` Dear Maimie ! ' cried the tragic boy . She leapt into his arms , so that it was a sort of fairy wedding , and then she hurried away . Oh , how she hastened to the gates ! Peter , you may be sure , was back in the Gardens that night as soon as Lock-out sounded , but he found no Maimie , and so he knew she had been in time . For long he hoped that some night she would come back to him ; often he thought he saw her waiting for him by the shore of the Serpentine as his bark drew to land , but Maimie never went back . She wanted to , but she was afraid that if she saw her dear Betwixt-and-Between again she would linger with him too long , and besides the ayah now kept a sharp eye on her . But she often talked lovingly of Peter , and she knitted a kettle-holder for him , and one day when she was wondering what Easter present he would like , her mother made a suggestion . -LSB- Illustration : If the bad ones among the fairies happen to be out -LRB- missing from book -RRB- -RSB- ` Nothing , ' she said thoughtfully , ` would be so useful to him as a goat . ' ` 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 XXXXX playing sublimely on his pipe .
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