks for firewood, and then 1364 01:24:27.680 --> 01:24:30.359 when he returned, the others would be sweeping up the blood. 1365 01:24:31.439 --> 01:24:35.239 This ill luck had given a gentle melancholy to his countenance, 1366 01:24:35.880 --> 01:24:39.600 but instead of souring his nature, had sweetened it, so 1367 01:24:39.640 --> 01:24:44.119 that he was quite the humblest of the boys. Poor kind, Tootles, 1368 01:24:44.479 --> 01:24:47.479 there is danger in the air for you tonight. Take 1369 01:24:47.520 --> 01:24:51.520 care less. An adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, 1370 01:24:51.680 --> 01:24:56.520 will plunge you in deepest woe, Toodles. The fairy tink 1371 01:24:56.840 --> 01:24:59.520 who is bent on mischief this night, is looking for 1372 01:24:59.600 --> 01:25:02.880 a tool, and she thinks you are the most easily 1373 01:25:02.920 --> 01:25:07.800 tricked of the boys. But ware tinker Bell would that 1374 01:25:07.920 --> 01:25:10.000 he could hear us, but we are not really on 1375 01:25:10.079 --> 01:25:14.960 the island, and he passes by biting his knuckles. Next 1376 01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:19.640 comes Nibs, the Gay and Debonair, followed by Slightly, who 1377 01:25:19.680 --> 01:25:22.880 cuts whistles out of the trees and dances ecstatically to 1378 01:25:22.960 --> 01:25:27.119 his own tunes. Slightly is the most conceited of the boys. 1379 01:25:27.920 --> 01:25:30.800 He thinks he remembers the days before he was lost 1380 01:25:31.359 --> 01:25:34.159 with their manners and customs, and this has given his 1381 01:25:34.239 --> 01:25:39.479 nose an offensive tilt. Curly is fourth. He is a pickle, 1382 01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:42.960 and so often has he had to deliver up his person. 1383 01:25:43.039 --> 01:25:46.680 When Peter said, sternly, stand forth, the one who did 1384 01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:50.920 this thing that now at the command, he stands forth automatically, 1385 01:25:51.239 --> 01:25:55.319 whether he has done it or not. Last come the twins, 1386 01:25:55.399 --> 01:25:58.479 who cannot be described, because we should be sure to 1387 01:25:58.520 --> 01:26:02.159 be describing the wrong one. Peter never quite knew what 1388 01:26:02.319 --> 01:26:05.119 twins were, and his band were not allowed to know 1389 01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:08.439 anything he did not know. So these two were always 1390 01:26:08.520 --> 01:26:12.079 vague about themselves and did their best to give satisfaction 1391 01:26:12.279 --> 01:26:16.399 by keeping close together in an apologetic sort of way. 1392 01:26:17.880 --> 01:26:21.079 The boys vanish in the gloom, and after a pause, 1393 01:26:21.239 --> 01:26:24.199 but not a long pause, for things go briskly on 1394 01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:28.079 the island. Come the pirates on their track. We hear 1395 01:26:28.159 --> 01:26:30.920 them before they are seen, and it is always the 1396 01:26:31.000 --> 01:26:37.279 same dreadful song, A vast belay yoho heftu a pirting 1397 01:26:37.439 --> 01:26:40.800 we go, and if we're parted by a shot, we're 1398 01:26:40.840 --> 01:26:46.600 sure to meet below. A more villainous looking lot never 1399 01:26:46.760 --> 01:26:50.399 hung in a row on execution. Doc here a little 1400 01:26:50.399 --> 01:26:53.000 in advance, ever and again, with his head to the ground, 1401 01:26:53.079 --> 01:26:57.119 listening his great arms bare pieces of eight in his 1402 01:26:57.199 --> 01:27:02.199 ears as ornaments. Is the handsome Italian Seco who cut 1403 01:27:02.239 --> 01:27:04.479 his name in letters of blood on the back of 1404 01:27:04.520 --> 01:27:08.960 the governor of the prison at Gao. That gigantic black 1405 01:27:09.079 --> 01:27:12.159 behind him has had many names since he dropped, the 1406 01:27:12.199 --> 01:27:15.800 one with which dusky mothers still terrify their children on 1407 01:27:15.880 --> 01:27:21.000 the banks of the Guadjomeo. Here is Bill Jukes, every 1408 01:27:21.039 --> 01:27:24.439 inch of him tattooed, the same Bill Jukes who got 1409 01:27:24.520 --> 01:27:27.600 six dozen on the walrus from Flint before he would 1410 01:27:27.680 --> 01:27:31.560 drop the bag of Mordores and Cookson said to be 1411 01:27:31.600 --> 01:27:36.319 Black Murphy's brother, but this was never proved. And gentlemen, 1412 01:27:36.439 --> 01:27:39.640 Starkey wants an usher in a public school, and still 1413 01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:44.800 dainty in his ways of killing, and skylights Morgan's skylights, 1414 01:27:45.359 --> 01:27:50.159 and the Irish Bosun Smee, an oddly genial man who stabbed, 1415 01:27:50.399 --> 01:27:54.800 so to speak, without offense, and was the only nonconformist 1416 01:27:54.840 --> 01:27:59.800 in Hook's crew, and Noodler whose hands were fixed on backwards, 1417 01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:04.479 and Robert Mullins and Alf Mason, and many another ruffian 1418 01:28:04.600 --> 01:28:09.399 long known and feared on the Spanish main. In the 1419 01:28:09.439 --> 01:28:12.520 midst of them, the blackest and largest in that dark 1420 01:28:12.600 --> 01:28:19.239 setting reclined James Hook, or as he wrote himself j A. S. Hook, 1421 01:28:19.600 --> 01:28:21.960 of whom it is said he was the only man 1422 01:28:22.000 --> 01:28:25.640 that the sea cook feared. He lay at his ease 1423 01:28:25.680 --> 01:28:28.520 in a rough chariot, drawn and propelled by his men, 1424 01:28:29.159 --> 01:28:32.199 and instead of a right hand he had the iron hook, 1425 01:28:32.279 --> 01:28:35.439 with which ever and anon he encouraged them to increase 1426 01:28:35.560 --> 01:28:40.680 their pace. As dogs, this terrible man treated and addressed them, 1427 01:28:41.079 --> 01:28:45.399 and as dogs they obeyed him. In person, he was 1428 01:28:45.520 --> 01:28:50.720 cadaverous and blackavised, and his hair was dressed in long curls, 1429 01:28:51.199 --> 01:28:54.600 which at a little distance looked like black candles, and 1430 01:28:54.720 --> 01:29:00.239 gave a singularly threatening expression to his handsome countenance. His 1431 01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:02.720 eyes were of the blue of the forget me not, 1432 01:29:03.439 --> 01:29:07.560 and of a profound melancholy, save when he was plunging 1433 01:29:07.600 --> 01:29:10.760 his hook into you, at which time two red spots 1434 01:29:10.800 --> 01:29:15.119 appeared in them and lit them up horribly. In manner, 1435 01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:19.239 something of the grand seigneur still clung to him, so 1436 01:29:19.399 --> 01:29:22.560 that he even ripped you up with an air. And 1437 01:29:22.680 --> 01:29:26.920 I have been told that he was a raconteur of repute. 1438 01:29:27.039 --> 01:29:30.399 He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, 1439 01:29:30.960 --> 01:29:34.640 which is probably the truest test of breeding, and the 1440 01:29:34.680 --> 01:29:38.520 elegance of his diction even when he was swearing, no 1441 01:29:38.720 --> 01:29:42.159 less than the distinction of his demeanor showed him one 1442 01:29:42.239 --> 01:29:46.119 of a different cast from his crew, a man of 1443 01:29:46.159 --> 01:29:49.159 indomitable courage. It was said that the only thing he 1444 01:29:49.279 --> 01:29:52.399 shied at was the sight of his own blood, which 1445 01:29:52.520 --> 01:29:57.640 was thick and of an unusual color. In Drassees somewhat 1446 01:29:57.640 --> 01:30:01.319 aped the attire associated with the name of Charles the Second, 1447 01:30:01.600 --> 01:30:04.560 having heard it said in some earlier period of his career, 1448 01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:08.119 that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill fated Stuarts. 1449 01:30:08.960 --> 01:30:11.199 And in his mouth he had a holder of his 1450 01:30:11.279 --> 01:30:15.159 own contrivance, which enabled him to smoke two cigars at once. 1451 01:30:16.119 --> 01:30:19.960 But undoubtedly the grimest part of him was his iron claw. 1452 01:30:21.560 --> 01:30:24.479 Let us now kill a pirate to show Hook's method. 1453 01:30:25.159 --> 01:30:30.560 Skylights will do. As they pass. Skylights lurches clumsily against him, 1454 01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:34.520 ruffling his lace collar. The hook shoots forth. There is 1455 01:30:34.560 --> 01:30:38.479 a tearing sound in one screech. Then the body is 1456 01:30:38.560 --> 01:30:42.000 kicked aside, and the pirates pass on. He has not 1457 01:30:42.079 --> 01:30:46.479 even taken the cigars from his mouth. Such is the 1458 01:30:46.600 --> 01:30:51.039 terrible man against whom Peter Pan is pitted, which will win. 1459 01:30:52.600 --> 01:30:56.039 On the trail of the pirates, stealing noiselessly down the 1460 01:30:56.079 --> 01:31:00.439 war path which is not visible to inexperienced eyes, come 1461 01:31:00.520 --> 01:31:03.720 the Redskins, every one of them with his eyes peeled. 1462 01:31:04.560 --> 01:31:08.560 They carry tomahawks and knives, and their naked bodies gleam 1463 01:31:08.680 --> 01:31:12.960 with paint and oil. Strung around them are scalps of 1464 01:31:13.079 --> 01:31:16.800 boys as well as pirates. For these are the Piccaninny tribe, 1465 01:31:17.239 --> 01:31:20.520 and not to be confused with the softer hearted Delawares 1466 01:31:20.640 --> 01:31:24.920 or the Hurons in the van. On all fours is great, 1467 01:31:25.000 --> 01:31:29.479 big little Panther, a brave of so many scalps that, 1468 01:31:29.640 --> 01:31:34.359 in his present position they somewhat impede his progress. Bringing 1469 01:31:34.439 --> 01:31:38.239 up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger 1470 01:31:38.279 --> 01:31:42.960 lily proudly erect a princess in her own right. She 1471 01:31:43.199 --> 01:31:46.840 is the most beautiful of dusky dianas, and the bell 1472 01:31:46.960 --> 01:31:52.159 of the pickaninnies, coquettish, cold and amorous. By turns, there 1473 01:31:52.239 --> 01:31:54.640 is not a brave who would not have the wayward 1474 01:31:54.720 --> 01:31:57.920 thing to wife. But she stays off the altar with 1475 01:31:58.039 --> 01:32:02.720 a hatchet. Serve how they pass over fallen twigs without 1476 01:32:02.760 --> 01:32:06.720 making the slightest noise. The only sound to be heard 1477 01:32:06.840 --> 01:32:10.920 is their somewhat heavy breathing. The fact is that they 1478 01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:14.199 are all a little fat just now after the heavy gorging. 1479 01:32:14.760 --> 01:32:18.319 But in time they will work this off. For the moment, however, 1480 01:32:18.479 --> 01:32:23.720 it constitutes their chief danger. The redskins disappear as they 1481 01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:27.279 have come, like shadows, and soon their place is taken 1482 01:32:27.319 --> 01:32:32.439 by the beasts, a great and motley procession lions, tigers, bears, 1483 01:32:32.960 --> 01:32:36.439 and the innumerable smaller savage things that flee from them. 1484 01:32:37.039 --> 01:32:40.720 For every kind of beast, and more particularly, all the 1485 01:32:40.800 --> 01:32:44.279 man eaters live cheek by jowl on the favored island. 1486 01:32:44.880 --> 01:32:50.399 Their tongues are hanging out. They are hungry. Tonight, when 1487 01:32:50.439 --> 01:32:53.600 they have passed, comes the last figure of all, a 1488 01:32:53.680 --> 01:32:59.039 gigantic crocodile, we shall see for whom she is looking. Presently, 1489 01:33:00.760 --> 01:33:04.640 the crocodile passes, but soon the boys appear again. For 1490 01:33:04.720 --> 01:33:08.239 the procession must continue indefinitely until one of the parties 1491 01:33:08.319 --> 01:33:12.319 stops or changes its pace. Then quickly they will be 1492 01:33:12.359 --> 01:33:15.960 on top of each other. All are keeping a sharp 1493 01:33:16.000 --> 01:33:19.760 lookout in front, but none suspects that the danger may 1494 01:33:19.800 --> 01:33:23.319 be creeping up from behind. This shows how real the 1495 01:33:23.359 --> 01:33:26.840 island was. The First to fall out of the moving 1496 01:33:26.880 --> 01:33:30.880 circle was the boys. They flung themselves down on the sward, 1497 01:33:31.159 --> 01:33:35.640 close to their underground home. I do wish Peter would 1498 01:33:35.640 --> 01:33:39.239 come back, every one of them said nervously, though in 1499 01:33:39.359 --> 01:33:42.359 height and still more in breadth, they were all larger 1500 01:33:42.399 --> 01:33:46.359 than their captain. I am the only one who is 1501 01:33:46.479 --> 01:33:50.279 not afraid of the pirates, slightly, said, in the tone 1502 01:33:50.319 --> 01:33:54.000 that prevented his being a general favorite. But perhaps some 1503 01:33:54.199 --> 01:33:58.399 distant sound disturbed him, for he added hastily, but I 1504 01:33:58.439 --> 01:34:00.920 wish he would come back and tell us whether he 1505 01:34:00.960 --> 01:34:05.840 has heard anything more about Cinderella. They talked of Cinderella, 1506 01:34:06.039 --> 01:34:08.920 and Tootles was confident that his mother must have been 1507 01:34:09.199 --> 01:34:13.279 very like her. It was only in Peter's absence that 1508 01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:16.520 they could speak of mothers, the subject being forbidden by 1509 01:34:16.600 --> 01:34:21.920 him as silly. All I remember about my mother, NIBBs 1510 01:34:21.920 --> 01:34:26.079 told them, is that she often said to my father, Oh, 1511 01:34:26.119 --> 01:34:28.720 how I wish I had a check book of my own. 1512 01:34:29.680 --> 01:34:32.079 I don't know what a check book is, but I 1513 01:34:32.119 --> 01:34:36.840 should just love to give my mother one. While they talked, 1514 01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:40.560 they heard a distant sound. You or I, not being 1515 01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:44.159 wild things of the woods, would have heard nothing, But 1516 01:34:44.199 --> 01:34:48.880 they heard it. And it was the grim song, yo, yo, 1517 01:34:49.119 --> 01:34:52.600 the pirate life, the flag of skull and bones, a 1518 01:34:52.880 --> 01:34:56.560 very hour hemp and rope and hay for Davy Jones 1519 01:34:58.159 --> 01:35:02.800 at once the lost boys. But where are they? They 1520 01:35:02.840 --> 01:35:06.880 are no longer there Rabbits could not have disappeared more quickly. 1521 01:35:08.199 --> 01:35:11.039 I will tell you where they are, with the exception 1522 01:35:11.119 --> 01:35:14.560 of Nibs, who has darted away to reconnoiter. They are 1523 01:35:14.600 --> 01:35:18.039 already in their home under the ground, a very delightful 1524 01:35:18.119 --> 01:35:20.880 residence of which we shall see a good deal presently. 1525 01:35:21.680 --> 01:35:24.239 But how have they reached it? For there is no 1526 01:35:24.439 --> 01:35:28.600 entrance to be seen, not so much as a large stone, which, 1527 01:35:28.640 --> 01:35:31.199 if rolled away, would disclose the mouth of a cave. 1528 01:35:32.479 --> 01:35:35.720 Look closely, however, and you may note that there are 1529 01:35:35.760 --> 01:35:39.319 here seven large trees, each with a hole in its 1530 01:35:39.359 --> 01:35:43.000 hollow trunk as large as a boy. These are the 1531 01:35:43.039 --> 01:35:46.119 seven entrances to the home under the ground for which 1532 01:35:46.159 --> 01:35:49.600 Hook has been searching in vain. These many moons will 1533 01:35:49.600 --> 01:35:53.600 he find it to night? As the pirates advanced, the 1534 01:35:53.680 --> 01:35:57.000 quick eye of Starkey sighted Nibs disappearing through the wood. 1535 01:35:57.439 --> 01:36:00.760 Had at once his pistol flashed out, but an iron 1536 01:36:00.840 --> 01:36:05.640 claw gripped his shoulder. Captain let go, he cried, writhing. 1537 01:36:06.760 --> 01:36:09.520 Now for the first time we hear the voice of Hook. 1538 01:36:10.159 --> 01:36:14.479 It was a black voice. Put back that pistol first, 1539 01:36:15.079 --> 01:36:19.079 it said, threateningly. It was one of those boys you hate. 1540 01:36:19.159 --> 01:36:23.199 I could have shot him dead, aye, and the sound 1541 01:36:23.199 --> 01:36:26.960 would have brought Tiger Lily's redskins upon us. Do you 1542 01:36:27.279 --> 01:36:32.840 want to lose your scalp? Shall I after him? Captain asked, 1543 01:36:32.880 --> 01:36:38.039 pathetic Smee, and tickle him with Johnny corkscrew. Smee had 1544 01:36:38.079 --> 01:36:42.279 pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was Johnny corkscrew 1545 01:36:42.600 --> 01:36:45.800 because he wiggled it in the wound. One could mention 1546 01:36:46.000 --> 01:36:50.239 many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing it 1547 01:36:50.359 --> 01:36:54.479 was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon. Johnny's 1548 01:36:54.479 --> 01:36:59.720 a silent fellow, he reminded Hook. Not now, Smee, Hook 1549 01:36:59.760 --> 01:37:03.159 said darkly, he is only one, and I want to 1550 01:37:03.199 --> 01:37:08.880 mischief all the seven scatter and look for them. The 1551 01:37:08.920 --> 01:37:12.239 pirates disappeared among the trees, and in a moment their 1552 01:37:12.279 --> 01:37:16.439 captain and Smee were alone. Hook heaved a heavy sigh. 1553 01:37:17.039 --> 01:37:19.800 And I know not why it was. Perhaps it was 1554 01:37:19.880 --> 01:37:23.279 because of the soft beauty of the evening. But there 1555 01:37:23.319 --> 01:37:26.399 came over him a desire to confide to his faithful 1556 01:37:26.439 --> 01:37:31.119 Bosun the story of his life. He spoke long and earnestly. 1557 01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:34.800 But what it was all about. Smee, who was rather stupid, 1558 01:37:35.279 --> 01:37:39.000 did not know. In the least anon he caught the 1559 01:37:39.039 --> 01:37:44.520 word Peter. Most of all, Hook was saying, passionately, I 1560 01:37:44.760 --> 01:37:48.760 want their captain Peter pan. Twas he cut off my arm, 1561 01:37:49.760 --> 01:37:53.600 he brandished the hook threateningly. I've waited long to shake 1562 01:37:53.640 --> 01:37:58.239 his hand with this. Oh I'll tear him. And yet, 1563 01:37:58.560 --> 01:38:01.159 said Smee, I have I've often heard you say that 1564 01:38:01.279 --> 01:38:04.560 hook was worth a score of hands for combing the 1565 01:38:04.600 --> 01:38:10.119 hair and other homely uses. Aye, the captain answered, if 1566 01:38:10.159 --> 01:38:12.520 I was a mother, I would pray to have my 1567 01:38:12.680 --> 01:38:16.600 children born with this instead of that. And he cast 1568 01:38:16.640 --> 01:38:19.640 a look of pride upon his iron hand, and one 1569 01:38:19.640 --> 01:38:24.159 of scorn upon the other. Then again he frowned. Peter 1570 01:38:24.399 --> 01:38:28.880 flung my arm, he said, wincing to a crocodile that 1571 01:38:29.000 --> 01:38:33.520 happened to be passing by. I have often, said, smee, 1572 01:38:34.119 --> 01:38:40.119 noticed your strange dread of crocodile's Not of crocodile's, Hook 1573 01:38:40.159 --> 01:38:46.800 corrected him. But of that one crocodile. He lowered his voice. 1574 01:38:47.279 --> 01:38:50.880 It liked my arm so much me that it has 1575 01:38:50.960 --> 01:38:54.840 followed me ever since, from sea to sea and from 1576 01:38:54.920 --> 01:38:58.640 land to land, licking its lips for the rest of me. 1577 01:39:00.359 --> 01:39:04.399 In a way, said smee. It's sort of a compliment. 1578 01:39:05.720 --> 01:39:10.600 I want no such compliments, Hook barked petulantly. I want 1579 01:39:10.600 --> 01:39:13.960 Peter Pan, who first gave the brute its taste for me. 1580 01:39:15.600 --> 01:39:18.560 He sat down on a large mushroom, and now there 1581 01:39:18.600 --> 01:39:22.840 was a quiver in his voice. Smee. He said, huskily, 1582 01:39:23.520 --> 01:39:27.239 that crocodile would have had me before this, but by 1583 01:39:27.319 --> 01:39:30.560 a lucky chance, it swallowed a clock which goes tick 1584 01:39:30.720 --> 01:39:34.079 tick inside it, and so before it can reach me, 1585 01:39:34.199 --> 01:39:38.760 I hear the tick and bolt, he laughed, but in 1586 01:39:38.840 --> 01:39:43.840 a hollow way. Some day, said smee. The clock will 1587 01:39:43.920 --> 01:39:47.920 run down and then he'll get you. Hook wetted his 1588 01:39:48.039 --> 01:39:54.239 dry lips. Aye, he said, that's the fear that haunts me, 1589 01:39:56.399 --> 01:40:01.640 since sitting down he had felt curiously warm. Smee, he said, 1590 01:40:02.399 --> 01:40:06.560 this seed is hot. He jumped up, odds Bob's hammer 1591 01:40:06.560 --> 01:40:10.920 and tongs, I'm burning. They examined the mushroom, which was 1592 01:40:10.960 --> 01:40:14.520 of a size and solidity unknown on the mainland. They 1593 01:40:14.560 --> 01:40:16.359 tried to pull it up, and it came away at 1594 01:40:16.359 --> 01:40:20.800 once in their hands, for it had no root. Strangers still, 1595 01:40:20.920 --> 01:40:24.600 smoke began at once to ascend. The pirates looked at 1596 01:40:24.640 --> 01:40:30.079 each other a chimney. They both exclaimed they had indeed 1597 01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:33.399 discovered the chimney of the home under the ground. It 1598 01:40:33.560 --> 01:40:35.560 was the custom of the boys to stop it with 1599 01:40:35.640 --> 01:40:39.520 a mushroom when enemies were in the neighborhood. Not only 1600 01:40:39.600 --> 01:40:43.239 smoke came out of it, there came also children's voices. 1601 01:40:43.800 --> 01:40:46.640 For so safe did the boys feel in their hiding place, 1602 01:40:46.680 --> 01:40:51.479 that they were gaily chattering. The pirates listened grimly, and 1603 01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:55.079 then replaced the mushroom. They looked around them and noted 1604 01:40:55.119 --> 01:40:59.399 the holes in the seven trees. Did you hear them say, 1605 01:40:59.439 --> 01:41:04.000 Peter pan from home? Smee whispered, fidgeting with Johnny corkscrew. 1606 01:41:05.239 --> 01:41:09.319 Hook nodded. He stood for a long time, lost in thought, 1607 01:41:09.880 --> 01:41:13.600 and at last a curdling smile lit up his swarthy face. 1608 01:41:14.479 --> 01:41:18.000 Smee have been waiting for it. Han, rip your plan, captain, 1609 01:41:18.399 --> 01:41:23.840 he cried, eagerly to return to the ship. Hook replied 1610 01:41:23.880 --> 01:41:28.279 slowly through his teeth, and cook a large, rich cake 1611 01:41:28.479 --> 01:41:32.279 of a jolly thickness with green sugar on it. There 1612 01:41:32.279 --> 01:41:35.119 can be but one room below, for there is but 1613 01:41:35.319 --> 01:41:38.840 one chimney. The silly moles had not the sense to 1614 01:41:38.880 --> 01:41:42.199 see that they did not need a door apiece. That 1615 01:41:42.319 --> 01:41:45.840 shows they have no mother. We will leave the cake 1616 01:41:45.920 --> 01:41:49.560 on the shore of the mermaid's lagoon. These boys are 1617 01:41:49.600 --> 01:41:53.359 always swimming about there, playing with the mermaids. They will 1618 01:41:53.399 --> 01:41:56.399 find the cake and they will gobble it up, because 1619 01:41:56.640 --> 01:42:00.199 having no mother, they don't know how dangerous it is 1620 01:42:00.199 --> 01:42:05.960 to eat rich damp cake. He burst into laughter, not 1621 01:42:06.119 --> 01:42:08.359 hollow laughter now, but honest laughter. 1622 01:42:08.800 --> 01:42:09.199 Ha ha ha. 1623 01:42:10.119 --> 01:42:15.880 They will die. Smee had listened with growing admiration. It's 1624 01:42:15.880 --> 01:42:19.760 the wickedest, prettiest policy ever I heard of he cried, 1625 01:42:20.239 --> 01:42:24.880 and in their exultation they danced and sang a vast belay. 1626 01:42:24.960 --> 01:42:28.960 When I appeared by fear there overtook roots left upon 1627 01:42:29.079 --> 01:42:33.199 your bones. When you have shaken claws will hook. They 1628 01:42:33.239 --> 01:42:36.439 began the verse, but they never finished it, for another 1629 01:42:36.560 --> 01:42:40.119 sound broke in and stilled them. There was at fort 1630 01:42:40.159 --> 01:42:42.880 such a tiny sound that a leaf might have fallen 1631 01:42:42.920 --> 01:42:45.880 on it and smothered it. But as it came nearer 1632 01:42:46.039 --> 01:42:47.119 it was more distinct. 1633 01:42:47.960 --> 01:42:51.000 Dick Dick, Dick, dick. 1634 01:42:52.199 --> 01:42:56.199 Hook stood shuddering, one foot in the air. The crocodile. 1635 01:42:56.720 --> 01:43:01.279 He gasped, and bounded away, followed by his bo'sun It 1636 01:43:01.359 --> 01:43:04.880 was indeed the crocodile. It had passed the Redskins, who 1637 01:43:04.880 --> 01:43:07.479 were now on the trail of the other pirates. It 1638 01:43:07.600 --> 01:43:12.319 oozed on after hook. Once more, the boys emerged into 1639 01:43:12.359 --> 01:43:14.880 the open, But the dangers of the night were not 1640 01:43:15.000 --> 01:43:18.640 yet over. For presently nibs rushed breathless into their midst 1641 01:43:19.000 --> 01:43:22.239 pursued by a pack of wolves. The tongues of the 1642 01:43:22.239 --> 01:43:25.680 pursuers were hanging out. The baying of them was horrible. 1643 01:43:26.520 --> 01:43:27.800 Save me, Save me. 1644 01:43:28.039 --> 01:43:31.600 Cried nibs, falling on the ground. But what can we do, 1645 01:43:31.960 --> 01:43:35.560 what can we do? It was a high compliment to 1646 01:43:35.640 --> 01:43:39.199 Peter that at that dire moment their thoughts turned to him. 1647 01:43:40.279 --> 01:43:44.720 What would Peter do, they cried simultaneously, almost in the 1648 01:43:44.760 --> 01:43:47.800 same breath. They cried, Peter would look at them through 1649 01:43:47.840 --> 01:43:51.520 his legs, and then let us do what Peter would do. 1650 01:43:52.720 --> 01:43:55.760 It is quite the most successful way of defying wolves. 1651 01:43:56.199 --> 01:43:59.239 And as one boy they'd bent and looked through their legs. 1652 01:43:59.680 --> 01:44:03.520 The next moment is the long one. But victory came quickly, 1653 01:44:03.680 --> 01:44:06.960 for as the boys advanced upon them in the terrible attitude, 1654 01:44:07.439 --> 01:44:12.640 the wolves dropped their tails and fled. Now Nibs rose 1655 01:44:12.680 --> 01:44:15.359 from the ground, and the others thought that his staring 1656 01:44:15.439 --> 01:44:18.960 eyes still saw the wolves. But it was not wolves 1657 01:44:18.960 --> 01:44:23.479 he saw. I have seen a wonderfuller thing, he cried, 1658 01:44:23.560 --> 01:44:27.199 as they gathered round him eagerly. A great white bird 1659 01:44:27.359 --> 01:44:30.840 it is flying this way. What kind of a bird 1660 01:44:30.840 --> 01:44:35.800 do you think? I don't know, Nibs said, awestruck. But 1661 01:44:35.880 --> 01:44:38.800 it looks so weary, and as it flies it moans, 1662 01:44:39.239 --> 01:44:46.880 poor Wendy, Poor Wendy, I remember, said slightly instantly. There 1663 01:44:46.880 --> 01:44:52.119 are birds called Wendy's. See it comes, cried curly. Pointing 1664 01:44:52.119 --> 01:44:56.079 to Wendy in the heavens. Wendy was now almost overhead, 1665 01:44:56.279 --> 01:44:59.760 and they could hear her plaintive cry. But more distinct 1666 01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:03.479 came the shrill voice of tinker Bell. The jealous fairy 1667 01:45:03.520 --> 01:45:06.880 had now cast off all diskies of friendship and was 1668 01:45:07.000 --> 01:45:10.960 darting at her victim from every direction, pinching savagely each 1669 01:45:11.039 --> 01:45:16.279 time she touched. Hello, Tink, cried the wondering boys. Tink's 1670 01:45:16.279 --> 01:45:19.399 reply rang out, Peter, want you to shoot the Wendy. 1671 01:45:20.479 --> 01:45:23.399 It was not in their nature to question when Peter ordered. 1672 01:45:24.119 --> 01:45:27.279 Let us do what Peter wishes, cried the simple boys. 1673 01:45:27.520 --> 01:45:32.199 Quick bows and arrows. All but Tootles popped down their trees. 1674 01:45:33.079 --> 01:45:35.680 He had a bow and arrow with him, and Tink 1675 01:45:35.760 --> 01:45:39.520 noted it and rubbed her little hands. Quick, Toodles, Quick, 1676 01:45:39.800 --> 01:45:44.800 she screamed, Peter will be so pleased. Toodles excitedly fitted 1677 01:45:44.840 --> 01:45:47.560 the arrow to his bow. Out of the way, Tink, 1678 01:45:48.000 --> 01:45:51.560 He shouted, and then he fired, and Wendy fluttered to 1679 01:45:51.600 --> 01:45:57.079 the ground with an arrow in her breast. End of chapter. 1680 01:45:58.479 --> 01:46:05.359 Chapter six, the little house foolish Tootles was standing like 1681 01:46:05.399 --> 01:46:08.479 a conqueror over Wendy's body when the other boys sprang 1682 01:46:08.640 --> 01:46:12.520 armed from their trees. You are too late, he cried proudly. 1683 01:46:12.600 --> 01:46:15.560 I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased 1684 01:46:15.560 --> 01:46:19.760 with me. Overhead, tinker Bell shouted, silly ass and darted 1685 01:46:19.760 --> 01:46:23.159 into hiding. The others did not hear her. They crowded 1686 01:46:23.239 --> 01:46:25.680 round Wendy, and as they looked, a terrible silence fell 1687 01:46:25.760 --> 01:46:29.239 upon the wood. If Wendy's heart had been beating, they 1688 01:46:29.239 --> 01:46:32.680 would have all heard it. Slightly was the first to speak. 1689 01:46:33.760 --> 01:46:36.800 This is no bird, he said, in a scared voice. 1690 01:46:37.560 --> 01:46:42.640 I think this must be a lady. A lady, said Tootles, 1691 01:46:42.760 --> 01:46:46.560 and fell a trembling. And we have killed her, Nibs 1692 01:46:46.560 --> 01:46:51.720 said hoarsely. They all whipped off their caps. Now I see, curly, 1693 01:46:51.800 --> 01:46:54.920 said Peter was bringing her to us. He threw himself 1694 01:46:55.000 --> 01:46:57.560 sorrowfully on the ground. A lady to take care of 1695 01:46:57.640 --> 01:46:59.359 us at last, said one of the twins, And you 1696 01:46:59.439 --> 01:47:03.239 have killed her. They were sorry for him, but sorry 1697 01:47:03.359 --> 01:47:06.359 for themselves, and when he took a step nearer they 1698 01:47:06.399 --> 01:47:10.680 turned from him. Tootle's face was very white, but there 1699 01:47:10.720 --> 01:47:13.119 was a dignity about him now that there never had 1700 01:47:13.159 --> 01:47:17.840 been before. I did it, he said, reflecting when ladies 1701 01:47:17.960 --> 01:47:19.800 used to come to me in dreams, I always said, 1702 01:47:19.960 --> 01:47:23.600 pretty mother, Pretty mother. But when at last she really came, 1703 01:47:24.479 --> 01:47:29.000 I shot her. He moved slowly away. It don't go, 1704 01:47:29.680 --> 01:47:32.760 they called, in pity. I must, he answered, shaking, I 1705 01:47:32.840 --> 01:47:36.680 am so afraid of Peter. It was at this tragic 1706 01:47:36.760 --> 01:47:38.840 moment that they heard a sound which made the heart 1707 01:47:38.880 --> 01:47:40.880 of every one of them rise to his mouth. They 1708 01:47:40.880 --> 01:47:44.720 heard Peter, Crow, Peter, they cried, for it was always 1709 01:47:44.760 --> 01:47:46.079 thus that he signaled his return. 1710 01:47:46.159 --> 01:47:46.600 Hide her. 1711 01:47:46.800 --> 01:47:50.760 They whispered and gathered hastily around Wendy, but Tootles stood 1712 01:47:50.760 --> 01:47:54.880 aloof Again there came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped 1713 01:47:54.920 --> 01:47:58.119 in front of them. Greetings, boys, he cried, and mechanically 1714 01:47:58.119 --> 01:48:01.479 they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. I 1715 01:48:01.520 --> 01:48:04.560 am back, he said, hotly. Why do you not cheer? 1716 01:48:06.000 --> 01:48:08.039 They opened their mouths, but the cheers would not come. 1717 01:48:08.880 --> 01:48:11.159 He overlooked it in his haste to tell the glorious tidings. 1718 01:48:11.319 --> 01:48:13.560 Great news, boys, he cried, I have brought at last 1719 01:48:13.600 --> 01:48:17.159 a mother for you all. Still no sound except a 1720 01:48:17.199 --> 01:48:19.279 little thud from Toodles as he dropped. 1721 01:48:18.960 --> 01:48:19.560 On his knees. 1722 01:48:20.600 --> 01:48:23.479 Have you not seen her? Asked Peter, becoming troubled. She 1723 01:48:23.560 --> 01:48:27.920 flew this way, ah me, one voice said, Another said, 1724 01:48:27.920 --> 01:48:34.680 oh mournful day. Toodles rose Peter, he said quietly, I 1725 01:48:34.720 --> 01:48:37.279 will show her to you. And when the others would 1726 01:48:37.319 --> 01:48:39.840 still have hidden her, he said, back, twins, let Peter see. 1727 01:48:41.399 --> 01:48:43.159 So they all stood back and let him see. And 1728 01:48:43.279 --> 01:48:45.119 after he had looked for a little time, he did 1729 01:48:45.119 --> 01:48:50.760 not know what to do next. She is dead, he said, uncomfortably, 1730 01:48:50.880 --> 01:48:55.600 and perhaps she is frightened at being dead. He thought 1731 01:48:55.600 --> 01:48:57.479 of hopping off in a comic sort of way till 1732 01:48:57.520 --> 01:48:58.840 he was out of sight of her, and then never 1733 01:48:58.880 --> 01:49:00.520 going near the spot any more. They all would have 1734 01:49:00.520 --> 01:49:02.119 been glad to follow him if he had done this. 1735 01:49:02.840 --> 01:49:05.640 But there was the arrow. He took it from her 1736 01:49:05.640 --> 01:49:12.079 heart and faced his band. Whose arrow he demanded, sternly, lying, 1737 01:49:12.159 --> 01:49:17.399 Peter said, Tootles on his knees. Oh dastard hand, Peter said, 1738 01:49:18.119 --> 01:49:20.039 and he raised the arrow to use it as a dagger. 1739 01:49:21.319 --> 01:49:24.760 Toodles did not flinch. He bared his breast. Strike, Peter, 1740 01:49:25.359 --> 01:49:31.199 he said, firmly. Strike true. Twice did Peter raise the arrow, 1741 01:49:31.199 --> 01:49:36.199 and twice did his hand fall. I cannot strike, he said, 1742 01:49:36.239 --> 01:49:41.520 with Awe, there is something which stays my hand. All 1743 01:49:41.560 --> 01:49:44.119 looked at him in wonder, save Nibs, who fortunately looked 1744 01:49:44.159 --> 01:49:47.279 at Wendy. It is she, he cried, the Wendy lady. 1745 01:49:47.279 --> 01:49:51.800 See her arm, wonderful to relate. Wendy had raised her arm. 1746 01:49:53.000 --> 01:49:57.159 Nibs bent over her and listened reverently. I think she said, 1747 01:49:57.560 --> 01:50:04.319 poor tootles. He whispered, she lives, Peter said, briefly, slightly 1748 01:50:04.359 --> 01:50:05.600 cried instantly. 1749 01:50:05.239 --> 01:50:06.399 The Wendy lady lives. 1750 01:50:07.439 --> 01:50:10.000 Then Peter knelt beside her and found his button. You 1751 01:50:10.039 --> 01:50:11.640 remember she had placed it on the chain that she 1752 01:50:11.680 --> 01:50:16.600 wore around her neck. See, he said, the arrow struck 1753 01:50:16.640 --> 01:50:19.079 against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It 1754 01:50:19.079 --> 01:50:23.680 has saved her life. I remember kisses slightly interposed. Quickly, 1755 01:50:23.760 --> 01:50:27.119 let me see it, Aye, there's a kiss. Peter did 1756 01:50:27.119 --> 01:50:29.479 not hear him. He was begging Wendy to get better 1757 01:50:29.560 --> 01:50:32.119 quickly so that he could show her the mermaids. Of course, 1758 01:50:32.119 --> 01:50:34.279 she could not answer yet, being still in a frightful faint. 1759 01:50:34.319 --> 01:50:38.119 But from overhead came a wailing note. Listen to Tink 1760 01:50:38.600 --> 01:50:43.760 said curly, she is crying because the Wendy lives. Then 1761 01:50:43.800 --> 01:50:46.680 they had to tell Peter of Tink's crime, and almost 1762 01:50:46.760 --> 01:50:50.119 never had they seen him look so stern. Listen, tinker Bell, 1763 01:50:50.520 --> 01:50:53.279 he cried, I am your friend, no more be gone 1764 01:50:53.359 --> 01:50:57.600 from me forever. She flew on to his shoulder and pleaded, 1765 01:50:57.640 --> 01:51:00.439 but he brushed her off. Not until Wendy raised her 1766 01:51:00.560 --> 01:51:03.079 arm did he relent sufficiently to say, well, not forever, 1767 01:51:03.159 --> 01:51:06.520 but for a whole week. Do you think the tinker 1768 01:51:06.520 --> 01:51:09.239 Bell was grateful to Wendy for raising her arm? Oh, dear, No, 1769 01:51:09.439 --> 01:51:13.760 never wanted to pinch her so much. Fairies are indeed strange, 1770 01:51:13.840 --> 01:51:18.119 and Peter, who understood them best, often cuffed them. But 1771 01:51:18.159 --> 01:51:21.000 what to do with Wendy in her present delicate state 1772 01:51:21.039 --> 01:51:24.640 of health? Let us carry her into the house, curly, suggested, 1773 01:51:25.000 --> 01:51:28.279 I said, slightly. That is what one does with ladies. No, no, 1774 01:51:28.399 --> 01:51:30.439 Peter said, you must not touch her. It would not 1775 01:51:30.520 --> 01:51:34.439 be sufficiently respectful. That said, slightly is what I was thinking. 