`` How could you get across ? '' said Solomon . He promised very kindly , however , to teach Peter as many of the bird ways as could be learned by one of such an awkward shape . `` Then I sha 'n' t be exactly a human ? '' Peter asked . `` No . '' `` Nor exactly a bird ? '' `` No . '' `` What shall I be ? '' `` You will be a Betwixt-and-Between , '' Solomon said , and certainly he was a wise old fellow , for that is exactly how it turned out . The birds on the island never got used to him . His oddities tickled them every day , as if they were quite new , though it was really the birds that were new . They came out of the eggs daily , and laughed at him at once , then off they soon flew to be humans , and other birds came out of other eggs , and so it went on forever . The crafty mother-birds , when they tired of sitting on their eggs , used to get the young one to break their shells a day before the right time by whispering to them that now was their chance to see Peter washing or drinking or eating . Thousands gathered round him daily to watch him do these things , just as you watch the peacocks , and they screamed with delight when he lifted the crusts they flung him with his hands instead of in the usual way with the mouth . All his food was brought to him from the Gardens at Solomon 's orders by the birds . He would not eat worms or insects -LRB- which they thought very silly of him -RRB- , so they brought him bread in their beaks . Thus , when you cry out , `` Greedy ! Greedy ! '' to the bird that flies away with the big crust , you know now that you ought not to do this , for he is very likely taking it to Peter Pan .
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