I quite shrink from the truth , which is that he sat there in two minds . Sometimes he looked longingly at his mother , and sometimes he looked longingly at the window . Certainly it would be pleasant to be her boy again , but on the other hand , what times those had been in the Gardens ! Was he so sure that he should enjoy wearing clothes again ? He popped off the bed and opened some drawers to have a look at his old garments . They were still there , but he could not remember how you put them on . The socks , for instance , were they worn on the hands or on the feet ? He was about to try one of them on his hand , when he had a great adventure . Perhaps the drawer had creaked ; at any rate , his mother woke up , for he heard her say ` Peter , ' as if it was the most lovely word in the language . He remained sitting on the floor and held his breath , wondering how she knew that he had come back . If she said ` Peter ' again , he meant to cry ` Mother ' and run to her . But she spoke no more , she made little moans only , and when he next peeped at her she was once more asleep , with tears on her face . It made Peter very miserable , and what do you think was the first thing he did ? Sitting on the rail at the foot of the bed , he played a beautiful lullaby to his mother on his pipe . He had made it up himself out of the way she said ` Peter , ' and he never stopped playing until she looked happy . He thought this so clever of him that he could scarcely resist wakening her to hear her say , ' O Peter , how exquisitely you play ! ' However , as she now seemed comfortable , he again cast looks at the window . You must not think that he meditated flying away and never coming back . He had quite decided to be his mother 's boy , but hesitated about beginning to-night . It was the second wish which troubled him .
He no longer meant to make it a wish to be a bird , but not to ask for a XXXXX wish seemed wasteful , and , of course , he could not ask for it without returning to the fairies .
Gardens Mother Peter bed drawer first floor rate second to-night