We now return to the nursery . `` It 's all right , '' John announced , emerging from his hiding-place . `` I say , Peter , can you really fly ? '' Instead of troubling to answer him Peter flew around the room , taking the mantelpiece on the way . `` How topping ! '' said John and Michael . `` How sweet ! '' cried Wendy . `` Yes , I 'm sweet , oh , I am sweet ! '' said Peter , forgetting his manners again . It looked delightfully easy , and they tried it first from the floor and then from the beds , but they always went down instead of up . `` I say , how do you do it ? '' asked John , rubbing his knee . He was quite a practical boy . `` You just think lovely wonderful thoughts , '' Peter explained , `` and they lift you up in the air . '' He showed them again . `` You 're so nippy at it , '' John said , `` could n't you do it very slowly once ? '' Peter did it both slowly and quickly . `` I 've got it now , Wendy ! '' cried John , but soon he found he had not .
Not one of them could fly an inch , though even XXXXX was in words of two syllables , and Peter did not know A from Z. Of course Peter had been trifling with them , for no one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him .
John Michael Peter Wendy boy first hiding-place knee mantelpiece right