1776 01:51:34.600 --> 01:51:37.000 But if she lies there, Tootles said, she will die. Ay, 1777 01:51:37.119 --> 01:51:40.159 she will die, slightly admitted. But there is no way out. Yes, 1778 01:51:40.279 --> 01:51:42.840 there is, cried Peter. Let us build a little house 1779 01:51:42.880 --> 01:51:46.199 round her. They were all delighted. Quick he ordered them, 1780 01:51:46.279 --> 01:51:47.760 bring me, each of you the best of what we 1781 01:51:47.840 --> 01:51:51.800 have got out the house be sharp. In a moment, 1782 01:51:51.800 --> 01:51:53.760 they were as busy as Taylor's the night before a wedding. 1783 01:51:53.840 --> 01:51:55.760 They scurried this way and that down for betting, up 1784 01:51:55.760 --> 01:51:57.239 for firewood. And while they were at it, who should 1785 01:51:57.239 --> 01:52:00.239 appear but John and Michael. As they dragged up along 1786 01:52:00.239 --> 01:52:03.199 the ground, they fell asleep, standing, stopped, woke up, moved 1787 01:52:03.199 --> 01:52:08.000 another feet and slept again. John John Michael would cry, 1788 01:52:08.000 --> 01:52:11.239 wake up, where is Nana? John and mother? And then 1789 01:52:11.319 --> 01:52:13.760 John would rub his eyes and mutter, it is true 1790 01:52:14.279 --> 01:52:17.399 we did fly, you may be sure. They were very 1791 01:52:17.399 --> 01:52:21.800 relieved to find Peter. Hello, Peter, they said, Hello, replied 1792 01:52:21.800 --> 01:52:24.600 Peter amicably, though he had quite forgotten them. He was 1793 01:52:24.680 --> 01:52:26.920 very busy at the moment, measuring Wendy with his feet 1794 01:52:26.960 --> 01:52:28.800 to see how large a house she would need. Of course, 1795 01:52:28.840 --> 01:52:30.680 he meant to leave room for chairs and a table. 1796 01:52:31.359 --> 01:52:35.079 John and Michael watched him. Is Wendy asleep? They asked? 1797 01:52:35.520 --> 01:52:35.760 Yes. 1798 01:52:36.760 --> 01:52:39.079 John Michael proposed let us wake her and get her 1799 01:52:39.079 --> 01:52:41.439 to make supper for us. But as he said, at 1800 01:52:41.479 --> 01:52:43.399 some of the other boys rushed on carrying branches for 1801 01:52:43.439 --> 01:52:47.279 building the house. Look at them, he cried curly, said 1802 01:52:47.319 --> 01:52:50.159 Peter in his most captainly voice. See that these boys 1803 01:52:50.159 --> 01:52:52.560 help in the building of the house. Aye aye, sir, 1804 01:52:53.199 --> 01:52:56.479 build a house, exclaimed John. For the Wendy said Curly. 1805 01:52:57.079 --> 01:53:00.600 For Wendy, John said, aghast why she is only a girl? 1806 01:53:01.520 --> 01:53:06.399 That explained Curly, is why we are her servants. You 1807 01:53:07.079 --> 01:53:13.199 Wendy's servants, yes, said Peter, And you also away with them. 1808 01:53:14.239 --> 01:53:16.840 The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hue 1809 01:53:16.880 --> 01:53:20.840 and carry chairs and defender. First, Peter wrotered, then we 1810 01:53:20.840 --> 01:53:23.560 should build a house around them, I said, slightly. That 1811 01:53:23.680 --> 01:53:25.319 is how a house is built. It all comes back 1812 01:53:25.359 --> 01:53:29.520 to me. Peter thought of everything slightly. He cried, fetch 1813 01:53:29.520 --> 01:53:32.920 a doctor, aye, aye, said slightly at once, then disappeared, 1814 01:53:32.920 --> 01:53:36.399 scratching his head. But as he knew Peter must be obeyed, 1815 01:53:37.239 --> 01:53:41.520 he returned in a moment, wearing John's hat and looking solemn. Please, sir, 1816 01:53:41.760 --> 01:53:46.000 said Peter, going to him, Are you a doctor? The 1817 01:53:46.039 --> 01:53:47.960 difference between him and the other boys at such a 1818 01:53:47.960 --> 01:53:49.840 time was that they knew it was make believe, while 1819 01:53:49.880 --> 01:53:52.159 to him, make believe and true were exactly the same thing. 1820 01:53:52.600 --> 01:53:54.560 This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make 1821 01:53:54.600 --> 01:53:57.680 believe that they had their dinners. If they broke down, 1822 01:53:57.680 --> 01:54:01.359 and they make believe he wrapped them on the knuckles. Yes, 1823 01:54:01.560 --> 01:54:07.279 my little man, Slightly anxiously replied, who had chapped knuckles? Please, Sir, 1824 01:54:07.600 --> 01:54:11.279 Peter explained, A lady lies very ill. She was lying 1825 01:54:11.279 --> 01:54:12.880 at their feet. But Slightly had the sense not to 1826 01:54:12.880 --> 01:54:17.119 see her look. He said, where does she lie? In 1827 01:54:17.279 --> 01:54:20.720 yonder glade? I will put a glass thing in her mouth, 1828 01:54:20.920 --> 01:54:23.039 said Slightly, and he made believe to do it while 1829 01:54:23.039 --> 01:54:25.840 Peter waited. It was an anxious moment. When the glass 1830 01:54:25.840 --> 01:54:32.319 thing was withdrawn, How is she inquired? Peter un said slightly. 1831 01:54:32.359 --> 01:54:36.239 This has cured her. I am glad, said Peter. I 1832 01:54:36.279 --> 01:54:39.000 will call again in the evening. Slightly said give her 1833 01:54:39.000 --> 01:54:40.920 beef tea out of a cup with a spout to it. 1834 01:54:41.520 --> 01:54:43.239 But after he had returned the hat to John, he 1835 01:54:43.279 --> 01:54:46.319 blew big breaths, which was his habit on escaping from 1836 01:54:46.359 --> 01:54:50.840 a difficulty. In the meantime, the wood had been alive 1837 01:54:50.920 --> 01:54:53.640 with the sound of axes. Almost everything needed for a 1838 01:54:53.640 --> 01:54:57.720 cozy dwelling already lay at Wendy's feet. If we only knew, 1839 01:54:57.920 --> 01:55:02.039 said one, the kind of house she likes, bas Peter shouted, another, 1840 01:55:02.199 --> 01:55:05.079 she is moving in her sleep. Her mouth opens, cried 1841 01:55:05.079 --> 01:55:09.680 a third, looking respectfully into it. Oh, lovely, Perhaps she's 1842 01:55:09.720 --> 01:55:13.359 going to sing in her sleep, said Peter. Wendy sing 1843 01:55:13.399 --> 01:55:16.479 the kind of house you would like to have. Immediately, 1844 01:55:16.520 --> 01:55:20.239 without opening her eyes, Wendy began to sing, I wish 1845 01:55:20.239 --> 01:55:23.680 I had a pretty house, the littlest ever seen, with 1846 01:55:23.840 --> 01:55:27.359 funny little red head walls and roof of mossy green. 1847 01:55:28.920 --> 01:55:31.079 They gurgled with joy at this, for by the greatest 1848 01:55:31.119 --> 01:55:33.159 good luck, the branches they had brought were sticky with 1849 01:55:33.199 --> 01:55:35.560 red sap, and all the ground was carpeted with moss. 1850 01:55:36.439 --> 01:55:38.199 As they rattled up the little house, they broke into 1851 01:55:38.279 --> 01:55:41.279 song themselves. We've built the little walls in ruth and 1852 01:55:41.359 --> 01:55:45.039 made a lovely door. So tell us, mother, Wendy, what 1853 01:55:45.159 --> 01:55:50.079 are you wanting more to this? She answered greedily, Oh really, Next, 1854 01:55:50.119 --> 01:55:53.279 I think I'll have gay windows all about, with roses 1855 01:55:53.319 --> 01:55:56.319 peeping in, you know, and babies peeping out. With a 1856 01:55:56.319 --> 01:55:58.199 blow of their fist, they made windows and large yellow 1857 01:55:58.279 --> 01:56:02.399 leaves with the blinds. But roses, roses, cried Peter sternly. 1858 01:56:03.239 --> 01:56:05.520 Quickly they made believe to grow the loveliest roses up 1859 01:56:05.560 --> 01:56:10.159 the walls babies. To prevent Peter ordering babies, they hurried 1860 01:56:10.159 --> 01:56:12.279 into song again. We've made the roses peeping out. The 1861 01:56:12.319 --> 01:56:14.960 babes are at the door. We cannot make ourselves, you know, 1862 01:56:15.079 --> 01:56:19.039 cause we've been made before. Peter, seeing this to be 1863 01:56:19.079 --> 01:56:21.239 a good idea, at once, pretended that it was his own. 1864 01:56:21.760 --> 01:56:24.199 The house was quite beautiful, and no doubt Wendy was 1865 01:56:24.319 --> 01:56:26.199 very cozy within, though of course they could no longer 1866 01:56:26.239 --> 01:56:29.479 see her. Peter strode up and down, ordering finishing touches. 1867 01:56:29.600 --> 01:56:33.399 Nothing escaped his eagle eyes. Just when it seemed absolutely finished, 1868 01:56:33.800 --> 01:56:36.560 there's no knocker on the door, he said. They were 1869 01:56:36.680 --> 01:56:38.960 very ashamed, but Tootles gave the sole of his shoe 1870 01:56:38.960 --> 01:56:42.640 and it made an excellent knocker. Absolutely finished now, they thought, 1871 01:56:43.079 --> 01:56:45.840 not a bit of it. There's no chimney, said Peter. 1872 01:56:46.079 --> 01:56:49.359 We must have a chimney. It certainly does need a chimney, 1873 01:56:49.399 --> 01:56:53.720 said John. Importantly, that gave Peter an idea. He snatched 1874 01:56:53.720 --> 01:56:56.199 the hat off John's head, knocked out the bottom, and 1875 01:56:56.239 --> 01:56:58.760 put the hat on the roof the little house. Was 1876 01:56:58.800 --> 01:57:00.840 so pleased to have such a cap, Jimmy, that, as 1877 01:57:00.840 --> 01:57:03.039 if to say thank you, smoke immediately began to come 1878 01:57:03.039 --> 01:57:05.720 out of the hat. Now, really and truly it was finished. 1879 01:57:06.000 --> 01:57:08.880 Nothing remained to do but to knock. All look your best, 1880 01:57:08.920 --> 01:57:12.159 Peter warned them. First impressions are awfully important. He was 1881 01:57:12.199 --> 01:57:14.239 glad no one asked him what first impressions are? They 1882 01:57:14.239 --> 01:57:17.399 were all too busy looking their best. He knocked politely, 1883 01:57:17.479 --> 01:57:19.720 and now the wood was as still as the children. 1884 01:57:20.159 --> 01:57:22.159 Not a sound to be heard, except from tinker Bell, 1885 01:57:22.199 --> 01:57:25.920 who was watching from a branch and openly sneering. What 1886 01:57:25.920 --> 01:57:28.800 the boys was wondering was would anyone answer the knock 1887 01:57:29.279 --> 01:57:32.279 If a lady, what would she be like? The door 1888 01:57:32.319 --> 01:57:35.560 opened and the lady came out. It was Wendy. They 1889 01:57:35.560 --> 01:57:38.880 all whipped off their hats. She looked properly surprised, and 1890 01:57:38.920 --> 01:57:40.279 this was just how they had hoped she would. 1891 01:57:40.319 --> 01:57:41.399 Look Where am I? 1892 01:57:41.640 --> 01:57:42.079 She said? 1893 01:57:42.560 --> 01:57:45.239 Of course slightly. Was the first to get his word in. Wendy, lady, 1894 01:57:45.279 --> 01:57:47.199 He said rapidly, for you weave with this house. Oh 1895 01:57:47.239 --> 01:57:51.319 say you're pleased, cried Nibs. Lovely darling house, Wendy said, 1896 01:57:51.479 --> 01:57:53.039 And they were the very words they had hoped she 1897 01:57:53.079 --> 01:57:55.640 would say. And we are your children, cried the twins. 1898 01:57:56.039 --> 01:57:59.279 They all went on their knees and holding out their arms, cried, Oh, Wendy, lady, 1899 01:57:59.399 --> 01:58:04.000 be our muff ought I, Wendy said, all shining. Of course, 1900 01:58:04.000 --> 01:58:06.760 it's frightfully fascinating. But you see, I'm only a little girl. 1901 01:58:06.800 --> 01:58:10.000 I have no real experience. That doesn't matter, said Peter, 1902 01:58:10.359 --> 01:58:12.640 as if he were the only person present who knew 1903 01:58:12.640 --> 01:58:14.079 at all about it, though he was really the one 1904 01:58:14.119 --> 01:58:16.439 who knew least. What we need is just a nice 1905 01:58:16.600 --> 01:58:20.159 motherly person. Oh, dear Wendy said, you see, I feel 1906 01:58:20.159 --> 01:58:22.640 that is exactly what I am. It is, it is, 1907 01:58:22.640 --> 01:58:25.000 they all cried, we saw it at once, very well, 1908 01:58:25.279 --> 01:58:28.000 she said, I will do my best. Come inside at once. 1909 01:58:28.039 --> 01:58:29.920 You not eat, children. I am sure your feet are damp. 1910 01:58:29.960 --> 01:58:31.760 And before I put you to bed, I have just 1911 01:58:31.840 --> 01:58:35.279 time to finish the story of Cinderella. In they went. 1912 01:58:35.560 --> 01:58:37.039 I don't know how there was room for them, but 1913 01:58:37.079 --> 01:58:40.000 you can squeeze very tight in Neverland. And that was 1914 01:58:40.039 --> 01:58:42.880 the first of the many joyous evenings they had with Wendy. 1915 01:58:44.000 --> 01:58:45.560 By and by she tucked them up in the great 1916 01:58:45.560 --> 01:58:47.880 bed in the home under the trees, but she herself 1917 01:58:47.880 --> 01:58:50.159 slept that night in the little house, and Peter kept 1918 01:58:50.199 --> 01:58:52.239 watch outside with drawn sword, for the pirates could be 1919 01:58:52.319 --> 01:58:54.760 heard carousing far away, and the wolves were on the prowl. 1920 01:58:55.359 --> 01:58:58.000 The little house looked so cozy and safe in the darkness, 1921 01:58:58.479 --> 01:59:00.359 with a bright light showing through its blow, and the 1922 01:59:00.439 --> 01:59:04.279 chimneys smoking beautifully, and Peter standing on guard. After a 1923 01:59:04.319 --> 01:59:07.079 time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to 1924 01:59:07.119 --> 01:59:09.640 climb over him on their way home from an orgy. 1925 01:59:09.800 --> 01:59:12.079 Any of the other boys obstructing the ferry path at night, 1926 01:59:12.159 --> 01:59:14.880 they would have mischief, but they just tweaked Peter's nose 1927 01:59:15.159 --> 01:59:15.640 and passed. 1928 01:59:15.640 --> 01:59:23.319 On Chapter seven, The Home under the Ground. One of 1929 01:59:23.399 --> 01:59:27.159 the first things Peter did next day was to measure 1930 01:59:27.239 --> 01:59:31.800 Wendy and John and Michael for hollow trees. Hook You 1931 01:59:31.880 --> 01:59:36.079 remember had sneered at the boys for thinking they needed 1932 01:59:36.119 --> 01:59:40.720 a tree apiece, but this was ignorance, for unless your 1933 01:59:40.760 --> 01:59:44.159 tree fitted you, it was difficult to go up and down, 1934 01:59:44.600 --> 01:59:48.000 and no two of the boys were quite the same size. 1935 01:59:48.680 --> 01:59:51.800 Once you fitted, you drew in your breath at the top, 1936 01:59:51.960 --> 01:59:55.439 and down you went at exactly the right speed, while 1937 01:59:55.479 --> 01:59:58.960 to ascend you drew in and let out alternately, and 1938 01:59:59.039 --> 02:00:03.159 so wriggled up. Of course, when you have mastered the action. 1939 02:00:03.720 --> 02:00:06.520 You are able to do these things without thinking of them, 1940 02:00:06.920 --> 02:00:11.840 and nothing can be more graceful. But you simply must fit, 1941 02:00:12.600 --> 02:00:16.039 and Peter measures you for your tree as carefully as 1942 02:00:16.079 --> 02:00:19.479 for a suit of clothes, the only difference being that 1943 02:00:19.560 --> 02:00:23.079 the clothes are made to fit you, while you have 1944 02:00:23.159 --> 02:00:26.560 to be made to fit the tree. Usually it is 1945 02:00:26.640 --> 02:00:30.880 done quite easily, as by your wearing too many garments 1946 02:00:31.000 --> 02:00:35.239 or too few. But if you are bumpy in awkward places, 1947 02:00:35.640 --> 02:00:39.359 or the only available tree is an odd shape, Peter 1948 02:00:39.560 --> 02:00:43.840 does some things to you, and after that you fit. 1949 02:00:44.800 --> 02:00:47.960 Once you fit, great care must be taken to go 1950 02:00:48.039 --> 02:00:51.800 on fitting, and this, as Wendy was to discover to 1951 02:00:51.840 --> 02:00:57.680 her delight, keeps a whole family in perfect condition. Wendy 1952 02:00:57.720 --> 02:01:01.560 and Michael fitted their trees at the first try, but 1953 02:01:01.680 --> 02:01:05.520 John had to be altered a little. After a few 1954 02:01:05.640 --> 02:01:09.159 days practice, they could go up and down as gaily 1955 02:01:09.279 --> 02:01:13.359 as buckets in a well, and how ardently they grew 1956 02:01:13.479 --> 02:01:17.920 to love their home under the ground, especially Wendy. It 1957 02:01:18.079 --> 02:01:21.640 consisted of one large room, as all houses should do, 1958 02:01:22.279 --> 02:01:24.800 with a floor in which you could dig if you 1959 02:01:24.880 --> 02:01:28.520 wanted to go fishing, and in this floor grew stout 1960 02:01:28.640 --> 02:01:32.720 mushrooms of a charming color, which were used as stools. 1961 02:01:33.479 --> 02:01:37.039 A never tree tried hard to grow in the center 1962 02:01:37.119 --> 02:01:40.399 of the room, but every morning they sawed the trunk 1963 02:01:40.479 --> 02:01:44.119 through level with the floor. By tea time, it was 1964 02:01:44.159 --> 02:01:47.520 always about two feet high, and then they put a 1965 02:01:47.600 --> 02:01:51.039 door on top of it, the hole thus becoming a table. 1966 02:01:51.720 --> 02:01:54.880 As soon as they cleared away, they sawed off the 1967 02:01:54.880 --> 02:01:58.760 trunk again, and thus there was more room to play. 1968 02:01:59.039 --> 02:02:02.640 There was an enose rmous fireplace, which was in almost 1969 02:02:02.680 --> 02:02:05.119 any part of the room where you cared to light it, 1970 02:02:05.600 --> 02:02:10.000 and across this Wendy stretched strings made of fiber, from 1971 02:02:10.039 --> 02:02:14.359 which she suspended her washing. The bed was tilted against 1972 02:02:14.439 --> 02:02:17.479 the wall by day and let down at six thirty, 1973 02:02:17.600 --> 02:02:21.199 when it filled nearly half the room, and all the 1974 02:02:21.239 --> 02:02:25.399 boys slept in it except Michael, lying like sardines in 1975 02:02:25.479 --> 02:02:29.520 a tin. There was a strict rule against turning round 1976 02:02:29.720 --> 02:02:32.760 until one gave the signal when all turned at once. 1977 02:02:34.119 --> 02:02:38.800 Michael should have used it also, but Wendy would have 1978 02:02:39.119 --> 02:02:44.279 a baby, and he was the littlest, and you know 1979 02:02:44.359 --> 02:02:48.640 what women are. And the short and long of it 1980 02:02:48.680 --> 02:02:52.920 is that he was hung up in a basket. It 1981 02:02:53.039 --> 02:02:57.199 was rough and simple, and not unlike what baby bears 1982 02:02:57.239 --> 02:03:00.800 would have made of an underground house in the same circumstances. 1983 02:03:01.520 --> 02:03:05.239 But there was one recess in the wall, no larger 1984 02:03:05.279 --> 02:03:09.520 than a birdcage, which was the private apartment of tinker Bell. 1985 02:03:10.439 --> 02:03:12.439 It could be shut off from the rest of the 1986 02:03:12.479 --> 02:03:17.119 house by a tiny curtain, which Tink, who was most fastidious, 1987 02:03:17.479 --> 02:03:23.399 always kept drawn when dressing or undressing. No woman, however large, 1988 02:03:23.560 --> 02:03:28.199 could have had a more exquisite boudoir and bedchamber combined. 1989 02:03:29.199 --> 02:03:32.680 The couch, as she always called it, was a genuine 1990 02:03:32.840 --> 02:03:37.000 queen mab with club legs, and she varied the bedspreads 1991 02:03:37.039 --> 02:03:41.279 according to what fruit blossom was in season. Her mirror 1992 02:03:41.720 --> 02:03:44.359 was a puss in boots, of which there are now 1993 02:03:44.479 --> 02:03:50.119 only three unchipped known to fairy dealers. The washstand was 1994 02:03:50.199 --> 02:03:54.760 pie crust and reversible, the chest of drawers and authentic 1995 02:03:55.000 --> 02:03:58.920 charming the sixth and the carpet and rugs the best. 1996 02:03:59.439 --> 02:04:03.920 The early period of Marjorie and Robin, there was a 1997 02:04:04.039 --> 02:04:07.159 chandelier from Tiddley Winks for the look of the thing, 1998 02:04:07.520 --> 02:04:11.760 but of course she lit the residence herself. Tink was 1999 02:04:12.079 --> 02:04:15.800 very contemptuous of the rest of the house, as indeed 2000 02:04:15.960 --> 02:04:21.920 was perhaps inevitable, and her chamber, though beautiful, looked rather conceited, 2001 02:04:22.439 --> 02:04:28.159 having the appearance of a nose permanently turned up. I 2002 02:04:28.239 --> 02:04:33.159 suppose it was all especially entrancing to Wendy because those 2003 02:04:33.319 --> 02:04:38.239 rampageous boys of hers gave her so much to do. Really, 2004 02:04:38.720 --> 02:04:42.279 there were whole weeks when, except perhaps with a stocking 2005 02:04:42.399 --> 02:04:46.800 in the evening, she was never above ground. The cooking, 2006 02:04:47.000 --> 02:04:50.239 I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, 2007 02:04:50.600 --> 02:04:54.600 and even if there was nothing in it, even if 2008 02:04:54.640 --> 02:04:58.119 there was no pot, she had to keep watching that 2009 02:04:58.239 --> 02:05:02.439 it came a boil just the same. You never exactly 2010 02:05:02.560 --> 02:05:05.640 knew whether there would be a real meal or just 2011 02:05:05.680 --> 02:05:10.079 a make believe. It all depended upon Peter's whim. He 2012 02:05:10.159 --> 02:05:13.840 could eat, really eat if it was part of a game, 2013 02:05:14.479 --> 02:05:18.319 but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy, which 2014 02:05:18.359 --> 02:05:21.560 is what most children like better than anything else. The 2015 02:05:21.600 --> 02:05:25.479 next best thing being to talk about it. Make believe 2016 02:05:25.760 --> 02:05:28.960 was so real to him that during a meal of it, 2017 02:05:29.319 --> 02:05:32.840 you could see him getting round her. Of course it 2018 02:05:33.239 --> 02:05:37.159 was trying, but you simply had to follow his lead. 2019 02:05:37.640 --> 02:05:39.680 And if you could prove to him that you were 2020 02:05:39.680 --> 02:05:44.960 getting loose for your tree, he let you stodge. Wendy's 2021 02:05:45.000 --> 02:05:48.640 favorite time for sewing and darning was after they had 2022 02:05:48.680 --> 02:05:52.920 all gone to bed. Then, as she expressed it, she 2023 02:05:53.079 --> 02:05:56.760 had a breathing time for herself, and she occupied it 2024 02:05:56.920 --> 02:05:59.880 in making new things for them and putting double p 2025 02:06:00.000 --> 02:06:03.439 pieces on the knees, for they were all most frightfully 2026 02:06:03.479 --> 02:06:07.840 hard on their knees. When she sat down to a 2027 02:06:07.920 --> 02:06:12.199 basketful of their stockings, every heel with a hole in it, 2028 02:06:12.680 --> 02:06:16.840 she would fling up her arms and exclaim, oh, dear, 2029 02:06:17.199 --> 02:06:21.239 I am sure I sometimes think spinsters are to be envied. 2030 02:06:22.800 --> 02:06:28.600 Her face beamed when she exclaimed this. You remember about 2031 02:06:28.640 --> 02:06:32.600 her pet wolf, Well, it very soon discovered that she 2032 02:06:32.720 --> 02:06:35.960 had come to the island, and it found her out, 2033 02:06:36.319 --> 02:06:40.600 and they just ran into each other's arms. After that, 2034 02:06:41.159 --> 02:06:47.239 it followed her about everywhere as time wore on. Did 2035 02:06:47.279 --> 02:06:50.720 she think much about the beloved parents she had left 2036 02:06:50.760 --> 02:06:55.640 behind her? This is a difficult question, because it is 2037 02:06:55.800 --> 02:06:59.439 quite impossible to say how time does wear on in 2038 02:06:59.479 --> 02:07:03.800 the Neverland and where it is calculated by moons and suns, 2039 02:07:04.359 --> 02:07:07.119 and there are ever so many more of them than 2040 02:07:07.159 --> 02:07:11.720 on the mainland. But I am afraid that Wendy did 2041 02:07:11.760 --> 02:07:15.520 not really worry about her father and mother. She was 2042 02:07:15.600 --> 02:07:20.199 absolutely confident that they would always keep the window open 2043 02:07:20.520 --> 02:07:23.520 for her to fly back by, and this gave her 2044 02:07:23.640 --> 02:07:28.800 complete ease of mind. What did disturb her at times 2045 02:07:29.239 --> 02:07:33.399 was that John remembered his parents vaguely, only as people 2046 02:07:33.479 --> 02:07:37.239 he had once known, while Michael was quite willing to 2047 02:07:37.279 --> 02:07:41.960 believe that she was really his mother. These things scared 2048 02:07:42.000 --> 02:07:45.640 her a little, and nobly anxious to do her duty, 2049 02:07:46.119 --> 02:07:48.880 she tried to fix the old life in their minds 2050 02:07:48.960 --> 02:07:52.359 by setting them examination papers on it, as like as 2051 02:07:52.399 --> 02:07:55.439 possible to the ones she used to do at school. 2052 02:07:56.199 --> 02:08:00.319 The other boys thought this awfully interesting and insists stood 2053 02:08:00.319 --> 02:08:03.800 on joining, and they made slates for themselves and sat 2054 02:08:03.960 --> 02:08:08.159 round the table, writing and thinking hard about the questions 2055 02:08:08.279 --> 02:08:12.479 she had written on another slate and passed round. They 2056 02:08:12.520 --> 02:08:16.760 were the most ordinary questions, what was the color of 2057 02:08:16.880 --> 02:08:21.439 mother's eyes? Which was taller father or mother? Was mother 2058 02:08:21.640 --> 02:08:26.840 blonde or brunette? Answer all three questions, if possible, A 2059 02:08:27.600 --> 02:08:30.680 write an essay of not less than forty words on 2060 02:08:31.159 --> 02:08:35.439 how I spent my last holidays or the characters of 2061 02:08:35.520 --> 02:08:39.319 father and mother compared only one of these to be attempted, 2062 02:08:40.479 --> 02:08:48.000 or one describe mother's laugh. Two, describe father's laugh. Three, 2063 02:08:48.600 --> 02:08:54.399 describe mother's party dress. Four describe the kennel and its inmate. 2064 02:08:56.520 --> 02:09:00.680 They were just everyday questions like these, and when you 2065 02:09:00.760 --> 02:09:03.880 could not answer them, you were told to make a cross. 2066 02:09:04.399 --> 02:09:07.560 And it was really dreadful. What a number of crosses 2067 02:09:07.600 --> 02:09:12.239 even John made. Of course, the only boy who replied 2068 02:09:12.319 --> 02:09:16.359 to every question was Slightly, and no one could have 2069 02:09:16.439 --> 02:09:20.520 been more hopeful of coming out first. But his answers 2070 02:09:20.560 --> 02:09:24.920 were perfectly ridiculous, and he really came out last. A 2071 02:09:25.039 --> 02:09:31.399 melancholy thing. Peter did not compete. For one thing, he 2072 02:09:31.520 --> 02:09:36.560 despised all mothers except Wendy. And for another he was 2073 02:09:36.600 --> 02:09:39.640 the only boy on the island who could neither write 2074 02:09:39.760 --> 02:09:44.079 nor spell, not the smallest word. He was above all 2075 02:09:44.159 --> 02:09:49.079 that sort of thing. By the way, the questions were 2076 02:09:49.159 --> 02:09:54.279 all written in the past tense. What was the color 2077 02:09:54.399 --> 02:09:59.000 of mother's eyes? And so on. Wendy, you see, had 2078 02:09:59.039 --> 02:10:04.960 been forgetting two adventures, of course, as we shall see, 2079 02:10:05.399 --> 02:10:06.920 were of daily occurrence. 2080 02:10:07.520 --> 02:10:08.640 But about this. 2081 02:10:08.560 --> 02:10:12.920 Time Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that 2082 02:10:13.199 --> 02:10:18.760 fascinated him enormously until he suddenly had no more interest 2083 02:10:18.920 --> 02:10:22.159 in it, which as you have been told was what 2084 02:10:22.359 --> 02:10:27.159 always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not 2085 02:10:27.479 --> 02:10:30.960 to have adventures, in doing the sort of thing John 2086 02:10:31.039 --> 02:10:35.159 and Michael had been doing all their lives, sitting on stools, 2087 02:10:35.199 --> 02:10:38.920 flinging balls in the air, pushing each other, going out 2088 02:10:38.960 --> 02:10:42.000 for walks, and coming back without having killed so much 2089 02:10:42.039 --> 02:10:45.880 as a grizzly. To see Peter doing nothing on a 2090 02:10:45.920 --> 02:10:49.760 stool was a great sight. He could not help looking 2091 02:10:49.880 --> 02:10:53.439 solemn at such times. To sit still seemed to him 2092 02:10:53.520 --> 02:10:57.720 such a comic thing to do. He boasted that he 2093 02:10:57.840 --> 02:11:02.560 had gone walking for the good of him for several sons. 2094 02:11:02.880 --> 02:11:07.000 These were the most novel of all adventures to him, 2095 02:11:07.159 --> 02:11:10.840 and John and Michael had to pretend to be delighted also, 2096 02:11:11.319 --> 02:11:16.600 otherwise he would have treated them severely. He often went 2097 02:11:16.680 --> 02:11:20.239 out alone, and when he came back you were never 2098 02:11:20.479 --> 02:11:24.760 absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not. 2099 02:11:25.800 --> 02:11:29.520 He might have forgotten it so completely that he said 2100 02:11:29.680 --> 02:11:33.079 nothing about it, and then when you went out you 2101 02:11:33.159 --> 02:11:36.720 found the body. And on the other hand, he might 2102 02:11:36.840 --> 02:11:40.680 say a great deal about it, and yet you could 2103 02:11:40.800 --> 02:11:44.840 not find the body. Sometimes he came home with his 2104 02:11:44.960 --> 02:11:49.479 head bandaged, and then Wendy cooed over him and bathed 2105 02:11:49.479 --> 02:11:54.479 it in lukewarm water while he told a dazzling tale. 2106 02:11:54.640 --> 02:11:56.760 But she was never quite sure. 2107 02:11:56.960 --> 02:11:57.239 You know. 2108 02:11:58.159 --> 02:12:02.239 There were, however, many ventures which she knew to be true, 2109 02:12:02.560 --> 02:12:06.159 because she was in them herself. And there were still 2110 02:12:06.239 --> 02:12:09.720 more that were at least partly true, for the other 2111 02:12:09.840 --> 02:12:12.760 boys were in them and said they were wholly true. 2112 02:12:13.720 --> 02:12:17.720 To describe them all would require a book as large 2113 02:12:17.800 --> 02:12:22.199 as an English Latin Latin English dictionary. And the most 2114 02:12:22.279 --> 02:12:25.600 we can do is to give one as a specimen 2115 02:12:25.760 --> 02:12:29.800 of an average hour on the island. The difficulty is 2116 02:12:29.880 --> 02:12:33.359 which one to choose? Should we take the brush with 2117 02:12:33.479 --> 02:12:38.039 the redskins at slightly gulch. It was a sanguinary affair, 2118 02:12:38.640 --> 02:12:43.800 and especially interesting as showing one of Peter's peculiarities, which 2119 02:12:44.039 --> 02:12:47.000 was that in the middle of a fight he would 2120 02:12:47.039 --> 02:12:52.079 suddenly change sides at the gulch when victory was still 2121 02:12:52.199 --> 02:12:56.119 in the balance, sometimes leaning this way and sometimes that, 2122 02:12:56.680 --> 02:13:00.960 He called out, I'm redskin today, what are you Toodles? 2123 02:13:01.720 --> 02:13:06.239 And Toodles answered redskin, what are you? Nits? And nib 2124 02:13:06.279 --> 02:13:11.439 said redskin, what are you twin? And so on, and 2125 02:13:11.600 --> 02:13:15.600 they were all redskins, and of course this would have 2126 02:13:15.760 --> 02:13:19.880 ended the fight, had not the real Redskins, fascinated by 2127 02:13:19.920 --> 02:13:23.840 Peter's methods, agreed to be lost boys for that once, 2128 02:13:24.560 --> 02:13:28.079 and so at it they all went again, more fiercely 2129 02:13:28.199 --> 02:13:34.319 than ever. The extraordinary upshot of this adventure was. But 2130 02:13:34.600 --> 02:13:37.960 we have not decided yet that this is the adventure 2131 02:13:38.039 --> 02:13:41.720 we are to narrate. Perhaps a better one would be 2132 02:13:41.800 --> 02:13:44.800 the night attack by the Redskins on the house under 2133 02:13:44.840 --> 02:13:47.920 the ground, when several of them stuck in the hollow 2134 02:13:47.960 --> 02:13:52.199 trees and had to be pulled out like corks. Or 2135 02:13:52.279 --> 02:13:55.560 we might tell how Peter saved Tiger Lily's life in 2136 02:13:55.640 --> 02:14:00.199 the Mermaid's Lagoon and so made her his ally. Or 2137 02:14:01.000 --> 02:14:04.119 we could tell of that cake the Pirate's cooked so 2138 02:14:04.199 --> 02:14:07.520 that the boys might eat it and perish, and how 2139 02:14:07.560 --> 02:14:11.399 they placed it in one cunning spot after another, but 2140 02:14:11.560 --> 02:14:14.840 always Wendy snatched it from the hands of her children, 2141 02:14:15.079 --> 02:14:18.840 so that in time it lost its succulence and became 2142 02:14:18.920 --> 02:14:22.079 as hard as a stone, and was used as a missile, 2143 02:14:22.239 --> 02:14:26.520 and hook fell over it in the dark. Or suppose 2144 02:14:26.600 --> 02:14:30.720 we tell of the birds that were Peter's friends, particularly 2145 02:14:30.880 --> 02:14:34.239 of the never bird that built in a tree overhanging 2146 02:14:34.279 --> 02:14:37.520 the lagoon, and how the nest fell into the water, 2147 02:14:38.000 --> 02:14:41.239 and still the bird sat on her eggs, and Peter 2148 02:14:41.439 --> 02:14:44.880 gave orders that she was not to be disturbed. That 2149 02:14:45.079 --> 02:14:49.039 is a pretty story, and the end shows how grateful 2150 02:14:49.159 --> 02:14:52.720 a bird can be. But if we tell it, we 2151 02:14:52.840 --> 02:14:56.760 must also tell the whole adventure of the lagoon, which 2152 02:14:56.800 --> 02:15:01.560 would of course be telling two adventures rather than just one. 2153 02:15:01.840 --> 02:15:06.479 A shorter adventure, and quite as exciting, was tinker Bell's attempt, 2154 02:15:06.640 --> 02:15:09.560 with the help of some street fairies, to have the 2155 02:15:09.680 --> 02:15:15.720 sleeping Wendy conveyed on a great floating leaf to the mainland. Fortunately, 2156 02:15:16.000 --> 02:15:19.560 the leaf gave way, and Wendy woke, thinking it was 2157 02:15:19.640 --> 02:15:24.800 bath time, and swam back. Or again, we might choose 2158 02:15:24.840 --> 02:15:28.920 Peter's defiance of the lions when he drew a circle 2159 02:15:29.079 --> 02:15:31.920 round him on the ground with an arrow and dared 2160 02:15:31.960 --> 02:15:35.359 them to cross it. And though he waited for hours 2161 02:15:35.680 --> 02:15:39.720 with the other boys and Wendy looking on breathlessly from trees, 2162 02:15:40.239 --> 02:15:45.239 not one of them dared to accept his challenge. Which 2163 02:15:45.279 --> 02:15:49.279 of these adventures shall we choose? The best way will 2164 02:15:49.319 --> 02:15:53.439 be to toss for it. I have tossed, and the 2165 02:15:53.520 --> 02:15:58.199 lagoon has one. This almost makes one wish that the 2166 02:15:58.279 --> 02:16:02.680 gulch or the cake or tank's leaf had won. Of 2167 02:16:02.760 --> 02:16:04.880 course I could do it again and make it the 2168 02:16:04.920 --> 02:16:08.880 best out of three. However, perhaps fairest to stick to 2169 02:16:09.000 --> 02:16:15.800 the lagoon and of chapter seven of Peter Pan Chapter. 2170 02:16:15.520 --> 02:16:20.039 Eight, The Mermaid's Lagoon. If you shut your eyes and 2171 02:16:20.159 --> 02:16:22.760 are a lucky one, you may see at times a 2172 02:16:22.800 --> 02:16:26.520 shapeless pool of lovely, pale colors suspended in the darkness. 2173 02:16:27.279 --> 02:16:30.239 Then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins 2174 02:16:30.279 --> 02:16:33.200 to take shape, and the colors become so vivid that 2175 02:16:33.239 --> 02:16:36.399 with another squeeze they must go on fire. But just 2176 02:16:36.440 --> 02:16:40.159 before they go on fire, you see the lagoon. This 2177 02:16:40.319 --> 02:16:42.559 is the nearest you ever get to it on the mainland, 2178 02:16:43.079 --> 02:16:46.360 Just one heavenly moment. If there could be two moments, 2179 02:16:46.440 --> 02:16:48.639 you might see the surf and hear the mermaids singing. 2180 02:16:50.079 --> 02:16:52.799 The children often spent long summer days on this lagoon, 2181 02:16:52.840 --> 02:16:55.440 swimming or floating, most of the time, playing the mermaid 2182 02:16:55.520 --> 02:16:58.319 games in the water, and so forth. You must not 2183 02:16:58.479 --> 02:17:00.920 think from this that the mermaids were on friendly terms 2184 02:17:00.920 --> 02:17:04.200 with them. On the contrary, it was among Wendy's lasting 2185 02:17:04.319 --> 02:17:06.840 regrets that all the time she was on the island. 2186 02:17:06.920 --> 02:17:09.079 She never had a civil word from one of them. 2187 02:17:09.840 --> 02:17:12.120 When she stole softly to the edge of the lagoon. 2188 02:17:12.200 --> 02:17:15.399 She might see them by the score, especially on Marooner's Rock, 2189 02:17:15.680 --> 02:17:17.959 where they loved to bask, combing out their hair in 2190 02:17:17.959 --> 02:17:20.840 a lazy way that quite irritated her. Or she might 2191 02:17:20.879 --> 02:17:23.239 even swim on tiptoe, as it were, to within a 2192 02:17:23.319 --> 02:17:26.040 yard of them. But then they saw her and dived, 2193 02:17:26.520 --> 02:17:31.040 probably splashing her with their tails, not by accident but intentionally. 