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88 . Can’t guess, can’t guess! (Foundering in his cockiness) Do you give it up?

(eagerly). Yes.

. All of you?

and. Yes.

(crowing). Well, then, I am Peter Pan!

(Now they have him.)

. Pan! Into the water, Smee. Starkey, mind the boat. Take him dead or alive!

(who still has all his baby teeth). Boys, lam into the pirates!

(For a moment the only two we can see are in the dinghy, where throws himself on .  wriggles into the lagoon and  leaps so quickly after him that he reaches it first. The impression left on  is that he is being attacked by the . The water becomes stained. The dinghy drifts away. Here and there a head shows in the water, and once it is the head of the crocodile. In the growing gloom some strike at their friends,  getting  in the fourth rib while he