Питер Пен / Peter Pan

Hook sat down on one of the big forest mushrooms (in the Neverland mushrooms grow to a gigantic size) to rest a little. He felt his seat getting not only warm, but much too warm.

The pirates examined the mushroom; they tried to pull it up, and it came away at once in their hands, for it had no root. The pirates looked at each other. “A chimney!” they exclaimed.

So Captain Hook realised that he was really sitting on a chimney of the underground home which Peter cleverly disguised. The pirates discovered the chimney of the home under the ground.

The boys stopped it with a mushroom when enemies were in the neighbourhood. He also understood at once that the Lost Boys were living in safety down below.

Very soon he made a wicked, treacherous plan. He cooked a huge cake, with beautiful green sugar and poisoned it inside. “We will leave the cake on the shore of the Mermaids’ Lagoon[57 - Mermaids’ Lagoon – Залив Русалок]. These boys are always swimming there, playing with the mermaids.

They will find the cake and they will eat it, because they don’t know how dangerous it is to eat cakes. Aha, they will die!”

Smee[58 - Smee – Неряха] listened with growing admiration.

Tick tick tick tick!

“The crocodile!” Hook cried, and ran away, followed by his band. It was indeed the crocodile. It had passed the Indians. It was looking for Hook. The Pirates disappeared in the depths of the forest when the Indians crept silently up in pursuit of them.

Once more the boys emerged.

Nibs said, “I saw a wonderfuller thing, a great white bird. It is flying this way.”

“What kind of a bird, do you think?”

“I don’t know,” Nibs said, “but it looked so tired, and it cried ‘Poor Wendy.’”

“Poor Wendy?”

“See, it comes!” cried Curly, pointing to Wendy in the heavens.

Wendy was now almost overhead, and they could hear her cry. But more distinct came the shrill voice of Tinker Bell. The jealous fairy cried, “Peter wants you to shoot the Wendy.

”

Tinker was rather a bad little fairy sometimes.

“Let us do what Peter wishes!” cried the boys. “Quick, bows and arrows!”

All but Tootles popped down their trees. He had a bow and arrow with him, and Tink noted it, and rubbed her little hands.

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