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 Nibs said , `` Redskin ; what are you Twin ? '' and so on ; and they were all redskins ; and of course this would have ended the fight had not the real redskins fascinated by Peter 's methods , agreed to be lost boys for that once , and so at it they all went again , more fiercely than ever . The extraordinary upshot of this adventure was -- but we have not decided yet that this is the adventure we are to narrate . Perhaps a better one would be the night attack by the redskins on the house under the ground , when several of them stuck in the hollow trees and had to be pulled out like corks . Or we might tell how Peter saved Tiger Lily 's life in the Mermaids ' Lagoon , and so made her his ally . Or we could tell of that cake the pirates cooked so that the boys might eat it and perish ; and how they placed it in one cunning spot after another ; but always Wendy snatched it from the hands of her children , so that in time it lost its succulence , and became as hard as a stone , and was used as a missile , and Hook fell over it in the dark . Or suppose we tell of the birds that were Peter 's friends , particularly of the Never bird that built in a tree overhanging the lagoon , and how the nest fell into the water , and still the bird sat on her eggs , and Peter gave orders that she was not to be disturbed . That is a pretty story , and the end shows how grateful a bird can be ; but if we tell it we must also tell the whole adventure of the lagoon , which would of course be telling two adventures rather than just one . A shorter adventure , and quite as exciting , was Tinker Bell 's attempt , with the help of some street fairies , to have the sleeping Wendy conveyed on a great floating leaf to the mainland . Fortunately the leaf gave way and Wendy woke , thinking it was bath-time , and swam back .
Or again , we might choose Peter 's defiance of the lions , when he drew a circle round him on the ground with an arrow and dared them to cross it ; and though he waited for hours , with the other boys and XXXXX looking on breathlessly from trees , not one of them dared to accept his challenge .
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