2194 02:17:32.440 --> 02:17:34.959 They treated all the boys in the same way, except, 2195 02:17:35.000 --> 02:17:37.959 of course Peter, who chatted with them on Marooner's Rock 2196 02:17:38.000 --> 02:17:40.040 by the hour and sat on their tails. When they 2197 02:17:40.040 --> 02:17:44.920 got cheeky, he gave Wendy one of their combs. The 2198 02:17:44.920 --> 02:17:47.600 most haunting time at which to see them is at 2199 02:17:47.600 --> 02:17:50.959 the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries. 2200 02:17:51.600 --> 02:17:54.719 But the lagoon is dangerous for mortals then and until 2201 02:17:54.760 --> 02:17:57.319 the evening, of which we now have to tell Wendy 2202 02:17:57.360 --> 02:18:01.159 had never seen the lagoon by moonlight from fear, for 2203 02:18:01.280 --> 02:18:04.319 of course Peter would have accompanied her then. Because she 2204 02:18:04.399 --> 02:18:07.600 had strict rules about everyone being in bed by seven, 2205 02:18:08.479 --> 02:18:10.920 she was often at the lagoon. However, on sunny days 2206 02:18:10.920 --> 02:18:14.440 after rain when the mermaids come up in extraordinary numbers 2207 02:18:14.520 --> 02:18:17.799 to play with their bubbles. The bubbles of many colors 2208 02:18:17.840 --> 02:18:20.879 made in rainbow water. They treat as balls, hitting them 2209 02:18:20.879 --> 02:18:23.799 gaily from one to another with their tails and trying 2210 02:18:23.799 --> 02:18:26.280 to keep them in the rainbow until they burst. The 2211 02:18:26.319 --> 02:18:28.479 goals are at each end of the rainbow, and the 2212 02:18:28.559 --> 02:18:32.120 keepers only are allowed to use their hands. Sometimes a 2213 02:18:32.159 --> 02:18:33.959 dozen of these games will be going on in the 2214 02:18:34.000 --> 02:18:36.760 lagoon at a time, and it is quite a pretty sight. 2215 02:18:38.680 --> 02:18:41.399 But the moment the children tried to join in, they 2216 02:18:41.479 --> 02:18:46.719 had to play by themselves, for the mermaids immediately disappeared. Nevertheless, 2217 02:18:46.799 --> 02:18:49.879 we have proof that they secretly watched the interlopers and 2218 02:18:49.920 --> 02:18:52.760 were not above taking an idea from them, for John 2219 02:18:52.840 --> 02:18:55.079 introduced a new way of hitting the bubble with the 2220 02:18:55.120 --> 02:18:57.719 head instead of the hand, and the mermaids adopted it. 2221 02:18:58.639 --> 02:19:00.920 This is the one mark that John has left on 2222 02:19:00.959 --> 02:19:04.600 the Neverland. It must also have been rather pretty to 2223 02:19:04.639 --> 02:19:06.920 see the children resting on a rock for half an 2224 02:19:06.920 --> 02:19:11.000 hour after their midday meal. Wendy insisted on their doing this, 2225 02:19:11.360 --> 02:19:13.600 and it had to be a real rest, even though 2226 02:19:13.639 --> 02:19:16.239 the meal was make believe, So they lay there in 2227 02:19:16.280 --> 02:19:18.879 the sun, and their bodies glistened in it, while she 2228 02:19:19.040 --> 02:19:22.799 sat beside them and looked important. It was one such day, 2229 02:19:23.120 --> 02:19:26.239 and they were all on Marooner's Rock. The rock was 2230 02:19:26.280 --> 02:19:29.079 not much larger than their great bed, but of course 2231 02:19:29.159 --> 02:19:31.200 they all knew how not to take up much room, 2232 02:19:31.520 --> 02:19:34.600 and they were dozing, or at least lying with their 2233 02:19:34.639 --> 02:19:37.799 eyes shut, and pinching occasionally when they thought Wendy was 2234 02:19:37.840 --> 02:19:43.120 not looking. She was very busy stitching. While she stitched, 2235 02:19:43.719 --> 02:19:47.639 a change came to the lagoon. Little shivers ran over it, 2236 02:19:47.959 --> 02:19:51.040 and the sun went away, and shadows stole across the water, 2237 02:19:51.200 --> 02:19:54.799 turning it cold. Wendy could no longer see to thread 2238 02:19:54.799 --> 02:19:57.639 her needle, and when she looked up, the lagoon that 2239 02:19:57.719 --> 02:20:01.639 had always hitherto been such a laughing place, seemed formidable 2240 02:20:01.920 --> 02:20:06.879 and unfriendly. It was not. She knew that night had come, 2241 02:20:07.280 --> 02:20:11.440 but something as dark as night had come, no worse 2242 02:20:11.479 --> 02:20:15.000 than that it had not come, but it had sent 2243 02:20:15.120 --> 02:20:18.000 that shiver through the sea to say that it was coming. 2244 02:20:18.799 --> 02:20:19.399 What was it? 2245 02:20:20.280 --> 02:20:20.600 There? 2246 02:20:20.639 --> 02:20:23.440 Crowded upon her all the stories she had been told 2247 02:20:23.440 --> 02:20:28.040 of Marooner's Rock, so called because evil captains put sailors 2248 02:20:28.040 --> 02:20:31.079 on it and leave them there to drown. They drown 2249 02:20:31.120 --> 02:20:35.479 when the tide rises, for then it is submerged. Of course, 2250 02:20:35.559 --> 02:20:38.600 she should have roused the children at once, not merely 2251 02:20:38.680 --> 02:20:41.399 because of the unknown that was stalking towards them, but 2252 02:20:41.440 --> 02:20:43.639 because it was no longer good for them to sleep 2253 02:20:43.680 --> 02:20:46.840 on a rock grown chilly. But she was a young mother, 2254 02:20:47.159 --> 02:20:50.239 and she did not know this. She thought, you simply 2255 02:20:50.360 --> 02:20:53.120 must stick to your rule. About half an hour after 2256 02:20:53.159 --> 02:20:56.840 the midday meal. So though fear was upon her, and 2257 02:20:56.920 --> 02:21:00.000 she longed to hear male voices, she would not waken them. 2258 02:21:00.959 --> 02:21:03.719 Even when she heard the sound of muffled oars. Though 2259 02:21:03.719 --> 02:21:06.600 her heart was in her mouth, she did not waken them. 2260 02:21:07.280 --> 02:21:09.719 She stood over them to let them have their sleep out. 2261 02:21:10.079 --> 02:21:13.239 Was it not brave of Wendy? It was well for 2262 02:21:13.319 --> 02:21:15.440 those boys then, that there was one among them who 2263 02:21:15.479 --> 02:21:19.639 could sniff danger even in his sleep. Peter Sprang erect, 2264 02:21:19.840 --> 02:21:22.440 as wide awake at once as a dog, and with 2265 02:21:22.520 --> 02:21:26.600 one warning cry, he roused the others. He stood motionless, 2266 02:21:26.920 --> 02:21:29.760 one hand to his ear pirates. 2267 02:21:29.920 --> 02:21:30.440 He cried. 2268 02:21:31.120 --> 02:21:34.399 The others came closer to him. A strange smile was 2269 02:21:34.440 --> 02:21:37.719 playing about his face, and Wendy saw it and shuddered. 2270 02:21:38.600 --> 02:21:41.079 While that smile was on his face. No one dared 2271 02:21:41.120 --> 02:21:44.719 address him. All they could do was stand ready to obey. 2272 02:21:45.200 --> 02:21:46.920 The order came sharp and incisive. 2273 02:21:47.719 --> 02:21:48.000 Dive. 2274 02:21:49.719 --> 02:21:52.440 There was a gleam of legs, and instantly the lagoon 2275 02:21:52.479 --> 02:21:56.360 seemed deserted. Marooner's Rock stood alone in the forbidding waters, 2276 02:21:56.639 --> 02:22:00.159 as if it were itself marooned. The boat drew near. 2277 02:22:00.879 --> 02:22:03.600 It was the pirate dinghy, with three figures in her 2278 02:22:03.879 --> 02:22:06.959 smee and starkey, and the third a captive no other 2279 02:22:06.959 --> 02:22:10.479 than tiger Lily. Her hands and ankles were tied, and 2280 02:22:10.639 --> 02:22:13.280 she knew what was to be her fate. She was 2281 02:22:13.319 --> 02:22:15.840 to be left on the rock to perish, an end 2282 02:22:15.959 --> 02:22:18.479 to one of her race more terrible than death by 2283 02:22:18.520 --> 02:22:20.920 fire or torture. For is it not written in the 2284 02:22:20.959 --> 02:22:23.440 book of the tribe that there is no path through 2285 02:22:23.479 --> 02:22:27.159 water to the happy hunting ground. Yet her face was impassive. 2286 02:22:27.680 --> 02:22:30.040 She was the daughter of a chief. She must die 2287 02:22:30.120 --> 02:22:33.959 as a chief's daughter. It is enough they had caught 2288 02:22:33.959 --> 02:22:36.159 her boarding the pirate ship with a knife in her mouth. 2289 02:22:37.280 --> 02:22:39.840 No watch was kept on the ship, it being Hook's 2290 02:22:39.840 --> 02:22:42.200 boast that the wind of his name guarded the ship 2291 02:22:42.239 --> 02:22:44.959 for a mile around. Now her fate would help to 2292 02:22:44.959 --> 02:22:47.879 guard it. Also, one more whale would go round in 2293 02:22:47.920 --> 02:22:51.639 that wind by night. In the gloom that they brought 2294 02:22:51.639 --> 02:22:53.879 with them, the two pirates did not see the rock 2295 02:22:54.000 --> 02:22:57.879 till they crashed into it. Luff you lubber, cried an 2296 02:22:57.920 --> 02:23:01.680 Irish voice that was Smee's. Here's the rock now, then 2297 02:23:02.079 --> 02:23:03.959 what we have to do is hoist the red skin 2298 02:23:04.040 --> 02:23:07.440 on to it and leave her here to drown. It 2299 02:23:07.520 --> 02:23:10.200 was the work of one brutal moment to land the 2300 02:23:10.239 --> 02:23:13.079 beautiful girl on the rock. She was too proud to 2301 02:23:13.120 --> 02:23:16.920 offer a vain resistance. Quite near the rock, but out 2302 02:23:16.959 --> 02:23:20.360 of sight, two heads were bobbing up and down, Peter's 2303 02:23:20.360 --> 02:23:24.079 and Wendy's. Wendy was crying, for it was the first 2304 02:23:24.079 --> 02:23:27.840 tragedy she had seen. Peter had seen many tragedies, but 2305 02:23:27.920 --> 02:23:30.879 he had forgotten them all. He was less sorry than 2306 02:23:30.879 --> 02:23:33.600 Wendy for Tiger Lily. It was two against one that 2307 02:23:33.680 --> 02:23:36.639 angered him, and he meant to save her. An easy 2308 02:23:36.639 --> 02:23:38.639 way would have been to wait until the pirates had gone, 2309 02:23:39.040 --> 02:23:41.000 but he was never one to choose the easy way. 2310 02:23:42.280 --> 02:23:45.239 There was almost nothing he could not do. He now 2311 02:23:45.280 --> 02:23:49.799 imitated the voice of hook ahoy, there you lubbers, he called. 2312 02:23:50.399 --> 02:23:54.280 It was a marvelous imitation, the captain said, the pirates 2313 02:23:54.399 --> 02:23:58.200 staring at each other in surprise. He must be swimming 2314 02:23:58.200 --> 02:24:00.959 out to us, Starkey said, when they had looked for 2315 02:24:01.040 --> 02:24:04.719 him in vain. We are putting the red skin on 2316 02:24:04.799 --> 02:24:09.079 the rock. Smee called out, set her free. Came the 2317 02:24:09.120 --> 02:24:15.200 astonishing answer free, yes, cut her bonds and let her go. 2318 02:24:16.319 --> 02:24:20.440 But captain, at once, d'ye hear, cried Peter, or I'll 2319 02:24:20.440 --> 02:24:25.239 plunge my hook and you this is queer. Smee gasped. 2320 02:24:26.079 --> 02:24:30.639 Better do it, the captain orders, said Starkey nervously. Aye, ay, 2321 02:24:30.840 --> 02:24:34.719 Smee said, and he cut Tiger Lily's cords at once. 2322 02:24:34.840 --> 02:24:37.799 Like an eel, she slid between Starkey's legs into the water. 2323 02:24:38.399 --> 02:24:42.040 Of course, Wendy was very elated over Peter's cleverness, but 2324 02:24:42.159 --> 02:24:44.639 she knew that he would be elated also, and very 2325 02:24:44.760 --> 02:24:47.639 likely crow and thus betray himself. So at once her 2326 02:24:47.639 --> 02:24:50.159 hand went out to cover his mouth, but it was 2327 02:24:50.239 --> 02:24:54.200 stayed even in the act. For boat Ahoy rang over 2328 02:24:54.239 --> 02:24:56.920 the lagoon in Hook's voice, and this time it was 2329 02:24:56.959 --> 02:25:00.600 not Peter who had spoken. Peter may have been about 2330 02:25:00.639 --> 02:25:03.799 to crow, but his face puckered in a whistle of surprise. Instead, 2331 02:25:05.040 --> 02:25:10.159 boat ahoy, again came the voice. Now Wendy understood the 2332 02:25:10.200 --> 02:25:13.399 real hook was also in the water. He was swimming 2333 02:25:13.399 --> 02:25:15.600 to the boat, and as his men showed a light 2334 02:25:15.639 --> 02:25:18.520 to guide him, he had soon reached them. In the 2335 02:25:18.600 --> 02:25:21.239 light of the lantern, Wendy saw his hook grip the 2336 02:25:21.239 --> 02:25:24.600 boat's side. She saw his evil, swarthy face as he rose, 2337 02:25:24.680 --> 02:25:27.639 dripping from the water and quaking. She would have liked 2338 02:25:27.680 --> 02:25:30.920 to swim away, but Peter would not budge. He was 2339 02:25:30.959 --> 02:25:34.879 tingling with life and also top heavy with conceit. Am 2340 02:25:34.920 --> 02:25:37.440 I not a wonder? Oh I am a wonder, he 2341 02:25:37.440 --> 02:25:40.520 whispered to her, And though she thought so also, she 2342 02:25:40.639 --> 02:25:43.040 was really glad for the sake of his reputation that 2343 02:25:43.040 --> 02:25:46.399 no one heard him except himself. He signed to her 2344 02:25:46.399 --> 02:25:49.399 to listen. The two pirates were very curious to know 2345 02:25:49.440 --> 02:25:51.920 what had brought their captain to them, but he sat 2346 02:25:51.959 --> 02:25:53.719 with his head on his hook in a position of 2347 02:25:53.799 --> 02:25:59.879 profound melancholy. Captain, is all well, they asked timidly, But 2348 02:26:00.120 --> 02:26:04.600 he answered with a hollow moan. He sighs, said Smee. 2349 02:26:05.319 --> 02:26:08.799 He sighs again, said Starkey. And yet a third time. 2350 02:26:08.840 --> 02:26:13.319 He sighs, said Smee. Then at last he spoke passionately. 2351 02:26:14.520 --> 02:26:18.440 The game's up, he cried, Those boys have found a mother. 2352 02:26:19.799 --> 02:26:24.600 Affrighted though she was, Wendy swelled with pride. Oh, evil day, 2353 02:26:24.840 --> 02:26:29.959 cried Starkey. What's a mother, asked the ignorant Smee. Wendy 2354 02:26:30.040 --> 02:26:33.959 was so shocked that she exclaimed, he doesn't know. And 2355 02:26:34.040 --> 02:26:35.959 always after this she felt that if you could have 2356 02:26:36.000 --> 02:26:39.520 a pet pirate, Smee would be her one. Peter pulled 2357 02:26:39.520 --> 02:26:41.879 her beneath the water, for Hook had started up, crying, 2358 02:26:42.399 --> 02:26:46.719 what was that? I heard nothing, said Starkey, raising the 2359 02:26:46.799 --> 02:26:49.559 lantern over the waters. And as the pirates looked, they 2360 02:26:49.600 --> 02:26:52.399 saw a strange sight. It was the nest I have 2361 02:26:52.479 --> 02:26:55.000 told you of floating on the lagoon, and the never 2362 02:26:55.079 --> 02:26:59.040 bird was sitting on it. See, said Hook, in answer 2363 02:26:59.079 --> 02:27:02.520 to Smee's question, that is a mother? What a lesson? 2364 02:27:02.799 --> 02:27:05.000 The nest must have fallen into the water. But would 2365 02:27:05.040 --> 02:27:06.239 the mother desert her eggs? 2366 02:27:06.639 --> 02:27:06.680 No? 2367 02:27:08.079 --> 02:27:10.200 There was a break in his voice, as if for 2368 02:27:10.280 --> 02:27:13.479 a moment he recalled innocent days when but he brushed 2369 02:27:13.479 --> 02:27:17.719 away this weakness with his hook. Smee, much impressed, gazed 2370 02:27:17.760 --> 02:27:20.360 at the bird as the nest was borne past. But 2371 02:27:20.399 --> 02:27:23.719 the more suspicious Starkey said, if she is a mother, 2372 02:27:24.239 --> 02:27:27.840 perhaps she is hanging about here to help Peter. Hook 2373 02:27:27.920 --> 02:27:32.360 winced aye, he said, that is the fear that haunts me. 2374 02:27:33.799 --> 02:27:36.479 He was roused from this dejection by Smee's eager voice. 2375 02:27:37.200 --> 02:27:41.280 Captain said, Smee, could we not kidnap these boys mother 2376 02:27:41.680 --> 02:27:45.520 and make her our mother. It is a princely scheme, 2377 02:27:45.600 --> 02:27:48.399 cried Hook, and at once it took practical shape in 2378 02:27:48.440 --> 02:27:52.120 his great brain. We will seize the children and carry 2379 02:27:52.159 --> 02:27:54.559 them to the boat. The boys we will make walk 2380 02:27:54.600 --> 02:27:58.920 the plank, and Wendy shall be our mother again. Wendy 2381 02:27:58.959 --> 02:28:01.920 forgot herself never She cried and bobbed. 2382 02:28:02.959 --> 02:28:03.440 What was that? 2383 02:28:04.760 --> 02:28:07.479 But they could see nothing. They thought it must have 2384 02:28:07.520 --> 02:28:10.440 been a leaf in the wind. Do you agree, my bullies, 2385 02:28:10.600 --> 02:28:13.760 asked Hook. There's my hand on it, they both said, 2386 02:28:14.120 --> 02:28:19.879 and there's my hook swear, they all swore. By this 2387 02:28:20.000 --> 02:28:23.000 time they were on the rock, and suddenly Hook remembered 2388 02:28:23.000 --> 02:28:28.360 tiger lily. Where's the red skin? He demanded abruptly. He 2389 02:28:28.440 --> 02:28:31.000 had a playful humor at moments, and they thought this 2390 02:28:31.120 --> 02:28:34.479 was one of the moments. That's all right, Captain, Smee 2391 02:28:34.479 --> 02:28:39.840 answered complacently, we let her go. Let her go, cried Hook. 2392 02:28:40.799 --> 02:28:45.200 Twas your own orders. The bowsun faltered. You called over 2393 02:28:45.239 --> 02:28:47.840 the water to us to let her go, said Starkey. 2394 02:28:49.200 --> 02:28:53.000 Brimstone and Gall thundered Hook, what cousining is going on here? 2395 02:28:53.760 --> 02:28:56.360 His face had gone black with rage, but he saw 2396 02:28:56.399 --> 02:29:00.799 that they believed their words, and he was startled. Lads, 2397 02:29:00.959 --> 02:29:05.440 he said, shaking a little. I gave no such order. 2398 02:29:07.479 --> 02:29:11.959 It is passing, queer, Smee said, and they all fidgeted uncomfortably. 2399 02:29:12.719 --> 02:29:15.200 Hook raised his voice, but there was a quiver in it, 2400 02:29:16.479 --> 02:29:19.760 spirit that haunts this dark lagoon to night. He cried, 2401 02:29:20.280 --> 02:29:24.239 dost hear me? Of course Peter should have kept quiet, 2402 02:29:24.280 --> 02:29:27.000 but of course he did not. He immediately answered, in 2403 02:29:27.079 --> 02:29:31.719 Hook's voice, odds, bobs, hagmer, and tongs, I hear you. 2404 02:29:33.040 --> 02:29:36.399 In that supreme moment, Hook did not blanch even at 2405 02:29:36.399 --> 02:29:39.200 the gills, but Smee and Starkey clung to each other 2406 02:29:39.239 --> 02:29:44.799 in terror. Who are you, stranger, speak, Hook demanded, I 2407 02:29:44.840 --> 02:29:48.959 am James, Hook replied the voice captain of the Jolly Roger. 2408 02:29:50.479 --> 02:29:54.719 You are not You are not, Hook cried hoarsely. Brimstone 2409 02:29:54.719 --> 02:29:57.920 and Gall the voice retorted, Say that again, and I'll 2410 02:29:57.959 --> 02:30:02.559 cast anchor in you. Hook tried a more ingratiating manner. 2411 02:30:04.040 --> 02:30:07.559 If you are hook, he said, almost humbly, Come tell 2412 02:30:07.639 --> 02:30:12.239 me who am I? A codfish? Replied the voice, Only 2413 02:30:12.239 --> 02:30:18.000 a codfish? A codfish, Hook echoed blankly. And it was then, 2414 02:30:18.280 --> 02:30:21.680 but not till then, that his proud spirit broke. He 2415 02:30:21.719 --> 02:30:25.079 saw his men draw back from him. Have we been 2416 02:30:25.200 --> 02:30:28.760 captained all this time by a codfish? They muttered? It 2417 02:30:28.840 --> 02:30:32.559 is lowering to our pride. They were his dogs, snapping 2418 02:30:32.559 --> 02:30:35.680 at him. But tragic figure though he had become, he 2419 02:30:35.760 --> 02:30:39.920 scarcely heeded them against such fearful evidence. It was not 2420 02:30:40.120 --> 02:30:42.680 their belief in him that he needed. It was his own. 2421 02:30:43.520 --> 02:30:47.399 He felt his ego slipping from him. Don't desert me, bully, 2422 02:30:47.840 --> 02:30:51.440 he whispered hoarsely to it. In his dark nature there 2423 02:30:51.440 --> 02:30:53.319 was a touch of the feminine, as in all the 2424 02:30:53.360 --> 02:30:57.319 great pirates, and it sometimes gave him intuitions. Suddenly he 2425 02:30:57.360 --> 02:31:02.120 tried the guessing game. Hoo, Hook, he called, have you 2426 02:31:02.319 --> 02:31:04.639 another voice? 2427 02:31:04.840 --> 02:31:05.000 Now? 2428 02:31:05.079 --> 02:31:07.920 Peter could never resist a game, and he answered, blithely 2429 02:31:07.959 --> 02:31:13.520 in his own voice, I have and another name. Ay 2430 02:31:13.639 --> 02:31:24.920 I vegetable asked Hook, no, mineral, no animal, yes, man no. 2431 02:31:26.200 --> 02:31:33.719 This answer rang out scornfully boy, yes, ordinary boy no, 2432 02:31:35.680 --> 02:31:40.120 wonderful boy. To Wendy's pain, the answer that rang out 2433 02:31:40.120 --> 02:31:44.600 this time was yes. Are you in England? 2434 02:31:45.000 --> 02:31:45.079 No? 2435 02:31:46.840 --> 02:31:47.399 Are you here? 2436 02:31:48.639 --> 02:31:48.879 Yes? 2437 02:31:51.000 --> 02:31:54.280 Hook was completely puzzled. You asked him some questions, he 2438 02:31:54.319 --> 02:31:58.959 said to the others, wiping his damp brow. Smee reflected, 2439 02:32:00.159 --> 02:32:04.639 think of a thing, he said, regretfully. Can't guess, can't guess, 2440 02:32:04.799 --> 02:32:08.520 crowed Peter, do you give it up? Of course, in 2441 02:32:08.600 --> 02:32:11.280 his pride he was carrying the game too far, and 2442 02:32:11.360 --> 02:32:16.719 the miscreants saw their chance. Yes, yes, they answered eagerly. Well, 2443 02:32:16.760 --> 02:32:19.159 then he cried, I am Peter Pan. 2444 02:32:20.440 --> 02:32:20.719 Pan. 2445 02:32:23.280 --> 02:32:26.360 In a moment, Hook was himself again, and Smee and 2446 02:32:26.399 --> 02:32:30.200 Starkey were his faithful henchmen. Now we have him, Hook 2447 02:32:30.239 --> 02:32:34.000 shouted into the water. Smee, Starkey, mind the boat, take 2448 02:32:34.079 --> 02:32:38.120 him dead or alive. He leaped as he spoke, and 2449 02:32:38.200 --> 02:32:42.239 simultaneously came the gay voice of Peter. Are you ready, boys? 2450 02:32:43.159 --> 02:32:43.319 Ay? 2451 02:32:43.399 --> 02:32:43.559 Ay? 2452 02:32:43.959 --> 02:32:47.719 From various parts of the lagoon, the lamb into the pirates. 2453 02:32:48.680 --> 02:32:52.040 The fight was short and sharp. First to draw blood 2454 02:32:52.120 --> 02:32:55.399 was John, who gallantly climbed into the boat and held starky. 2455 02:32:56.159 --> 02:32:58.639 There was fierce struggle in which the cutlass was torn 2456 02:32:58.639 --> 02:33:01.799 from the pirate's grasp. He wriggled overboard, and John left 2457 02:33:01.840 --> 02:33:05.680 after him. The dinghy drifted away. Here and there a 2458 02:33:05.719 --> 02:33:07.600 head bobbed up in the water, and there was a 2459 02:33:07.639 --> 02:33:10.040 flash of steel, followed by a cry or a whoop. 2460 02:33:10.639 --> 02:33:13.600 In the confusion, some struck at their own side. The 2461 02:33:13.680 --> 02:33:16.360 corkscrew of Smee got tootles in the fourth rib, but 2462 02:33:16.440 --> 02:33:19.440 he was himself pinked and turned by Curly. Further up 2463 02:33:19.520 --> 02:33:22.639 the rock, Starkey was pressing slightly in the twins hard, 2464 02:33:23.079 --> 02:33:26.760 where all this time was Peter. He was seeking bigger game. 2465 02:33:28.440 --> 02:33:30.799 The others were all brave boys, and they must not 2466 02:33:30.920 --> 02:33:34.120 be blamed for backing from the pirate. Captain. His iron 2467 02:33:34.159 --> 02:33:36.399 claw made a circle of dead water round him, from 2468 02:33:36.399 --> 02:33:39.920 which they fled like affrighted fishes. But there was one 2469 02:33:39.959 --> 02:33:43.120 who did not fear him. There was one prepared to 2470 02:33:43.239 --> 02:33:47.360 enter that circle. Strangely, it was not in the water 2471 02:33:47.440 --> 02:33:50.479 that they met. Hook rose to the rock to breathe, 2472 02:33:50.840 --> 02:33:52.840 and at the same moment Peter scaled it on the 2473 02:33:52.879 --> 02:33:56.639 opposite side. The rock was slippery as a ball, and 2474 02:33:56.680 --> 02:33:59.719 they had to crawl rather than climb. Neither knew that 2475 02:33:59.760 --> 02:34:03.440 the other was coming. Each, feeling for a grip, met 2476 02:34:03.479 --> 02:34:07.799 the other's arm. In surprise, they raised their heads. Their 2477 02:34:07.840 --> 02:34:13.440 faces were almost touching, so they met. Some of the 2478 02:34:13.520 --> 02:34:16.520 greatest heroes have confessed that just before they fell too, 2479 02:34:16.879 --> 02:34:19.760 they had a sinking. Had it been so with Peter 2480 02:34:19.879 --> 02:34:22.959 at that moment, I would admit it. After all, he 2481 02:34:23.040 --> 02:34:25.200 was the only man that the sea cook had feared. 2482 02:34:25.840 --> 02:34:29.920 But Peter had no sinking. He had one feeling, only gladness, 2483 02:34:30.559 --> 02:34:34.319 and he gnashed his pretty teeth with joy. Quick as thought, 2484 02:34:34.360 --> 02:34:36.600 he snatched a knife from Hook's belt and was about 2485 02:34:36.680 --> 02:34:38.479 to drive it home when he saw that he was 2486 02:34:38.559 --> 02:34:41.000 higher up the rock than his foe. It would not 2487 02:34:41.040 --> 02:34:43.719 have been fighting fair. He gave the pirate a hand 2488 02:34:43.719 --> 02:34:48.959 to help him up. It was then that Hook bit him. 2489 02:34:49.000 --> 02:34:52.079 Not the pain of this, but its unfairness, was what 2490 02:34:52.200 --> 02:34:55.360 dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only 2491 02:34:55.440 --> 02:34:59.799 stare horrified. Every child is affected. Thus the first time 2492 02:34:59.840 --> 02:35:02.879 he is treated unfairly, all he thinks he has a 2493 02:35:03.000 --> 02:35:04.920 right to. When he comes to you to be yours 2494 02:35:05.000 --> 02:35:08.239 is fairness. After you have been unfair to him, he 2495 02:35:08.280 --> 02:35:11.239 will love you again, but will never afterwards be quite 2496 02:35:11.280 --> 02:35:15.319 the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness, 2497 02:35:16.079 --> 02:35:19.239 no one except Peter. He often met it, but he 2498 02:35:19.319 --> 02:35:22.280 always forgot it. I suppose that was the real difference 2499 02:35:22.280 --> 02:35:25.559 between him and all the rest. So when he met 2500 02:35:25.600 --> 02:35:28.760 it now it was like the first time, and he 2501 02:35:28.760 --> 02:35:33.280 could just stare helpless. Twice the iron hand clawed him. 2502 02:35:35.000 --> 02:35:37.719 A few moments afterwards, the other boys saw Hook in 2503 02:35:37.760 --> 02:35:41.360 the water, striking wildly for the ship. No elation on 2504 02:35:41.399 --> 02:35:45.200 the pestilent face, now only white fear, for the crocodile 2505 02:35:45.280 --> 02:35:48.879 was in dogged pursuit of him. On ordinary occasions, the 2506 02:35:48.920 --> 02:35:52.239 boys would have swum alongside, cheering, but now they were uneasy, 2507 02:35:52.559 --> 02:35:55.000 for they had lost both Peter and Wendy and were 2508 02:35:55.000 --> 02:35:58.479 scouring the lagoon for them, calling them by name. They 2509 02:35:58.479 --> 02:36:00.799 found the dinghy and went home in it, shouted Peter 2510 02:36:01.680 --> 02:36:05.920 Wendy as they went, but no answer came, save mocking 2511 02:36:06.000 --> 02:36:09.760 laughter from the mermaids. They must be swimming back or flying. 2512 02:36:09.920 --> 02:36:13.360 The boys concluded they were not very anxious because they 2513 02:36:13.399 --> 02:36:17.159 had such faith in Peter. They chuckled boylike because they 2514 02:36:17.159 --> 02:36:19.159 would be late for bed, and it was all mother 2515 02:36:19.200 --> 02:36:23.799 Wendy's fault. When their voices died away, there came cold 2516 02:36:23.879 --> 02:36:30.079 silence over the lagoon, and then a feeble cry, help help. 2517 02:36:31.600 --> 02:36:34.920 Two small figures were beating against the rock. The girl 2518 02:36:34.920 --> 02:36:37.760 had fainted and lay on the boy's arm. With a 2519 02:36:37.840 --> 02:36:40.319 last effort, Peter pulled her up the rock and then 2520 02:36:40.399 --> 02:36:43.879 lay down beside her, even as he also fainted. He 2521 02:36:43.920 --> 02:36:46.559 saw that the water was rising. He knew that they 2522 02:36:46.559 --> 02:36:49.120 would soon be drowned, but he could do no more. 2523 02:36:50.639 --> 02:36:53.079 As they lay side by side, a mermaid caught Wendy 2524 02:36:53.079 --> 02:36:56.920 by the feet and began pulling her softly into the water. Peter, 2525 02:36:57.040 --> 02:36:59.239 feeling her slip from him, woke with a start and 2526 02:36:59.360 --> 02:37:02.159 was just in time to draw her back. But he 2527 02:37:02.200 --> 02:37:06.200 had to tell her the truth. We're on the rock, Wendy, 2528 02:37:06.440 --> 02:37:10.159 he said, but it is growing smaller. Soon the water 2529 02:37:10.200 --> 02:37:14.079 will be over it. She did not understand. Even now, 2530 02:37:15.239 --> 02:37:20.479 we must go, she said, almost brightly. Yes, he answered faintly. 2531 02:37:21.799 --> 02:37:25.360 Shall we swim or fly? Peter? He had to tell her, 2532 02:37:26.879 --> 02:37:28.959 do you think you could swim or fly as far 2533 02:37:29.000 --> 02:37:33.280 as the island? Wendy? Without my help? She had to 2534 02:37:33.319 --> 02:37:38.040 admit that she was too tired. He moaned, What is it? 2535 02:37:38.239 --> 02:37:41.680 She asked, anxious about him at once. I can't help you, 2536 02:37:41.760 --> 02:37:46.280 Wendy hook wounded me. I can neither fly nor swim. 2537 02:37:47.399 --> 02:37:50.680 Do you mean we shall both be drowned? Look how 2538 02:37:50.680 --> 02:37:55.280 the water's rising. They put their hands over their eyes 2539 02:37:55.319 --> 02:37:57.840 to shut out the sight. They thought they would soon 2540 02:37:57.879 --> 02:38:02.399 be no more. As they sat thus, something brushed against 2541 02:38:02.399 --> 02:38:05.120 Peter as light as a kiss, and stayed there, as 2542 02:38:05.120 --> 02:38:08.680 if saying, timidly, can I be of any use? It 2543 02:38:08.760 --> 02:38:11.000 was the tail of a kite which Michael had made 2544 02:38:11.000 --> 02:38:13.639 some days before. It had torn itself out of his 2545 02:38:13.719 --> 02:38:18.319 hand and floated away. Michael's kite, Peter said, without interest. 2546 02:38:19.000 --> 02:38:21.040 But next moment he had seized the tail and was 2547 02:38:21.079 --> 02:38:24.760 pulling the kite toward him. It lifted Michael off the ground. 2548 02:38:24.920 --> 02:38:28.840 He cried, why should it not carry you both of us? 2549 02:38:29.799 --> 02:38:33.959 I can't lift two Michael, and curly tried let us 2550 02:38:34.000 --> 02:38:37.719 draw lots. Wendy said, bravely, and you a lady. Never 2551 02:38:39.079 --> 02:38:42.120 already he had tied the tail round her. She clung 2552 02:38:42.159 --> 02:38:44.920 to him. She refused to go without him, but with 2553 02:38:44.959 --> 02:38:47.719 a good bye Wendy, he pushed her from the rock, 2554 02:38:48.000 --> 02:38:49.719 and in a few minutes she was borne out of 2555 02:38:49.719 --> 02:38:54.600 his sight. Peter was alone on the lagoon. The rock 2556 02:38:54.719 --> 02:38:59.120 was very small now soon it would be submerged. Pale 2557 02:38:59.239 --> 02:39:02.239 rays of light tiptoed across the waters, and by and 2558 02:39:02.280 --> 02:39:04.520 by there was to be heard a sound, at once 2559 02:39:04.559 --> 02:39:07.760 the most musical and the most melancholy in the world, 2560 02:39:08.120 --> 02:39:09.719 the mermaids calling. 2561 02:39:09.440 --> 02:39:09.959 To the moon. 2562 02:39:12.280 --> 02:39:15.440 Peter was not quite like other boys, but he was afraid. 2563 02:39:15.440 --> 02:39:16.440 At last. 2564 02:39:16.920 --> 02:39:19.840 A tremor ran through him, like a shudder passing over 2565 02:39:19.879 --> 02:39:23.040 the sea. But on the sea, one shutter follows another 2566 02:39:23.120 --> 02:39:25.479 till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just 2567 02:39:25.559 --> 02:39:28.520 the one. Next moment, he was standing erect on the 2568 02:39:28.600 --> 02:39:31.159 rock again, with that smile on his face and a 2569 02:39:31.239 --> 02:39:34.920 drum beating within him. It was saying, to die will 2570 02:39:34.959 --> 02:39:36.520 be an awfully big adventure. 2571 02:39:38.879 --> 02:39:45.719 End of chapter eight, Chapter nine, the never Bird. The 2572 02:39:45.799 --> 02:39:48.959 last sound Peter heard before he was quite alone, were 2573 02:39:48.959 --> 02:39:52.840 the mermaids retiring one by one to their bedchambers under 2574 02:39:52.879 --> 02:39:56.079 the sea. He was too far away to hear their 2575 02:39:56.120 --> 02:39:59.719 doors shut, but every door in the coral caves where 2576 02:39:59.719 --> 02:40:02.879 they rings a tiny bell when it opens or closes, 2577 02:40:03.479 --> 02:40:06.639 as in all the nicest houses on the mainland, and 2578 02:40:06.760 --> 02:40:10.479 he heard the bells steadily, the waters rose till they 2579 02:40:10.520 --> 02:40:13.200 were nibbling at his feet, and to pass the time 2580 02:40:13.280 --> 02:40:16.399 until they made their final gulp, he watched the only 2581 02:40:16.479 --> 02:40:19.200 thing on the lagoon. He thought it was a piece 2582 02:40:19.200 --> 02:40:22.719 of floating paper, perhaps part of the kite, and wondered 2583 02:40:22.760 --> 02:40:26.959 idly how long it would take to drift ashore. Presently, 2584 02:40:27.120 --> 02:40:30.239 he noticed, as an odd thing that it was undoubtedly 2585 02:40:30.360 --> 02:40:33.799 out upon the lagoon with some definite purpose, for it 2586 02:40:33.879 --> 02:40:39.520 was fighting the tide and sometimes winning, And when it won, Peter, 2587 02:40:40.200 --> 02:40:44.079 always sympathetic to the weaker side, could not help clapping. 2588 02:40:44.600 --> 02:40:49.000 It was such a gallant piece of paper. It was 2589 02:40:49.079 --> 02:40:52.319 not really a piece of paper. It was the never bird, 2590 02:40:52.840 --> 02:40:56.479 making desperate efforts to reach Peter on the nest by 2591 02:40:56.520 --> 02:40:59.079 working her wings in a way she had learned. Since 2592 02:40:59.120 --> 02:41:01.760 the nest fell in to the water, she was able 2593 02:41:01.799 --> 02:41:05.799 to some extent to guide her strange craft. But by 2594 02:41:05.799 --> 02:41:10.239 the time Peter recognized her, she was very exhausted. She 2595 02:41:10.280 --> 02:41:13.239 had come to save him, to give him her nest, 2596 02:41:13.959 --> 02:41:16.799 though there were eggs in it. I rather wonder at 2597 02:41:16.840 --> 02:41:19.000 the bird, for though he had been nice to her, 2598 02:41:19.520 --> 02:41:24.200 he had also sometimes tormented her. I can suppose only that, 2599 02:41:24.440 --> 02:41:27.280 like missus Darling and the rest of them, she was 2600 02:41:27.399 --> 02:41:31.399 melted because he had all his first teeth. She called 2601 02:41:31.440 --> 02:41:33.520 out to him what she had come for, and he 2602 02:41:33.600 --> 02:41:36.600 called out to her what she was doing there. But 2603 02:41:36.680 --> 02:41:40.600 of course neither of them understood the other's language. In 2604 02:41:40.680 --> 02:41:44.280 fanciful stories, people can talk to the birds freely, and 2605 02:41:44.399 --> 02:41:46.440 I wish for the moment I could pretend that this 2606 02:41:46.600 --> 02:41:50.239 were such a story and say that. Peter replied intelligently 2607 02:41:50.360 --> 02:41:54.280 to the never bird. But truth is best, and I 2608 02:41:54.319 --> 02:41:58.319 want to tell you only what really happened. Well, not 2609 02:41:58.399 --> 02:42:01.200 only could they not understand each each other, but they 2610 02:42:01.280 --> 02:42:10.040 forgot their manners. I want you to get into the nest, 2611 02:42:10.840 --> 02:42:15.920 the bird called, speaking as slowly and distinctly as possible, 2612 02:42:17.079 --> 02:42:24.680 and then you can drift ashore. But I am too 2613 02:42:25.440 --> 02:42:31.639 tired to bring it any nearer, so you must try 2614 02:42:31.879 --> 02:42:37.479 to swim to it. What are you quacking about? Peter answered, 2615 02:42:37.840 --> 02:42:40.280 why don't you let the nest drift as usual? 2616 02:42:41.879 --> 02:42:43.719 I want you. 2617 02:42:43.879 --> 02:42:48.680 The bird said, and repeated it all over. Then Peter tried, 2618 02:42:48.799 --> 02:42:55.959 slow and distinct what are you quacking about? And so on? 2619 02:42:56.760 --> 02:42:59.959 The never bird became irritated. They have very short time. 2620 02:43:01.920 --> 02:43:05.440 You dunderheaded little jay, she screamed, why don't you do 2621 02:43:05.520 --> 02:43:09.680 as I tell you? Peter felt that she was calling 2622 02:43:09.760 --> 02:43:13.319 him names, and at a venture he retorted hotly, so 2623 02:43:13.520 --> 02:43:17.840 are you. Then, rather curiously, they both snapped out the 2624 02:43:17.840 --> 02:43:23.639 same remark, shut up, shut up. Nevertheless, the bird was 2625 02:43:23.680 --> 02:43:27.200 determined to save him if she could, and by one 2626 02:43:27.399 --> 02:43:31.520 last mighty effort, she propelled the nest against the rock. 2627 02:43:32.319 --> 02:43:36.120 Then up she flew, deserting her eggs so as to 2628 02:43:36.200 --> 02:43:41.079 make her meaning clear. Then at last he understood and 2629 02:43:41.239 --> 02:43:44.120 clutched the nest and waved his thanks to the bird 2630 02:43:44.159 --> 02:43:48.479 as she fluttered overhead. It was not to receive his thanks, however, 2631 02:43:48.559 --> 02:43:51.200 that she hung there in the sky. It was not 2632 02:43:51.319 --> 02:43:54.399 even to watch him get into the nest. It was 2633 02:43:54.440 --> 02:43:58.200 to see what he did with her eggs. There were 2634 02:43:58.200 --> 02:44:02.120 two large white eggs, and Peter lifted them up and reflected. 