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F you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl, she will say, ‘Why, of course I did, child’; and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she will say, ‘What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did.’ Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, ‘Why, of course I did, child,’ but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as