Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie

and for another he was the only boy on the island who could neither write nor spell; not the smallest word. He ...

The extraordinary upshot of this adventure was—but we have not decided yet that this is the adventure we ...

Chapter 8 THE MERMAIDS' LAGOON If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shap ...

But the moment the children tried to join in they had to play by themselves, for the mermaids immediately ...

dog, and with one warning cry he roused the others. He stood motionless, one hand to his ear. “Pirates!” he cr ...

“Ahoy there, you lubbers!” he called. It was a marvellous imitation. “The captain!” said the pirates, stari ...

“He sighs,” said Smee. “He sighs again,” said Starkey. “And yet a third time he sighs,” said Smee. Then ...

“Do you agree, my bullies?” asked Hook. “There is my hand on it,” they both said. “And there is my ...

“Have we been captained all this time by a codfish!” they muttered. “It is lowering to our pride.” T ...

Smee reflected. “I can't think of a thing,” he said regretfully. “Can't guess, can't guess!” crowed Peter. ...

Some of the greatest heroes have confessed that just before they fell to [began combat] they had a ...

start, and was just in time to draw her back. But he had to tell her the truth. “We are on the rock, Wendy ...

the moon. Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like ...

Chapter 9 THE NEVER BIRD The last sound Peter heard before he was quite alone were the mermaids ...

“What are you quacking about?” Peter answered. “Why don't you let the nest drift as usual?” “I—want—you—” the ...

eggs. She drifted in one direction, and he was borne off in another, both cheering. Of cour ...

Chapter 10 THE HAPPY HOME One important result of the brush [with the pirates] on the lagoon was that it mad ...

the clock struck. The meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat around the board, guzzling i ...

“No, indeed,” replied the twins; “it's awfully difficult to be a twin.” “As I can't be anything important ...

“Ah, old lady,” said Peter, hanging up his gun. “It was me told him mothers are called old lady,” Michael whisper ...