2635 02:44:03.040 --> 02:44:05.520 The bird covered her face with her wings so as 2636 02:44:05.559 --> 02:44:08.200 not to see the last of them, but she could 2637 02:44:08.200 --> 02:44:12.840 not help peeping between the feathers. I forgot whether I 2638 02:44:12.879 --> 02:44:15.360 have told you that there was a stave on the rock, 2639 02:44:15.879 --> 02:44:18.639 driven into it by some buccaneers of long ago to 2640 02:44:18.760 --> 02:44:22.639 mark the sight of buried treasure. The children had discovered 2641 02:44:22.680 --> 02:44:26.120 the glittering horde, and when in a mischievous mood, used 2642 02:44:26.120 --> 02:44:30.600 to fling showers of moy doors, diamonds, pearls, and pieces 2643 02:44:30.639 --> 02:44:33.959 of eight to the gulls, who pounced upon them for food, 2644 02:44:34.440 --> 02:44:37.440 and then flew away, raging at the scurvy trick that 2645 02:44:37.479 --> 02:44:41.639 had been played upon them. The stave was still there, 2646 02:44:41.920 --> 02:44:45.000 and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep 2647 02:44:45.040 --> 02:44:49.079 tarpaulin watertight with a broad brim. Peter put the eggs 2648 02:44:49.120 --> 02:44:52.120 into this hat and set it on the lagoon. It 2649 02:44:52.319 --> 02:44:56.479 floated beautifully. The never bird saw at once what he 2650 02:44:56.639 --> 02:45:00.079 was up to and screamed her admiration of him, and 2651 02:45:00.200 --> 02:45:04.079 alas Peter crowed his agreement with her. Then he got 2652 02:45:04.120 --> 02:45:07.319 into the nest, reared the stave in it as a mast, 2653 02:45:07.840 --> 02:45:10.959 and hung up his shirt for a sail. At the 2654 02:45:11.040 --> 02:45:14.079 same moment, the bird fluttered down upon the hat and 2655 02:45:14.200 --> 02:45:18.040 once more sat snugly on her eggs. She drifted in 2656 02:45:18.159 --> 02:45:22.319 one direction and he was borne off in another, both cheering. 2657 02:45:25.239 --> 02:45:25.719 Of course. 2658 02:45:25.799 --> 02:45:30.760 When Peter landed, he beached his bark small ship actually 2659 02:45:30.840 --> 02:45:33.680 the never bird's nest in this particular case in point 2660 02:45:34.440 --> 02:45:36.920 in a place where the bird would easily find it. 2661 02:45:37.600 --> 02:45:39.959 But the hat was such a great success that she 2662 02:45:40.079 --> 02:45:43.399 abandoned the nest. It drifted about till it went to 2663 02:45:43.520 --> 02:45:47.040 pieces and often Starky came to the shore of the lagoon, 2664 02:45:47.639 --> 02:45:50.799 and with many bitter feelings, watched the bird sitting on 2665 02:45:50.959 --> 02:45:54.639 his hat. As we shall not see her again, it 2666 02:45:54.760 --> 02:45:58.479 may be worth mentioning here that all never birds now 2667 02:45:58.600 --> 02:46:01.440 build in that shape of nest with a broad brim 2668 02:46:01.559 --> 02:46:06.799 on which the youngsters taken airing. Great were the rejoicings 2669 02:46:06.840 --> 02:46:09.799 when Peter reached the home under the ground almost as 2670 02:46:09.840 --> 02:46:12.680 soon as Wendy, who had been carried hither and thither 2671 02:46:12.840 --> 02:46:17.120 by the kite. Every boy had adventures to tell, but 2672 02:46:17.319 --> 02:46:20.120 perhaps the biggest adventure of all was that they were 2673 02:46:20.239 --> 02:46:24.559 several hours late for bed. This so inflated them that 2674 02:46:24.680 --> 02:46:28.239 they did various dodgy things to get staying up still longer, 2675 02:46:28.760 --> 02:46:33.840 such as demanding bandages. But Wendy, though glorifying and having 2676 02:46:33.920 --> 02:46:38.319 them all home again safe and sound, was scandalized by 2677 02:46:38.360 --> 02:46:41.399 the lateness of the hour, and cried to bed to 2678 02:46:41.559 --> 02:46:46.040 bed in a voice that had to be obeyed. Next day, however, 2679 02:46:46.200 --> 02:46:50.239 she was awfully tender and gave out bandages to every one, 2680 02:46:50.879 --> 02:46:54.399 and they played till bedtime at limping about and carrying 2681 02:46:54.479 --> 02:46:56.079 their arms in slings. 2682 02:46:58.520 --> 02:47:06.680 End of chapter nine, Chapter ten, The Happy Home. One 2683 02:47:06.719 --> 02:47:08.920 important result of the brush on the lagoon was that 2684 02:47:08.959 --> 02:47:12.719 had made the Redskins their friends. Peter had saved Tiger 2685 02:47:12.760 --> 02:47:15.680 Lily from a dreadful fate, and now there was nothing 2686 02:47:15.799 --> 02:47:18.639 she and her braves would not do for him. All 2687 02:47:18.760 --> 02:47:21.559 night they sat above, keeping watch over the home under 2688 02:47:21.559 --> 02:47:23.920 the ground and awaiting the big attack by the pirates, 2689 02:47:24.040 --> 02:47:28.200 which obviously could not be much longer delayed. Even by day, 2690 02:47:28.239 --> 02:47:31.319 they hung about, smoking the pipe of Peace, and looking 2691 02:47:31.319 --> 02:47:35.159 almost as if they wanted tit bits to eat. They 2692 02:47:35.200 --> 02:47:38.840 called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves before him, 2693 02:47:39.479 --> 02:47:41.799 and he liked this tremendously so that it was not 2694 02:47:41.959 --> 02:47:46.600 really good for him. The Great White Father, he would 2695 02:47:46.639 --> 02:47:48.600 say to them, in a very lordly manner, as they 2696 02:47:48.680 --> 02:47:52.079 groveled at his feet, is glad to see the piccaninny 2697 02:47:52.159 --> 02:47:57.840 warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates. Meet Tiger Lily, 2698 02:47:58.079 --> 02:48:02.000 that lovely creature, would reply, Peter, pan save me me, 2699 02:48:02.200 --> 02:48:05.440 his very nice friend me, nor let pirates hurt him. 2700 02:48:07.639 --> 02:48:09.559 She was far too pretty to cringe in this way. 2701 02:48:10.200 --> 02:48:13.280 But Peter thought it his due, and he would answer condescendingly, 2702 02:48:14.319 --> 02:48:19.479 it is good Peter Pan has spoken. Always when he 2703 02:48:19.559 --> 02:48:22.879 said Peter Pan has spoken, it meant that they must 2704 02:48:22.920 --> 02:48:26.200 now shut up, and they accepted it humbly in that spirit. 2705 02:48:28.000 --> 02:48:29.840 But they were by no means so respectful to the 2706 02:48:29.879 --> 02:48:32.920 other boys, whom they looked upon as just ordinary braves. 2707 02:48:34.159 --> 02:48:37.719 They said, how do to them? And things like that, 2708 02:48:38.760 --> 02:48:40.719 And what annoyed the boys was that Peter seemed to 2709 02:48:40.719 --> 02:48:45.559 think this all right. Secretly, Wendy sympathized with them a little, 2710 02:48:46.120 --> 02:48:48.319 but she was far too loyal a housewife to listen 2711 02:48:48.360 --> 02:48:53.479 to any complaints against father. Father knows best. She always said, 2712 02:48:53.920 --> 02:48:58.040 whatever her private opinion must be, her private opinion was 2713 02:48:58.079 --> 02:49:03.399 that the Redskins should not call her a sque We 2714 02:49:03.520 --> 02:49:05.399 have now reached the evening that was to be known 2715 02:49:05.440 --> 02:49:08.799 among them as the Night of Nights, because of its 2716 02:49:08.840 --> 02:49:14.040 adventures and their upshone the day as if quietly gathering 2717 02:49:14.079 --> 02:49:18.879 its forces had been almost uneventful. And now the Redskins 2718 02:49:18.920 --> 02:49:22.120 and their blankets were at their posts above, while below 2719 02:49:22.360 --> 02:49:25.799 the children were having their evening meal, all except Peter, 2720 02:49:26.120 --> 02:49:28.799 who had gone out to get the time. The way 2721 02:49:28.840 --> 02:49:30.479 you got the time on the island was to find 2722 02:49:30.479 --> 02:49:33.719 the crocodile and then stay near him till the clock struck. 2723 02:49:36.399 --> 02:49:39.319 Emil happened to be a make believe tea, and they 2724 02:49:39.360 --> 02:49:42.399 sat around the board, guzzling in their greed and really 2725 02:49:42.639 --> 02:49:46.159 but with their chattering recriminations. The noise, as Wendy said, 2726 02:49:46.360 --> 02:49:51.040 was positively deafening. To be sure, she did not mind noise, 2727 02:49:51.719 --> 02:49:54.040 but she simply would not have them grabbing things and 2728 02:49:54.120 --> 02:49:57.040 then excusing themselves by saying the toodles had pushed their elbow. 2729 02:49:58.760 --> 02:50:00.600 There was a fixed rule that they mane never hit 2730 02:50:00.719 --> 02:50:03.520 back at meals, but should refer the matter of dispute 2731 02:50:03.520 --> 02:50:06.200 to Wendy by raising the right arm politely and saying 2732 02:50:06.879 --> 02:50:10.920 I complain of so and so. But what usually happened 2733 02:50:11.040 --> 02:50:13.200 was that they forgot to do this, or did it 2734 02:50:13.280 --> 02:50:19.000 too much silence, cried Wendy, when for the twentieth time 2735 02:50:19.120 --> 02:50:20.520 she had told them that they were not all to 2736 02:50:20.559 --> 02:50:25.959 speak at once. Is your mug empty, slightly, darling? Not 2737 02:50:26.159 --> 02:50:30.200 quite empty, mummy slightly, said, after looking into an imaginary mug. 2738 02:50:31.440 --> 02:50:34.440 He hasn't even begun to drink his milk. Nibs interposed 2739 02:50:36.120 --> 02:50:39.719 this was telling, and slightly seized his chance. I complain 2740 02:50:39.799 --> 02:50:44.239 of Nibs, he cried promptly. John, however, had held up 2741 02:50:44.280 --> 02:50:49.479 his hand first. Well, John, may I sit in Peter's chair, 2742 02:50:49.559 --> 02:50:53.639 as he is not here? Sit in father's chair John. 2743 02:50:54.200 --> 02:50:59.920 Wendy was scandalized. Certainly not he is not really our father. 2744 02:51:00.280 --> 02:51:03.040 John answered, he didn't even know how a father does 2745 02:51:03.159 --> 02:51:08.520 till I showed him. This was grumbling, we complain of, John, 2746 02:51:08.719 --> 02:51:13.559 cried the twins. Tootles held up his hand. He was 2747 02:51:13.639 --> 02:51:16.479 so much the humblest of them. Indeed, he was the 2748 02:51:16.559 --> 02:51:20.079 only humble one that Wendy was specially gentle with him. 2749 02:51:22.600 --> 02:51:27.079 I don't suppose, Doodles said diffidently that I could be father, 2750 02:51:28.719 --> 02:51:34.000 No Tootles. Once Tootles began, which was not very often, 2751 02:51:34.840 --> 02:51:38.719 he had a silly way of going on. As I 2752 02:51:38.959 --> 02:51:44.200 can't be father, he said heavily. I don't suppose, Michael 2753 02:51:44.479 --> 02:51:48.479 you would let me be baby. No, I won't. Michael 2754 02:51:48.520 --> 02:51:53.680 rapped out, he was already in his basket. As I 2755 02:51:53.840 --> 02:51:58.479 can't be baby, Toodles said, getting heavier and heavier and heavier. 2756 02:52:00.079 --> 02:52:01.719 Do you think I could be a twin? 2757 02:52:03.239 --> 02:52:03.280 No? 2758 02:52:03.440 --> 02:52:06.760 Indeed, replied the twins. It's awfully difficult to be a twin, 2759 02:52:08.799 --> 02:52:12.799 as I can't be anything important, said Toodles. Would any 2760 02:52:12.799 --> 02:52:15.639 of you like to see me do a trick? No, 2761 02:52:16.120 --> 02:52:21.600 they all replied. Then at last he stopped. I hadn't 2762 02:52:21.680 --> 02:52:27.319 really any hope, he said. The hateful telling broke out again. 2763 02:52:28.600 --> 02:52:31.799 Slightly is coughing on the table. The twins began with 2764 02:52:31.920 --> 02:52:36.360 cheese cakes. Curly is taking both butter and honey. Nibs 2765 02:52:36.399 --> 02:52:39.600 is speaking with his mouthful. I complain of the twins, 2766 02:52:40.000 --> 02:52:44.479 I complain of Curly, I complain of Nibs. Oh dear, 2767 02:52:44.559 --> 02:52:48.040 Oh dear, cried Wendy. I'm sure I sometimes think that 2768 02:52:48.159 --> 02:52:52.200 spinsters are to be envied. She told them to clear 2769 02:52:52.239 --> 02:52:55.440 away and sat down to her work basket, a heavy 2770 02:52:55.479 --> 02:52:57.639 load of stockings and every knee with a hole in it. 2771 02:52:57.719 --> 02:53:03.399 As usual, Wendy remonstrated Michael, I am too big for 2772 02:53:03.479 --> 02:53:07.959 a cradle. I must have somebody in a cradle, she said, 2773 02:53:08.079 --> 02:53:12.079 almost heartily, And you are the littlest. A cradle is 2774 02:53:12.120 --> 02:53:17.120 such a nice homely thing to have about a house, well, 2775 02:53:17.200 --> 02:53:20.319 she sewed. They played around her, such a group of 2776 02:53:20.399 --> 02:53:23.760 happy faces and dancing limbs, lit up by that romantic fire. 2777 02:53:25.280 --> 02:53:28.239 It had become a very familiar scene, this in the 2778 02:53:28.319 --> 02:53:31.600 home under the ground, but we are looking on it 2779 02:53:31.799 --> 02:53:37.520 for the last time. There was a step above in Wendy, 2780 02:53:37.639 --> 02:53:41.879 you may be sure, was the first to recognize it. Children, 2781 02:53:42.159 --> 02:53:44.639 I hear your father's step. He likes you to meet 2782 02:53:44.719 --> 02:53:49.680 him at the door above. The redskins crouched before Peter. 2783 02:53:51.040 --> 02:53:55.879 Watch well, braves, I have spoken, and then, as so 2784 02:53:56.000 --> 02:53:58.639 often before, the gay children dragged him from his tree 2785 02:54:00.079 --> 02:54:05.920 so often before, but never again. He had brought nuts 2786 02:54:05.959 --> 02:54:09.920 for the boys, as well as the correct time for Wendy. Peter, 2787 02:54:10.120 --> 02:54:14.959 you just spoil them, you know. Wendy simpered. Ah, old lady, 2788 02:54:15.520 --> 02:54:19.520 said Peter, hanging up his gun. It was me, told him. 2789 02:54:19.520 --> 02:54:23.559 Mothers are called old lady. Michael whispered to Curly. I 2790 02:54:23.680 --> 02:54:28.879 complain of Michael, said Curly. Instantly the first twin came 2791 02:54:28.920 --> 02:54:34.079 to Peter. Father. We want to dance. Dance away, my 2792 02:54:34.159 --> 02:54:36.760 little man, said Peter, who was in high, good humor. 2793 02:54:37.760 --> 02:54:41.239 But we want you to dance. Peter was really the 2794 02:54:41.280 --> 02:54:44.559 best dancer among them, but he pretended to be scandalized. 2795 02:54:45.600 --> 02:54:45.639 Me. 2796 02:54:46.559 --> 02:54:52.520 My old bones would rattle, and Mummy too, What cried Wendy, 2797 02:54:53.079 --> 02:54:57.280 the mother of such an armful dance, But on his 2798 02:54:57.360 --> 02:55:02.719 Saturday night, slightly insinuated, it was not really Saturday night. 2799 02:55:03.200 --> 02:55:05.639 At least it may have been, for they had long 2800 02:55:05.719 --> 02:55:08.680 lost count of the days, but always if they wanted 2801 02:55:08.719 --> 02:55:11.239 to do anything special, they said, this was Saturday night, 2802 02:55:11.440 --> 02:55:16.319 and then they did it. Of course, it is Saturday night, Peter, 2803 02:55:16.840 --> 02:55:22.639 Wendy said, relenting people of our figure, Wendy, But it 2804 02:55:22.760 --> 02:55:24.399 is only among our own progeny. 2805 02:55:25.559 --> 02:55:26.360 True, true. 2806 02:55:28.360 --> 02:55:30.440 So they were told they could dance, but they must 2807 02:55:30.479 --> 02:55:35.920 put on their nighties first. Ah, Old lady Peter set 2808 02:55:35.959 --> 02:55:39.239 aside to Wendy, warming himself by the fire and looking 2809 02:55:39.319 --> 02:55:42.319 down at her as she sat turning a heel. There 2810 02:55:42.399 --> 02:55:44.639 is nothing more pleasant of an evening for you and me, 2811 02:55:44.799 --> 02:55:47.000 when the day's toil is over, than to rest by 2812 02:55:47.040 --> 02:55:51.319 the fire with the little ones near by. It is sweet, Peter, 2813 02:55:51.559 --> 02:55:56.959 isn't it, Wendy said, frightfully, gratified, Peter, I think curly 2814 02:55:57.079 --> 02:56:02.680 has your nose. Michael takes after you. She went to 2815 02:56:02.799 --> 02:56:06.559 him and put her hand on his shoulder. Dear Peter, 2816 02:56:07.079 --> 02:56:10.920 she said, with such a large family, of course, I 2817 02:56:11.000 --> 02:56:13.600 have now passed my best. But you don't want to 2818 02:56:13.680 --> 02:56:18.600 change me, do you, no, Wendy, certainly he did not 2819 02:56:18.719 --> 02:56:22.399 want to change, but he looked at her uncomfortably, blinking, 2820 02:56:23.159 --> 02:56:25.879 you know, like one not sure whether he was awake 2821 02:56:26.000 --> 02:56:32.360 or asleep. Peter, what is it? I was just thinking, 2822 02:56:32.680 --> 02:56:36.399 he said, a little scared. It is only make believe, 2823 02:56:36.639 --> 02:56:38.239 isn't it that I am their father? 2824 02:56:39.600 --> 02:56:39.719 Oh? 2825 02:56:39.920 --> 02:56:47.040 Yes, Wendy said, primly. You see, he continued apologetically. It 2826 02:56:47.040 --> 02:56:49.319 would make me seem so old to be their real father. 2827 02:56:51.159 --> 02:56:55.719 But they are ours, Peter, yours and mine, But not really, Wendy, 2828 02:56:56.159 --> 02:57:00.680 he asked anxiously, Not if you don't wish it, she replied, 2829 02:57:01.319 --> 02:57:07.559 and she distinctly heard his sigh of relief. Peter, she asked, 2830 02:57:08.479 --> 02:57:12.920 trying to speak firmly, What are your exact feelings to me? 2831 02:57:14.639 --> 02:57:19.280 Those of a devoted son? Wendy, I thought so, she said, 2832 02:57:20.360 --> 02:57:22.680 and went and sat by herself at the extreme end 2833 02:57:22.719 --> 02:57:28.239 of the room. You are so queer, he said, frankly, puzzled, 2834 02:57:29.079 --> 02:57:32.040 and Tiger Lily is just the same. There is something 2835 02:57:32.120 --> 02:57:33.959 she wants to be to me, but she says it 2836 02:57:34.040 --> 02:57:38.200 is not my mother. No, indeed, it is not, Wendy 2837 02:57:38.280 --> 02:57:42.280 replied with frightful emphasis. Now we know why she was 2838 02:57:42.319 --> 02:57:47.840 prejudiced against the Redskins. Then what is it? It isn't 2839 02:57:47.879 --> 02:57:52.200 for a lady to tell? Oh, very well, Peter said, 2840 02:57:52.399 --> 02:57:57.239 a little nittled. Perhaps tinker Bell will tell me. Oh, yes, 2841 02:57:57.360 --> 02:58:01.079 tinker Bell will tell you. Wendy retorted, scornful. She is 2842 02:58:01.120 --> 02:58:05.520 an abandoned little creature. Here Tink, who was in her 2843 02:58:05.600 --> 02:58:11.719 bedroom heavesdropping, squeaked out something impudent. She says she glories 2844 02:58:11.760 --> 02:58:15.799 in being abandoned. Peter interpreted he had a sudden idea. 2845 02:58:17.159 --> 02:58:21.360 Perhaps Tink wants to be my mother. You silly ass, 2846 02:58:21.799 --> 02:58:25.319 cried tinker Bell in a passion. She had said it 2847 02:58:25.399 --> 02:58:29.719 so often that Wendy needed no translation. I almost agree 2848 02:58:29.760 --> 02:58:35.040 with her. Wendy snapped. Fancy Wendy snapping. But she had 2849 02:58:35.079 --> 02:58:37.200 been much tried, and she little knew what was to 2850 02:58:37.319 --> 02:58:40.520 happen before the night was out. If she had none, 2851 02:58:40.920 --> 02:58:46.079 she would not have snapped. None of them knew, Perhaps 2852 02:58:46.159 --> 02:58:49.520 it was best not to know. Their ignorance gave them 2853 02:58:49.520 --> 02:58:52.079 one more glad hour, and as it was to be 2854 02:58:52.120 --> 02:58:54.799 their last hour on the island, let us rejoice that 2855 02:58:54.840 --> 02:58:58.680 there were sixty glad minutes in it. They sang and 2856 02:58:58.799 --> 02:59:03.120 danced in their nightgowns. Such a deliciously creepy song it was, 2857 02:59:03.520 --> 02:59:06.159 in which they pretended to be frightened at their own shadows, 2858 02:59:07.079 --> 02:59:10.000 little wedding that so soon shadows would close in upon them, 2859 02:59:10.600 --> 02:59:15.040 from whom they would shrink in real fear. So uproariously 2860 02:59:15.159 --> 02:59:17.680 gay was the dance, and how they buffeted each other 2861 02:59:17.799 --> 02:59:19.840 on the bed and out of it. It was a 2862 02:59:19.920 --> 02:59:22.680 pillow fight rather than a dance. And when it was finished, 2863 02:59:22.760 --> 02:59:26.000 the pillows insisted on one bout more, like partners who 2864 02:59:26.079 --> 02:59:29.479 know that they may never meet again. The stories they 2865 02:59:29.559 --> 02:59:32.159 told before it was time for Wendy's good night story. 2866 02:59:33.280 --> 02:59:36.000 Even slightly tried to tell a story that night, But 2867 02:59:36.120 --> 02:59:38.680 the beginning was so fearfully dull that it appalled not 2868 02:59:38.799 --> 02:59:43.319 only the others but himself. And he said, happily, yes, 2869 02:59:43.399 --> 02:59:46.159 it is a dull beginning, I say, let us pretend 2870 02:59:46.159 --> 02:59:50.280 that it is the end. And then at last they 2871 02:59:50.319 --> 02:59:53.520 all got into bed for Wendy's story, the story they 2872 02:59:53.559 --> 02:59:58.760 loved best, the story Peter hated. Usually when she began 2873 02:59:58.879 --> 03:00:01.520 to tell this story, he left the room or put 2874 03:00:01.559 --> 03:00:05.120 his hands over his ears. Impossibly, if he had done 2875 03:00:05.159 --> 03:00:07.399 either of those things, this time they might all still 2876 03:00:07.440 --> 03:00:11.280 be on the island. But tonight he remained on his stool, 2877 03:00:12.440 --> 03:00:13.799 and we shall see what happened. 2878 03:00:16.520 --> 03:00:25.120 End of chapter ten, Chapter eleven, Wendy's Story. Listen then said, 2879 03:00:25.200 --> 03:00:28.879 Wendy set them down to her story, with Michael at 2880 03:00:28.920 --> 03:00:32.200 her feet and seven boys in the bed. There was 2881 03:00:32.280 --> 03:00:37.239 once a gentleman. I had rather he had been a lady, Curly, said, 2882 03:00:37.920 --> 03:00:40.639 I wish he had been a white rat, said NIBBs. 2883 03:00:41.200 --> 03:00:41.479 Quite. 2884 03:00:41.879 --> 03:00:48.399 Their mother admonished them there was a lady also, And oh, mummy, 2885 03:00:48.639 --> 03:00:51.559 cried the first twin. You mean that there is a 2886 03:00:51.680 --> 03:00:55.600 lady also, don't you? She is not dead, is she? 2887 03:00:56.520 --> 03:00:56.680 Oh? 2888 03:00:56.840 --> 03:01:01.040 No, I am awfully glad she isn't dead, said Tootles. 2889 03:01:01.639 --> 03:01:02.319 Are you glad? 2890 03:01:02.440 --> 03:01:02.719 John? 2891 03:01:03.399 --> 03:01:07.799 Of course I am. Are you glad? Nibs rather, are 2892 03:01:07.840 --> 03:01:12.799 you glad? Twins? We are glad? Oh, dear, sighed Wendy. 2893 03:01:13.639 --> 03:01:17.520 Little less noise there. Peter cooled out, determined that she 2894 03:01:17.719 --> 03:01:21.840 should have fair play, however beastly a story it might be, 2895 03:01:22.280 --> 03:01:28.000 in his opinion. The gentleman's name, Wendy continued, was mister Darling, 2896 03:01:28.360 --> 03:01:32.280 and her name was missus Darling. I knew them, John 2897 03:01:32.360 --> 03:01:36.120 said to annoy the others. I think I knew them, 2898 03:01:36.360 --> 03:01:41.680 said Michael. Rather doubtfully. They were married, you know, explained Wendy. 2899 03:01:42.360 --> 03:01:48.639 And what do you think they had white rats, cried Nibs. Inspired. No, 2900 03:01:49.920 --> 03:01:54.079 it's awfully puzzling, said Tootles, who knew the story by heart. 2901 03:01:54.920 --> 03:02:00.440 Quite Tootles. They had three descendants. What is descendants? Well, 2902 03:02:00.760 --> 03:02:04.520 you are one twin. Did you hear that, John, I 2903 03:02:04.639 --> 03:02:10.040 am a descendant. Descendants are only children, said John. Oh dear, 2904 03:02:10.280 --> 03:02:14.159 oh dear, sighed Wendy. Now, these three children had a 2905 03:02:14.239 --> 03:02:18.520 faithful nurse called Nana, but mister Darling was angry with 2906 03:02:18.680 --> 03:02:21.600 her and chained her up in the yard, and so 2907 03:02:21.840 --> 03:02:25.719 all the children flew away. It's an awfully good story, 2908 03:02:26.000 --> 03:02:31.200 said NIBBs. They flew away. Wendy continued to the neverland 2909 03:02:31.760 --> 03:02:35.319 where the lost children are. I just thought they did, 2910 03:02:35.760 --> 03:02:39.559 curly broke in excitedly. I don't know how it is, 2911 03:02:39.920 --> 03:02:44.200 but I just thought they did. Oh, Wendy, cried Tootles. 2912 03:02:44.959 --> 03:02:48.840 Was one of the lost children, called Tootles, Yes, he was. 2913 03:02:49.840 --> 03:02:55.559 I am in a story. Hooray, I am in a story. NIBBs. Hush, Now, 2914 03:02:55.799 --> 03:02:59.239 I want you to consider the feelings of the unhappy parents, 2915 03:02:59.479 --> 03:03:03.879 with all her children flown away. Oh, they all moaned, 2916 03:03:04.440 --> 03:03:07.559 though they were not really considering the feelings of the 2917 03:03:07.680 --> 03:03:12.760 unhappy parents. One jot think of the empty beds. Ooh, 2918 03:03:14.000 --> 03:03:18.440 it's awfully sad, the first twin said, cheerfully. I don't 2919 03:03:18.520 --> 03:03:21.399 see how it can have a happy ending, said the 2920 03:03:21.479 --> 03:03:26.719 second twin. Do you, Nibs, I'm frightfully anxious. If you 2921 03:03:26.799 --> 03:03:30.879 knew how great is a mother's love, Wendy told them triumphantly, 2922 03:03:31.680 --> 03:03:34.920 you would have no fear. She had now come to 2923 03:03:35.040 --> 03:03:38.959 the part that Peter hated. I do like a mother's love, 2924 03:03:39.479 --> 03:03:43.399 said Tootles, hitting Nibs with a pillow. Do you like 2925 03:03:43.479 --> 03:03:49.000 a mother's love, Nibs, I do, just said Nibs, hitting back. 2926 03:03:49.840 --> 03:03:55.040 You see, Wendy said, complacently. Our heroine knew that the 2927 03:03:55.159 --> 03:03:58.799 mother would always leave the window open for her children 2928 03:03:58.959 --> 03:04:02.520 to fly back by. So they stayed away for years 2929 03:04:02.840 --> 03:04:06.280 and had a lovely time. Did they ever go back? 2930 03:04:07.280 --> 03:04:11.319 Let us now, said Wendy, bracing herself up for her 2931 03:04:11.440 --> 03:04:15.719 finest effort. Take a peep into the future. And they 2932 03:04:15.840 --> 03:04:19.719 all gave themselves the twist that makes peeps into the 2933 03:04:19.840 --> 03:04:24.200 future easier. Years have rolled by, and who is this 2934 03:04:24.399 --> 03:04:30.319 elegant lady of uncertain age alighting at London station? Oh, Wendy, 2935 03:04:30.719 --> 03:04:35.120 who is she cried NIBBs, every bit as excited as 2936 03:04:35.200 --> 03:04:39.600 if he didn't know. Can it be? Yes? No, it 2937 03:04:39.840 --> 03:04:43.799 is the fair Wendy. Oh, and who are the two 2938 03:04:44.040 --> 03:04:48.920 noble portly figures accompanying her, now grown to man's estate. 2939 03:04:49.680 --> 03:04:54.760 Can they be John and Michael? They are? Oh see, 2940 03:04:55.040 --> 03:04:59.600 dear brothers, says Wendy, pointing upwards. There is the window 2941 03:04:59.719 --> 03:05:01.040 still standing open. 2942 03:05:01.760 --> 03:05:01.959 Ah. 2943 03:05:02.479 --> 03:05:06.639 Now we are rewarded for our sublime faith in a 2944 03:05:06.719 --> 03:05:11.000 mother's love. So up they flew to their mummy and daddy, 2945 03:05:11.479 --> 03:05:15.600 and pen cannot describe the happy scene over which we 2946 03:05:15.799 --> 03:05:19.719 draw a veil. That was the story, and they were 2947 03:05:19.760 --> 03:05:22.680 as pleased with it as the fair narrow to herself, 2948 03:05:23.440 --> 03:05:27.600 everything just as it should be. You see, Off we skip, 2949 03:05:27.879 --> 03:05:31.360 like the most heartless things in the world. We choose 2950 03:05:31.440 --> 03:05:35.639 what children are but so attractive, and we have an 2951 03:05:35.840 --> 03:05:39.639 entirely selfish time. And then when we have need of 2952 03:05:39.799 --> 03:05:44.639 special attention, we nobly returned for it, confident that we 2953 03:05:44.840 --> 03:05:50.159 shall be rewarded instead of smacked. So great indeed was 2954 03:05:50.239 --> 03:05:53.319 their faith in a mother's love, but they felt they 2955 03:05:53.360 --> 03:05:56.920 could afford to be callous for a bit longer. But 2956 03:05:57.079 --> 03:06:01.040 there was one there who knew better. And when Wendy finished, 2957 03:06:01.239 --> 03:06:05.920 he uttered a hollow groan. What is it, Peter, she cried, 2958 03:06:06.440 --> 03:06:10.479 running to him, thinking he was ill, She felt him 2959 03:06:10.520 --> 03:06:15.200 solicitously lower down than his chest. Where is it, Peter? 2960 03:06:16.000 --> 03:06:20.079 It isn't that kind of pain, Peter replied darkly. Then 2961 03:06:20.200 --> 03:06:24.319 what kind is it, Wendy? You are wrong about mothers? 2962 03:06:25.120 --> 03:06:28.959 They all gathered round him in affright. So alarming was 2963 03:06:29.079 --> 03:06:33.280 his agitation, and with a fine candor, he told them 2964 03:06:33.479 --> 03:06:39.000 what he had hitherto concealed long ago. He said, I thought, 2965 03:06:39.280 --> 03:06:42.200 like you that my mother would always keep the window 2966 03:06:42.360 --> 03:06:46.000 open for me. So I stayed away for moons and 2967 03:06:46.159 --> 03:06:50.200 moons and moons, and then flew back. But the window 2968 03:06:50.600 --> 03:06:54.600 was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and 2969 03:06:54.799 --> 03:06:58.719 there was another little boy sleeping in my bed. I 2970 03:06:58.840 --> 03:07:02.120 am not sure that this was true, but Peter thought 2971 03:07:02.319 --> 03:07:06.159 it was true, and it scared them. Are you sure 2972 03:07:06.520 --> 03:07:07.440 mothers are like that? 2973 03:07:08.600 --> 03:07:08.840 Yes? 2974 03:07:09.719 --> 03:07:14.520 So this was the truth about mothers the toads. Still, 2975 03:07:14.840 --> 03:07:17.840 it is best to be careful, and no one knows 2976 03:07:18.000 --> 03:07:21.879 so quickly as a child when he should give in Wendy, 2977 03:07:22.239 --> 03:07:26.719 let us go home, cried Michael and John together. Yes, 2978 03:07:27.239 --> 03:07:32.719 she said, clutching them. Not tonight, asked the lost boys, bewildered. 2979 03:07:33.319 --> 03:07:36.280 They knew in what they called their hearts that one 2980 03:07:36.399 --> 03:07:39.600 can get on quite well without a mother, and that 2981 03:07:39.799 --> 03:07:43.959 it is only the mothers who think you can't. At once, 2982 03:07:44.479 --> 03:07:49.120 Wendy replied resolutely, for the horrible thought had come to her. 2983 03:07:50.040 --> 03:07:54.040 Perhaps mother is in half mourning by this time. This 2984 03:07:54.239 --> 03:07:57.840 dread made her forgetful of what must be Peter's feelings, 2985 03:07:58.520 --> 03:08:02.719 and she said to him rather sharply, Peter, will you 2986 03:08:02.879 --> 03:08:07.559 make the necessary arrangements if you wish it? He replied, 2987 03:08:08.000 --> 03:08:11.000 as cooly as if she had asked him to pass 2988 03:08:11.239 --> 03:08:14.719 the nuts, not so much as a sorry to lose 2989 03:08:14.840 --> 03:08:18.239 you between them if she did not mind the party 2990 03:08:18.719 --> 03:08:22.280 he was going to show her? Was Peter that neither 2991 03:08:22.399 --> 03:08:26.000 did he, But of course he cared very much, and 2992 03:08:26.159 --> 03:08:29.559 he was so full of wrath against grown ups, who, 2993 03:08:30.000 --> 03:08:34.319 as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he 2994 03:08:34.440 --> 03:08:39.559 got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick, short breaths 2995 03:08:40.040 --> 03:08:43.159 at the rate of about five to a second. He 2996 03:08:43.319 --> 03:08:46.159 did this because there is a saying in the Neverland 2997 03:08:46.280 --> 03:08:50.600 that every time you breathe, a grown up dies, and 2998 03:08:50.760 --> 03:08:56.079 Peter was killing them off vindictively as fast as possible. Then, 2999 03:08:56.200 --> 03:09:00.920 having given the necessary instructions to the Redskins, he returned 3000 03:09:00.959 --> 03:09:04.879 to the home, where an unworthy scene had been enacted 3001 03:09:05.200 --> 03:09:09.520 in his absence. Panic stricken at the thought of losing Wendy, 3002 03:09:10.000 --> 03:09:14.479 the Lost Boys had advanced upon her, threateningly, it will 3003 03:09:14.559 --> 03:09:18.479 be worse than before she came, they cried. We shan't 3004 03:09:18.520 --> 03:09:22.840 let her go. Let's keep her prisoner, a chain her up. 3005 03:09:23.600 --> 03:09:27.399 In her extremity. An instinct told her to which of 3006 03:09:27.520 --> 03:09:31.600 them to turn. Tootles, she cried, I appeal to you. 3007 03:09:32.719 --> 03:09:36.719 Was it not strange? She appealed to Tootles, quite the 3008 03:09:36.799 --> 03:09:43.000 silliest one. Grandly. However, did Tootles respond. For that one 3009 03:09:43.120 --> 03:09:47.399 moment he dropped his sillinness and spoke with dignity. I 3010 03:09:47.520 --> 03:09:51.879 am this Tootles, he said, And nobody minds me, but 3011 03:09:52.040 --> 03:09:55.000 the first who does not behave to Wendy like an 3012 03:09:55.159 --> 03:09:59.840 English gentleman, I will blood him severely. He drew back 3013 03:10:00.079 --> 03:10:03.959 his hanger, and for that instant his son was at noon. 3014 03:10:04.600 --> 03:10:09.000 There others held back uneasily. Then Peter returned, and they 3015 03:10:09.079 --> 03:10:12.319 saw at once that they would get no support from him. 3016 03:10:13.120 --> 03:10:18.280 He would keep no girl in the neverland against her will. Wendy, 3017 03:10:18.600 --> 03:10:22.360 he said, striding up and down. I have asked the 3018 03:10:22.479 --> 03:10:26.079 Redskins to guide you through the wood as flying tire 3019 03:10:26.159 --> 03:10:31.200 as you sow. Thank you, Peter. Then he continued, in 3020 03:10:31.319 --> 03:10:35.079 the short, sharp voice of one accustomed to be obeyed, 3021 03:10:35.920 --> 03:10:40.559 tinker Bell will take you across the sea. Wake her, Nibs. 3022 03:10:41.440 --> 03:10:44.319 NIBBs had to knock twice before he got an answer, 3023 03:10:44.959 --> 03:10:48.680 though Tink had really been sitting up in bed listening 3024 03:10:48.840 --> 03:10:49.639 for some time. 3025 03:10:50.520 --> 03:10:51.000 Who are you? 3026 03:10:51.600 --> 03:10:53.360 How dare you go away? 3027 03:10:53.639 --> 03:10:54.200 She cried? 3028 03:10:55.079 --> 03:10:58.680 You are to get up, Tink, Nibs called and take 3029 03:10:58.799 --> 03:11:03.120 Wendy on a journey. Of course, Tink had been delighted 3030 03:11:03.200 --> 03:11:06.479 to hear that Wendy was going, but she was jolly 3031 03:11:06.639 --> 03:11:10.520 well determined not to be her career, and she said 3032 03:11:10.600 --> 03:11:14.799 so in still more offensive language. Then she pretended to 3033 03:11:14.920 --> 03:11:21.399 be asleep again. She says she won't, NIBBs exclaimed, aghast 3034 03:11:21.559 --> 03:11:26.680 at such insubordination, whereupon Peter went sternly toward the young 3035 03:11:26.799 --> 03:11:31.559 lady's chamber. Tink, he rapped out, if you don't get 3036 03:11:31.639 --> 03:11:34.559 up and dress at once. I will open the curtains, 3037 03:11:34.920 --> 03:11:37.639 and then we shall all see you in your neglige O. 3038 03:11:39.000 --> 03:11:42.159 This made her leap to the floor. Who said, I 3039 03:11:42.360 --> 03:11:46.440 wasn't getting up, she cried. In the meantime, the boys 3040 03:11:46.520 --> 03:11:51.440 were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, now equipped with John 3041 03:11:51.479 --> 03:11:55.920 and Michael for the journey. By this time, they were dejected, 3042 03:11:56.479 --> 03:12:00.120 not merely because they were about to lose her, but 3043 03:12:00.319 --> 03:12:03.399 also because they felt that she was going off to 3044 03:12:03.559 --> 03:12:07.959 something nice to which they had not been invited. Novelty 3045 03:12:08.159 --> 03:12:12.200 was beckoning to them as usual, crediting them with a 3046 03:12:12.319 --> 03:12:18.079 nobler feeling. Wendy melted. Dear ones, She said, if you 3047 03:12:18.200 --> 03:12:21.280 will all come with me, I feel almost sure I 3048 03:12:21.399 --> 03:12:24.959 can get my father and mother to adopt you. The 3049 03:12:25.120 --> 03:12:29.399 invitation was meant especially for Peter, but each of the 3050 03:12:29.479 --> 03:12:34.280 boys was thinking exclusively of himself, and at once they 3051 03:12:34.440 --> 03:12:37.840 jumped with joy. But won't they think is rather a 3052 03:12:38.000 --> 03:12:42.559 handful NIBBs asked in the middle of his jump. Oh no, 3053 03:12:42.920 --> 03:12:47.120 said Wendy, rapidly thinking it out. It will only mean 3054 03:12:47.319 --> 03:12:50.639 having a few beds in the drawing room. They can 3055 03:12:50.680 --> 03:12:55.719 be hidden behind the screens on first Thursdays, Peter, can 3056 03:12:55.840 --> 03:12:59.840 we go? They all cried, imploringly. They took it for 3057 03:13:00.040 --> 03:13:03.719 granted that if they went, he would go also, but 3058 03:13:03.959 --> 03:13:08.639 really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever ready when 3059 03:13:08.760 --> 03:13:14.040 novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones. All right, Peter 3060 03:13:14.200 --> 03:13:18.000 replied with a bitter smile, And immediately they rushed to 3061 03:13:18.120 --> 03:13:23.440 get their things. And now, Peter, Wendy said, thinking she 3062 03:13:23.559 --> 03:13:26.760 had put everything right, I am going to give you 3063 03:13:26.879 --> 03:13:31.360 your medicine before you go. She loved to give the medicine, 3064 03:13:31.920 --> 03:13:36.920 and undoubtedly gave them too much. Of course, it was 3065 03:13:37.079 --> 03:13:40.319 only water, but it was out of a bottle, and 3066 03:13:40.479 --> 03:13:44.280 she always shook the bottle and counted the drops, which 3067 03:13:44.399 --> 03:13:49.520 gave it a certain medicinal quality. On this occasion, however, 3068 03:13:50.120 --> 03:13:54.000 she did not give Peter his draft, for just as 3069 03:13:54.079 --> 03:13:56.840 she had prepared it, she saw a look on his 3070 03:13:57.000 --> 03:14:03.680 face that made her heart Sinkings Peter, she cried, shaking no, 3071 03:14:04.079 --> 03:14:11.520 he answered, pretending indifference, I am not going with you, Wendy, Yes, Peter, No. 3072 03:14:12.559 --> 03:14:16.000 To show that her departure would leave him unmoved, he 3073 03:14:16.159 --> 03:14:19.920 skipped up and down the room, playing gaily on his 3074 03:14:20.079 --> 03:14:24.760 heartless pipes. She had to run about after him, though 3075 03:14:25.000 --> 03:14:30.760 it was rather undignified to find your mother, she coaxed. Now, 3076 03:14:31.120 --> 03:14:34.040 if Peter had ever quite had a mother, he no 3077 03:14:34.239 --> 03:14:38.040 longer missed her. He could do very well without one. 3078 03:14:38.719 --> 03:14:44.000 He had thought them out and remembered only their bad points. No, no, 3079 03:14:44.399 --> 03:14:48.879 he told Wendy decisively. Perhaps she would say I was 3080 03:14:49.000 --> 03:14:52.040 old and I just want always to be a little 3081 03:14:52.120 --> 03:14:57.159 boy and to have fun. But Peter no, And so 3082 03:14:57.399 --> 03:15:02.280 the others had to be told, Peter isn't coming, Peter 3083 03:15:02.520 --> 03:15:07.440 not coming. They gazed blankly at him, their sticks over 3084 03:15:07.520 --> 03:15:11.680 their backs and on edge stick a bundle. Their first 3085 03:15:11.799 --> 03:15:15.399 thought was that Peter was not going. He had probably 3086 03:15:15.639 --> 03:15:19.639 changed his mind about letting them go, but he was 3087 03:15:19.799 --> 03:15:23.479 far too proud for that. If you find your mother's, 3088 03:15:23.879 --> 03:15:28.159 he said darkly, I hope you will like them. The 3089 03:15:28.360 --> 03:15:33.520 awful cynisen of this made an uncomfortable impression, and most 3090 03:15:33.559 --> 03:15:37.680 of them begun to look rather doubtful. After all, their 3091 03:15:37.799 --> 03:15:41.639 faces said, were they not noodles to want to go? 3092 03:15:43.040 --> 03:15:43.200 Now? 3093 03:15:43.319 --> 03:15:48.879 Then cried Peter, no fuss, no blubbering, goodbye, Wendy, And 3094 03:15:49.000 --> 03:15:52.520 he held out his hand cheeringly, quite as if they 3095 03:15:52.600 --> 03:15:56.319 must really go. Now, for he had something important to do. 3096 03:15:57.440 --> 03:16:00.159 She had to take his hand, and there was there's 3097 03:16:00.200 --> 03:16:04.440 no indication that he would prefer a thimble. You will 3098 03:16:04.520 --> 03:16:10.200 remember about changing your flannels, Peter, she said, lingering over him. 3099 03:16:10.840 --> 03:16:15.879 She was always so particular about their flannels. Yes, and 3100 03:16:16.079 --> 03:16:17.719 you will take your medicine. 