The fairies sit round on mushrooms , and at first they are very well-behaved and always cough off the table , and so on , but after a bit they are not so well-behaved and stick their fingers into the butter , which is got from the roots of old trees , and the really horrid ones crawl over the table-cloth chasing sugar or other delicacies with their tongues . When the Queen sees them doing this she signs to the servants to wash up and put away , and then everybody adjourns to the dance , the Queen walking in front while the Lord Chamberlain walks behind her , carrying two little pots , one of which contains the juice of wall-flower and the other the juice of Solomon 's Seals . Wall-flower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit , and Solomon 's Seals juice is for bruises . They bruise very easily and when Peter plays faster and faster they foot it till they fall down in fits . For , as you know without my telling you , Peter Pan is the fairies ' orchestra . He sits in the middle of the ring , and they would never dream of having a smart dance nowadays without him . `` P. P. '' is written on the corner of the invitation-cards sent out by all really good families . They are grateful little people , too , and at the princess 's coming-of-age ball -LRB- they come of age on their second birthday and have a birthday every month -RRB- they gave him the wish of his heart . The way it was done was this . The Queen ordered him to kneel , and then said that for playing so beautifully she would give him the wish of his heart . Then they all gathered round Peter to hear what was the wish of his heart , but for a long time he hesitated , not being certain what it was himself . `` If I chose to go back to mother , '' he asked at last , `` could you give me that wish ? '' Now this question vexed them , for were he to return to his mother they should lose his music , so the Queen tilted her nose contemptuously and said , `` Pooh , ask for a much bigger wish than that . '' `` Is that quite a little wish ? '' he inquired . `` As little as this , '' the Queen answered , putting her hands near each other . `` What size is a big wish ? '' he asked . She measured it off on her skirt and it was a very handsome length . Then Peter reflected and said , `` Well , then , I think I shall have two little wishes instead of one big one . ''
Of course , the fairies had to agree , though his cleverness rather shocked them , and he said that his XXXXX wish was to go to his mother , but with the right to return to the Gardens if he found her disappointing .
Chamberlain Peter Pooh Queen Solomon fall first month second wall-flower