John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands , Michael in a wigwam , Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together . John had no friends , Michael had friends at night , Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents ; but on the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance , and if they stood still in a row you could say of them that they have each other 's nose , and so forth . On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles . We too have been there ; we can still hear the sound of the surf , though we shall land no more . Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact ; not large and sprawly , you know , with tedious distances between one adventure and another , but nicely crammed . When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth , it is not in the least alarming , but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real . That is why there are night-lights . Occasionally in her travels through her children 's minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand , and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter . She knew of no Peter , and yet he was here and there in John and Michael 's minds , while Wendy 's began to be scrawled all over with him . The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words , and as Mrs. Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance . ` Yes , he is rather cocky , ' Wendy admitted with regret . Her mother had been questioning her . ` But who is he , my pet ? ' ` He is Peter Pan , you know , mother . ' At first Mrs. Darling did not know , but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies . There were odd stories about him ; as that when children died he went part of the way with them , so that they should not be frightened . She had believed in him at the time , but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person . ` Besides , ' she said to Wendy , ` he would be grown up by this time . ' ` Oh no , he is n't grown up , ' Wendy assured her confidently , ` and he is just my size . ' She meant that he was her size in both mind and body ; she did n't know how she knew it , she just knew it .
Mrs. XXXXX consulted Mr. Darling , but he smiled pooh-pooh .
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