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` PETER PAN `
` [PETER AND WENDY] `
` BY `
` J. M. BARRIE `
` [James Matthew Barrie] `
` `
` A Millennium Fulcrum Edition `
` (c)1991 by Duncan Research `
` `
` `
` `
` Contents `
` --------- `
` `
` Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH `
` `
` Chapter 2 THE SHADOW `
` `
` Chapter 3 COME AWAY, COME AWAY! `
` `
` Chapter 4 THE FLIGHT `
` `
` Chapter 5 THE ISLAND COME TRUE `
` `
` Chapter 6 THE LITTLE HOUSE `
` `
` Chapter 7 THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND `
` `
` Chapter 8 THE MERMAID'S LAGOON `
` `
` Chapter 9 THE NEVER BIRD `
` `
` Chapter 10 THE HAPPY HOME `
` `
` Chapter 11 WENDY'S STORY `
` `
` Chapter 12 THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF `
` `
` Chapter 13 DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES? `
` `
` Chapter 14 THE PIRATE SHIP `
` `
` Chapter 15 "HOOK OR ME THIS TIME" `
` `
` Chapter 16 THE RETURN HOME `
` `
` Chapter 17 WHEN WENDY GREW UP `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` Chapter 1 `
` `
` 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 [their house number on their street], `
` 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 boxes, one within the other, that come from the `
` puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and `
` her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, `
` though there is was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner. `
` `
` The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who `
` had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that `
` they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her `
` except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he `
` got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box and the `
` kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying `
` for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I `
` can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming `
` the door. `
` `
` Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only `
` loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who `
` know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, `
` but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and `
` shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect `
` him. `
` `
` Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the `
` books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so `
` much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole `
` cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures `
` of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been `
` totting up. They were Mrs. Darling's guesses. `
` `
` Wendy came first, then John, then Michael. `
` `
` For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they `
` would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Mr. `
` Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, `
` and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed, holding her hand `
` and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly. `
` She wanted to risk it, come what might, but that was not his way; `
` his way was with a pencil and a piece of paper, and if she `
` confused him with suggestions he had to begin at the beginning `
` again. `
` `
` "Now don't interrupt," he would beg of her. `
` `
` "I have one pound seventeen here, and two and six at the office; `
` I can cut off my coffee at the office, say ten shillings, making `
` two nine and six, with your eighteen and three makes three nine seven, `
` with five naught naught in my cheque-book makes eight nine seven -- `
` who is that moving? -- eight nine seven, dot and carry seven -- `
` don't speak, my own -- and the pound you lent to that man who came to `
` the door -- quiet, child -- dot and carry child -- there, you've `
` done it! -- did I say nine nine seven? yes, I said nine nine `
` seven; the question is, can we try it for a year on nine nine seven?" `
` `
` "Of course we can, George," she cried. But she was prejudiced `
` in Wendy's favour, and he was really the grander character of the `
` two. `
` `
` "Remember mumps," he warned her almost threateningly, and off `
` he went again. "Mumps one pound, that is what I have put down, `
` but I daresay it will be more like thirty shillings -- don't `
` speak -- measles one five, German measles half a guinea, makes `
` two fifteen six -- don't waggle your finger -- whooping-cough, `
` say fifteen shillings" -- and so on it went, and it added up `
` differently each time; but at last Wendy just got through, `
` with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles `
` treated as one. `
` `
` There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a `
` narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon, you might have seen `
` the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom's Kindergarten `
` school, accompanied by their nurse. `
` `
` Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling `
` had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of `
` course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount `
` of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland `
` dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until `
` the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children `
` important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with `
` her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time `
` peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless `
` nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to `
` their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse. `
` How thorough she was at bath-time, and up at any moment of the `
` night if one of her charges made the slightest cry. Of course `
` her kennel was in the nursery. She had a genius for knowing when `
` a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs `
` stocking around your throat. She believed to her last day in `
` old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of `
` contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on. `
` It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to `
` school, walking sedately by their side when they were well `
` behaved, and butting them back into line if they strayed. On `
` John's footer [in England soccer was called football, "footer" `
` for short] days she never once forgot his sweater, and she `
` usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain. There `
` is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom's school where the `
` nurses wait. They sat on forms, while Nana lay on the floor, `
` but that was the only difference. They affected to ignore her as `
` of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised `
` their light talk. She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. `
` Darling's friends, but if they did come she first whipped off `
` Michael's pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, `
` and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John's hair. `
` `
` No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, `
` and Mr. Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily `
` whether the neighbours talked. `
` `
` He had his position in the city to consider. `
` `
` Nana also troubled him in another way. He had sometimes a `
` feeling that she did not admire him. "I know she admires you `
` tremendously, George," Mrs. Darling would assure him, and then `
` she would sign to the children to be specially nice to father. `
` Lovely dances followed, in which the only other servant, Liza, `
` was sometimes allowed to join. Such a midget she looked in her `
` long skirt and maid's cap, though she had sworn, when engaged, `
` that she would never see ten again. The gaiety of those romps! `
` And gayest of all was Mrs. Darling, who would pirouette so wildly `
` that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had `
` dashed at her you might have got it. There never was a simpler `
` happier family until the coming of Peter Pan. `
` `
` Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her `
` children's minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother `
` after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put `
` things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper `
` places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If `
