PETER PAN AND WENDY

old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delig

outh. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always on

se deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know,

st, then John,

r,but he was very honorable and will sit at the edge of the bed with Mrs. Darling and calculate all the expenses, while she looked at him imploringly and will want

e coming of Peter pan. Mrs. Darling first hea

felt that it had an o

dy admitted with regret. Her m

is he,

Pan, you kn

fairies. There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frighte

Wendy, "he would be g

er size both in mind and body. Oh no, he isn't grown up," Wendy assured her confidently, "and he is just my

," he said, "it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; ju

d soon the troublesome boy ga

had met their dead father and had a game with him. It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation. Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery

do you mea

o wipe his feet," Wendy said,

o the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes t

ecious. No one can get into

es in by the wi

t is three

leaves at the

leaves had been found

all seemed so natural to Wendy that you could

cried, "why did you not

ightly. She was in a hur

e must have b

skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England. She crawle

endy has bee

ght showed, the night on which the extraordinary adv

to be Nana's evening off, and Mrs. Darling had bathed them and sung to them t

d cosy so she smiles and

ree night-lights, and presently the sewing lay on Mrs. Darling's lap. Then her head nodded, oh, so gracefully. She was asleep. Look at

h from it. He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the face of many women who had no children. B

n, and a boy did drop on the floor. He was accompanied by a strange light, no bigger than your fist, which

ve seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling's kiss. He was a lovely boy , class in skeleton leaves and the juices that oozes out of trees . But t