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Opening Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Public domain text from Project Gutenberg.
Peter Pan
[PETER AND WENDY]
by J. M. Barrie [James Matthew Barrie]
A Millennium Fulcrum Edition produced in 1991 by Duncan Research. Note
that while a copyright was initially claimed for the labor involved in
digitization, that copyright claim is not consistent with current
copyright requirements. This text, which matches the 1911 original
publication, is in the public domain in the US.
Contents
Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH
Chapter II. THE SHADOW
Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT
Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE
Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE
Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND
Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS LAGOON
Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD
Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME
Chapter XI. WENDY S STORY
Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF
Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?
Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP
Chapter XV. HOOK OR ME THIS TIME
Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME
Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP
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Chapter I.
PETER BREAKS THROUGH
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow
up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years 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
delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, Oh,
why can t you remain like this for ever! This was all that passed
between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must
grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the
end.
Of course they lived at 14, and until Wendy came her mother was the
chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet
mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny b…
Contents
Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP
Page 1 Chapter I.
Page 2 Chapter II.
Page 10 Chapter III.
Page 19 Chapter IV.
Page 35 Chapter V.
Page 45 Chapter VI.
Page 56 Chapter VII.
Page 66 Chapter VIII.
Page 71 Chapter IX.
Page 85 Chapter X.
Page 88 Chapter XI.
Page 96 Chapter XII.
Page 105 Chapter XIII.
Page 110 Chapter XIV.
Page 118 Chapter XV.
Page 125 Chapter XVI.
Page 135 Chapter XVII.
Page 144
I wasn t meaning to be disrespectful.
Oh, all right.
But, I say, what bit?
His right hand.
Then he can t fight now?
Oh, can t he just!
Left-hander?
He has an iron hook instead of a right hand, and he claws with it.
Claws!
I say, John, said Peter.
Yes.
Say, Ay, ay, sir.
Ay, ay, sir.
There is one thing, Peter continued, that every boy who serves under
me has to promise, and so must you.
John paled.
It is this, if we meet Hook in open fight, you must leave him to me.
I promise, John said loyally.
For the moment they were feeling less eerie, because Tink was flying
with them, and in her light they could distinguish each other.
Unfortunately she could not fly so slowly as they, and so she had to go
round and round them in a circle in which they moved as in a halo.
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