What I mean is that , of course , one must pity him now and then , but to pity him all the time would be impertinence . He thought he had the most splendid time in the Gardens , and to think you have it is almost quite as good as really to have it . He played without ceasing , while you often waste time by being mad-dog or Mary-Annish . He could be neither of these things , for he had never heard of them , but do you think he is to be pitied for that ? Oh , he was merry . He was as much merrier than you , for instance , as you are merrier than your father . Sometimes he fell , like a spinning-top , from sheer merriment . Have you seen a greyhound leaping the fences of the Gardens ? That is how Peter leaps them . And think of the music of his pipe . Gentlemen who walk home at night write to the papers to say they heard a nightingale in the Gardens , but it is really Peter 's pipe they hear . Of course , he had no mother -- at least , what use was she to him ? You can be sorry for him for that , but do n't be too sorry , for the next thing I mean to tell you is how he revisited her . It was the fairies who gave him the chance . The Little House Everybody has heard of the Little House in the Kensington Gardens , which is the only house in the whole world that the fairies have built for humans . But no one has really seen it , except just three or four , and they have not only seen it but slept in it , and unless you sleep in it you never see it . This is because it is not there when you lie down , but it is there when you wake up and step outside . In a kind of way everyone may see it , but what you see is not really it , but only the light in the windows . You see the light after Lock-out Time . David , for instance , saw it quite distinctly far away among the trees as we were going home from the pantomime , and Oliver Bailey saw it the night he stayed so late at the Temple , which is the name of his father 's office .
Angela Clare , who loves to have a tooth extracted because then she is treated to tea in a shop , saw more than one light , she saw hundreds of them all together , and this must have been the fairies building the house , for they build it every XXXXX and always in a different part of the Gardens .
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