` He could ride on it , ' cried Maimie , ` and play on his pipe at the same time . ' ` Then , ' her mother asked , ` wo n't you give him your goat , the one you frighten Tony with at night ? ' ` But it is n't a real goat , ' Maimie said . ` It seems very real to Tony , ' replied her mother . ` It seems frightfully real to me too , ' Maimie admitted , ` but how could I give it to Peter ? ' Her mother knew a way , and next day , accompanied by Tony -LRB- who was really quite a nice boy , though of course he could not compare -RRB- , they went to the Gardens , and Maimie stood alone within a fairy ring , and then her mother , who was a rather gifted lady , said -- ` My daughter , tell me , if you can , What have you got for Peter Pan ? ' To which Maimie replied -- ' I have a goat for him to ride , Observe me cast it far and wide . ' She then flung her arms about as if she were sowing seed , and turned round three times . Next Tony said -- ` If P. doth find it waiting here , Wilt ne'er again make me to fear ? ' And Maimie answered -- ` By dark or light I fondly swear Never to see goats anywhere . ' She also left a letter to Peter in a likely place , explaining what she had done , and begging him to ask the fairies to turn the goat into one convenient for riding on . Well , it all happened just as she hoped , for Peter found the letter , and of course nothing could be easier for the fairies than to turn the goat into a real one , and so that is how Peter got the goat on which he now rides round the Gardens every night playing sublimely on his pipe . And Maimie kept her promise , and never frightened Tony with a goat again , though I have heard that she created another animal . Until she was quite a big girl she continued to leave presents for Peter in the Gardens -LRB- with letters explaining how humans play with them -RRB- , and she is not the only one who has done this . David does it , for instance , and he and I know the likeliest place for leaving them in , and we shall tell you if you like , but for mercy 's sake do n't ask us before Porthos , for he is so fond of toys that , were he to find out the place , he would take every one of them . -LSB- Illustration : They will certainly mischief you -LRB- missing from book -RRB- -RSB- Though Peter still remembers Maimie he is become as gay as ever , and often in sheer happiness he jumps off his goat and lies kicking merrily on the grass . Oh , he has a joyful time ! But he has still a vague memory that he was a human once , and it makes him especially kind to the house-swallows when they visit the island , for house-swallows are the spirits of little children who have died . They always build in the eaves of the houses where they lived when they were humans , and sometimes they try to fly in at a nursery window , and perhaps that is why Peter loves them best of all the birds . And the little house ?
Every lawful XXXXX -LRB- that is to say , every night except ball nights -RRB- the fairies now build the little house lest there should be a human child lost in the Gardens , and Peter rides the marches looking for lost ones , and if he finds them he carries them on his goat to the little house , and when they wake up they are in it , and when they step out they see it .
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