第 八 章 · THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON

, and so made her his ally.

Or we could tell of that cake the pirates cooked so that the boys might

eat it and perish; and how they placed it in one cunning spot after

another; but always Wendy snatched it from the hands of her children,

so that in time it lost its succulence, and became as hard as a stone,

and was used as a missile, and Hook fell over it in the dark.

Or suppose we tell of the birds that were Peter’s friends, particularly

of