`
` PETER PAN `
` [PETER AND WENDY] `
` BY `
` J. M. BARRIE `
` [James Matthew Barrie] `
` `
` A Millennium Fulcrum Edition `
` (c)1991 by Duncan Research `
` `
` `
` `
` Contents `
` --------- `
` `
` Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH `
` `
` Chapter 2 THE SHADOW `
` `
` Chapter 3 COME AWAY, COME AWAY! `
` `
` Chapter 4 THE FLIGHT `
` `
` Chapter 5 THE ISLAND COME TRUE `
` `
` Chapter 6 THE LITTLE HOUSE `
` `
` Chapter 7 THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND `
` `
` Chapter 8 THE MERMAID'S LAGOON `
` `
` Chapter 9 THE NEVER BIRD `
` `
` Chapter 10 THE HAPPY HOME `
` `
` Chapter 11 WENDY'S STORY `
` `
` Chapter 12 THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF `
` `
` Chapter 13 DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES? `
` `
` Chapter 14 THE PIRATE SHIP `
` `
` Chapter 15 "HOOK OR ME THIS TIME" `
` `
` Chapter 16 THE RETURN HOME `
` `
` Chapter 17 WHEN WENDY GREW UP `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` Chapter 1 `
` `
` 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 [their house number on their street], `
` 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 boxes, one within the other, that come from the `
` puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and `
` her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, `
` though there is was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner. `
` `
` The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who `
` had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that `
` they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her `
` except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he `
` got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box and the `
` kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying `
` for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I `
` can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming `
` the door. `
` `
` Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only `
` loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who `
` know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, `
` but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and `
` shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect `
` him. `
` `
` Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the `
` books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so `
` much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole `
` cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures `
` of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been `
` totting up. They were Mrs. Darling's guesses. `
` `
` Wendy came first, then John, then Michael. `
` `
` For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they `
` would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Mr. `
` Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, `
` and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed, holding her hand `
` and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly. `
` She wanted to risk it, come what might, but that was not his way; `
` his way was with a pencil and a piece of paper, and if she `
` confused him with suggestions he had to begin at the beginning `
` again. `
` `
` "Now don't interrupt," he would beg of her. `
` `
` "I have one pound seventeen here, and two and six at the office; `
` I can cut off my coffee at the office, say ten shillings, making `
` two nine and six, with your eighteen and three makes three nine seven, `
` with five naught naught in my cheque-book makes eight nine seven -- `
` who is that moving? -- eight nine seven, dot and carry seven -- `
` don't speak, my own -- and the pound you lent to that man who came to `
` the door -- quiet, child -- dot and carry child -- there, you've `
` done it! -- did I say nine nine seven? yes, I said nine nine `
` seven; the question is, can we try it for a year on nine nine seven?" `
` `
` "Of course we can, George," she cried. But she was prejudiced `
` in Wendy's favour, and he was really the grander character of the `
` two. `
` `
` "Remember mumps," he warned her almost threateningly, and off `
` he went again. "Mumps one pound, that is what I have put down, `
` but I daresay it will be more like thirty shillings -- don't `
` speak -- measles one five, German measles half a guinea, makes `
` two fifteen six -- don't waggle your finger -- whooping-cough, `
` say fifteen shillings" -- and so on it went, and it added up `
` differently each time; but at last Wendy just got through, `
` with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles `
` treated as one. `
` `
` There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a `
` narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon, you might have seen `
` the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom's Kindergarten `
` school, accompanied by their nurse. `
` `
` Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling `
` had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of `
` course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount `
` of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland `
` dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until `
` the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children `
` important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with `
` her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time `
` peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless `
` nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to `
` their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse. `
` How thorough she was at bath-time, and up at any moment of the `
` night if one of her charges made the slightest cry. Of course `
` her kennel was in the nursery. She had a genius for knowing when `
` a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs `
` stocking around your throat. She believed to her last day in `
` old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of `
` contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on. `
` It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to `
` school, walking sedately by their side when they were well `
` behaved, and butting them back into line if they strayed. On `
` John's footer [in England soccer was called football, "footer" `
` for short] days she never once forgot his sweater, and she `
` usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain. There `
` is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom's school where the `
` nurses wait. They sat on forms, while Nana lay on the floor, `
` but that was the only difference. They affected to ignore her as `
` of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised `
` their light talk. She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. `
` Darling's friends, but if they did come she first whipped off `
` Michael's pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, `
` and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John's hair. `
` `
` No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, `
` and Mr. Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily `
` whether the neighbours talked. `
` `
` He had his position in the city to consider. `
` `
` Nana also troubled him in another way. He had sometimes a `
` feeling that she did not admire him. "I know she admires you `
` tremendously, George," Mrs. Darling would assure him, and then `
` she would sign to the children to be specially nice to father. `
` Lovely dances followed, in which the only other servant, Liza, `
` was sometimes allowed to join. Such a midget she looked in her `
` long skirt and maid's cap, though she had sworn, when engaged, `
` that she would never see ten again. The gaiety of those romps! `
` And gayest of all was Mrs. Darling, who would pirouette so wildly `
` that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had `
` dashed at her you might have got it. There never was a simpler `
` happier family until the coming of Peter Pan. `
` `
` Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her `
` children's minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother `
` after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put `
` things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper `
` places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If `
`