3101 03:16:18.479 --> 03:16:18.719 Yes. 3102 03:16:19.879 --> 03:16:25.719 That seemed to be everything, and an awkward pause followed. Peter, however, 3103 03:16:26.520 --> 03:16:30.000 was not the kind that breaks down before other people. 3104 03:16:31.000 --> 03:16:35.159 Are you ready, tinker Bell, he cooled out. I I 3105 03:16:35.799 --> 03:16:39.719 then lead the way. Tink darted up the nearest tree, 3106 03:16:40.360 --> 03:16:43.280 but no one followed her, for it was at this 3107 03:16:43.520 --> 03:16:49.040 moment that the pirates made their dreadful attack upon the Redskins. Above, 3108 03:16:49.399 --> 03:16:52.680 where it all had been so steell, the air was 3109 03:16:52.760 --> 03:16:57.280 rent with shrieks and the clash of steel. Below, there 3110 03:16:57.440 --> 03:17:02.559 was dead silence. Mouths opened and remained open when he 3111 03:17:02.719 --> 03:17:07.239 fell on her knees, but her arms were extended toward Peter. 3112 03:17:08.200 --> 03:17:12.079 All arms were extended to him, as if suddenly blown 3113 03:17:12.399 --> 03:17:16.319 in his direction. They were beseeching him mutely not to 3114 03:17:16.479 --> 03:17:21.719 desert them. As for Peter, he seized his sword the 3115 03:17:21.840 --> 03:17:25.600 same he thought he had slain barbecue with and the 3116 03:17:25.719 --> 03:17:27.840 lust of battle was in his eye. 3117 03:17:29.719 --> 03:17:34.760 End of chapter eleven, Chapter twelve, the children are carried off. 3118 03:17:36.760 --> 03:17:39.360 The pirate attack had been a complete surprise. Are sure 3119 03:17:39.440 --> 03:17:42.479 proof that the unscrupulous hook had conducted it improperly, For 3120 03:17:42.559 --> 03:17:44.959 it is apprise Redskins fairly is beyond the wit of 3121 03:17:45.040 --> 03:17:45.520 the weight man. 3122 03:17:46.520 --> 03:17:47.000 By all the. 3123 03:17:47.040 --> 03:17:49.479 Unwritten laws of savage warfare. It is always the redskin 3124 03:17:49.520 --> 03:17:51.799 who attacks, and with the wiliness of his race, he 3125 03:17:51.879 --> 03:17:53.920 does it just before the dawn, at which time he 3126 03:17:54.040 --> 03:17:55.639 knows the courage of the weights to be at its 3127 03:17:55.719 --> 03:17:58.920 lowest erbor. The weight man, having the maintain, made a 3128 03:17:59.000 --> 03:18:01.479 rude stock heed on the somewhat of yonder undulating ground, 3129 03:18:01.719 --> 03:18:03.639 at the foot of which a stream runs, for its 3130 03:18:03.680 --> 03:18:06.959 destruction to be too far from water. There they await 3131 03:18:07.000 --> 03:18:10.239 the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading 3132 03:18:10.280 --> 03:18:13.040 on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquility, until just 3133 03:18:13.120 --> 03:18:16.600 before the dawn. Through the long black night, the savage 3134 03:18:16.639 --> 03:18:20.040 scouts wriggle snakelike among the grass, without stirring a blade. 3135 03:18:21.000 --> 03:18:23.680 The brushwood closes behind them as silently as sand into 3136 03:18:23.680 --> 03:18:26.959 which shimole has dived. Not a sound is to be heard, 3137 03:18:27.280 --> 03:18:29.399 save when they give vent to a wonderful imitation and 3138 03:18:29.440 --> 03:18:32.120 the lonely call of the coyote. The cry is answered 3139 03:18:32.120 --> 03:18:34.159 by other braves, some of them do it even better 3140 03:18:34.200 --> 03:18:36.120 than the coyotes, who are not very good at it. 3141 03:18:37.239 --> 03:18:39.600 So the chill hours wear on and a long suspense 3142 03:18:39.719 --> 03:18:41.520 is horribly trying to the pale face who has to 3143 03:18:41.600 --> 03:18:43.760 live through it for the first time. But to the 3144 03:18:43.799 --> 03:18:46.879 train hand, those ghastly calls and still ghastlier silences are 3145 03:18:46.920 --> 03:18:50.000 but an intimation of how the night is marching. But 3146 03:18:50.120 --> 03:18:52.360 this was the usual procedure, was so well known to 3147 03:18:52.440 --> 03:18:54.559 Hook that in disregarding it, he cannot be excused on 3148 03:18:54.600 --> 03:18:58.280 the plea of ignorance. The Piccaninnies, on their part, trusted 3149 03:18:58.319 --> 03:19:00.760 implicitly to his honor, and their election of the night 3150 03:19:00.840 --> 03:19:04.479 stands out in marked contrast to his. They left nothing 3151 03:19:04.559 --> 03:19:07.040 undone that was consistent with the reputation of their tribe, 3152 03:19:07.680 --> 03:19:09.799 With that alertness of the senses which is at once 3153 03:19:09.920 --> 03:19:13.239 the marvel and despair of civilized peoples, they knew that 3154 03:19:13.319 --> 03:19:15.360 the pirates were on the island from the moment one 3155 03:19:15.399 --> 03:19:17.600 of them trod on a dry stick, and in an 3156 03:19:17.639 --> 03:19:21.639 incredibly short space of time the coyute cries began. Every 3157 03:19:21.680 --> 03:19:23.680 foot of ground between the spot where Hook had landed 3158 03:19:23.760 --> 03:19:25.959 his forces and the home own of the trees was 3159 03:19:25.959 --> 03:19:28.760 stealthily examined by braves wearing their mucksins with the heels 3160 03:19:28.840 --> 03:19:32.040 in front. They found only one hillock with a stream 3161 03:19:32.079 --> 03:19:34.600 at its base, so that Hook had no choice here 3162 03:19:34.680 --> 03:19:37.239 he must establish himself and wait for just before the dawn, 3163 03:19:38.239 --> 03:19:41.479 everything being thus mapped out with almost diabolical cunning, the 3164 03:19:41.600 --> 03:19:44.040 main body of the Redskins folded their blankets around them, 3165 03:19:44.319 --> 03:19:46.479 and a phlegmatic manner, that is to them the pearl 3166 03:19:46.520 --> 03:19:49.159 of man who had squatted above the children's home, awaiting 3167 03:19:49.200 --> 03:19:52.639 a cold moment when they should deal pale death here, 3168 03:19:52.760 --> 03:19:55.200 dreaming though wide awake of the acquisite tortures to which 3169 03:19:55.200 --> 03:19:57.440 they were to put him. Out break of day, those 3170 03:19:57.559 --> 03:20:00.840 confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook Bok. From 3171 03:20:00.879 --> 03:20:03.360 the accounts afterwards supplied by such of the scouts as 3172 03:20:03.399 --> 03:20:05.559 escaped the carnage, he does not seem even to have 3173 03:20:05.760 --> 03:20:08.280 paused at the rising ground, though it is certain that 3174 03:20:08.360 --> 03:20:11.079 in the gray light he must have seen it. No 3175 03:20:11.239 --> 03:20:13.360 thought of waiting to be attacked appears from first to 3176 03:20:13.479 --> 03:20:15.840 last to have visited his huttle mind. He would not 3177 03:20:15.879 --> 03:20:18.239 even hold off till the night was nearly spent on 3178 03:20:18.440 --> 03:20:21.879 he pounded, with no policy but to fall to What 3179 03:20:22.040 --> 03:20:25.079 could the bewildered scouts do? Masters, are they aware of 3180 03:20:25.200 --> 03:20:28.920 every warlike artifst saved this one, but trot helplessly after him, 3181 03:20:29.200 --> 03:20:32.600 exposing themselves fatally to view while they gave pathetic utterance 3182 03:20:32.639 --> 03:20:37.120 to the coyote cry. Around the brave tiger lily were 3183 03:20:37.159 --> 03:20:39.680 a dozen of her stoutest warriors, and they suddenly saw 3184 03:20:39.719 --> 03:20:43.440 the perfidious pirates bearing down upon them, fell from their eyes. 3185 03:20:43.520 --> 03:20:45.399 Then the film through which they had looked at victory. 3186 03:20:45.959 --> 03:20:48.520 No more would they torture at the stake for them, 3187 03:20:48.600 --> 03:20:51.920 the happy hunting gruns was now they knew it. But 3188 03:20:52.040 --> 03:20:55.440 as their father's sons, they quitted themselves. Even then they 3189 03:20:55.479 --> 03:20:57.280 had time to gather in a phalanx that would have 3190 03:20:57.360 --> 03:20:59.760 been far to break had they risen quickly. But this 3191 03:21:00.000 --> 03:21:02.360 they were forbidden to do by the traditions of their race. 3192 03:21:03.040 --> 03:21:05.879 It is written that the noble savage must never express 3193 03:21:05.920 --> 03:21:09.319 surprise in the presence of the white, thus terrible as 3194 03:21:09.360 --> 03:21:11.159 the sudden appearance of the pirates must. 3195 03:21:11.000 --> 03:21:11.559 Have been to them. 3196 03:21:11.920 --> 03:21:14.520 They remained stationary for a moment, not a muscle moving, 3197 03:21:14.920 --> 03:21:18.239 as if the foe had come by invitation. Then indeed 3198 03:21:18.399 --> 03:21:21.360 the tradition gallantly upheld. They seized their weapons, and the 3199 03:21:21.440 --> 03:21:23.600 air was torn with the war cry. But it was 3200 03:21:23.680 --> 03:21:28.920 now too late. It is no part of ours to 3201 03:21:29.000 --> 03:21:32.280 describe what was a massacre rather than a fight. Thus 3202 03:21:32.440 --> 03:21:35.399 perished many of the flower of the Piccaninny tribe. Not 3203 03:21:35.600 --> 03:21:38.559 all unavenged did they die for with lean Wulf fell 3204 03:21:38.600 --> 03:21:41.559 alf Mason to disturb the spanish Man no more, And 3205 03:21:41.680 --> 03:21:44.639 among others who bit the dust were George Scry, Charles Turley, 3206 03:21:44.680 --> 03:21:48.399 and the Alsatian Foggerty Urley fell to the tomahawk of 3207 03:21:48.440 --> 03:21:51.360 the Terrible Panther, who ultimately cut away through the pirates 3208 03:21:51.399 --> 03:21:54.680 with tirely and a small remnant of the tribe. To 3209 03:21:54.760 --> 03:21:56.840 what extent Hook is to blame for his tactics on 3210 03:21:56.920 --> 03:22:00.200 this occasion, it's for the historian to decide. Had he 3211 03:22:00.280 --> 03:22:02.440 waited on the rising ground till the proper hour, he 3212 03:22:02.520 --> 03:22:04.840 and his men would probably have been butchered, And in 3213 03:22:04.920 --> 03:22:07.239 judging him, it is only fair to take this into account. 3214 03:22:08.159 --> 03:22:10.280 What he should perhaps have done was to acquaint his 3215 03:22:10.399 --> 03:22:13.920 opponents that he proposed to follow a new method. Neither hand, 3216 03:22:14.200 --> 03:22:16.920 this as destroying the ailment of surprise, would have made 3217 03:22:16.959 --> 03:22:19.280 his strategy of no avail. So that the whole question 3218 03:22:19.440 --> 03:22:22.760 is beset with difficulties. One cannot, at least withhold a 3219 03:22:22.799 --> 03:22:25.559 reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold 3220 03:22:25.600 --> 03:22:28.040 a scheme, and the fel genius with which it was 3221 03:22:28.120 --> 03:22:32.000 carried out. What were his own feelings about himself at 3222 03:22:32.040 --> 03:22:35.840 that triumphant moment, fain would his dogs have known? As 3223 03:22:35.959 --> 03:22:38.879 breathing heavily and wiping their cutlasses, they gathered at discreet 3224 03:22:38.959 --> 03:22:41.879 distance from his hook, and squinted through their ferret eyes 3225 03:22:41.920 --> 03:22:45.399 at this extraordinary man elation must have been in his heart, 3226 03:22:45.719 --> 03:22:48.159 but his face did not reflect it ever, a dark 3227 03:22:48.239 --> 03:22:50.920 and solitary enigma he stood aloof from his followers in 3228 03:22:51.000 --> 03:22:55.200 spirit as in substance. The Knight's work was not yet over, 3229 03:22:55.719 --> 03:22:57.479 For it was not the redskins he had come out 3230 03:22:57.479 --> 03:22:59.959 to destroy. They were but the bees to be smoked, 3231 03:23:00.200 --> 03:23:02.399 so that he should get at the honey. It was 3232 03:23:02.559 --> 03:23:06.159 Pan he wanted Pan and Wendy in their band. But 3233 03:23:06.319 --> 03:23:10.840 chiefly Pan Peter was such a small boy that one 3234 03:23:10.959 --> 03:23:13.559 tends to wonder at the man's hatred of him. True, 3235 03:23:13.760 --> 03:23:16.399 he had flung Hook's armed to the crocodile. But even 3236 03:23:16.479 --> 03:23:18.799 this and the increased insecurity of life to which it 3237 03:23:18.920 --> 03:23:22.520 led owing to the crocodile's pertinacity, hardly account for a 3238 03:23:22.600 --> 03:23:26.440 vindictiveness so relentless and malignant. The truth is that there 3239 03:23:26.520 --> 03:23:30.040 was something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy. 3240 03:23:30.719 --> 03:23:33.399 It was not his courage, It was not his engaging appearance. 3241 03:23:33.559 --> 03:23:35.959 It was not There is no beating about the bush, 3242 03:23:36.079 --> 03:23:37.840 for we know quite well what it was, and had 3243 03:23:37.879 --> 03:23:42.079 got to tell It was Peter's cockiness. This had got 3244 03:23:42.120 --> 03:23:45.559 on Hook's nerves. It made his iron clawed twitch, and 3245 03:23:45.680 --> 03:23:49.239 at night it disturbed him like an insect. While Peter lived, 3246 03:23:49.479 --> 03:23:51.360 the tortured man felt that he was aligned in a 3247 03:23:51.479 --> 03:23:55.159 cage into which a sparrow had gone. The question now 3248 03:23:55.319 --> 03:23:57.479 was how to get down the trees, or how to 3249 03:23:57.559 --> 03:24:00.760 get his dogs down. He ran his eyes over them, 3250 03:24:00.840 --> 03:24:04.920 searching for the thinnest ones. They readled uncomfortably, for they 3251 03:24:05.000 --> 03:24:07.559 knew he would not scruple to ram them down with poles. 3252 03:24:08.760 --> 03:24:11.559 In the meantime, one of the boys. We have seen 3253 03:24:11.600 --> 03:24:13.559 them at the first clang of the weapons, turned, as 3254 03:24:13.600 --> 03:24:16.719 it were, into stone figures, open mouthed, all appealing with 3255 03:24:16.799 --> 03:24:19.799 outstretched arms to Peter. And we returned to them as 3256 03:24:19.840 --> 03:24:22.239 their mouths close and their arms fall to their sides. 3257 03:24:23.120 --> 03:24:26.200 The pandemonium above has ceased, almost as suddenly as it arose, 3258 03:24:26.639 --> 03:24:29.200 passed like a fierce gust of wind. But they know 3259 03:24:29.360 --> 03:24:32.520 that in the passing it has determined their fate which 3260 03:24:32.639 --> 03:24:36.959 side had won. The pirates, listening avidly at the mouths 3261 03:24:37.000 --> 03:24:39.520 of the trees, heard the question put by every boy 3262 03:24:39.959 --> 03:24:44.479 and alas they also heard Peter's answer. If the Redskins 3263 03:24:44.559 --> 03:24:47.280 have won, he said, they'll beat the tom tom. It 3264 03:24:47.399 --> 03:24:51.399 is always their sign of victory. Now, Smee had found 3265 03:24:51.479 --> 03:24:53.680 the tom tom and was at that moment sitting on it. 3266 03:24:55.040 --> 03:24:57.799 You will never hear the tom tom again, he muttered, 3267 03:24:57.959 --> 03:25:00.879 but inaudibly, of course, for strict Silen had been enjoined 3268 03:25:02.040 --> 03:25:04.760 to his amazement. Hook signed him to beat the tom tom, 3269 03:25:05.600 --> 03:25:08.159 and slowly there came to Smee an understanding of the 3270 03:25:08.239 --> 03:25:12.159 dreadful wickedness of the order. Never probably had this simple 3271 03:25:12.280 --> 03:25:17.000 man admired Hook so much. Twice Smee beat upon the instrument, 3272 03:25:17.120 --> 03:25:21.000 and then stopped to listen gleefully. The tom Tom miss 3273 03:25:21.079 --> 03:25:26.079 Grants heard Peter cry an Indian victory. The doomed children 3274 03:25:26.200 --> 03:25:28.159 answered with a cheer that was music to the black 3275 03:25:28.200 --> 03:25:31.479 hearts above, and almost immediately they repeated their goodbyes to Peter. 3276 03:25:32.799 --> 03:25:35.680 This puzzled the pirates, but all their other feelings were 3277 03:25:35.680 --> 03:25:37.959 swollen by a base delight that the enemy were about 3278 03:25:37.959 --> 03:25:40.639 to plump the trees. They smirked at each other and 3279 03:25:40.719 --> 03:25:44.120 rubbed their hands rapidly and silently. Hook gave his orders, 3280 03:25:44.520 --> 03:25:47.120 one man to each tree, and the others to arrange 3281 03:25:47.159 --> 03:25:48.920 themselves in a line two yards apart. 3282 03:25:50.719 --> 03:25:56.760 End of chapter twelve, Chapter thirteen. Do you believe in fairies? 3283 03:26:00.600 --> 03:26:03.639 The more quickly this horror is disposed of, the better. 3284 03:26:04.399 --> 03:26:07.200 The first to emerge from his tree was Curly. He 3285 03:26:07.360 --> 03:26:10.079 rose out of it into the arms of Seco, who 3286 03:26:10.159 --> 03:26:13.440 flung him to Smee, who flung him to Starkey, who 3287 03:26:13.559 --> 03:26:16.440 flung him to Bill Jukes, who flung him to Noodler, 3288 03:26:16.920 --> 03:26:19.319 And so he was tossed from one to another till 3289 03:26:19.360 --> 03:26:22.159 he fell at the feet of the Black Pirate. All 3290 03:26:22.280 --> 03:26:25.440 the boys were plucked from their trees in this ruthless manner, 3291 03:26:25.879 --> 03:26:28.000 and several of them were in the air at a time, 3292 03:26:28.360 --> 03:26:32.399 like bales of goods flung from hand to hand. A 3293 03:26:32.479 --> 03:26:36.239 different treatment was accorded to Wendy, who came last. With 3294 03:26:36.399 --> 03:26:40.600 ironical politeness, Hook raised his hat to her, and, offering 3295 03:26:40.719 --> 03:26:43.719 her his arm, escorted her to the spot where the 3296 03:26:43.799 --> 03:26:47.079 others were being gagged. He did it with such an air. 3297 03:26:47.559 --> 03:26:52.040 He was so frightfully distngay that she was too fascinated 3298 03:26:52.120 --> 03:26:56.520 to cry out she was only a little girl, perhaps 3299 03:26:56.600 --> 03:26:59.239 at his tell tale to divulge that for a moment, 3300 03:26:59.319 --> 03:27:02.200 hook In trees against her, And we tell on her 3301 03:27:02.360 --> 03:27:06.479 only because her slip let the strange results. Had she 3302 03:27:06.719 --> 03:27:10.280 haughtily unhanded him, and we should have loved to write 3303 03:27:10.319 --> 03:27:13.000 it of her, she would have been hurled through the 3304 03:27:13.079 --> 03:27:15.920 air like the others. And then Hook would probably not 3305 03:27:16.040 --> 03:27:18.920 have been present at the tying of the children. And 3306 03:27:19.079 --> 03:27:21.600 had he not been at the tying, he would not 3307 03:27:21.879 --> 03:27:25.959 have discovered Slightly's secret, and without the secret he could 3308 03:27:26.000 --> 03:27:29.360 not presently have made his foul attempt on Peter's life. 3309 03:27:31.120 --> 03:27:34.600 They were tied to prevent their flying away, doubled up 3310 03:27:34.680 --> 03:27:37.680 with their knees close to their ears, and for the 3311 03:27:37.760 --> 03:27:40.360 trusting of them. The black pirate had cut a rope 3312 03:27:40.399 --> 03:27:45.479 into nine equal pieces. All went well until Slightly's turn came, 3313 03:27:46.079 --> 03:27:49.040 when he was found to be like those irritating parcels 3314 03:27:49.159 --> 03:27:51.440 that use up all the string and going round and 3315 03:27:51.959 --> 03:27:55.360 leave no tags with which to tie a knot. The 3316 03:27:55.479 --> 03:27:58.680 pirates kicked him in their rage, just as you kicked 3317 03:27:58.719 --> 03:28:01.840 the parcel, though in fairness you should kick the string. 3318 03:28:02.799 --> 03:28:05.280 And strange to say, it was Hook who told them 3319 03:28:05.319 --> 03:28:09.840 to belay their violence. His lip was curled with malicious triumph, 3320 03:28:10.840 --> 03:28:14.280 while his dogs were merely sweating, because every time they 3321 03:28:14.360 --> 03:28:17.280 tried to pack the unhappy lad tight in one part, 3322 03:28:17.479 --> 03:28:21.799 he bulged out in another. Hook's mastermind had gone far 3323 03:28:22.000 --> 03:28:26.600 beneath slightly surface, probing not for effects but for causes, 3324 03:28:27.239 --> 03:28:31.280 and his exultations showed that he had found them slightly 3325 03:28:31.760 --> 03:28:35.719 white to the gills. Knew that Hook had surprised his secret, 3326 03:28:36.479 --> 03:28:40.079 which was this, that no boy so blown out could 3327 03:28:40.200 --> 03:28:44.040 use a tree, wherein an average man kneeds stick. Poor 3328 03:28:44.200 --> 03:28:47.639 Slightly most wretched of all the children, now, for he 3329 03:28:47.879 --> 03:28:51.559 was in a panic about Peter bitterly regretted what he 3330 03:28:51.639 --> 03:28:55.360 had done, madly addicted to the drinking of water when 3331 03:28:55.440 --> 03:28:58.559 he was hot, he had swelled in consequence to his 3332 03:28:58.719 --> 03:29:02.760 present girth, and instead of reducing himself to fit his tree, 3333 03:29:03.040 --> 03:29:07.479 he had, unknown to the others, whittled his tree to 3334 03:29:07.600 --> 03:29:12.440 make it fit him. Sufficient of this, Hook guessed to 3335 03:29:12.559 --> 03:29:15.799 persuade him that Peter at last lay at his mercy. 3336 03:29:16.319 --> 03:29:19.079 But no word of the dark design that now formed 3337 03:29:19.159 --> 03:29:23.239 in these subterranean caverns of his mind crossed his lips. 3338 03:29:24.000 --> 03:29:27.239 He merely signed that the captives were to be conveyed 3339 03:29:27.360 --> 03:29:31.520 to the ship, and that he would be alone. How 3340 03:29:31.639 --> 03:29:35.120 to convey them. Hunched up in their ropes, they might 3341 03:29:35.239 --> 03:29:38.879 indeed be rolled downhill like barrels, but most of the 3342 03:29:38.959 --> 03:29:44.120 way lay through a morass. Again, Hook's genius surmounted difficulties. 3343 03:29:44.639 --> 03:29:47.440 He indicated that the little house must be used as 3344 03:29:47.479 --> 03:29:51.920 a conveyance. The children were flung into it. Four stout 3345 03:29:52.040 --> 03:29:56.440 pirates raised it on their shoulders. The others fell in behind, and, 3346 03:29:56.920 --> 03:30:00.879 singing the hateful pirate chorus, the strange person set off 3347 03:30:00.959 --> 03:30:03.479 through the wood. I don't know whether any of the 3348 03:30:03.600 --> 03:30:07.600 children were crying. If so, the singing drowned the sound. 3349 03:30:08.200 --> 03:30:11.479 But as the little house disappeared in the forest, a brave, 3350 03:30:11.600 --> 03:30:14.799 though tiny jet of smoke issued from its chimney, as 3351 03:30:14.879 --> 03:30:19.360 if defying hook. Hook saw it, and it did Peter 3352 03:30:19.479 --> 03:30:23.000 a bad service. It dried up any trickle of pity 3353 03:30:23.120 --> 03:30:26.719 for him that may have remained in the pirate's infuriated breast. 3354 03:30:27.879 --> 03:30:30.399 The first thing he did, on finding himself alone in 3355 03:30:30.479 --> 03:30:33.959 the fast falling night, was to tiptoe to slight his 3356 03:30:34.159 --> 03:30:37.479 tree and make sure that it provided him with a passage. 3357 03:30:38.639 --> 03:30:42.559 Then for long he remained brooding his hat of ill 3358 03:30:42.680 --> 03:30:45.959 omen on the sward, so that any gentle breeze which 3359 03:30:46.000 --> 03:30:50.479 had arisen might play refreshingly through his hair. Dark as 3360 03:30:50.559 --> 03:30:53.799 were his thoughts, his blue eyes were as soft as 3361 03:30:53.920 --> 03:30:58.719 the periwinkle. Intently he listened for any sound from the 3362 03:30:58.840 --> 03:31:03.600 nether world, but all was as silent below as above. 3363 03:31:04.559 --> 03:31:07.639 The house under the ground seemed to be but one 3364 03:31:07.799 --> 03:31:12.159 more empty tenement in the void. Was that boy asleep 3365 03:31:12.920 --> 03:31:15.239 or did he stand waiting at the foot of Slightly's 3366 03:31:15.319 --> 03:31:19.000 tree with his dagger in his hand. There was no 3367 03:31:19.120 --> 03:31:22.680 way of knowing, save by going down, Hook let his 3368 03:31:22.840 --> 03:31:26.639 cloak slip softly to the ground, and then biting his 3369 03:31:26.799 --> 03:31:30.479 lips still a lewde blood stood on them. He stepped 3370 03:31:30.520 --> 03:31:34.159 into the tree. He was a brave man, but for 3371 03:31:34.280 --> 03:31:37.079 a moment he had to stop there and wipe his brow, 3372 03:31:37.760 --> 03:31:42.760 which was dripping like a candle. Then silently he let 3373 03:31:42.879 --> 03:31:48.000 himself go into the unknown. He arrived unmolested, at the 3374 03:31:48.040 --> 03:31:51.600 foot of the shaft and stood still again, biting at 3375 03:31:51.639 --> 03:31:55.159 his breath, which had almost left him. As his eyes 3376 03:31:55.239 --> 03:31:58.319 became accustomed to the dim light, various objects in the 3377 03:31:58.440 --> 03:32:01.760 home under the trees took shape, But the only one 3378 03:32:01.799 --> 03:32:05.559 on which his greedy gaze rested, long sought for, and 3379 03:32:05.840 --> 03:32:09.559 found at last was the great bed. On the bed 3380 03:32:09.719 --> 03:32:15.239 lay Peter fast asleep, unaware of the tragedy being enacted above. 3381 03:32:15.680 --> 03:32:19.559 Peter had continued for a little time after the children left, 3382 03:32:20.440 --> 03:32:24.079 to play gaily on his pipes, no doubt, rather a 3383 03:32:24.200 --> 03:32:27.520 forlorn attempt to prove to himself that he did not care. 3384 03:32:28.639 --> 03:32:31.440 Then he decided not to take his medicine so as 3385 03:32:31.479 --> 03:32:34.680 to grieve Wendy. Then he lay down on the bed 3386 03:32:34.799 --> 03:32:38.559 outside the coverlet to vex her still more, for she 3387 03:32:38.760 --> 03:32:41.840 had always tucked them inside it. Because you never know 3388 03:32:42.040 --> 03:32:44.040 that you may not grow chilly at the turn of 3389 03:32:44.079 --> 03:32:48.440 the night. Then he nearly cried, but it struck him 3390 03:32:48.479 --> 03:32:52.079 how indignant she would be if he laughed instead. So 3391 03:32:52.239 --> 03:32:55.120 he laughed a haughty laugh, and fell asleep in the 3392 03:32:55.159 --> 03:32:59.959 middle of it. Sometimes, though not often, he had dreamed, 3393 03:33:00.479 --> 03:33:03.639 and they were more painful than the dreams of other boys. 3394 03:33:04.520 --> 03:33:07.639 For hours he could not be separated from those dreams, 3395 03:33:08.120 --> 03:33:11.760 though he wailed piteously in them. They had to do, 3396 03:33:11.959 --> 03:33:16.000 I think, with the riddle of his existence. At such 3397 03:33:16.159 --> 03:33:19.000 times it had been Wendy's custom to take him out 3398 03:33:19.040 --> 03:33:22.399 of bed and sit with him on her lap, soothing 3399 03:33:22.520 --> 03:33:25.639 him in dear ways of her own invention, and when 3400 03:33:25.680 --> 03:33:28.399 he grew calmer, to put him back to bed before 3401 03:33:28.440 --> 03:33:31.239 he quite woke up, so that he should not know 3402 03:33:31.399 --> 03:33:35.360 of the indignity to which she had subjected him. But 3403 03:33:35.559 --> 03:33:38.399 on this occasion he had fallen at once into a 3404 03:33:38.520 --> 03:33:42.600 dreamless sleep. One arm dropped over the edge of the bed, 3405 03:33:43.479 --> 03:33:46.479 one leg was arched, and the unfinished part of his 3406 03:33:46.639 --> 03:33:50.319 laugh was stranded on his mouth, which was open, showing 3407 03:33:50.440 --> 03:33:56.319 the little pearls. Thus defenseless hook found him. He stood 3408 03:33:56.440 --> 03:33:59.120 silent at the foot of the tree, looking across the 3409 03:33:59.239 --> 03:34:03.399 chamber at his head. Enemy. Did no feeling of compassion 3410 03:34:03.760 --> 03:34:08.040 disturb his somber breast. The man was not wholly evil. 3411 03:34:08.719 --> 03:34:13.159 He loved flowers, I have been told, and sweet music. 3412 03:34:13.799 --> 03:34:18.120 He was himself no mean performer on the harpsichord, and, 3413 03:34:19.000 --> 03:34:22.120 let it be frankly admitted, the idyllic nature of the 3414 03:34:22.239 --> 03:34:27.440 scene stirred him profoundly. Mastered by his better self, he 3415 03:34:27.479 --> 03:34:31.559 would have returned reluctantly up the tree, but for one thing. 3416 03:34:34.639 --> 03:34:38.719 What stayed him was Peter's impertinent appearance as he slept. 3417 03:34:39.719 --> 03:34:43.719 The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee. They 3418 03:34:43.760 --> 03:34:48.079 were such a personification of cockiness, as taken together will 3419 03:34:48.680 --> 03:34:52.120 never again, one may hope, be presented to eyes so 3420 03:34:52.600 --> 03:34:58.000 sensitive to their offensiveness. They steeled Hook's heart. If his 3421 03:34:58.239 --> 03:35:01.239 rage had broken him into a hunt, undred pieces, every 3422 03:35:01.319 --> 03:35:04.680 one of them would have disregarded the incident and leaped 3423 03:35:04.719 --> 03:35:08.840 at the sleeper. Though a light from the one lamp 3424 03:35:09.200 --> 03:35:12.959 shone dimly on the bed, Hooks stood in darkness himself, 3425 03:35:13.920 --> 03:35:17.719 and at the first stealthy step forward he discovered an obstacle, 3426 03:35:18.360 --> 03:35:22.479 the door of slightly stree. It did not entirely fill 3427 03:35:22.559 --> 03:35:26.680 the aperture, and he had been looking over it feeling 3428 03:35:26.799 --> 03:35:29.760 for the catch. He found, to his fury that it 3429 03:35:29.920 --> 03:35:33.920 was low down, beyond his reach to his disordered brain. 3430 03:35:34.079 --> 03:35:37.680 It seemed then that the irritating quality in Peter's face 3431 03:35:37.799 --> 03:35:41.920 and figure visibly increased, and he rattled the door and 3432 03:35:42.079 --> 03:35:45.520 flung himself against it. Was his enemy to escape him, 3433 03:35:45.559 --> 03:35:49.559 after all, But what was that The red in his 3434 03:35:49.719 --> 03:35:52.719 eye had caught sight of Peter's medicine. Standing on a 3435 03:35:52.799 --> 03:35:57.319 ledge within easy reach. He fathomed what it was straight away, 3436 03:35:57.920 --> 03:36:01.479 and immediately knew that the sleep was in his power 3437 03:36:02.840 --> 03:36:06.280 lest he should be taken alive. Hook always carried about 3438 03:36:06.360 --> 03:36:10.159 his person a dreadful drug, blended by himself. Of all 3439 03:36:10.319 --> 03:36:13.440 the death dealing rings that had come into his possession. 3440 03:36:14.440 --> 03:36:17.600 These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid, quite 3441 03:36:17.719 --> 03:36:22.040 unknown to science, which was probably the most virulent poison 3442 03:36:22.239 --> 03:36:26.840 in existence. Five drops of this he now added to 3443 03:36:26.959 --> 03:36:31.600 Peter's cup. His hand shook, but it was in exultation 3444 03:36:32.000 --> 03:36:35.319 rather than in shame. As he did it. He avoided 3445 03:36:35.360 --> 03:36:39.600 glancing at the sleeper, but not lest pity should unnerve him, 3446 03:36:40.079 --> 03:36:44.639 merely to avoid spilling than one long gloating look he 3447 03:36:44.840 --> 03:36:48.879 cast upon his victim, and turning, wormed his way with 3448 03:36:49.040 --> 03:36:52.520 difficulty up the tree. As he emerged at the top, 3449 03:36:52.600 --> 03:36:56.000 he looked the very spirit of evil breaking from its hole. 3450 03:36:57.639 --> 03:37:01.440 Donning his hat at its most rakish, he wound his 3451 03:37:01.559 --> 03:37:04.479 cloak around him, holding one end in front, as if 3452 03:37:04.559 --> 03:37:07.520 to conceal his person from the night of which it 3453 03:37:07.799 --> 03:37:13.399 was the blackest part, and muttering strangely to himself, stole 3454 03:37:13.479 --> 03:37:19.000 away through the trees. Peter slept on. The light guttered 3455 03:37:19.559 --> 03:37:23.559 and went out, leaving the tenement in darkness. But still 3456 03:37:23.600 --> 03:37:26.840 he slept. It must have been not less than ten 3457 03:37:26.879 --> 03:37:30.239 o'clock by the crocodile, when he suddenly sat up in 3458 03:37:30.280 --> 03:37:34.200 his bed, wakened by he knew not what it was. 3459 03:37:34.319 --> 03:37:37.799 A soft, cautious tapping on the door of his tree, 3460 03:37:39.120 --> 03:37:43.239 soft and cautious, but in that stillness it was sinister. 3461 03:37:44.360 --> 03:37:47.000 Peter felt for his dagger till his hand gripped it. 3462 03:37:47.600 --> 03:37:52.280 Then he spoke, who is that? For long there was 3463 03:37:52.360 --> 03:37:57.959 no answer, Then again the knock, Who are you? No answer? 3464 03:37:58.879 --> 03:38:03.520 He was thrilled, and he loved being thrilled. In two strides, 3465 03:38:03.559 --> 03:38:07.239 he reached the door. Unlike Slightly's doore, it filled the 3466 03:38:07.319 --> 03:38:10.360 aperture so that he could not see beyond it, nor 3467 03:38:10.479 --> 03:38:15.200 could the one knocking see him. I won't open unless 3468 03:38:15.280 --> 03:38:19.440 you speak, Peter cried. Then at last the visitor spoke, 3469 03:38:19.840 --> 03:38:23.639 in a lovely bell like voice. Let me in, Peter, 3470 03:38:24.760 --> 03:38:28.639 it was Tink, and quickly he unbarred to her. She 3471 03:38:28.799 --> 03:38:32.440 flew in excitedly, her face flushed and her dress stained 3472 03:38:32.479 --> 03:38:37.079 with mud. What is it, Oh, you can never guess, 3473 03:38:37.399 --> 03:38:41.159 she cried, and offered him three guesses. Out with it, 3474 03:38:41.399 --> 03:38:45.719 he shouted, and in one ungrammatical sentence, as long as 3475 03:38:45.760 --> 03:38:49.280 the ribbons the conjurors pulled from their mouths, she told 3476 03:38:49.319 --> 03:38:53.360 of the capture of Wendy and the boys. Peter's heart 3477 03:38:53.479 --> 03:38:57.319 bobbed up and down as he listened. Wendy bound and 3478 03:38:57.479 --> 03:39:00.600 on the pirate ship. She who loved ever to be 3479 03:39:01.000 --> 03:39:05.920 just so I'll rescue her, he cried, leaping at his weapons. 