He was above all that sort of thing . By the way , the questions were all written in the past tense . What was the colour of Mother 's eyes , and so on . Wendy , you see , had been forgetting , too . Adventures , of course , as we shall see , were of daily occurrence ; but about this time Peter invented , with Wendy 's help , a new game that fascinated him enormously , until he suddenly had no more interest in it , which , as you have been told , was what always happened with his games . It consisted in pretending not to have adventures , in doing the sort of thing John and Michael had been doing all their lives , sitting on stools flinging balls in the air , pushing each other , going out for walks and coming back without having killed so much as a grizzly . To see Peter doing nothing on a stool was a great sight ; he could not help looking solemn at such times , to sit still seemed to him such a comic thing to do . He boasted that he had gone walking for the good of his health . For several suns these were the most novel of all adventures to him ; and John and Michael had to pretend to be delighted also ; otherwise he would have treated them severely . He often went out alone , and when he came back you were never absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not . He might have forgotten it so completely that he said nothing about it ; and then when you went out you found the body ; and , on the other hand , he might say a great deal about it , and yet you could not find the body . Sometimes he came home with his head bandaged , and then Wendy cooed over him and bathed it in lukewarm water , while he told a dazzling tale . But she was never quite sure , you know . There were , however , many adventures which she knew to be true because she was in them herself , and there were still more that were at least partly true , for the other boys were in them and said they were wholly true . To describe them all would require a book as large as an English-Latin , Latin-English Dictionary , and the most we can do is to give one as a specimen of an average hour on the island . The difficulty is which one to choose . Should we take the brush with the redskins at Slightly Gulch ? It was a sanguinary -LSB- cheerful -RSB- affair , and especially interesting as showing one of Peter 's peculiarities , which was that in the middle of a fight he would suddenly change sides . At the Gulch , when victory was still in the balance , sometimes leaning this way and sometimes that , he called out , `` I 'm redskin to-day ; what are you , Tootles ? '' And Tootles answered , `` Redskin ; what are you , Nibs ? ''
and XXXXX said , `` Redskin ; what are you Twin ? ''
Dictionary English-Latin Gulch John Michael Mother Nibs Peter Redskin redskins