she asked , aghast . ' I shall know when you give it to me , ' he replied stiffly ; and not to hurt his feelings she gave him a thimble . ` Now , ' said he , ` shall I give you a kiss ? ' and she replied with a slight primness , ` If you please . ' She made herself rather cheap by inclining her face toward him , but he merely dropped an acorn button into her hand ; so she slowly returned her face to where it had been before , and said nicely that she would wear his kiss on the chain round her neck . It was lucky that she did put it on that chain , for it was afterwards to save her life . When people in our set are introduced , it is customary for them to ask each other 's age , and so Wendy , who always liked to do the correct thing , asked Peter how old he was . It was not really a happy question to ask him ; it was like an examination paper that asks grammar , when what you want to be asked is Kings of England . ' I do n't know , ' he replied uneasily , ` but I am quite young . ' He really knew nothing about it ; he had merely suspicions , but he said at a venture , ` Wendy , I ran away the day I was born . ' Wendy was quite surprised , but interested ; and she indicated in the charming drawing-room manner , by a touch on her night-gown , that he could sit nearer her . ` It was because I heard father and mother , ' he explained in a low voice , ` talking about what I was to be when I became a man . ' He was extraordinarily agitated now . ' I do n't want ever to be a man , ' he said with passion . ' I want always to be a little boy and to have fun . So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies . ' She gave him a look of the most intense admiration , and he thought it was because he had run away , but it was really because he knew fairies . Wendy had lived such a home life that to know fairies struck her as quite delightful . She poured out questions about them , to his surprise , for they were rather a nuisance to him , getting in his way and so on , and indeed he sometimes had to give them a hiding . Still , he liked them on the whole , and he told her about the beginning of fairies .
` You see , XXXXX , when the first baby laughed for the first time , its laugh broke into a thousand pieces , and they all went skipping about , and that was the beginning of fairies . '
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