3480 03:39:06.440 --> 03:39:08.680 As he leaped, he thought of something he could do 3481 03:39:08.879 --> 03:39:12.639 to please her. He could take his medicine. His hand 3482 03:39:12.719 --> 03:39:17.520 closed on the fatal draft. No, shrieked Tinker Pell, who 3483 03:39:17.600 --> 03:39:20.200 had heard Hook mutter about his deed as he sped 3484 03:39:20.280 --> 03:39:26.159 through the forest. Why not, it is poisoned, poisoned? Who 3485 03:39:26.280 --> 03:39:27.280 could have poisoned it? 3486 03:39:28.159 --> 03:39:28.440 Hook? 3487 03:39:29.200 --> 03:39:31.840 Don't be silly? How could Hook have got down here? 3488 03:39:33.120 --> 03:39:36.479 Alas tinker Bell could not explain this, for even she 3489 03:39:36.760 --> 03:39:41.280 did not know the dark secret of Slightly's tree. Nevertheless, 3490 03:39:41.399 --> 03:39:44.799 Hook's words had left no room for doubt. The cup 3491 03:39:45.040 --> 03:39:51.200 was poisoned. Besides, said Peter, quite believing himself. I never 3492 03:39:51.399 --> 03:39:55.760 fell asleep. He raised the cup. No time for words, 3493 03:39:55.879 --> 03:39:59.920 now time for deeds, And with one of her lightning movements, 3494 03:40:00.239 --> 03:40:03.399 Tink got between his lips and the draft and drained 3495 03:40:03.479 --> 03:40:07.200 it to the dregs. Why Tink, how dare you drink 3496 03:40:07.239 --> 03:40:11.760 my medicine? But she did not answer. Already she was 3497 03:40:11.879 --> 03:40:14.920 reeling in the air. What is the matter with you, 3498 03:40:15.479 --> 03:40:20.600 cried Peter. Suddenly afraid it was poisoned Peter, she told 3499 03:40:20.680 --> 03:40:24.440 him softly, and now I am going to be dead. 3500 03:40:25.479 --> 03:40:28.239 Oh Tink, did you drink it to save me? 3501 03:40:29.559 --> 03:40:29.760 Yes? 3502 03:40:30.799 --> 03:40:35.239 But why Tink? Her wings would scarcely carry her now. 3503 03:40:35.920 --> 03:40:38.680 But in reply, she alighted on his shoulder and gave 3504 03:40:38.760 --> 03:40:42.399 his nose a loving bite. She whispered in his ear, 3505 03:40:43.040 --> 03:40:47.719 you silly ass, and then, tottering to her chamber, lay 3506 03:40:47.799 --> 03:40:51.440 down on the bed. His head almost filled the fourth 3507 03:40:51.520 --> 03:40:53.799 wall of her little room as he knelt near her 3508 03:40:53.920 --> 03:40:58.079 in distress. Every moment her light was growing fainter, and 3509 03:40:58.200 --> 03:41:00.559 he knew that if it went out, she would be 3510 03:41:00.799 --> 03:41:04.840 no more. She liked his tears so much that she 3511 03:41:04.959 --> 03:41:07.840 put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. 3512 03:41:09.079 --> 03:41:12.079 Her voice was so low that at first he could 3513 03:41:12.159 --> 03:41:15.520 not make out what she said. Then he made it out. 3514 03:41:16.559 --> 03:41:19.200 She was saying that she thought she could get well 3515 03:41:19.280 --> 03:41:23.959 again if children believed in fairies. Peter flung out his arms. 3516 03:41:24.440 --> 03:41:27.040 There were no children there, and it was night time, 3517 03:41:27.760 --> 03:41:30.799 but he addressed all who might be dreaming of the neverland, 3518 03:41:31.360 --> 03:41:33.760 and who were therefore nearer to him than you think, 3519 03:41:34.479 --> 03:41:38.000 boys and girls in their nighties, and naked papooses in 3520 03:41:38.079 --> 03:41:39.639 their baskets hung from trees. 3521 03:41:40.799 --> 03:41:41.639 Do you believe? 3522 03:41:42.079 --> 03:41:45.680 He cried? Tink sat up in bed, almost briskly, to 3523 03:41:45.799 --> 03:41:49.680 listen to her fate. She fancied, she heard answers in 3524 03:41:49.760 --> 03:41:54.440 the affirmative, and then again she wasn't sure. What do 3525 03:41:54.559 --> 03:41:59.120 you think, she asked Peter, If you believe, he shouted 3526 03:41:59.159 --> 03:42:04.159 to them, flap your hands, don't let Tink die. Many clapped, 3527 03:42:05.040 --> 03:42:11.440 some didn't, A few beasts hissed. The clapping stopped suddenly, 3528 03:42:12.079 --> 03:42:15.000 as if countless mothers had rushed to their nurseries to 3529 03:42:15.079 --> 03:42:18.959 see what on earth was happening? But already Tink was saved. 3530 03:42:19.680 --> 03:42:22.920 First her voice grew strong, Then she popped out of bed. 3531 03:42:23.520 --> 03:42:26.559 Then she was flashing through the room, more merry and 3532 03:42:26.799 --> 03:42:30.840 impudent than ever. She never thought of thanking those who believed, 3533 03:42:31.440 --> 03:42:33.360 but she would have liked to get at the ones 3534 03:42:33.399 --> 03:42:39.200 who had hissed. And now to rescue Wendy. The moon 3535 03:42:39.399 --> 03:42:41.920 was riding in a cloudy heaven when Peter rose from 3536 03:42:41.959 --> 03:42:45.200 his tree, but girt with weapons and wearing little else 3537 03:42:45.559 --> 03:42:49.000 to set out upon his perilous quest. It was not 3538 03:42:49.280 --> 03:42:51.920 such a night as he would have chosen. He had 3539 03:42:51.959 --> 03:42:54.920 hoped to fly, keeping not far from the ground, so 3540 03:42:55.079 --> 03:42:58.360 that nothing unwonted should escape his eyes. But in that 3541 03:42:58.559 --> 03:43:01.040 fitful light, to a fly own low would have meant 3542 03:43:01.120 --> 03:43:05.159 trailing his shadow through the trees, thus disturbing birds and 3543 03:43:05.200 --> 03:43:10.200 acquainting a watchful foe. That he was astir He regretted 3544 03:43:10.280 --> 03:43:12.280 now that he had given the birds of the island 3545 03:43:12.399 --> 03:43:16.280 such strange names, that they are very wild and difficult 3546 03:43:16.399 --> 03:43:20.159 of approach. There was no other course but to press 3547 03:43:20.280 --> 03:43:23.959 forward in red skinned fashion, at which happily he was 3548 03:43:24.000 --> 03:43:27.920 an adept. But in what direction, for he could not 3549 03:43:28.079 --> 03:43:30.559 be sure that the children had been taken to the ship. 3550 03:43:31.760 --> 03:43:35.559 A light fall of snow had obliterated all footmarks, and 3551 03:43:35.719 --> 03:43:39.760 a deathly silence pervaded the island, as if for a 3552 03:43:39.879 --> 03:43:44.040 space nature stood still in horror of the recent carnage. 3553 03:43:44.959 --> 03:43:47.479 He had taught the children something of the forest lore 3554 03:43:47.639 --> 03:43:50.760 that he had himself learned from Tiger Lily and tinker Bell, 3555 03:43:51.639 --> 03:43:54.600 and knew that in their dire hour they were not 3556 03:43:54.920 --> 03:43:58.840 likely to forget it. Slightly. If he had an opportunity, 3557 03:43:59.280 --> 03:44:03.399 would blaze the trees. For instance, Curly would drop seeds, 3558 03:44:04.000 --> 03:44:07.319 and Wendy would leave her handkerchief at some important place. 3559 03:44:08.559 --> 03:44:11.600 The morning was needed to search for such guidance, and 3560 03:44:11.760 --> 03:44:15.159 he could not wait. The upper world had called him, 3561 03:44:15.600 --> 03:44:20.079 but would give no help. The crocodile passed him, but 3562 03:44:20.280 --> 03:44:24.239 not another living thing, not a sound, not a movement. 3563 03:44:24.840 --> 03:44:27.360 And yet he knew well that sudden death might be 3564 03:44:27.479 --> 03:44:32.079 at the next tree, or stalking him from behind. He 3565 03:44:32.319 --> 03:44:38.600 swore this terrible oath, hook or me this time. Now 3566 03:44:38.760 --> 03:44:42.360 he crawled forward like a snake, and again erect he 3567 03:44:42.600 --> 03:44:46.040 darted across the space on which the moonlight played, one 3568 03:44:46.200 --> 03:44:49.079 finger on his lip and his dagger at the ready. 3569 03:44:49.680 --> 03:44:51.360 He was frightfully happy. 3570 03:44:53.319 --> 03:44:59.399 End of chapter Chapter fourteen. The pirate ship one green 3571 03:44:59.479 --> 03:45:02.079 light squ over Kid's Creek, which is near the mouth 3572 03:45:02.079 --> 03:45:04.760 of the Pirate River, marked where the brig the Jolly 3573 03:45:04.879 --> 03:45:08.280 Roger lay low in the water, a rakish looking craft, 3574 03:45:08.440 --> 03:45:11.639 foul to the hull, every beam in her detestable like ground, 3575 03:45:11.680 --> 03:45:15.159 strewn with mangled feathers. She was the cannibal of the seas, 3576 03:45:15.600 --> 03:45:18.639 and scarce needed that watchful eye, for she floated immune 3577 03:45:18.719 --> 03:45:21.360 in the horror of her name. She was wrapped in 3578 03:45:21.399 --> 03:45:23.879 a blanket of night, through which no sound from her 3579 03:45:24.000 --> 03:45:26.520 could have reached the shore. There were little sound, and 3580 03:45:26.600 --> 03:45:29.079 none agreeable, save the whirr of the ship's sewing machine, 3581 03:45:29.079 --> 03:45:32.879 at which Smee sat, ever industrious and obliging the essence 3582 03:45:32.920 --> 03:45:36.280 of the commonplace pathetic Smee. I know not why he 3583 03:45:36.399 --> 03:45:39.159 was so infinitely pathetic, unless it were because he was 3584 03:45:39.200 --> 03:45:42.440 so pathetically unaware of it. But even strong men had 3585 03:45:42.479 --> 03:45:45.239 to turn hastily from looking at him, And more than once, 3586 03:45:45.360 --> 03:45:47.600 on summer evenings, he had touched the fount of hook's 3587 03:45:47.600 --> 03:45:50.760 teers and made it flow. Of this, as of almost 3588 03:45:50.760 --> 03:45:54.799 everything else, Smee was quite unconscious a few of the 3589 03:45:54.879 --> 03:45:57.799 pirates lent over the bulwarks, drinking in the miasma of 3590 03:45:57.879 --> 03:46:01.120 the night. Others sprawled by barrel over games of dice 3591 03:46:01.200 --> 03:46:04.120 and cards. And the exhausted four who had carried little 3592 03:46:04.159 --> 03:46:06.639 House laid prone on the deck, where even in their 3593 03:46:06.680 --> 03:46:09.319 sleep they rolled skillfully to this side or that, out 3594 03:46:09.360 --> 03:46:12.360 of Hook's reach, lest he should claw them mechanically. In passing, 3595 03:46:13.719 --> 03:46:17.559 Hook trod the deck in thought, oh man, unfathomable. It 3596 03:46:17.840 --> 03:46:20.760 was his hour of triumph. Peter had been removed forever 3597 03:46:20.840 --> 03:46:23.200 from his path, and all the other boys were in 3598 03:46:23.280 --> 03:46:26.120 the brig about to walk the plank. It was his 3599 03:46:26.280 --> 03:46:29.000 grimaced deed since the days when he had brought barbecue 3600 03:46:29.040 --> 03:46:31.760 to heal. And knowing as we do, how vain a 3601 03:46:31.840 --> 03:46:35.559 tabernacle is manned, could we be surprised had he now 3602 03:46:35.760 --> 03:46:38.559 paced the deck unsteadily, bellied out by the wind of 3603 03:46:38.639 --> 03:46:42.399 his success. But there was no elation in his gait, 3604 03:46:42.879 --> 03:46:45.040 which kept pace with the action of his somber mind. 3605 03:46:45.959 --> 03:46:49.959 Hook was profoundly dejected. He was often thus when communing 3606 03:46:49.959 --> 03:46:52.319 with himself on board ship in the quietude of the night. 3607 03:46:52.879 --> 03:46:56.440 It was because he was so terribly alone. This inscribable 3608 03:46:56.520 --> 03:46:59.799 man never felt more alone than once surrounded by his dogs. 3609 03:47:00.319 --> 03:47:04.440 They were socially inferior to him. Hook was not his 3610 03:47:04.559 --> 03:47:07.760 true name. To reveal who he really was, would even 3611 03:47:07.799 --> 03:47:10.040 at this date, set the country in a blaze. But 3612 03:47:10.159 --> 03:47:12.639 as those who read between the lines must already have get, 3613 03:47:13.120 --> 03:47:15.399 he had been at a famous public school, and its 3614 03:47:15.440 --> 03:47:18.680 tradition still clung to him like garments with which, indeed 3615 03:47:18.719 --> 03:47:21.840 they are largely concerned. Thus it was offensive to him 3616 03:47:21.959 --> 03:47:23.959 even now to board a ship in the same dress 3617 03:47:24.000 --> 03:47:26.200 in which he grappled her, And he still appeared to 3618 03:47:26.280 --> 03:47:29.280 his walk to the school's distinguished slouch. But above all 3619 03:47:29.360 --> 03:47:33.440 he retained the passion for a good form, good form. 3620 03:47:33.920 --> 03:47:36.360 However much he may have degenerated, he still knew that 3621 03:47:36.479 --> 03:47:39.959 this is all that really matters. From far within him, 3622 03:47:39.959 --> 03:47:42.600 he heard a creaking as of rusty portals, and through 3623 03:47:42.680 --> 03:47:45.840 them came a stern tap tap, tap, like hammering in 3624 03:47:45.879 --> 03:47:48.719 the night when one cannot sleep. Have you been in 3625 03:47:48.799 --> 03:47:53.840 good form today? Was their eternal question. Fame, fame, that 3626 03:47:54.000 --> 03:47:57.799 glittering bauble at his mine, He cried, Is it quite 3627 03:47:57.879 --> 03:48:01.079 good form to be distinguished at anything? The tap tap 3628 03:48:01.120 --> 03:48:03.799 from his school replied, I am the only man whom 3629 03:48:03.879 --> 03:48:08.440 barbecue feared he urged, and flint feared barbecue barbecue flint? 3630 03:48:08.879 --> 03:48:13.520 What house caimed? The cutting report most disquieting reflection of all. 3631 03:48:13.879 --> 03:48:16.600 Was it not a bad form to think about good form? 3632 03:48:17.799 --> 03:48:20.239 His vitals were tortured by this problem. It was a 3633 03:48:20.360 --> 03:48:23.000 claw within him, sharper than the iron one. And as 3634 03:48:23.040 --> 03:48:26.159 it tore him, the perspiration dripped down his tallow countenance 3635 03:48:26.440 --> 03:48:29.559 and streaked his doublets. Oft times he drew his sleeve 3636 03:48:29.600 --> 03:48:32.520 across his face, but there was no damning that trickle 3637 03:48:33.479 --> 03:48:37.120 ah and be not Hook. There came to him a 3638 03:48:37.159 --> 03:48:40.719 presentiment of his early dissolution. It was as if Peter's 3639 03:48:40.799 --> 03:48:43.799 terrible oath had bordered the ship. Hook felt a gloomy 3640 03:48:43.879 --> 03:48:47.159 desire to make his dying speech, lest presently there should 3641 03:48:47.200 --> 03:48:50.719 be no time for it. Better for Hook, he cried, 3642 03:48:51.120 --> 03:48:54.440 if he had had less ambition. It was in his 3643 03:48:54.559 --> 03:48:56.920 darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the 3644 03:48:57.000 --> 03:49:01.959 third person. No little children to love me. Strange that 3645 03:49:02.040 --> 03:49:04.200 he should think of this, which I had never troubled 3646 03:49:04.239 --> 03:49:07.159 him before. Perhaps a sewing machine brought it to his mind. 3647 03:49:07.760 --> 03:49:11.120 For long, he muttered to himself, staring at Smee who 3648 03:49:11.200 --> 03:49:14.239 was hemming placidly under the conviction that all children feared him, 3649 03:49:15.280 --> 03:49:18.680 feared him, feared Smee. There was not a child on 3650 03:49:18.799 --> 03:49:20.959 board the brig that night who did not already love him. 3651 03:49:21.399 --> 03:49:23.200 He had said horrid things to them and hit them 3652 03:49:23.239 --> 03:49:25.319 with the palm of his hand because he could not 3653 03:49:25.440 --> 03:49:27.879 hit with his fist, but they had only clung to him. 3654 03:49:27.879 --> 03:49:31.360 The more Michael had tried on his spectacles to tell 3655 03:49:31.440 --> 03:49:34.159 poor Smee that they thought him lovable, took itch to 3656 03:49:34.239 --> 03:49:38.040 do it, but it seemed too brutal. Instead, he revolved 3657 03:49:38.079 --> 03:49:41.440 this mystery in his mind. Why do they find Smee lovable? 3658 03:49:42.120 --> 03:49:44.319 He pursued the problem like the sleuth hound that he was. 3659 03:49:44.920 --> 03:49:47.920 If Smee was lovable, what was it that made him so? 3660 03:49:49.200 --> 03:49:55.159 A terrible answer suddenly presented itself. Good form had the 3661 03:49:55.200 --> 03:49:57.719 boats in good form without knowing it, which is the 3662 03:49:57.799 --> 03:50:00.920 best form of all. You remember that you have to 3663 03:50:01.040 --> 03:50:03.239 prove you don't know you have it before you're eligible 3664 03:50:03.280 --> 03:50:06.239 for pop. With a cry of rage, he raised his 3665 03:50:06.319 --> 03:50:09.399 iron hand over Smee's head, but he did not take tear. 3666 03:50:09.920 --> 03:50:13.200 What arrested him was this reflection, to claw a man 3667 03:50:13.319 --> 03:50:18.000 because he is good form what would that be bad form? 3668 03:50:19.600 --> 03:50:21.719 The unhappy hook was as impotent as he was damp, 3669 03:50:21.760 --> 03:50:24.680 and he fell forward like a cut flower. His dogs, 3670 03:50:24.680 --> 03:50:26.600 thinking him out of the way for a time, discipline, 3671 03:50:26.639 --> 03:50:29.840 instantly relaxed, and they broke into a bacchanalian dance, which 3672 03:50:29.879 --> 03:50:32.479 brought him poose feet. At once all traces of human 3673 03:50:32.520 --> 03:50:35.079 weakness gone, as if a bucket of water had passed 3674 03:50:35.079 --> 03:50:38.520 over him. Quiet you, scugs, he cried, or I'll cast 3675 03:50:38.559 --> 03:50:41.440 anchor in you, And at once the din was hushed. 3676 03:50:42.120 --> 03:50:44.680 Are all the children chained so that they cannot fly away? 3677 03:50:45.319 --> 03:50:45.520 Aye? 3678 03:50:45.520 --> 03:50:45.719 Aye? 3679 03:50:46.520 --> 03:50:50.360 Then hohist them up? The wretched prisoners were dragged from 3680 03:50:50.399 --> 03:50:53.360 the hold, all except Wendy, and ranged in line in 3681 03:50:53.399 --> 03:50:56.000 front of him. For a time, he seemed unconscious of 3682 03:50:56.079 --> 03:50:59.600 their presence. He lulled at his ease, humming not unloadiously, 3683 03:51:00.079 --> 03:51:03.159 snatches of a rude song, and fingering a pack of cards. 3684 03:51:03.799 --> 03:51:05.799 Ever and anon, the light from a cigar gave a 3685 03:51:05.879 --> 03:51:10.239 touch of color to his face. Now, then bellize, he said, briskly. 3686 03:51:10.440 --> 03:51:12.920 Six of you will walk the plank tonight, But I 3687 03:51:13.000 --> 03:51:15.879 have room for two cabin boys. Which of you is 3688 03:51:15.959 --> 03:51:20.479 it to be? Don't irritate him unnecessarily have been when 3689 03:51:20.520 --> 03:51:23.520 these instructions in the hold, so Tootles stepped forward politely. 3690 03:51:24.000 --> 03:51:26.040 Tootles hated the idea of signing under such a man, 3691 03:51:26.319 --> 03:51:28.280 but an instinct told him that it would be prudent 3692 03:51:28.360 --> 03:51:31.440 to lay the responsibility on an absent person. And though 3693 03:51:31.440 --> 03:51:33.680 a somewhat silly boy, he knew that mothers alone are 3694 03:51:33.719 --> 03:51:36.360 always willing to be the buffer. All children know this 3695 03:51:36.440 --> 03:51:39.639 about mothers and despise them for it, but make constant. 3696 03:51:39.360 --> 03:51:39.680 Use of it. 3697 03:51:40.879 --> 03:51:44.159 So Tootles explained prudently. You see, sir, I don't think 3698 03:51:44.200 --> 03:51:46.559 my mother would like me to be a pirate? Would 3699 03:51:46.559 --> 03:51:49.159 your mother like you to be a pirate? Slightly? He 3700 03:51:49.200 --> 03:51:51.840 winked it slightly, who said mournfully, I don't think so, 3701 03:51:52.719 --> 03:51:55.120 as if he wished things had been otherwise. Would your 3702 03:51:55.239 --> 03:51:56.319 mother like you to be a pirate? 3703 03:51:56.360 --> 03:51:56.559 Twin? 3704 03:51:57.319 --> 03:51:59.479 I don't think so, said the first twin. As clever 3705 03:51:59.520 --> 03:52:03.079 as the others, nibs would stow this gab roared Hook 3706 03:52:03.360 --> 03:52:06.559 and the spokesman were dragged back. You boy, he said, 3707 03:52:06.680 --> 03:52:09.159 addressing John, you look as if you had a little 3708 03:52:09.200 --> 03:52:11.479 pluck in you didst ever want to be a pirate? 3709 03:52:11.600 --> 03:52:16.920 My hearty, Now, John, had sometimes experienced this hankering at 3710 03:52:17.000 --> 03:52:20.120 Maths Prep, and he was stuck by Hook picking him out. 3711 03:52:20.920 --> 03:52:23.719 I once thought of my calling myself red handed Jack, 3712 03:52:24.159 --> 03:52:27.719 he said, difftantly, and a good name too. We'll call 3713 03:52:27.799 --> 03:52:31.200 you that here, Bully, if you join? What do you think? 3714 03:52:31.319 --> 03:52:35.440 Michael asked John? What would you call me if I joined? 3715 03:52:35.600 --> 03:52:41.479 Michael demanded Blackbeard Joe. Michael was naturally impressed. What do 3716 03:52:41.600 --> 03:52:44.319 you think, John? He wanted John to decide, and John 3717 03:52:44.399 --> 03:52:48.399 wanted him to decide. Shall we still be respectful subjects 3718 03:52:48.399 --> 03:52:52.479 at the king? John inquired brew Hook's teeth came the answer, 3719 03:52:53.079 --> 03:52:56.799 you would have to swear down with the king. Perhaps 3720 03:52:56.920 --> 03:53:00.239 John had not behaved very well so far, But don't 3721 03:53:00.280 --> 03:53:03.680 ask now. Then I refuse, he cried, banging the barrel 3722 03:53:03.719 --> 03:53:07.920 in front of Hook. And I refuse, cried Michael. Rule Britannia, 3723 03:53:08.520 --> 03:53:12.879 speaked Billy. The infuriated pirates buffeted them in the mouth, 3724 03:53:12.959 --> 03:53:15.520 and Hook roared out, that seals your doom, and bring 3725 03:53:15.639 --> 03:53:19.159 up their mother. Get the plank ready. They were only boys, 3726 03:53:19.239 --> 03:53:21.280 and they went white as they saw Jukes and Checko 3727 03:53:21.399 --> 03:53:24.319 preparing fatal plank. But they tried to look brave when 3728 03:53:24.360 --> 03:53:27.600 Wendy was brought up. No words of mine can tell 3729 03:53:27.639 --> 03:53:30.559 you how Wendy despised these pirates to the boys. There 3730 03:53:30.639 --> 03:53:32.760 was at least some glamour in the pirate calling, but 3731 03:53:32.879 --> 03:53:34.479 all that she saw was that the ship had not 3732 03:53:34.559 --> 03:53:37.079 been tidied for years. There was not a porthole in 3733 03:53:37.120 --> 03:53:39.000 the grimy glass of which you might not have written 3734 03:53:39.040 --> 03:53:42.000 with your finger, dirty pig, And she had already written 3735 03:53:42.159 --> 03:53:44.959 it on several But as the boys gathered around her, 3736 03:53:45.079 --> 03:53:48.520 she had no thought, of course, save for them. So, 3737 03:53:48.760 --> 03:53:51.520 my beauty, said Hook, as if he spoke in syrup. 3738 03:53:52.040 --> 03:53:56.399 You are to see your children walk the plank. Fine gentleman, 3739 03:53:56.559 --> 03:53:59.040 though he was, the intensity of his communings had soiled 3740 03:53:59.079 --> 03:54:01.440 his rough, and suddenly he knew that she was gazing 3741 03:54:01.479 --> 03:54:04.440 at it with a hasty gesture. He tried to hide it, 3742 03:54:04.559 --> 03:54:08.639 but he was too late. Are they to die, asked Wendy, 3743 03:54:08.799 --> 03:54:11.719 with a look of such frightful contempt that he nearly fainted. 3744 03:54:12.360 --> 03:54:12.959 They are, he. 3745 03:54:13.040 --> 03:54:16.440 Starled silence all he cried gloatingly. For a mother's last 3746 03:54:16.520 --> 03:54:20.600 words to her children. At this moment, Wendy was grand. 3747 03:54:21.239 --> 03:54:24.440 These are my last words, dear boys, she said, firmly. 3748 03:54:24.959 --> 03:54:26.479 I feel that I have a message to you from 3749 03:54:26.520 --> 03:54:29.200 your real mother's and it is this. We hope our 3750 03:54:29.280 --> 03:54:33.639 sons will die like English gentlemen. Even the pirates were 3751 03:54:33.680 --> 03:54:37.159 odd and Toodles cried up hysterically. I am going to 3752 03:54:37.239 --> 03:54:38.360 do what my mother hopes? 3753 03:54:38.639 --> 03:54:39.159 What are you to do? 3754 03:54:39.319 --> 03:54:42.120 Nibn's what's my mother hopes? What are you to do? Twin? 3755 03:54:42.559 --> 03:54:45.520 What's my mother hopes? John bud Hook had found his 3756 03:54:45.639 --> 03:54:49.239 voice again. Tie her up, he shouted. It was Smee 3757 03:54:49.479 --> 03:54:52.399 who tied her to the mast. See here, honey, he whispered, 3758 03:54:52.479 --> 03:54:54.079 I'll see to you if you promised me. My mother, 3759 03:54:55.760 --> 03:54:58.479 But not even for Smee would she make such a promise. 3760 03:54:59.120 --> 03:55:01.120 I would almost rather I have no children at all, 3761 03:55:01.479 --> 03:55:05.159 she said disdainfully. It is sad to know that not 3762 03:55:05.280 --> 03:55:07.120 a boy was looking at her. As snee tighterr to 3763 03:55:07.200 --> 03:55:09.559 the mast. The eyes of all were on the plank 3764 03:55:09.840 --> 03:55:12.680 that last little walk they were about to take. They 3765 03:55:12.719 --> 03:55:14.600 were no longer able to hope that they would walk 3766 03:55:14.639 --> 03:55:17.479 it manfully, for the capacity to think had gone from them. 3767 03:55:18.079 --> 03:55:22.000 They could stare and shiver. Only Hook smiled on them 3768 03:55:22.000 --> 03:55:24.159 with his teeth closed, and took a step toward Wendy 3769 03:55:24.719 --> 03:55:26.520 His intention was to turn her face so that she 3770 03:55:26.559 --> 03:55:28.760 should see the boys walking the plank one by one. 3771 03:55:29.440 --> 03:55:31.920 But he never reached her. He never heard the cry 3772 03:55:31.959 --> 03:55:34.559 of anguish he hoped to wring from her. He heard 3773 03:55:34.639 --> 03:55:40.520 something else instead. It was the terrible pick tick of 3774 03:55:40.600 --> 03:55:45.760 the crocodile. They all heard it. Pirates, boys, Wendy, and 3775 03:55:46.079 --> 03:55:49.040 immediately every head was blown in one direction, not to 3776 03:55:49.120 --> 03:55:51.920 the water. Whence the sound proceeded, but toward a hook. 3777 03:55:52.680 --> 03:55:55.559 All knew that what was about to happen concerned him alone, 3778 03:55:56.200 --> 03:55:59.399 and that from being actors there were suddenly becoming spectators. 3779 03:56:00.760 --> 03:56:02.719 Very frightful was it to see the chains that came 3780 03:56:02.760 --> 03:56:04.959 over him. It was as if he had been clipped 3781 03:56:04.959 --> 03:56:08.120 at every joint. He fell in a little heat. The 3782 03:56:08.239 --> 03:56:11.399 sound came steadily nearer, and in advance of it came 3783 03:56:11.479 --> 03:56:15.200 this ghastly thought the crocodile was about to board the ship. 3784 03:56:16.760 --> 03:56:19.559 Even the iron claw hung inactive, as if knowing that 3785 03:56:19.600 --> 03:56:22.159 it was no intrinsic part of the attacking force wanted 3786 03:56:22.799 --> 03:56:25.559 let left so fearfully alone any other man. Riblin with 3787 03:56:25.600 --> 03:56:28.280 his eyes shut where he fell. But the gigantic brain 3788 03:56:28.360 --> 03:56:31.040 of hook was still working, and under its guidance. He 3789 03:56:31.159 --> 03:56:33.840 crawled on the knees along the deck as far from 3790 03:56:33.879 --> 03:56:36.799 the sound as he could go. The pirates respectfully cleared 3791 03:56:36.799 --> 03:56:38.799 a passage for him, and it was only when he 3792 03:56:38.879 --> 03:56:41.959 brought up against the bulwarks that he spoke, hide me, 3793 03:56:42.639 --> 03:56:46.520 he cried hoarsely. They gathered round him, all eyes averted 3794 03:56:46.520 --> 03:56:48.600 from the thing that was coming on board. They had 3795 03:56:48.680 --> 03:56:52.479 no thought of fighting it. It was fate. Only when 3796 03:56:52.559 --> 03:56:55.280 Hook was hidden from them did curiosity loosen the limbs 3797 03:56:55.280 --> 03:56:57.639 of the boys so that they could rush to the 3798 03:56:57.840 --> 03:57:00.920 ship's side to see the crocodile climbing it. Then they 3799 03:57:00.959 --> 03:57:03.559 got the strange surprise of the night of Nights, for 3800 03:57:03.719 --> 03:57:05.799 it was no crocodile that was coming to their aid. 3801 03:57:06.040 --> 03:57:10.200 It was Peter. He signed them not to give vent 3802 03:57:10.319 --> 03:57:13.639 to any cry of admiration that might arise suspicion. Then 3803 03:57:14.239 --> 03:57:18.079 he went on taking end Chapter fourteen. 3804 03:57:19.239 --> 03:57:27.200 Chapter fifteen, Hook or me. This time, odd things happened 3805 03:57:27.200 --> 03:57:30.360 to all of us on our way through life, without 3806 03:57:30.479 --> 03:57:33.920 our noticing for a time that they have happened. Thus, 3807 03:57:34.319 --> 03:57:38.000 to take an instance, we suddenly discover that we have 3808 03:57:38.120 --> 03:57:41.680 been deaf in one year for we don't know how long, 3809 03:57:42.399 --> 03:57:45.680 But say half an hour now. Such an experience had 3810 03:57:45.719 --> 03:57:49.200 come that night to Peter. When last we saw him, 3811 03:57:49.559 --> 03:57:52.639 he was stealing across the island with one finger to 3812 03:57:52.799 --> 03:57:55.760 his lips and his dagger at the ready. He had 3813 03:57:55.799 --> 03:58:00.319 seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything peculiar it, 3814 03:58:00.959 --> 03:58:03.440 but by and bye he remembered that it had not 3815 03:58:03.639 --> 03:58:08.360 been ticking. At first, he thought this eerie, but soon 3816 03:58:08.520 --> 03:58:14.799 concluded rightly that the clock had run down without giving 3817 03:58:14.879 --> 03:58:17.159 a thought to what might be the feelings of a 3818 03:58:17.239 --> 03:58:22.280 fellow creature. Thus abruptly deprived of its closest companion, Peter 3819 03:58:22.399 --> 03:58:25.520 began to consider how he could turn the catastrophe to 3820 03:58:25.639 --> 03:58:29.040 his own use, and he decided to dick, so that 3821 03:58:29.559 --> 03:58:33.079 wild beasts should believe he was the crocodile and let 3822 03:58:33.159 --> 03:58:39.280 him pass unmolestic. He ticked superbly, but with one unforeseen result, 3823 03:58:39.879 --> 03:58:43.079 the crocodile was among those who heard the sound, and 3824 03:58:43.280 --> 03:58:46.959 it followed him, though whether with the purpose of regaining 3825 03:58:47.079 --> 03:58:50.200 what it had lost or merely as a friend under 3826 03:58:50.239 --> 03:58:53.600 the belief that it was again ticking itself, will never 3827 03:58:53.920 --> 03:58:57.959 be certainly known, For, like slaves to a fixed idea, 3828 03:58:58.440 --> 03:59:03.159 it was a stupid beast. Peter reached the shore without mishap, 3829 03:59:03.360 --> 03:59:07.159 and went straight on his legs, encountering the water as 3830 03:59:07.239 --> 03:59:12.079 if quite unaware that they had entered a new element. Thus, 3831 03:59:12.559 --> 03:59:16.079 many animals passed from land to water, but no other 3832 03:59:16.280 --> 03:59:20.399 human of whom I know. As he swam, he had 3833 03:59:20.520 --> 03:59:25.360 but one thought hook or me. This time he had 3834 03:59:25.440 --> 03:59:28.959 ticked so long that he now went on ticking without 3835 03:59:29.079 --> 03:59:32.000 knowing that he was doing it. Had he known, he 3836 03:59:32.040 --> 03:59:36.079 would have stopped for to boat the brick by help 3837 03:59:36.120 --> 03:59:40.239 of the tick, though an ingenious idea had not occurred 3838 03:59:40.239 --> 03:59:44.680 to him. On the contrary, he thought he had scaled 3839 03:59:44.719 --> 03:59:48.280 her side as noiseless as a mouse, and he was 3840 03:59:48.360 --> 03:59:52.159 amazed to see the pirates covering from him with hook 3841 03:59:52.239 --> 03:59:55.680 in their midst, as abject as if he had heard 3842 03:59:55.760 --> 04:00:00.200 the crocodile the crocodile. No sooner did it be to 3843 04:00:00.319 --> 04:00:04.040 remember it than he heard the ticking. At first he 3844 04:00:04.360 --> 04:00:07.360 thought the sound did come from the crocodile, and he 3845 04:00:07.520 --> 04:00:13.079 looked behind him swiftly. Then he realized that he was 3846 04:00:13.159 --> 04:00:17.040 doing it himself, and in a flash he understood the situation. 3847 04:00:18.280 --> 04:00:22.000 How clever of me, he thought at once, and signed 3848 04:00:22.000 --> 04:00:26.079 to the boys not to burst into applause. It was 3849 04:00:26.200 --> 04:00:30.719 at this moment that it taint. The quartermaster emerged from 3850 04:00:30.799 --> 04:00:36.040 the forecastle and came along the deck. Now, reader, time, 3851 04:00:36.280 --> 04:00:40.399 what happened? By your watch? Peter struck true and deep. 3852 04:00:41.120 --> 04:00:44.600 John clapped his hands on the ill fated pirate's mouth 3853 04:00:44.799 --> 04:00:49.159 to stifle the dying groom. He fell forward. Four boys 3854 04:00:49.239 --> 04:00:52.559 caught him to prevent the thud. Peter gave the signal, 3855 04:00:52.879 --> 04:00:56.319 and the carrion was cast overboard. There was a splash, 3856 04:00:56.840 --> 04:01:02.280 and then silence. How long has it taken? One slightly 3857 04:01:02.440 --> 04:01:07.319 had begun to count none? Too soon Peter, every inch 3858 04:01:07.440 --> 04:01:11.319 of him on tiptoe, vanished into the cabin. For more 3859 04:01:11.680 --> 04:01:14.840 than one pirate was screwing up his courage to look round. 3860 04:01:15.559 --> 04:01:19.440 They could hear each other's distressed breathing now, which showed 3861 04:01:19.479 --> 04:01:23.600 them that the more terrible sound had passed. It's gone, 3862 04:01:23.719 --> 04:01:30.719 Captain Smee said, wiping off his spectacles, all still again. Slowly, 3863 04:01:31.200 --> 04:01:34.559 Hook let his head emerge from his ruff and listened 3864 04:01:34.639 --> 04:01:37.639 so intently that he could have caught the echo of 3865 04:01:37.760 --> 04:01:40.600 the tick. There was not a sound, and he drew 3866 04:01:40.719 --> 04:01:45.159 himself up firmly to his full height. Then here stood 3867 04:01:45.200 --> 04:01:49.399 Johnny Plank he cried, brazenly, hating the boys more than 3868 04:01:49.479 --> 04:01:53.239 ever because they had seen him unbent. He broke into 3869 04:01:53.280 --> 04:01:58.600 the villainous ditty. Yo ho yo ho, the frisky blank. 3870 04:01:59.159 --> 04:02:02.639 You walks along it so till it goes down, and 3871 04:02:02.840 --> 04:02:07.360 you goes down to Davy Jones below. To terrorize the 3872 04:02:07.399 --> 04:02:10.879 prisoners the more, though with a certain loss of dignity. 3873 04:02:11.319 --> 04:02:15.440 He danced along an imaginary plank, grimacing at them as 3874 04:02:15.520 --> 04:02:19.319 he sang. And when he finished, he cried, do you 3875 04:02:19.559 --> 04:02:22.799 want a touch of the cat on nine days before? 3876 04:02:22.879 --> 04:02:28.079 You walked the plank at that? They fell on their knees. No, no, 3877 04:02:28.600 --> 04:02:33.680 they cried so piteously that every pirate smiled. Fetch the cat, 3878 04:02:33.920 --> 04:02:40.719 Jukes said, Hook, it's in the cabin, the cabin. Peter 3879 04:02:40.920 --> 04:02:44.000 was in the cabin. The children gazed at each other. 3880 04:02:45.280 --> 04:02:49.280 Aye aye, said Jukes blithely, and he strode into the cabin. 3881 04:02:49.920 --> 04:02:53.280 They followed him with their eyes. They scarce knew that 3882 04:02:53.479 --> 04:02:57.479 Hook had resumed his song, his dogs joining in with him. 3883 04:02:58.600 --> 04:03:03.000 Yo ho, yo oh, Hold the scratch chain cat. Its 3884 04:03:03.159 --> 04:03:06.319 tails are nine, you know, and when they are writ 3885 04:03:06.520 --> 04:03:10.079 upon your back. What was the last line will never 3886 04:03:10.200 --> 04:03:13.520 be known? For of a sudden, the song was stayed 3887 04:03:13.559 --> 04:03:17.159 by a dreadful screech from the cabin. It wailed through 3888 04:03:17.239 --> 04:03:21.399 the ship and died away. Then was heard a crowing sound, 3889 04:03:21.680 --> 04:03:24.680 which was well understood by the boys, but to the 3890 04:03:24.840 --> 04:03:29.760 pirates was almost more eerie than the screech. What was that, 3891 04:03:30.719 --> 04:03:37.680 cried Hook two, said, slightly solemnly. The Italian Checko hesitated 3892 04:03:37.760 --> 04:03:41.200 for a moment, and then swung into the cabin. He 3893 04:03:41.399 --> 04:03:46.680 tottered out, haggard, what's the matter with Bill Jukes? You talk, 3894 04:03:47.680 --> 04:03:51.719 hissed Hook, towering over him. The matter with him is 3895 04:03:51.799 --> 04:03:57.399 he's dead, stad replied Checko in a hollow voice. Bill 3896 04:03:57.600 --> 04:04:02.799 Jukes dead, cried the startled pirates. The cabin's as black 3897 04:04:02.840 --> 04:04:07.120 as a pit, Checko said, almost gibbering. But there is 3898 04:04:07.159 --> 04:04:11.559 something terrible in there. The thing you heard crowing, the 3899 04:04:11.719 --> 04:04:15.799 exaltation of the boys, the lowering looks of the pirates, 3900 04:04:16.319 --> 04:04:20.799 both were seen by Hook Checko. He said, in his 3901 04:04:21.000 --> 04:04:28.120 most steely voice, Go back and fetch me out that doodledoo. Checko, 3902 04:04:28.600 --> 04:04:33.440 bravest of the brave, covered before his captain, crying no, no, 3903 04:04:34.559 --> 04:04:38.399 But Hook was purring to his claw. Did you say 3904 04:04:38.600 --> 04:04:44.120 you would go, Checko? He said, musingly. Checko went first, 3905 04:04:44.200 --> 04:04:48.639 flinging his arms despairingly. There was no more singing or 3906 04:04:48.799 --> 04:04:52.399 listen now and again came a dead screech, and again 3907 04:04:52.600 --> 04:04:58.120 a crow. No one spoke except slightly three, he said, 3908 04:04:59.120 --> 04:05:03.200 Hook rallied Stalks with a gesture. Is depth the nought's fish? 3909 04:05:03.600 --> 04:05:09.479 He thundered, Who is to bring me that doodledoo? Wait 3910 04:05:09.600 --> 04:05:13.719 till Cheko comes out, growled Starkey, and the others took 3911 04:05:13.760 --> 04:05:17.959 up the cry. I think I heard you, volunteer, Starkey, 3912 04:05:18.559 --> 04:05:24.719 said Hook, purring again. No by thunder, Starky cried, my hook, 3913 04:05:24.840 --> 04:05:29.239 thinks you did, said Hook, crossing to him. I wonder 3914 04:05:29.360 --> 04:05:33.479 if it would not be advisable Starky to humor the hook. 3915 04:05:34.879 --> 04:05:38.719 I'll swim before I go in there, replied Starkey doggedly. 