All his food was brought to him from the Gardens at Solomon 's orders by the birds . He would not eat worms or insects -LRB- which they thought very silly of him -RRB- , so they brought him bread in their beaks . Thus , when you cry out , ` Greedy ! Greedy ! ' to the bird that flies away with the big crust , you know now that you ought not to do this , for he is very likely taking it to Peter Pan . -LSB- Illustration : The birds on the island never got used to him . His oddities tickled them every day -RSB- Peter wore no nightgown now . You see , the birds were always begging him for bits of it to line their nests with , and , being very good-natured , he could not refuse , so by Solomon 's advice he had hidden what was left of it . But , though he was now quite naked , you must not think that he was cold or unhappy . He was usually very happy and gay , and the reason was that Solomon had kept his promise and taught him many of the bird ways . To be easily pleased , for instance , and always to be really doing something , and to think that whatever he was doing was a thing of vast importance . Peter became very clever at helping the birds to build their nests ; soon he could build better than a wood-pigeon , and nearly as well as a blackbird , though never did he satisfy the finches , and he made nice little water-troughs near the nests and dug up worms for the young ones with his fingers . He also became very learned in bird-lore , and knew an east wind from a west wind by its smell , and he could see the grass growing and hear the insects walking about inside the tree-trunks . But the best thing Solomon had done was to teach him to have a glad heart . All birds have glad hearts unless you rob their nests , and so , as they were the only kind of heart Solomon knew about , it was easy to him to teach Peter how to have one . -LSB- Illustration : Peter screamed out , ` Do it again ! ' and with great good-nature they did it several times -RSB- Peter 's heart was so glad that he felt he must sing all day long , just as the birds sing for joy , but , being partly human , he needed an instrument , so he made a pipe of reeds , and he used to sit by the shore of the island of an evening , practising the sough of the wind and the ripple of the water , and catching handfuls of the shine of the moon , and he put them all in his pipe and played them so beautifully that even the birds were deceived , and they would say to each other , ` Was that a fish leaping in the water or was it Peter playing leaping fish on his pipe ? ' And sometimes he played the birth of birds , and then the mothers would turn round in their nests to see whether they had laid an egg . If you are a child of the Gardens you must know the chestnut-tree near the bridge , which comes out in flower first of all the chestnuts , but perhaps you have not heard why this tree leads the way . It is because Peter wearies for summer and plays that it has come , and the chestnut being so near , hears him and is cheated .
-LSB- Illustration : A hundred flew off with the string , and Peter clung to the tail -RSB- But as XXXXX sat by the shore tootling divinely on his pipe he sometimes fell into sad thoughts , and then the music became sad also , and the reason of all this sadness was that he could not reach the Gardens , though he could see them through the arch of the bridge .
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