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] . She said ‘You silly ass.’ She is quite a common girl, you know. She is called Tinker Bell because she mends the fairy pots and kettles.

(They have reached a chair. in the ordinary way and through a hole in the back.)

. Where do you live now?

. With the lost boys.

. Who are they?

. They are the children who fall out of their prams when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Never Land. I’m captain.

. What fun it must be.

(craftily). Yes, but we are rather lonely. You see, Wendy, we have no female companionship.

. Are none of the other children girls?

. Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

. Peter, it is perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls. John there just despises us.