3916 04:05:39.079 --> 04:05:41.959 And again he had the support of the crew. Is 3917 04:05:42.079 --> 04:05:47.000 this mutiny, asked Hook, more pleasantly than ever. Starky is 3918 04:05:47.200 --> 04:05:53.120 ringleader Captain Mercy. Starky whimpered, all of it tremble Now, 3919 04:05:53.840 --> 04:05:59.520 shake hands, Starcky, said Hook, proffering his claw. Starkey looked 3920 04:05:59.639 --> 04:06:03.840 round for help, but all deserted him. As he backed up. 3921 04:06:04.159 --> 04:06:08.120 Hook advanced, and now the red spark was in his eye. 3922 04:06:08.799 --> 04:06:12.600 With a despairing scream. The pirate leapt upon long tom 3923 04:06:12.680 --> 04:06:18.239 and precipitated himself into the sea. Four said slightly, and 3924 04:06:18.520 --> 04:06:23.639 now said Hook courteously. Did any other gentleman say mutiny? 3925 04:06:24.719 --> 04:06:28.559 Seizing a lantern and raising his claw with a menacing gesture. 3926 04:06:29.280 --> 04:06:33.719 I'll bring out that doodledom myself, he said, and sped 3927 04:06:33.840 --> 04:06:38.200 into the cabin. Five how slightly longed to say it? 3928 04:06:38.879 --> 04:06:41.959 He wetted his lips to be ready. But Hook came 3929 04:06:42.079 --> 04:06:46.879 staggering out without his lantern. Something blew out the light, 3930 04:06:47.920 --> 04:06:54.159 he said, a little unsteadily, Something echoed Mullins. What a checko, 3931 04:06:54.719 --> 04:06:59.239 demanded Noodler, he's as dead as Juke's, said Hook. Shortly. 3932 04:07:00.280 --> 04:07:04.399 His reluctance to return to the cabin impressed them all unfavorably, 3933 04:07:04.760 --> 04:07:09.399 and the mutinous sounds again broke forth. All pirates are superstitious, 3934 04:07:09.840 --> 04:07:13.760 and cooksin cried. They do say. The surest sign a 3935 04:07:13.879 --> 04:07:17.440 ship's accursed is when there's one on board more than 3936 04:07:17.600 --> 04:07:23.520 can be accounted for. I've heard, muttered Mullins. He always 3937 04:07:23.600 --> 04:07:27.200 boats the pirate craft. Last had he a tale captain, 3938 04:07:28.440 --> 04:07:32.520 they say, said another, looking viciously at Hook, That when 3939 04:07:32.559 --> 04:07:35.719 he comes in the likeness of the wickedest man aboard. 3940 04:07:36.600 --> 04:07:41.399 Had he a hook? Captain asked Cooksen insolently, and one 3941 04:07:41.600 --> 04:07:46.120 after another took up the cry the ship's doomed. At this, 3942 04:07:46.680 --> 04:07:50.440 the children could not resist raising a cheer. Hook had 3943 04:07:50.479 --> 04:07:54.360 well nigh forgotten his prisoners, but as he swung round 3944 04:07:54.440 --> 04:07:59.040 on them, now his face licked up again. Lads, he 3945 04:07:59.200 --> 04:08:03.200 cried to his crew, Now here's a notion. Open the 3946 04:08:03.319 --> 04:08:06.840 cabin door and drive them in. Let them fight the 3947 04:08:06.959 --> 04:08:10.159 doodle doo for their lives. If they kill him, we're 3948 04:08:10.200 --> 04:08:13.319 so much the better. If he kills them, we're none 3949 04:08:13.360 --> 04:08:17.559 the worse. For the last time, his dogs admired Hook, 3950 04:08:17.920 --> 04:08:22.879 and devotedly they did his bidding. The boys, pretending to struggle, 3951 04:08:23.200 --> 04:08:26.000 were pushed into the cabin, and the door was closed 3952 04:08:26.079 --> 04:08:31.600 on them. Now listen, cried Hook, And all listened, but 3953 04:08:31.840 --> 04:08:36.200 not one dared to face the door. Yes, one, Wendy, 3954 04:08:36.719 --> 04:08:39.440 who all this time had been bound to the mast. 3955 04:08:40.200 --> 04:08:43.360 It was for neither a scream nor a crew that 3956 04:08:43.479 --> 04:08:47.159 she was watching. It was for the reappearance of Peter. 3957 04:08:48.399 --> 04:08:51.399 She had not long to wait in the cabin. He 3958 04:08:51.559 --> 04:08:53.639 had found the thing for which he had gone in 3959 04:08:53.760 --> 04:08:57.360 search the key that would free the children of their manacles. 3960 04:08:57.840 --> 04:09:01.879 And now they all stole forth, armed with such weapons 3961 04:09:01.959 --> 04:09:05.760 as they could find. First signing them to hide, Peter 3962 04:09:05.879 --> 04:09:09.799 cut Wendy's bonds, and then nothing could have been easier 3963 04:09:09.959 --> 04:09:13.239 than for them all to fly off together. But one 3964 04:09:13.360 --> 04:09:17.680 thing barred the way, an oath. Hook o meet this time. 3965 04:09:18.360 --> 04:09:21.440 So when he had freed Wendy, he whispered for her 3966 04:09:21.600 --> 04:09:25.159 to conceal herself with the others, and himself took her 3967 04:09:25.239 --> 04:09:28.600 place by the mast, her cloak around him so that 3968 04:09:28.799 --> 04:09:32.479 he should pass for her. Then he took a great 3969 04:09:32.639 --> 04:09:37.239 breath and crowed to the pirates. It was a voice 3970 04:09:37.319 --> 04:09:40.159 crying that all the boys lay slain in the cabin, 3971 04:09:40.600 --> 04:09:44.520 and they were panicstritten. Hook tried to hearten them, but 3972 04:09:44.799 --> 04:09:48.000 like the dogs he had made them, they showed him 3973 04:09:48.200 --> 04:09:51.120 their fangs, and he knew that if he took his 3974 04:09:51.280 --> 04:09:55.000 eyes off them now, they would leap at him. Lads, 3975 04:09:55.639 --> 04:09:58.920 he said, ready to casual or strike as need be, 3976 04:09:59.399 --> 04:10:02.639 But never quailing for an instant, I thought it out. 3977 04:10:03.120 --> 04:10:08.120 There's a jonah aboard, aye, they snarled, a man with 3978 04:10:08.280 --> 04:10:14.120 a hook. Now, lads, no, it's the girl. Never was 3979 04:10:14.319 --> 04:10:17.000 luck on a pirate ship with a woman on board. 3980 04:10:17.959 --> 04:10:21.319 We'll ride the ship when she is gone. Some of 3981 04:10:21.399 --> 04:10:24.440 them remembered that this had been a saying of flints. 3982 04:10:25.440 --> 04:10:30.479 It's worth trying, they said, doubtfully. Fling the girl overboard, 3983 04:10:31.040 --> 04:10:34.079 cried Hook, and they made a rush at the figure 3984 04:10:34.120 --> 04:10:38.200 in the cloak. This nun can save you. Now, Missy 3985 04:10:39.200 --> 04:10:45.319 Mullin's hest jeeringly, there's one, replied the figure. Who's that? 3986 04:10:46.840 --> 04:10:50.760 Peter Pan the Avenger came the terrible answer, and as 3987 04:10:50.799 --> 04:10:54.799 he spoke, Peter flung off his cloak. Then they all 3988 04:10:54.959 --> 04:10:58.239 knew who it was that had been undoing them in 3989 04:10:58.360 --> 04:11:02.159 the cabin. And twice Hook essayed to speak, and twice 3990 04:11:02.200 --> 04:11:06.479 he failed. In that frightful moment, I think his fear's 3991 04:11:06.559 --> 04:11:11.479 heart broke. At last he cried, cleave them to the briskette, 3992 04:11:12.479 --> 04:11:17.399 But without conviction, down, boys, and at them. Peter's voice 3993 04:11:17.520 --> 04:11:20.920 rang out, and in another moment, the clash of arms 3994 04:11:21.079 --> 04:11:24.719 was resounding through the ship. Had the pirates kept together, 3995 04:11:25.000 --> 04:11:27.440 it is certain that they would have won. But the 3996 04:11:27.600 --> 04:11:31.000 onset came when they were still unstrung, and they ran 3997 04:11:31.159 --> 04:11:36.479 hither and thither, striking wildly, each thinking himself the last survivor. 3998 04:11:36.600 --> 04:11:37.159 Of the crew. 3999 04:11:38.040 --> 04:11:41.159 Man to man, they were the stronger, but they fought 4000 04:11:41.280 --> 04:11:44.760 on the defensive only, which enabled the boys to hunt 4001 04:11:44.879 --> 04:11:48.600 in pairs and choose their quarry. Some of the miscreants 4002 04:11:48.719 --> 04:11:52.879 leapt into the sea. Others hid in dark recesses, where 4003 04:11:53.000 --> 04:11:56.040 they were found by Slightly, who did not fight, but 4004 04:11:56.280 --> 04:11:59.600 ran about with the lantern, which he flashed in their faces, 4005 04:12:00.239 --> 04:12:03.680 so that they were half blinded and fell as an 4006 04:12:03.760 --> 04:12:06.719 easy prey to the reeking swords of the other boys. 4007 04:12:07.360 --> 04:12:09.799 There was little sound to be heard, but the clang 4008 04:12:09.879 --> 04:12:14.479 of weapons, an occasional screech or splash, and slightly monotonously 4009 04:12:14.600 --> 04:12:22.319 counting five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. I think 4010 04:12:22.520 --> 04:12:25.760 all were gone when a group of savage boys surrounded Hook, 4011 04:12:26.079 --> 04:12:29.239 who seemed to have a charmed life as he kept 4012 04:12:29.280 --> 04:12:32.479 them at bay in that circle of fire. They had 4013 04:12:32.600 --> 04:12:35.760 done for his dogs, But this man alone seemed to 4014 04:12:35.840 --> 04:12:39.040 be a match for them all. Again and again they 4015 04:12:39.159 --> 04:12:42.159 closed upon him, and again and again he hewed a 4016 04:12:42.239 --> 04:12:45.479 clear space. He had lifted up one boy with his 4017 04:12:45.639 --> 04:12:49.639 hook and was using him as a buckler shield, when another, 4018 04:12:50.079 --> 04:12:53.280 who had just passed his sword through mulleins, sprang into 4019 04:12:53.360 --> 04:12:58.520 the Fray. Put up your swords, boys, cried the newcomer, 4020 04:12:59.079 --> 04:13:04.440 this man a small Thus, suddenly Hook found himself face 4021 04:13:04.520 --> 04:13:07.920 to face with Peter. The others drew back and formed 4022 04:13:07.959 --> 04:13:11.879 a ring around them. For long the two enemies looked 4023 04:13:11.959 --> 04:13:15.719 at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with a 4024 04:13:15.760 --> 04:13:21.520 strange smile upon his face. So pan said Hook, at last, 4025 04:13:22.360 --> 04:13:26.680 this is all you are doing, aye, James. Hook, came 4026 04:13:26.760 --> 04:13:31.559 the stern answer, it is all my doing. Proud and 4027 04:13:31.680 --> 04:13:37.000 insolent youth, said Hook, prepare to meet thy doom, dark 4028 04:13:37.079 --> 04:13:42.520 and sinister man. Peter answered, have with thee. Without more words, 4029 04:13:42.840 --> 04:13:45.280 they fell to and for a space. There was no 4030 04:13:45.520 --> 04:13:49.719 advantage to either blade. Peter was a superb swordsman, and 4031 04:13:49.879 --> 04:13:54.159 parried with dazzling rapidity. Ever and anone He followed up 4032 04:13:54.239 --> 04:13:57.920 a faint with a lunge that caught past his for's defense, 4033 04:13:58.319 --> 04:14:01.559 but his shorter reag stood him in ill stead, and 4034 04:14:01.680 --> 04:14:05.520 he could not dry the steel home. Hook, scarcely, his 4035 04:14:05.719 --> 04:14:09.959 inferior and brilliancy, but not quite so nimble in wrist play, 4036 04:14:10.440 --> 04:14:13.600 forced him back by the weight of his onset, Hoping 4037 04:14:13.719 --> 04:14:17.600 suddenly to end all with a favorite thrust, taught him 4038 04:14:17.680 --> 04:14:22.000 long ago by barbecue at rio. But to his astonishment 4039 04:14:22.399 --> 04:14:27.000 he found his thrust turned aside again and again. Then 4040 04:14:27.440 --> 04:14:30.639 he sought to close and give the quietness with his 4041 04:14:30.799 --> 04:14:34.520 iron hook, which all this time had been pawing the air, 4042 04:14:35.200 --> 04:14:39.600 But Peter doubled under it, and, lunging fiercely, pierced him 4043 04:14:39.680 --> 04:14:42.440 in the ribs. At the sight of his own blood, 4044 04:14:42.639 --> 04:14:46.799 whose peculiar color you remember, was offensive to him, the 4045 04:14:46.920 --> 04:14:50.600 sword fell from Hook's hand, and he was at Peter's mercy. 4046 04:14:51.479 --> 04:14:55.239 Now cried all the boys. But with a magnificent gesture, 4047 04:14:55.479 --> 04:14:59.520 Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword. Hook 4048 04:14:59.600 --> 04:15:03.280 did so instantly, but with the tragic feeling that Peter 4049 04:15:03.479 --> 04:15:07.760 was showing good form hit heurto He had thought it 4050 04:15:07.959 --> 04:15:12.200 was some fiend fighting him, But darker suspicions assailed him. 4051 04:15:12.280 --> 04:15:18.239 Now Pan, Who and what art thou? He cried, huskily, 4052 04:15:19.520 --> 04:15:23.799 I'm youth, I'm joy, Peter answered, at a venture, I'm 4053 04:15:23.840 --> 04:15:28.040 a little bird that has broken out of the egg. This, 4054 04:15:28.319 --> 04:15:31.200 of course was nonsense, but it was proof to the 4055 04:15:31.360 --> 04:15:34.840 unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least 4056 04:15:34.959 --> 04:15:38.079 who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle 4057 04:15:38.120 --> 04:15:43.600 of good form. Dot again, he cried despairingly. He fought 4058 04:15:43.719 --> 04:15:46.959 now like a human flail, and every sweep of that 4059 04:15:47.159 --> 04:15:50.879 terrible sword would have severed in twain any man or 4060 04:15:50.920 --> 04:15:55.360 boy who obstructed it. But Peter fluttered round him, as 4061 04:15:55.440 --> 04:15:57.920 if the very wind it made blew him out of 4062 04:15:58.000 --> 04:16:01.399 the danger's zone. And again an again he darted in 4063 04:16:01.639 --> 04:16:06.680 and pricked. Hook was fighting now without hope. That passionate 4064 04:16:06.799 --> 04:16:10.239 breast no longer asked for life but for one boon 4065 04:16:10.360 --> 04:16:14.280 it craved to see Peter show bad form before it 4066 04:16:14.440 --> 04:16:18.479 was cold. Forever abandoning the fight, he rushed into the 4067 04:16:18.559 --> 04:16:23.319 powder magazine and fired it in two minutes. He cried, 4068 04:16:24.040 --> 04:16:28.440 the ship will be blown to pieces. Now, now, he thought, 4069 04:16:28.760 --> 04:16:32.559 true form will show. But Peter issued from the powder 4070 04:16:32.639 --> 04:16:35.920 magazine with a shell in his hands, and calmly flung 4071 04:16:36.000 --> 04:16:40.239 it overboard. What sort of form was Hook himself showing? 4072 04:16:41.079 --> 04:16:44.600 Misguided man though he was, we may be glad without 4073 04:16:44.680 --> 04:16:48.159 sympathizing with him that in the end he was true 4074 04:16:48.200 --> 04:16:51.360 to the traditions of his race. The other boys were 4075 04:16:51.440 --> 04:16:56.280 flying round him now, flouting scornful, and he staggered about 4076 04:16:56.360 --> 04:17:00.319 the deck, striking up at them impotently. His mind was 4077 04:17:00.399 --> 04:17:03.799 no longer with them. It was louching in the playing 4078 04:17:03.920 --> 04:17:07.280 fields of long ago, or being sent up to the 4079 04:17:07.360 --> 04:17:10.440 headmaster for good, or watching the wall game from a 4080 04:17:10.520 --> 04:17:14.920 famous wall. And his shoes were right, and his waistcoat 4081 04:17:15.079 --> 04:17:18.040 was right, and his tie was right, and his socks 4082 04:17:18.079 --> 04:17:24.200 were right. James Hook, thou not wholly unheroic figure. Farewell, 4083 04:17:24.639 --> 04:17:28.280 for we have come to his last moment. Seeing Peter 4084 04:17:28.479 --> 04:17:32.760 slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, 4085 04:17:33.159 --> 04:17:37.120 he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea. 4086 04:17:37.799 --> 04:17:40.680 He did not know that the crocodile was waiting for him, 4087 04:17:41.200 --> 04:17:44.719 for we purposely stopped the clock that this knowledge might 4088 04:17:44.760 --> 04:17:47.840 be spared him a little mark of respect from us. 4089 04:17:48.040 --> 04:17:51.879 At the end, he had one last triumph, which I 4090 04:17:52.000 --> 04:17:54.920 think we need not grudge him. As he stood on 4091 04:17:55.000 --> 04:17:58.440 the bulwark, looking over his shoulder at Peter gliding through 4092 04:17:58.520 --> 04:18:01.600 the air, he invited him with a gesture to use 4093 04:18:01.719 --> 04:18:06.840 his foot. It made Peter kick instead of stab. At last, 4094 04:18:07.319 --> 04:18:11.760 Hook had got the bone for which he craved bad form. 4095 04:18:12.239 --> 04:18:17.200 He cried jeeringly and went content to the crocodile. Thus 4096 04:18:17.360 --> 04:18:23.280 perished James Hook seventeen slightly sang out, but he was 4097 04:18:23.399 --> 04:18:27.520 not quite correct in his figures. Fifteen paid the penalty 4098 04:18:27.639 --> 04:18:30.879 for their crimes that night, but two reached the shore 4099 04:18:31.639 --> 04:18:35.360 Starkey to be captured by the Redskins, who made him 4100 04:18:35.520 --> 04:18:39.760 nurse for all their papooses. A melancholy come down for 4101 04:18:39.879 --> 04:18:44.000 a pirate, and Smee, who henceforth wandered about the world 4102 04:18:44.079 --> 04:18:47.559 in his spectacles, making a precarious living by saying he 4103 04:18:47.719 --> 04:18:51.879 was the only man that James Hook had feared. Wendy, 4104 04:18:52.040 --> 04:18:55.000 of course, had stood by, taking no part in the fight, 4105 04:18:55.600 --> 04:18:59.479 though watching Peter with glistening eyes. But now that all 4106 04:18:59.680 --> 04:19:04.520 was over she became prominent again. She praised them equally 4107 04:19:04.719 --> 04:19:08.440 and shuddered delightfully when Michael showed her the place where 4108 04:19:08.559 --> 04:19:11.959 he had killed one. And then she took them into 4109 04:19:12.040 --> 04:19:15.360 Hook's cabin and pointed to his watch, which was hanging 4110 04:19:15.479 --> 04:19:20.200 on a nail. It said half past one. The lateness 4111 04:19:20.239 --> 04:19:22.760 of the hour was almost the biggest thing of all. 4112 04:19:23.479 --> 04:19:27.120 She got them to bed in the pirate's bunks pretty quickly, 4113 04:19:27.639 --> 04:19:31.520 you may be sure, all but Peter, who strotted up 4114 04:19:31.600 --> 04:19:34.520 and down on the deck until at last he fell 4115 04:19:34.600 --> 04:19:37.920 asleep by the side of long Tom. He had one 4116 04:19:37.959 --> 04:19:40.799 of his dreams that night, and cried in his sleep 4117 04:19:40.920 --> 04:19:47.319 for a long time, and Wendy held him tightly. End 4118 04:19:47.479 --> 04:19:48.600 of Chapter fifteen. 4119 04:19:49.319 --> 04:19:53.479 Chapter sixteen of Peter Pan by J. M. Barry. The 4120 04:19:53.600 --> 04:19:59.559 return home by three bells that morning. They were all 4121 04:19:59.639 --> 04:20:02.479 stirring their stumps, for there was a big sea running 4122 04:20:02.559 --> 04:20:05.559 and toodles. The bosum was among them, with a rope's 4123 04:20:05.719 --> 04:20:09.280 end in his hand and chewing tobacco. They all dawned 4124 04:20:09.360 --> 04:20:12.680 pirate clothes cut off at the knee, shaved smartly, and 4125 04:20:12.840 --> 04:20:16.079 tumbled up with the true nautical roll in hitching their trousers. 4126 04:20:17.399 --> 04:20:20.120 It need not be said who was the captain. Nibs 4127 04:20:20.120 --> 04:20:23.319 and John were first and second mate. There was a 4128 04:20:23.360 --> 04:20:26.479 woman aboard. The rest were tars before the mast and 4129 04:20:26.639 --> 04:20:30.120 lived in the forecastle. Peter had already lashed himself to 4130 04:20:30.200 --> 04:20:33.120 the wheel, but he piped all hands and delivered a 4131 04:20:33.200 --> 04:20:35.799 short address to them. Said he hoped they would do 4132 04:20:35.920 --> 04:20:39.000 their duty like gallant hardies, but that he knew they 4133 04:20:39.040 --> 04:20:41.559 were the scum of Rio and the Gold Coast, and 4134 04:20:41.680 --> 04:20:44.920 if they snapped at him, he would tear them the bluff. 4135 04:20:44.959 --> 04:20:48.719 Strident words struck the note. Sailors understood, and they cheered 4136 04:20:48.760 --> 04:20:52.000 him lustily. Then a few sharp orders were given, and 4137 04:20:52.120 --> 04:20:55.200 they returned the ship round and nosed her for the mainland. 4138 04:20:56.840 --> 04:21:00.959 Captain Pan calculated, after consulting the ship's art, that if 4139 04:21:01.000 --> 04:21:04.040 this weather lasted, they should strike the Azores about the 4140 04:21:04.120 --> 04:21:07.000 twenty first of June, after which it would save time 4141 04:21:07.079 --> 04:21:09.920 to fly. Some of them wanted it to be an 4142 04:21:09.959 --> 04:21:12.639 honest ship, and others were in favor of keeping it 4143 04:21:12.680 --> 04:21:15.399 a pirate, but the captain treated them as dogs, and 4144 04:21:15.479 --> 04:21:18.200 they dared not express their wishes to him, even in 4145 04:21:18.280 --> 04:21:21.440 a round robin one person after another, as they had 4146 04:21:21.479 --> 04:21:25.360 to captain Hook, instant obedience was the only safe thing. 4147 04:21:26.040 --> 04:21:28.840 Slightly got a dozen for looking perplexed when told to 4148 04:21:29.040 --> 04:21:32.600 take soundings. The general feeling was that Peter was honest 4149 04:21:32.840 --> 04:21:35.879 just now to lull Wendy's suspicions, but that there might 4150 04:21:36.000 --> 04:21:38.799 be a change when the new suit was ready, which, 4151 04:21:38.879 --> 04:21:41.200 against her will, she was making for him out of 4152 04:21:41.280 --> 04:21:45.639 some of Hook's wickedest garments. It was afterwards whispered among 4153 04:21:45.760 --> 04:21:48.319 them that on the first night he wore this suit, 4154 04:21:48.639 --> 04:21:51.360 he sat long in the cabin with Hook's cigar holder 4155 04:21:51.399 --> 04:21:54.799 in his mouth and one hand clenched all but for 4156 04:21:54.920 --> 04:21:58.319 the forefinger, which he bent and held threateningly aloft like 4157 04:21:58.399 --> 04:22:02.520 a hook, instead of watching the ship. However, we must 4158 04:22:02.559 --> 04:22:04.840 now return to that desolate home from which three of 4159 04:22:04.879 --> 04:22:08.600 our characters had taken heartless flight so long ago. It 4160 04:22:08.719 --> 04:22:11.559 seems a shame to have neglected number fourteen all this time, 4161 04:22:12.000 --> 04:22:14.280 And yet we may be sure that missus Darling does 4162 04:22:14.319 --> 04:22:17.239 not blame us. If we had returned sooner to look 4163 04:22:17.280 --> 04:22:20.440 with sorrowful sympathy at her, she would probably have cried, 4164 04:22:20.799 --> 04:22:22.479 don't be silly, what do I matter? 4165 04:22:23.079 --> 04:22:23.120 Do? 4166 04:22:23.319 --> 04:22:25.920 Go back and keep an eye on the children. So 4167 04:22:26.079 --> 04:22:28.520 long as mothers are like this, their children will take 4168 04:22:28.520 --> 04:22:30.760 advantage of them, and they may lay to bed on 4169 04:22:30.840 --> 04:22:35.319 that Even now, we venture into that familiar nursery only 4170 04:22:35.399 --> 04:22:38.559 because its lawful occupants are on their way home. We 4171 04:22:38.680 --> 04:22:41.399 are merely hurrying on in advance of them, to see 4172 04:22:41.479 --> 04:22:44.079 that their beds are properly aired, and that mister and 4173 04:22:44.200 --> 04:22:47.079 missus Darling do not go out for the evening. We 4174 04:22:47.159 --> 04:22:50.040 are no more than servants. Why on earth should their 4175 04:22:50.079 --> 04:22:52.440 beds be properly aired, seeing that they left them in 4176 04:22:52.520 --> 04:22:55.840 such a thankless hurry. Would it not serve them jolly 4177 04:22:55.959 --> 04:22:58.000 well right if they came back and found that their 4178 04:22:58.079 --> 04:23:01.159 parents were spending the week end in the cun It 4179 04:23:01.239 --> 04:23:03.280 would be the moral lesson that they have been in 4180 04:23:03.399 --> 04:23:05.680 need of ever since we met them. But if we 4181 04:23:05.760 --> 04:23:08.879 contrived things in this way, Missus Darling would never forgive 4182 04:23:09.000 --> 04:23:12.600 us one thing I should like to do immensely, and 4183 04:23:12.719 --> 04:23:14.959 that is to tell her in the way authors have 4184 04:23:15.200 --> 04:23:18.159 that the children are coming back, that indeed they will 4185 04:23:18.159 --> 04:23:21.760 be here on Thursday week This would spoil so completely 4186 04:23:21.840 --> 04:23:24.319 the surprise to which Wendy and John and Michael are 4187 04:23:24.360 --> 04:23:27.719 looking forward. They have been planning it out on the ship. 4188 04:23:28.200 --> 04:23:31.680 Mother's rapture, father's shout of joy, Nana's leaped through the 4189 04:23:31.719 --> 04:23:34.159 air to embrace them first, when what they ought to 4190 04:23:34.239 --> 04:23:37.319 be prepared for is a good hiding. How delicious to 4191 04:23:37.399 --> 04:23:40.000 spoil it all by breaking the news in advance, so 4192 04:23:40.120 --> 04:23:43.120 that when they enter grandly Missus Darling may not even 4193 04:23:43.239 --> 04:23:47.440 offer Wendy her mouth, and mister Darling may exclaim pittishly. 4194 04:23:47.680 --> 04:23:48.239 Dash it all. 4195 04:23:48.319 --> 04:23:52.239 Hear those boys again. However, we should get no thanks 4196 04:23:52.280 --> 04:23:54.920 even for this. We are beginning to know Missus Darling 4197 04:23:55.000 --> 04:23:57.200 by this time, and may be sure that she would 4198 04:23:57.280 --> 04:23:59.920 upbraid us for depriving the children of their little pleasure. 4199 04:24:01.399 --> 04:24:04.200 But my dear madam, it is ten days till Thursday week, 4200 04:24:04.479 --> 04:24:06.920 So that by telling you what's what, we can save 4201 04:24:06.959 --> 04:24:10.559 you ten days of unhappiness? Yes, but at what cost 4202 04:24:10.799 --> 04:24:13.280 by depriving the children of ten minutes of delight? 4203 04:24:14.440 --> 04:24:14.559 Oh? 4204 04:24:14.680 --> 04:24:17.479 If you look at it that way, what other way 4205 04:24:17.559 --> 04:24:20.159 is there in which to look at it? You see? 4206 04:24:20.360 --> 04:24:23.079 The woman had no proper spirit. I had meant to 4207 04:24:23.079 --> 04:24:26.520 say extraordinarily nice things about her, but I despise her, 4208 04:24:26.600 --> 04:24:28.120 and not one of them will I say? 4209 04:24:28.239 --> 04:24:28.399 Now? 4210 04:24:29.040 --> 04:24:30.840 She does not really need to be told to have 4211 04:24:31.000 --> 04:24:34.200 things ready, for they are ready. All the beds are aired, 4212 04:24:34.520 --> 04:24:37.239 and she never leaves the house, and observe the window 4213 04:24:37.360 --> 04:24:41.280 is open for all the use we are to her. 4214 04:24:41.600 --> 04:24:44.520 We might well go back to the ship. However, as 4215 04:24:44.600 --> 04:24:46.799 we are here, we may as well stay and look on. 4216 04:24:47.360 --> 04:24:50.559 That is all we are lookers on. Nobody really wants us, 4217 04:24:51.159 --> 04:24:53.319 so let us watch and say jaggy things in the 4218 04:24:53.360 --> 04:24:56.319 hope that some of them will hurt. The only change 4219 04:24:56.399 --> 04:24:58.479 to be seen in the night nursery is that between 4220 04:24:58.559 --> 04:25:00.600 nine and six the kennel is no no longer there. 4221 04:25:01.360 --> 04:25:04.879 When the children flew away, mister Darling felt in his bones, 4222 04:25:04.959 --> 04:25:07.760 that all the blame was his for having changed Nana up, 4223 04:25:08.399 --> 04:25:11.079 and that from first to last she had been wiser 4224 04:25:11.159 --> 04:25:14.040 than he. Of course, as we have seen, he was 4225 04:25:14.120 --> 04:25:16.879 quite a simple man. Indeed, he might have passed for 4226 04:25:16.959 --> 04:25:18.719 a boy again if he had been able to take 4227 04:25:18.760 --> 04:25:21.920 his baldness off. But he had also a noble sense 4228 04:25:21.959 --> 04:25:24.680 of justice and a lion's courage to do what seemed 4229 04:25:24.760 --> 04:25:27.319 right to him. And, having thought the matter out with 4230 04:25:27.440 --> 04:25:30.360 anxious care, after the flight of the children, he went 4231 04:25:30.440 --> 04:25:33.760 down on all fours and crawled into the kennel. To 4232 04:25:33.920 --> 04:25:36.840 all missus Darling's dear invitations to him to come out, 4233 04:25:37.239 --> 04:25:41.319 he replied, sadly but firmly, no, my own one, this 4234 04:25:41.520 --> 04:25:45.200 is the place for me. In the bitterness of his remorse, 4235 04:25:45.280 --> 04:25:47.360 he swore that he would never leave the kennel until 4236 04:25:47.399 --> 04:25:50.319 his children came back. Of course, this was a pity, 4237 04:25:50.440 --> 04:25:52.719 but whatever mister Darling did, he had to do it 4238 04:25:52.799 --> 04:25:56.000 in excess, otherwise he soon gave up doing it. And 4239 04:25:56.120 --> 04:25:58.440 there never was a more humble man than the once 4240 04:25:58.559 --> 04:26:01.479 proud George Darling. As he sat in the kennel of 4241 04:26:01.559 --> 04:26:04.360 an evening, talking with his wife of their children and 4242 04:26:04.479 --> 04:26:08.959 all their pretty ways, very touching was his deference to Nana. 4243 04:26:09.280 --> 04:26:11.360 He would not let her come into the kennel, but 4244 04:26:11.520 --> 04:26:15.360 on all other matters he followed her wishes implicitly. Every morning, 4245 04:26:15.520 --> 04:26:17.799 the kennel was carried with mister Darling in it to 4246 04:26:17.920 --> 04:26:21.040 a cab, which conveyed him to his office, and he 4247 04:26:21.159 --> 04:26:24.479 returned home in the same way at six. Something of 4248 04:26:24.559 --> 04:26:26.639 the strength of character of the man will be seen 4249 04:26:26.680 --> 04:26:29.040 if we remember how sensitive he was to the opinion 4250 04:26:29.120 --> 04:26:36.159 of neighbors. This man, whose every movement now attracted surprised attention. Inwardly, 4251 04:26:36.280 --> 04:26:39.239 he must have suffered torture, but he preserved a calm 4252 04:26:39.319 --> 04:26:42.959 exterior even when the young criticized his little home, and 4253 04:26:43.079 --> 04:26:46.079 he always lifted his hat courteously to any lady who 4254 04:26:46.120 --> 04:26:50.520 looked inside. It may have been quizotic, but it was magnificent. 4255 04:26:51.079 --> 04:26:53.600 Soon the inward meaning of it leaked out, and the 4256 04:26:53.680 --> 04:26:57.360 great heart of the public was touched. Crowds followed the cab, 4257 04:26:57.559 --> 04:27:01.399 cheering it lustily. Charming girls scaled it to get his autograph. 4258 04:27:01.879 --> 04:27:05.239 Interviews appeared in the better class of papers, and society 4259 04:27:05.319 --> 04:27:07.920 invited him to dinner, and added, do come in the 4260 04:27:08.040 --> 04:27:12.399 kennel On that eventful Thursday week, missus Darling was in 4261 04:27:12.440 --> 04:27:15.879 the night nursery awaiting George's return home, a very sad 4262 04:27:15.920 --> 04:27:18.879 eyed woman. Now that we look at her closely and 4263 04:27:19.040 --> 04:27:21.920 remember the gayety of her in the old days, all 4264 04:27:22.079 --> 04:27:25.079 gone now, just because she has lost her babes, I 4265 04:27:25.239 --> 04:27:27.879 find I won't be able to say nasty things about her. 4266 04:27:27.959 --> 04:27:31.479 After all, if she was too fond of her rubbishy children, 4267 04:27:31.639 --> 04:27:34.239 she couldn't help it. Look at her in her chair 4268 04:27:34.319 --> 04:27:37.200 where she has fallen asleep. The corner of her mouth, 4269 04:27:37.239 --> 04:27:40.639 where one looks first, is almost withered up. Her hand 4270 04:27:40.760 --> 04:27:43.760 moves restlessly on her breast, as if she had had 4271 04:27:43.760 --> 04:27:47.559 a pain there. Some like Peter Best and some like 4272 04:27:47.639 --> 04:27:51.559 Wendy Best, but I like her Best. Suppose to make 4273 04:27:51.600 --> 04:27:53.559 her happy. We whisper to her in her sleep that 4274 04:27:53.639 --> 04:27:56.840 her brats are coming back. They are really within two 4275 04:27:56.920 --> 04:28:00.120 miles of the window now and flying strong. But all 4276 04:28:00.159 --> 04:28:02.719 we need whisper is that they're on their way. Let's 4277 04:28:03.840 --> 04:28:06.239 it is a pity we did it, for she has 4278 04:28:06.319 --> 04:28:09.840 started up calling their names, and there is no one 4279 04:28:09.879 --> 04:28:13.520 in the room but Nana, Oh, Nana. I dreamt my 4280 04:28:13.600 --> 04:28:17.600 dear ones had come back. Nana had filmy eyes but 4281 04:28:17.719 --> 04:28:19.760 all she could do was put her paw gently on 4282 04:28:19.840 --> 04:28:23.079 her mistress's lap, and they were sitting together. Thus, when 4283 04:28:23.120 --> 04:28:26.239 the kennel was brought back, as mister Darling put his 4284 04:28:26.319 --> 04:28:28.559 head out to kiss his wife, we see that his 4285 04:28:28.680 --> 04:28:31.239 face is more worn than of yore, but has a 4286 04:28:31.319 --> 04:28:35.079 softer expression. He gave his hat to Liza, who took 4287 04:28:35.120 --> 04:28:39.200 it scornfully. She had no imagination, It was quite incapable 4288 04:28:39.239 --> 04:28:42.879 of understanding the motives of such a man. Outside the 4289 04:28:42.959 --> 04:28:46.000 crowd who had accompanied the cab home were still cheering, 4290 04:28:46.120 --> 04:28:49.799 and he was naturally not unmoved. Listen to them, he said, 4291 04:28:50.520 --> 04:28:54.840 it is very gratifying. Lots of little boys sneered Eliza. 4292 04:28:55.799 --> 04:28:58.079 There were several adults to day, he assured her with 4293 04:28:58.159 --> 04:29:01.079 a faint flush. But when she tossed her head, he 4294 04:29:01.200 --> 04:29:04.680 had not a word of reproof, for her social success 4295 04:29:04.760 --> 04:29:08.719 had not spoilt him. It had made him sweeter. For 4296 04:29:08.879 --> 04:29:11.280 some time he sat with his head out of the kennel, 4297 04:29:11.559 --> 04:29:14.840 talking with missus Darling of this success, and pressing her 4298 04:29:14.959 --> 04:29:18.319 hand reassuringly. When she said she hoped his head would 4299 04:29:18.360 --> 04:29:21.280 not be turned by it. But if I had been 4300 04:29:21.319 --> 04:29:23.600 a weak man, he said, good heavens if I had 4301 04:29:23.639 --> 04:29:27.760 been a weak man. And George, she said timidly, you 4302 04:29:27.920 --> 04:29:31.319 are as full of remorse as ever, aren't you full 4303 04:29:31.360 --> 04:29:34.440 of remorse as ever? Dearest? See my punishment living in 4304 04:29:34.520 --> 04:29:39.000 a kennel. But it is punishment, isn't it, George? You 4305 04:29:39.079 --> 04:29:43.239 are sure you are not enjoying it? My love? You 4306 04:29:43.360 --> 04:29:46.520 may be sure, she begged his pardon, and then, feeling drowsy, 4307 04:29:46.639 --> 04:29:49.639 he curled round in the kennel. Won't you play me 4308 04:29:49.719 --> 04:29:52.760 to sleep? He asked on the nursery piano, And as 4309 04:29:52.799 --> 04:29:55.639 she was crossing to the day nursery, he added, thoughtlessly, 4310 04:29:56.280 --> 04:29:59.760 and shut that window. I feel a draft. Oh, George, 4311 04:30:00.000 --> 04:30:02.440 he ever ask me to do that? The window must 4312 04:30:02.479 --> 04:30:06.959 always be left open for them, always, always. Now it 4313 04:30:07.120 --> 04:30:09.719 was his turn to beg her pardon, and she went 4314 04:30:09.799 --> 04:30:12.959 into the day nursery and played, and soon he was asleep. 4315 04:30:13.559 --> 04:30:16.360 And while he slept, Wendy and John and Michael flew 4316 04:30:16.440 --> 04:30:19.440 into the room. Oh no, we have ridden it so, 4317 04:30:19.719 --> 04:30:22.280 because that was the charming arrangement planned by them before 4318 04:30:22.319 --> 04:30:26.479 we left the ship. But something must have happened since then, 4319 04:30:27.280 --> 04:30:29.040 for it is not they who have flown in. It 4320 04:30:29.159 --> 04:30:34.440 is Peter and tinker Bell. Peter's first words, tell all quick, Tink, 4321 04:30:34.479 --> 04:30:37.959 He whispered, close the window, bar it. That's right now, 4322 04:30:38.040 --> 04:30:39.799 You and I must get away by that door. And 4323 04:30:39.920 --> 04:30:42.120 when Wendy comes, she will think her mother has barred 4324 04:30:42.159 --> 04:30:44.200 her out, and she will have to go back with me. 4325 04:30:45.159 --> 04:30:48.239 Now I understand what had hitherto puzzled me. Why when 4326 04:30:48.319 --> 04:30:50.920 Peter had exterminated the pirates, he did not return to 4327 04:30:51.000 --> 04:30:53.399 the island and leave Tink to escort the children to 4328 04:30:53.440 --> 04:30:56.319 the mainland. This trick had been in his head all 4329 04:30:56.399 --> 04:30:59.920 the time. Instead of feeling that he was behaving back, 4330 04:31:00.600 --> 04:31:03.559 he danced with glee. Then he peeped into the day 4331 04:31:03.639 --> 04:31:06.440 nursery to see who was playing. He whispered to Tink, 4332 04:31:07.120 --> 04:31:10.399 it's Wendy's mother. She is a pretty lady, but not 4333 04:31:10.559 --> 04:31:13.440 so pretty as my mother. Her mouth is full of thimbles, 4334 04:31:13.559 --> 04:31:16.760 but not so full as my mother's was. Of course, 4335 04:31:16.799 --> 04:31:19.799 he knew nothing whatever about his mother, but he sometimes 4336 04:31:19.879 --> 04:31:23.159 bragged about her. He did not know the tune, which 4337 04:31:23.280 --> 04:31:26.000 was Home, Sweet Home, but he knew what it was saying, 4338 04:31:26.520 --> 04:31:31.280 Come back, Wendy, Wendy, Wendy, and he cried exultantly. You 4339 04:31:31.319 --> 04:31:34.239 will never see Wendy again, lady, for the window is barred. 