Was Mother blonde or brunette ? Answer all three questions if possible . ' ' -LRB- A -RRB- Write an essay of not less than 40 words on How I spent my last Holidays , or The Caracters of Father and Mother compared . Only one of these to be attempted . ' Or ' -LRB- 1 -RRB- Describe Mother 's laugh ; -LRB- 2 -RRB- Describe Father 's laugh ; -LRB- 3 -RRB- Describe Mother 's Party Dress ; -LRB- 4 -RRB- Describe the Kennel and its Inmate . ' They were just everyday questions like these , and when you could not answer them you were told to make a cross ; and it was really dreadful what a number of crosses even John made . Of course the only boy who replied to every question was Slightly , and no one could have been more hopeful of coming out first , but his answers were perfectly ridiculous , and he really came out last : a melancholy thing . Peter did not compete . For one thing he despised all mothers except Wendy , and for another he was the only boy on the island who could neither write nor spell ; not the smallest word . He was above all that sort of thing . By the way , the questions were all written in the past tense . What was the colour of Mother 's eyes , and so on . Wendy , you see , had been forgetting too . Adventures , of course , as we shall see , were of daily occurrence ; but about this time Peter invented , with Wendy 's help , a new game that fascinated him enormously , until he suddenly had no more interest in it , which , as you have been told , was what always happened with his games . It consisted in pretending not to have adventures , in doing the sort of thing John and Michael had been doing all their lives : sitting on stools flinging balls in the air , pushing each other , going out for walks and coming back without having killed so much as a grizzly . To see Peter doing nothing on a stool was a great sight ; he could not help looking solemn at such times , to sit still seemed to him such a comic thing to do . He boasted that he had gone a walk for the good of his health . For several suns these were the most novel of all adventures to him ; and John and Michael had to pretend to be delighted also ; otherwise he would have treated them severely . He often went out alone , and when he came back you were never absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not . 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 XXXXX cooed over him and bathed it in lukewarm water , while he told a dazzling tale .
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