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] (meeting in a moment’s lull). Oh, Michael, stay with me, protect me!

(reeling). Wendy, I’ve killed a pirate!

. It’s awful, awful.

. No, it isn’t, I like it, I like it.

(He casts himself into the group of boys who are encircling . Again and again they close upon him and again and again he hews a clear space.)

. Back, back, you mice. It’s Hook; do you like him? (He lifts up with his claw and uses him as a buckler. A terrible voice breaks in.)

. Put up your swords, boys. This man is mine.

( shakes off his claw as if he were a drop of water, and these two antagonists face each other for their final bout. They measure swords at arms’ length, make a sweeping motion with them, and bringing the points to the deck rest their hands upon the hilts.)