4340 04:31:35.159 --> 04:31:37.639 He peeped in again to see why the music had stopped, 4341 04:31:38.120 --> 04:31:40.280 And now he saw that missus Darling had laid her 4342 04:31:40.360 --> 04:31:43.079 head on the box, and that two tears were sitting 4343 04:31:43.159 --> 04:31:46.840 on her eyes. She wants me to unbar the window, 4344 04:31:46.920 --> 04:31:51.200 thought Peter. But I won't, not I. He peeped again, 4345 04:31:51.280 --> 04:31:53.760 and the tears were still there, or another two had 4346 04:31:53.799 --> 04:31:58.000 taken their place. She's awfully fond of Wendy, he said 4347 04:31:58.040 --> 04:32:00.959 to himself. He was angry with her now for not 4348 04:32:01.159 --> 04:32:05.000 seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was 4349 04:32:05.079 --> 04:32:08.479 so simple. I'm fond of her too. We can't both 4350 04:32:08.559 --> 04:32:11.760 have her, lady. But the lady would not make the 4351 04:32:11.840 --> 04:32:14.879 best of it, and he was unhappy. He ceased to 4352 04:32:14.959 --> 04:32:17.000 look at her, but even then she would not let 4353 04:32:17.120 --> 04:32:20.399 go of him. He skipped about and made funny faces, 4354 04:32:20.840 --> 04:32:23.159 but when he stopped, it was just as if she 4355 04:32:23.239 --> 04:32:26.959 were inside him knocking. Oh, all right, he said at last, 4356 04:32:27.040 --> 04:32:30.639 and gulped. Then he unbarred the window. Come on, tink, 4357 04:32:30.719 --> 04:32:33.239 he cried, with a frightful sneer at the laws of nature. 4358 04:32:33.760 --> 04:32:38.040 We don't want any silly mothers, And he flew away. Thus, 4359 04:32:38.200 --> 04:32:41.120 Wendy and John and Michael found the window open for 4360 04:32:41.319 --> 04:32:44.319 them after all, which of course was more than they deserved. 4361 04:32:45.200 --> 04:32:48.879 They alighted on the floor, quite unashamed of themselves, and 4362 04:32:49.000 --> 04:32:53.200 the youngest one had already forgotten his home. John, he said, 4363 04:32:53.319 --> 04:32:56.680 looking around him, doubtfully, I think I have been here before. 4364 04:32:57.639 --> 04:33:00.239 Of course you have, you silly. There is your old bed, 4365 04:33:01.239 --> 04:33:04.200 So it is, Michael said, but not with much conviction. 4366 04:33:05.040 --> 04:33:08.520 I say, cried John. The kennel, and he dashed across 4367 04:33:08.560 --> 04:33:12.360 to look into it. Perhaps Nana is inside it, Wendy said, 4368 04:33:12.799 --> 04:33:16.720 But John whistled, hullo, he said, there's a man inside it. 4369 04:33:17.360 --> 04:33:22.520 It's father, exclaimed Wendy. Let me see father, Michael begged eagerly, 4370 04:33:22.919 --> 04:33:25.400 and he took a good look. He is not so 4371 04:33:25.479 --> 04:33:27.639 big as the pirate I killed, he said, with such 4372 04:33:27.759 --> 04:33:30.840 frank disappointment that I am glad mister Darling was asleep. 4373 04:33:31.720 --> 04:33:33.599 It would have been sad if those had been the 4374 04:33:33.639 --> 04:33:37.159 first words he heard as little Michael say. Wendy and 4375 04:33:37.240 --> 04:33:39.799 John had been taken aback somewhat at finding their father 4376 04:33:39.880 --> 04:33:43.240 in the kennel. Surely, said John, like one who had 4377 04:33:43.279 --> 04:33:46.040 lost faith in his memory. He used not to sleep 4378 04:33:46.080 --> 04:33:50.599 in this kennel, John, Wendy said, falteringly. Perhaps we don't 4379 04:33:50.639 --> 04:33:52.680 remember the old life as well as we thought we did. 4380 04:33:53.560 --> 04:33:56.759 A chill fell upon them and served them right. It 4381 04:33:56.880 --> 04:33:59.880 is very careless of mother, said the young scoundrel John, 4382 04:34:00.400 --> 04:34:03.360 not to be here when we come back. It was 4383 04:34:03.479 --> 04:34:08.159 then that missus Darling began playing again. It's mother, cried Wendy, 4384 04:34:08.279 --> 04:34:12.119 peeping so it is, said John. Then are you not 4385 04:34:12.360 --> 04:34:15.799 really our mother? Wendy asked Michael, who was surely sleepy. 4386 04:34:16.400 --> 04:34:19.319 Oh dear, exclaimed Wendy, with her first real twinge of 4387 04:34:19.400 --> 04:34:23.520 remorse for having gone. It was quite time we came back. 4388 04:34:24.439 --> 04:34:27.360 Let us creep in, John suggested, and put our hands 4389 04:34:27.439 --> 04:34:30.840 over her eyes. But Wendy, who saw that they must 4390 04:34:30.880 --> 04:34:33.360 break the joyous news more gently, had a better plan. 4391 04:34:34.919 --> 04:34:37.279 Let us all slip into our beds and be there 4392 04:34:37.319 --> 04:34:39.479 when she comes in, just as if we had never 4393 04:34:39.560 --> 04:34:42.880 been away. And so, when missus Darling went back to 4394 04:34:42.959 --> 04:34:45.400 the night nursery to see if her husband was asleep, 4395 04:34:46.000 --> 04:34:49.319 all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her 4396 04:34:49.360 --> 04:34:53.119 cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, 4397 04:34:53.560 --> 04:34:56.759 but she did not believe they were there. You see, 4398 04:34:57.080 --> 04:34:59.240 She saw them in their beds so often in her 4399 04:34:59.360 --> 04:35:02.159 dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging 4400 04:35:02.240 --> 04:35:05.240 around her. Still, she sat down in the chair by 4401 04:35:05.279 --> 04:35:07.799 the fire where in the old days she had nursed them. 4402 04:35:08.799 --> 04:35:11.439 They could not understand this, and a cold fear fell 4403 04:35:11.560 --> 04:35:17.000 upon all the three of them. Mother Wendy cried, that's Wendy, 4404 04:35:17.200 --> 04:35:21.240 she said. But still she was sure it was the dream. Mother, 4405 04:35:22.319 --> 04:35:27.319 that's John, she said. Mother cried, Michael. He knew her. Now, 4406 04:35:28.319 --> 04:35:31.479 that's Michael, she said, And she stretched out her arms 4407 04:35:31.520 --> 04:35:34.680 for the three little selfish children. They would never envelope again. 4408 04:35:35.639 --> 04:35:39.680 Yes they did. They went round Wendy and John and Michael, 4409 04:35:39.959 --> 04:35:43.840 who had slipped out of bed and run to her. George, George, 4410 04:35:43.959 --> 04:35:47.040 she cried when she could speak, and mister Darling woke 4411 04:35:47.119 --> 04:35:50.720 to share her bliss, and Nana came rushing in. There 4412 04:35:50.759 --> 04:35:53.439 could not have been a lovelier sight, But there was 4413 04:35:53.520 --> 04:35:55.639 none to see it except a little boy who was 4414 04:35:55.680 --> 04:35:59.599 staring in at the window. He had had ecstasies in 4415 04:35:59.680 --> 04:36:03.279 noomble that other children can never know, But he was 4416 04:36:03.319 --> 04:36:05.959 looking through the window at the one joy from which 4417 04:36:06.040 --> 04:36:07.360 he must be forever barred. 4418 04:36:12.479 --> 04:36:17.439 End of Chapter sixteen chapter seventeen. When Wendy grew up, 4419 04:36:19.680 --> 04:36:21.279 I hope you want to know what became of the 4420 04:36:21.360 --> 04:36:24.759 other boys. They were waiting below to give Wendy time 4421 04:36:24.840 --> 04:36:28.080 to explain about them, and when they had counted five hundred, 4422 04:36:28.119 --> 04:36:31.520 they went up. They went up by the stair because 4423 04:36:31.560 --> 04:36:35.040 they thought this would make a better impression. They stood 4424 04:36:35.040 --> 04:36:36.799 in a row in front of Missus Darling, with their 4425 04:36:36.840 --> 04:36:40.319 hats off and wishing they were not wearing their pirate clothes. 4426 04:36:41.840 --> 04:36:44.000 They said nothing, but their eyes asked her to have them. 4427 04:36:45.119 --> 04:36:47.639 They ought to have looked at mister Darling also, but 4428 04:36:47.759 --> 04:36:48.720 they forgot about him. 4429 04:36:50.599 --> 04:36:50.959 Of course. 4430 04:36:51.000 --> 04:36:52.959 Missus Darling said at once that she would have them. 4431 04:36:53.560 --> 04:36:57.040 But mister Darling was curiously depressed, and they saw that 4432 04:36:57.119 --> 04:37:01.560 he considered six a rather large number. I must say. 4433 04:37:01.680 --> 04:37:04.520 He said to Wendy that you don't do things by halves, 4434 04:37:05.520 --> 04:37:08.360 a grudging remark which the twins thought was pointed at them. 4435 04:37:09.599 --> 04:37:12.000 The first twin was the proud one, and he asked, flushing, 4436 04:37:13.000 --> 04:37:15.040 do you think we should be too much of a handful, sir, 4437 04:37:15.680 --> 04:37:20.200 because if so, we can go away. Father Wendy cried, shocked, 4438 04:37:20.919 --> 04:37:23.520 but still the cloud was on him. He knew he 4439 04:37:23.639 --> 04:37:27.759 was behaving unworthily, but he could not help it. We 4440 04:37:27.840 --> 04:37:30.959 could lie doubled up, said NIBBs. I always cut their 4441 04:37:31.000 --> 04:37:36.319 hair myself, said Wendy. George, missus Darling exclaimed, pained to 4442 04:37:36.319 --> 04:37:39.119 see her dear one showing himself in such an unfavorable light. 4443 04:37:40.680 --> 04:37:43.639 Then he burst into tears and the truth came out. 4444 04:37:44.720 --> 04:37:46.360 He was as glad to have them as she was, 4445 04:37:46.479 --> 04:37:48.840 he said, but he thought they should have asked his 4446 04:37:48.959 --> 04:37:51.560 consent as well as hers, instead of treating him like 4447 04:37:51.599 --> 04:37:55.080 a cipher in his own house. I don't think he 4448 04:37:55.240 --> 04:37:58.040 is a cipher, Tootles cried instantly. Do you think he 4449 04:37:58.159 --> 04:38:01.360 is a cipher? Curly, No, I don't. Do you think 4450 04:38:01.400 --> 04:38:02.080 he is a cipher? 4451 04:38:02.159 --> 04:38:03.680 Slightly rather not? 4452 04:38:04.240 --> 04:38:04.479 Twin? 4453 04:38:04.759 --> 04:38:05.479 What do you think? 4454 04:38:07.119 --> 04:38:08.919 It turned out that not one of them thought him 4455 04:38:08.919 --> 04:38:13.080 a cipher, and he was absurdly gratified and said he 4456 04:38:13.080 --> 04:38:14.959 would find space for them all in the drawing room 4457 04:38:14.959 --> 04:38:18.599 if they fitted in. We'll fit in, sir, they assured him. 4458 04:38:19.400 --> 04:38:22.439 Then follow the leader, he cried, gaily, mind you, I 4459 04:38:22.520 --> 04:38:24.479 am not sure that we have a drawing room, but 4460 04:38:24.560 --> 04:38:26.279 we pretend we have, and it's all the same. 4461 04:38:26.919 --> 04:38:27.400 Hoopla. 4462 04:38:28.680 --> 04:38:30.680 He went off dancing through the house, and they all 4463 04:38:30.720 --> 04:38:34.599 cried hoopla and danced after him, searching for the drawing room. 4464 04:38:35.040 --> 04:38:37.319 And I forget whether they found it, but at any 4465 04:38:37.400 --> 04:38:41.599 rate they found corners, and they all fitted in. As 4466 04:38:41.639 --> 04:38:44.880 for Peter, he saw Wendy once again before he flew away. 4467 04:38:46.200 --> 04:38:48.520 He did not exactly come to the window, but he 4468 04:38:48.599 --> 04:38:50.759 brushed against it in passing, so that she could open 4469 04:38:50.799 --> 04:38:52.159 it if she liked, and called to him. 4470 04:38:53.080 --> 04:38:53.919 That was what she did. 4471 04:38:55.400 --> 04:38:59.400 Hullo, Wendy, good bye, he said, Oh dear, are. 4472 04:38:59.279 --> 04:38:59.919 You going away? 4473 04:39:00.919 --> 04:39:06.119 Yes, you don't feel Peter. She said, falteringly that you 4474 04:39:06.159 --> 04:39:08.759 would like to say anything to my parents about a 4475 04:39:08.880 --> 04:39:17.560 very sweet subject. No about me, Peter, No, missus Darling 4476 04:39:17.639 --> 04:39:19.799 came to the window, for at present she was keeping 4477 04:39:19.840 --> 04:39:22.840 a sharp eye on Wendy. She told Peter that she 4478 04:39:22.919 --> 04:39:24.959 had adopted all the other boys and would like to 4479 04:39:25.000 --> 04:39:28.599 adopt him. Also, would you send me to school? He 4480 04:39:28.720 --> 04:39:33.799 inquired craftily, Yes, and then to an office. I suppose 4481 04:39:33.880 --> 04:39:37.880 so soon I should be a man, very soon. I 4482 04:39:37.959 --> 04:39:40.639 don't want to go to school and learn solemn things, 4483 04:39:40.720 --> 04:39:44.159 he told her passionately. I don't want to be a man, Oh, 4484 04:39:44.240 --> 04:39:46.200 Wendy's mother, If I was to wake up and feel 4485 04:39:46.279 --> 04:39:50.799 there was a beard. Peter said, Wendy the comforter, I 4486 04:39:50.840 --> 04:39:53.759 should love you in a beard, and missus Darling stretched 4487 04:39:53.799 --> 04:39:57.240 out her arms to him, but he repulsed her. Keep back, lady, 4488 04:39:57.479 --> 04:39:58.959 no one is going to catch me and make me 4489 04:39:59.040 --> 04:40:02.959 a man. But where are you going to live with Tink? 4490 04:40:03.000 --> 04:40:05.319 In the house we built for Wendy. The fairies are 4491 04:40:05.360 --> 04:40:07.439 to put it high up among the tree tops where 4492 04:40:07.479 --> 04:40:11.479 they sleep at nights. How lovely, cried Wendy, so longingly 4493 04:40:11.560 --> 04:40:14.560 that missus Darling tightened her grip. I thought all the 4494 04:40:14.639 --> 04:40:17.599 fairies were dead, missus Darling said. There are always a 4495 04:40:17.680 --> 04:40:19.959 lot of young ones, explained Wendy, who is not quite 4496 04:40:20.000 --> 04:40:23.000 an authority, because you see, when a new baby laughs 4497 04:40:23.080 --> 04:40:25.439 for the first time, a new fairy is born. And 4498 04:40:25.560 --> 04:40:28.119 as there are always new babies, there are always new fairies. 4499 04:40:28.840 --> 04:40:30.919 They live in nests on the tops of trees, and 4500 04:40:31.040 --> 04:40:33.279 the mauve ones are boys, and the white ones are girls, 4501 04:40:33.680 --> 04:40:35.479 and the blue ones are just little sillies who are 4502 04:40:35.520 --> 04:40:39.080 not sure what they are. I shall have such fun, 4503 04:40:39.159 --> 04:40:42.599 said Peter, with one eye on Wendy. It will be 4504 04:40:42.720 --> 04:40:45.119 rather lonely in the evening, she said, sitting by the fire. 4505 04:40:45.880 --> 04:40:48.840 I shall have tink. Tink can't go a twentieth part 4506 04:40:48.880 --> 04:40:53.560 of the way around, She reminded him. A little tartly, sneaky, 4507 04:40:53.680 --> 04:40:56.400 tell tale tink called out from somewhere round the corner. 4508 04:40:57.400 --> 04:41:01.720 It doesn't matter, Peter said, Oh, Peter, you know it matters. Well, 4509 04:41:01.759 --> 04:41:04.159 then come with me to the little house, may I? 4510 04:41:04.319 --> 04:41:04.599 Mummy? 4511 04:41:05.040 --> 04:41:07.520 Certainly not. I have got you home again, and I 4512 04:41:07.639 --> 04:41:10.279 mean to keep you. But he does so need a mother, 4513 04:41:10.840 --> 04:41:14.720 So do you, my love? Oh all right, Peter said, 4514 04:41:14.720 --> 04:41:17.279 as if he had asked her from politeness merely. But 4515 04:41:17.439 --> 04:41:20.159 missus Darling saw his mouth twitch, and she made this 4516 04:41:20.319 --> 04:41:22.919 handsome offer to let Wendy go to him for a 4517 04:41:23.000 --> 04:41:26.319 week every year and do his spring cleaning. Wendy would 4518 04:41:26.319 --> 04:41:28.919 have preferred a more permanent arrangement, and it seemed to 4519 04:41:28.919 --> 04:41:31.840 her that spring would be long in coming. But this 4520 04:41:32.000 --> 04:41:35.520 promise sent Peter away quite gay again. He had no 4521 04:41:35.680 --> 04:41:38.040 sense of time, and was so full of adventures that 4522 04:41:38.159 --> 04:41:39.680 all I have told you about him is only a 4523 04:41:39.720 --> 04:41:43.000 hapeney worth of them. I suppose it was because Wendy 4524 04:41:43.080 --> 04:41:44.959 knew this that her last words to him were these 4525 04:41:45.000 --> 04:41:48.599 rather plaintive ones. You won't forget me, Peter, will you 4526 04:41:48.799 --> 04:41:52.840 before spring cleaning time comes? Of course, Peter promised, and 4527 04:41:52.919 --> 04:41:56.400 then he flew away. He took missus Darling's kiss with him, 4528 04:41:57.439 --> 04:42:00.279 the kiss that had been for no one else took 4529 04:42:00.360 --> 04:42:06.119 quite easily funny, but she seemed satisfied. Of course, all 4530 04:42:06.159 --> 04:42:08.119 the boys went to school, and most of them got 4531 04:42:08.159 --> 04:42:10.919 into class three, but slightly was put first into class 4532 04:42:11.040 --> 04:42:13.840 four and then into class five. Class one is the 4533 04:42:13.880 --> 04:42:17.400 top class. Before they had attended school a week, they 4534 04:42:17.439 --> 04:42:19.319 saw what goats they had been not to remain on 4535 04:42:19.400 --> 04:42:21.919 the island, But it was too late now, and soon 4536 04:42:21.959 --> 04:42:24.000 they settled down to being as ordinary as you or 4537 04:42:24.080 --> 04:42:27.479 me or Jenkins minor. It is sad to have to 4538 04:42:27.520 --> 04:42:31.319 say that the power to fly gradually left them. At first, 4539 04:42:31.439 --> 04:42:34.040 Nana tied their feet to the bedposts so that they 4540 04:42:34.040 --> 04:42:36.240 should not fly away in the night, and one of 4541 04:42:36.279 --> 04:42:39.119 their diversions by day was to pretend to fall off buses. 4542 04:42:40.159 --> 04:42:41.759 But by and bye they ceased to tug at their 4543 04:42:41.799 --> 04:42:44.479 bonds in bed and found that they hurt themselves when 4544 04:42:44.479 --> 04:42:47.319 they let go of the bus. In time, they could 4545 04:42:47.360 --> 04:42:50.560 not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they 4546 04:42:50.639 --> 04:42:53.159 called it, But what it really meant was that they 4547 04:42:53.240 --> 04:42:58.520 no longer believed. Michael believed longer than the other boys, 4548 04:42:59.000 --> 04:43:00.919 though they jeered at him. So he was with Wendy 4549 04:43:00.919 --> 04:43:02.279 when Peter came for her. At the end of the 4550 04:43:02.360 --> 04:43:05.319 first year. She flew away with Peter in the frock 4551 04:43:05.439 --> 04:43:07.639 she had woven from the leaves and berries in the Neverland, 4552 04:43:08.479 --> 04:43:10.279 and her one fear was that he might notice how 4553 04:43:10.360 --> 04:43:13.000 short it had become. But he never noticed. He had 4554 04:43:13.040 --> 04:43:16.599 so much to say about himself. She had looked forward 4555 04:43:16.639 --> 04:43:19.279 to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new 4556 04:43:19.319 --> 04:43:21.880 adventures had crowded out the old ones from his mind. 4557 04:43:23.200 --> 04:43:26.000 Who is Captain Hook, he asked her with interest when 4558 04:43:26.040 --> 04:43:29.759 she spoke of the arch enemy. Don't you remember, she asked, amazed, 4559 04:43:29.880 --> 04:43:32.680 how you killed him and saved all our lives. I 4560 04:43:32.799 --> 04:43:37.000 forget them after I killed them, he replied carelessly. When 4561 04:43:37.040 --> 04:43:39.000 she expressed a doubtful hope that tinker Bell would be 4562 04:43:39.000 --> 04:43:43.520 glad to see her, he said, who is tinker Bell? Oh, Peter, 4563 04:43:43.799 --> 04:43:46.880 she said, shocked, But even when she explained, he could 4564 04:43:46.919 --> 04:43:50.159 not remember. There are such a lot of them, he said, 4565 04:43:50.400 --> 04:43:53.759 I expect she is no more. I expect he was 4566 04:43:53.840 --> 04:43:56.159 right for Fairies don't live long, but they are so 4567 04:43:56.319 --> 04:43:58.479 little that a short time seems a good while to them. 4568 04:44:00.000 --> 04:44:02.279 Wendy was pained too to find that the past year 4569 04:44:02.360 --> 04:44:05.159 was but as yesterday. To Peter. It seemed such a 4570 04:44:05.240 --> 04:44:08.200 long year of waiting to her, But he was exactly 4571 04:44:08.279 --> 04:44:10.959 as fascinating as ever, and they had a lovely spring 4572 04:44:11.040 --> 04:44:15.200 cleaning in the little house on the tree tops. Next year, 4573 04:44:15.279 --> 04:44:17.639 he did not come for her. She waited in a 4574 04:44:17.720 --> 04:44:20.000 new frock because the old one simply would not meet. 4575 04:44:20.680 --> 04:44:24.560 But he never came. Perhaps he is ill, Michael said, 4576 04:44:25.520 --> 04:44:28.400 you know, he is never ill. Michael came close to 4577 04:44:28.439 --> 04:44:32.240 her and whispered with a shiver, Perhaps there is no 4578 04:44:32.360 --> 04:44:36.200 such person, Wendy. And then Wendy would have cried if 4579 04:44:36.240 --> 04:44:40.520 Michael had not been crying. Peter came next spring cleaning, 4580 04:44:41.000 --> 04:44:42.759 and the strange thing was that he never knew he 4581 04:44:42.840 --> 04:44:47.439 had missed a year. That was the last time the 4582 04:44:47.520 --> 04:44:51.400 girl Wendy ever saw him for a little longer. She tried, 4583 04:44:51.439 --> 04:44:53.880 for his sake not to have growing pains, and she 4584 04:44:53.959 --> 04:44:56.040 felt she was untrue to him when she got a 4585 04:44:56.119 --> 04:44:59.919 prize for general knowledge. But the years came and went 4586 04:45:00.119 --> 04:45:03.240 without bringing the careless boy and when they met again, 4587 04:45:03.520 --> 04:45:05.919 Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more 4588 04:45:05.959 --> 04:45:08.080 to her than a little dust in the box in 4589 04:45:08.159 --> 04:45:12.200 which she had kept her toys. Wendy was grown up. 4590 04:45:13.200 --> 04:45:15.680 You need not be sorry for her. She was one 4591 04:45:15.680 --> 04:45:18.000 of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end, 4592 04:45:18.080 --> 04:45:20.000 she grew up of her own free will a day 4593 04:45:20.080 --> 04:45:24.360 quicker than other girls. All the boys were grown up 4594 04:45:24.400 --> 04:45:26.759 and done for by this time, so it is scarcely 4595 04:45:26.799 --> 04:45:30.319 worth while saying anything more about them. You may see 4596 04:45:30.319 --> 04:45:32.360 the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to 4597 04:45:32.439 --> 04:45:35.119 an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. 4598 04:45:35.880 --> 04:45:38.959 Michael is an engine driver, slightly married a lady of title, 4599 04:45:39.080 --> 04:45:41.680 and so he became a lord. You see that judge 4600 04:45:41.680 --> 04:45:44.000 in a wig coming out at the iron door that 4601 04:45:44.200 --> 04:45:47.400 used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know 4602 04:45:47.520 --> 04:45:52.840 any story to tell his children was once John. Wendy 4603 04:45:53.000 --> 04:45:55.840 was married in white with a pink sash. It is 4604 04:45:55.880 --> 04:45:57.919 strange to think Peter did not alight in the church 4605 04:45:57.959 --> 04:46:02.400 and forbid the bands. Years rolled on again, and Wendy 4606 04:46:02.520 --> 04:46:05.840 had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink, 4607 04:46:05.919 --> 04:46:10.439 but in a golden splash. She was called Jane, and 4608 04:46:10.599 --> 04:46:13.479 always had an odd, inquiring look, as if from the 4609 04:46:13.520 --> 04:46:15.959 moment she arrived on the mainland she wanted to ask questions. 4610 04:46:17.159 --> 04:46:19.319 When she was old enough to ask them, They were 4611 04:46:19.400 --> 04:46:22.680 mostly about Peter Pan. She loved to hear of Peter, 4612 04:46:23.240 --> 04:46:25.159 and Wendy told her all she could remember. In the 4613 04:46:25.279 --> 04:46:27.840 very nursery from which the famous flight had taken place. 4614 04:46:29.400 --> 04:46:31.439 It was Jane's nursery now, for her father had bought 4615 04:46:31.479 --> 04:46:34.040 it at three percents from Wendy's father, who was no 4616 04:46:34.159 --> 04:46:38.360 longer fond of stairs. Missus Darling was now dead and forgotten. 4617 04:46:40.200 --> 04:46:42.479 There were only two beds in the nursery now, Jane's 4618 04:46:42.520 --> 04:46:45.000 and her nurse's, and there was no kennel, for Nana 4619 04:46:45.080 --> 04:46:48.400 also had passed away. She died of old age, and 4620 04:46:48.479 --> 04:46:50.240 at the end she had been rather difficult to get 4621 04:46:50.279 --> 04:46:53.000 on with, being very firmly convinced that no one knew 4622 04:46:53.000 --> 04:46:58.119 how to look after her children except herself. Once a week, 4623 04:46:58.240 --> 04:47:00.520 Jane's nurse had her evening off, and then it was 4624 04:47:00.599 --> 04:47:03.639 Wendy's part to put Jane to bed. That was the 4625 04:47:03.720 --> 04:47:07.279 time for stories. It was Jane's invention to raise the 4626 04:47:07.319 --> 04:47:09.799 sheet over her mother's head in her own, thus making 4627 04:47:09.840 --> 04:47:14.159 a tent and in the awful darkness to whisper, what do. 4628 04:47:14.279 --> 04:47:15.040 We see now? 4629 04:47:17.080 --> 04:47:19.799 I don't think I see anything tonight, says Wendy, with 4630 04:47:19.919 --> 04:47:21.919 a feeling that if Nana were here, she would object 4631 04:47:21.959 --> 04:47:26.279 to further conversation. Yes you do, says Jane. You see 4632 04:47:26.759 --> 04:47:30.200 when you were a little girl. That is a long 4633 04:47:30.279 --> 04:47:33.959 time ago, sweetheart, says Wendy. Ah me, how time flies? 4634 04:47:35.000 --> 04:47:37.840 Does it fly? Asked the artful child. The way you 4635 04:47:38.000 --> 04:47:41.720 flew when you were a little girl, The way I flew? 4636 04:47:41.840 --> 04:47:44.360 Do you know, Jane? I sometimes wonder whether I ever 4637 04:47:44.479 --> 04:47:49.959 did really fly? Yes, you did, the dear old days 4638 04:47:50.000 --> 04:47:52.840 when I could fly? Why can't you fly now? 4639 04:47:52.919 --> 04:47:53.119 Mother? 4640 04:47:54.400 --> 04:47:57.360 Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up, 4641 04:47:57.400 --> 04:48:01.520 they forget the way. Why do they forget away? Because 4642 04:48:01.560 --> 04:48:04.720 they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It 4643 04:48:04.840 --> 04:48:07.360 is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly? 4644 04:48:08.599 --> 04:48:11.639 What is gay and innocent and heartless? I do wish 4645 04:48:11.720 --> 04:48:16.200 I was gay and innocent and heartless. Well, perhaps Wendy 4646 04:48:16.240 --> 04:48:20.159 admits she does see something. I do believe she says 4647 04:48:20.720 --> 04:48:24.080 that it is this nursery. I do believe it is, 4648 04:48:24.439 --> 04:48:25.000 says Jane. 4649 04:48:25.439 --> 04:48:25.720 Go on. 4650 04:48:27.360 --> 04:48:29.439 They are now embarked on the great adventure of the night. 4651 04:48:29.479 --> 04:48:33.439 When Peter flew in looking for his shadow, the foolish 4652 04:48:33.520 --> 04:48:35.919 fellow says, Wendy tried to stick it on with soap, 4653 04:48:36.759 --> 04:48:39.360 and when he could not, he cried, And that woke me, 4654 04:48:39.439 --> 04:48:41.639 and I sewed it on for him. You have missed 4655 04:48:41.680 --> 04:48:44.599 a bit, interrupts Jane, who now knows the story better 4656 04:48:44.680 --> 04:48:45.200 than her mother. 4657 04:48:46.200 --> 04:48:47.000 When you saw him. 4658 04:48:46.919 --> 04:48:50.880 Sitting on the floor crying, what did you say? I 4659 04:48:50.959 --> 04:48:53.840 sat up in bed and I said, boy, why are 4660 04:48:53.880 --> 04:48:58.119 you crying? Yes, that was it, says Jane, with a 4661 04:48:58.159 --> 04:49:01.599 big breath. And then he flew us all away to 4662 04:49:01.680 --> 04:49:04.599 the Neverland and the fairies and the pirates, and the Redskins, 4663 04:49:04.639 --> 04:49:07.200 and the Mermaid's Lagoon, and the Home under the Ground 4664 04:49:07.360 --> 04:49:11.040 and the little house. Yes, wish did you like best 4665 04:49:11.080 --> 04:49:14.479 of all? I think I liked the Home under the 4666 04:49:14.560 --> 04:49:15.439 ground best of all. 4667 04:49:16.319 --> 04:49:17.279 Yes, so do I. 4668 04:49:17.919 --> 04:49:19.799 What was the last thing Peter ever said to you? 4669 04:49:21.119 --> 04:49:23.759 The last thing he ever said to me was just 4670 04:49:23.959 --> 04:49:26.639 always be waiting for me, and then some night you 4671 04:49:26.720 --> 04:49:32.080 will hear me crowing. Yes, but alas he forgot all 4672 04:49:32.119 --> 04:49:35.959 about me. Wendy said it with a smile. She was 4673 04:49:36.000 --> 04:49:39.799 as grown up as that. What did his crow sound like, 4674 04:49:40.159 --> 04:49:44.279 Jane asked one evening. It was like this, Wendy said, er, 4675 04:49:45.959 --> 04:49:49.880 trying to imitate Peter's crow. No it wasn't, Jane said gravely. 4676 04:49:50.240 --> 04:49:56.400 It was like this, and she did it, ever so 4677 04:49:56.560 --> 04:50:00.439 much better than her mother. Wendy was a little startled, 4678 04:50:01.000 --> 04:50:04.119 my darling, how can you know I often hear it 4679 04:50:04.159 --> 04:50:08.279 when I am sleeping? Jane said, Ah, yes, many girls 4680 04:50:08.319 --> 04:50:10.040 hear it when they are sleeping, But I was the 4681 04:50:10.119 --> 04:50:10.919 only one who heard it. 4682 04:50:10.959 --> 04:50:12.840 Awake, Lucky you. 4683 04:50:13.479 --> 04:50:20.159 Said Jane. And then one night came the tragedy. It 4684 04:50:20.279 --> 04:50:22.240 was the spring of the year, and the story had 4685 04:50:22.279 --> 04:50:24.159 been told for the night, and Jane was now asleep 4686 04:50:24.240 --> 04:50:27.319 in her bed. Wendy was sitting on the floor, very 4687 04:50:27.360 --> 04:50:29.319 close to the fire so as to see to darn, 4688 04:50:29.919 --> 04:50:32.200 for there was no other light in the nursery. And 4689 04:50:32.360 --> 04:50:36.319 while she sat darning, she heard a crow. Then the 4690 04:50:36.360 --> 04:50:39.159 window blew open as of old, and Peter dropped on 4691 04:50:39.279 --> 04:50:43.319 the floor. He was exactly the same as ever, and 4692 04:50:43.439 --> 04:50:45.520 Wendy saw at once that he still had all his 4693 04:50:45.639 --> 04:50:49.520 first teeth. He was a little boy and she was 4694 04:50:49.560 --> 04:50:53.360 grown up. She huddled by the fire, not daring to move, 4695 04:50:54.000 --> 04:50:59.400 helpless and guilty. A big woman. Hello, Wendy, he said, 4696 04:50:59.479 --> 04:51:02.959 not noticing any difference, for he was thinking chiefly of himself, 4697 04:51:04.040 --> 04:51:05.759 and in the dim light, her white dress might have 4698 04:51:05.799 --> 04:51:07.759 been the nightgown in which he had seen her first. 4699 04:51:09.560 --> 04:51:13.799 Hello Peter, she replied, faintly, squeezing herself as small as possible. 4700 04:51:14.919 --> 04:51:20.840 Something inside her was crying, woman, woman, Let go of me. Hullo, 4701 04:51:21.040 --> 04:51:23.880 where is John, he asked, suddenly missing the third bed. 4702 04:51:25.000 --> 04:51:28.560 Jahn is not here now, she gasped. Is Michael asleep? 4703 04:51:29.119 --> 04:51:32.639 He asked, with a careless glance at Jane. Yes, she answered, 4704 04:51:33.360 --> 04:51:35.200 and now she felt that she was untrue to Jane 4705 04:51:35.240 --> 04:51:38.520 as well as to Peter. That is not Michael, she said, quickly, 4706 04:51:38.720 --> 04:51:42.439 lest a judgment should fall on her. Peter looked, hullo, 4707 04:51:42.639 --> 04:51:43.279 is it a new one? 4708 04:51:44.240 --> 04:51:44.439 Yes? 4709 04:51:45.200 --> 04:51:49.520 Boy or girl? Girl? Now surely he would understand. But 4710 04:51:49.680 --> 04:51:53.720 not a bit of it, Peter, she said, faltering, Are 4711 04:51:53.759 --> 04:51:56.759 you expecting me to fly away with you? Of course, 4712 04:51:57.200 --> 04:52:00.560 that is why I have come, he added, little sternly. 4713 04:52:00.759 --> 04:52:04.159 Have you forgotten that this is spring cleaning time? She 4714 04:52:04.279 --> 04:52:06.040 knew it was useless to say that he had let 4715 04:52:06.159 --> 04:52:10.959 many spring cleaning times pass. I can't come, she said, apologetically. 4716 04:52:11.319 --> 04:52:14.799 I have forgotten how to fly. I'll soon teach you again. 4717 04:52:16.080 --> 04:52:19.520 Oh Peter, don't waste the fairy dust on me. She 4718 04:52:19.639 --> 04:52:21.759 had risen, and now at last a fear assailed him. 4719 04:52:22.520 --> 04:52:22.919 What is it? 4720 04:52:23.040 --> 04:52:26.159 He cried, shrinking. I will turn up the light, she said, 4721 04:52:26.520 --> 04:52:30.319 and then you can see for yourself. For almost the 4722 04:52:30.400 --> 04:52:32.279 only time in his life that I know of, Peter 4723 04:52:32.639 --> 04:52:37.639 was afraid. Don't turn up the light, he cried. She 4724 04:52:37.799 --> 04:52:39.880 let her hands play in the hair of the tragic boy. 4725 04:52:40.840 --> 04:52:43.799 She was not a little girl heartbroken about him. She 4726 04:52:43.919 --> 04:52:46.240 was a grown woman, smiling at it all. But they 4727 04:52:46.279 --> 04:52:50.319 were wet smiles. Then she turned up the light and 4728 04:52:50.439 --> 04:52:53.959 Peter saw. He gave a cry of pain, and when 4729 04:52:53.959 --> 04:52:56.720 the tall, beautiful creature stooped to lift him in her arms, 4730 04:52:57.400 --> 04:52:58.439 he drew back sharply. 4731 04:52:59.040 --> 04:52:59.439 What is it? 4732 04:52:59.639 --> 04:53:04.080 He cried again. She had to tell him. I am old, Peter. 4733 04:53:05.159 --> 04:53:07.880 I am ever so much more than twenty. I grew 4734 04:53:07.959 --> 04:53:12.279 up long ago. You promised not to. I couldn't help it. 4735 04:53:12.759 --> 04:53:16.479 I'm a married woman, Peter. No, you're not. Yes, And 4736 04:53:16.560 --> 04:53:18.599 the little girl in the bed is my baby. No, 4737 04:53:18.759 --> 04:53:22.360 she's not, but he supposed she was, and he took 4738 04:53:22.360 --> 04:53:24.680 a step toward the sleeping child with his fist upraised. 4739 04:53:25.840 --> 04:53:28.799 Of course, he did not strike her. He sat down 4740 04:53:29.080 --> 04:53:31.720 on the floor and sobbed, and Wendy did not know 4741 04:53:31.840 --> 04:53:33.680 how to comfort him, though she could have done it 4742 04:53:33.799 --> 04:53:38.119 so easily once. She was only a woman now, and 4743 04:53:38.240 --> 04:53:39.880 she ran out of the room to try to think. 4744 04:53:41.520 --> 04:53:44.880 Peter continued to cry, and soon his sobs woke Jane. 4745 04:53:46.080 --> 04:53:49.759 She sat up in bed and was interested at once boy. 4746 04:53:50.119 --> 04:53:55.439 She said, why are you crying. Peter rose and bowed 4747 04:53:55.479 --> 04:53:58.720 to her, and she bowed to him from the bed. Hullo, 4748 04:53:59.000 --> 04:54:02.319 he said, hullo, oh, said Jane. My name is Peter 4749 04:54:02.479 --> 04:54:07.000 Pan He told her, Yes, I know. I came back 4750 04:54:07.000 --> 04:54:09.319 from my mother, he explained, to take her to the Neverland. 4751 04:54:10.119 --> 04:54:12.680 Yes I know, Jane said, I have been waiting for you. 4752 04:54:14.759 --> 04:54:17.720 When Wendy returned, diffidently, she found Peter sitting on the 4753 04:54:17.759 --> 04:54:21.639 bedpost crowing gloriously, while Jane, in her nighty, was flying 4754 04:54:21.759 --> 04:54:26.200 round the room in solemn ecstasy. She is my mother, 4755 04:54:26.360 --> 04:54:29.560 Peter explained, and Jane descended and stood by his side 4756 04:54:29.599 --> 04:54:31.040 with a look on her face that he'd liked to 4757 04:54:31.080 --> 04:54:34.639 see on ladies when they gazed at him. He does 4758 04:54:34.759 --> 04:54:38.919 so need a mother. Jane said, yes, I know, Wendy admitted, 4759 04:54:39.000 --> 04:54:43.959 rather forlornly. No one knows it so well as I. Goodbye, 4760 04:54:44.080 --> 04:54:46.560 said Peter to Wendy, and he rose in the air, 4761 04:54:46.840 --> 04:54:49.799 and the shameless Jane rose with him. It was already 4762 04:54:49.880 --> 04:54:55.880 her easiest way of moving about. Wendy rushed to the window. No, no, 4763 04:54:56.560 --> 04:55:01.000 she cried, It is just for spring cleaning time. Jane said. 4764 04:55:01.680 --> 04:55:02.720 He wants me always to. 4765 04:55:02.799 --> 04:55:07.799 Do his spring cleaning. If only I could go with you, 4766 04:55:08.439 --> 04:55:16.200 Wendy sighed, You see, you can't fly, said Jane. Of course. 4767 04:55:16.240 --> 04:55:19.360 In the end, Wendy let them fly away together. Our 4768 04:55:19.400 --> 04:55:22.240 last glimpse of her shows her at the window, watching them, 4769 04:55:22.319 --> 04:55:25.119 orceeding into the sky until they were as small as stars. 4770 04:55:27.520 --> 04:55:29.159 As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair 4771 04:55:29.200 --> 04:55:32.439 becoming white and her figure little again. For all this 4772 04:55:32.560 --> 04:55:36.759 happened long ago, Jane is now a common grown up 4773 04:55:36.799 --> 04:55:40.439 with a daughter called Margaret, and every spring cleaning time, 4774 04:55:41.159 --> 04:55:44.680 except when he forgets, Peter comes from Margaret and takes 4775 04:55:44.720 --> 04:55:48.200 her to the neverland, where she tells him stories about himself, 4776 04:55:48.240 --> 04:55:52.040 to which he listens eagerly. When Margaret grows up, she 4777 04:55:52.119 --> 04:55:54.360 will have a daughter who is to be Peter's mother 4778 04:55:54.439 --> 04:55:59.000 in turn. And so it will go on, so long 4779 04:55:59.040 --> 04:56:08.520 as children are gay and innocent and heartless. End of 4780 04:56:08.599 --> 04:56:09.520 Chapter seventeen.