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Peter and Wendy
Chapter 1 · 10 illustrations Peter breaks into the nursery
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1·1 The narrow Darling house in its London terrace at dusk, one warm window glowing high
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1·2 Mrs. Darling presses a hand to her heart as little Wendy runs to her with a flower
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1·3 Nana peers gravely into a pram in Kensington Gardens as a cross nursemaid glares
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1·4 A storybook map of a child's mind: a crowded Neverland island with zigzag roads
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1·5 Mrs. Darling, puzzled, studies a cocky scrawled Peter among her children's thoughts
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1·6 From the nursery sill, a taut tape hangs down the brick wall to the pavement below
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1·7 In Mrs. Darling's dream, a boy holds open a torn veil as three children peep at Neverland
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1·8 Wind throws the nursery window open; a barefoot boy drops in, led by a spark of light
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1·9 Mrs. Darling wakes with a cry by the nursery fire and recognises the boy as Peter Pan
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1·10 Peter Pan gnashes his pearly milk teeth at the grown-up woman by the nursery fire
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Chapter 2 · 11 illustrations The shadow and the fatal Friday
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2·1 Nana hurls herself across the nursery as the barefoot boy crouches on the sill
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2·2 Nana proudly holds the boy's torn-off shadow in her jaws as Mrs. Darling stares
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2·3 A week after the shadow, the night-nursery stands emptied of children, its beds tidy and untouched.
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2·4 Mrs. Darling calmly ties her husband's tie as Wendy, John and Michael watch
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2·5 Clutching his medicine, a teary father protests it isn't fair as his daughter looks up
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2·6 Michael gulps his medicine, eyes shut, as his father slides his own glass behind his hip
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2·7 In close-up, Nana, the Darlings' Newfoundland nurse, looks up at Mr. Darling
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2·8 Puffed up with false courage, Mr. Darling waves Nana away as the children weep behind
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2·9 Nana, tied to a post in the back-yard, watches Mr. Darling walk away in shame
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2·10 In the dim night-nursery, Michael hugs his mother and tells her he is glad of her
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2·11 Above the sleeping Darling house, the smallest star flares brighter than all the rest
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Chapter 3 · 11 illustrations Peter takes the children away
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3·1 The Darling house at No. 14 on a snowy night, one nursery window glowing under stars
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3·2 Under starlight, Peter Pan drops in through the nursery window, fairy dust on his hand
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3·3 Wendy stitches Peter's shadow to his foot as he clenches his teeth and refuses to cry
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3·4 Tink bursts furious from the drawer as Peter spreads his palms and Wendy shrinks back
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3·5 Close-up of Peter's narrowed brown eyes as he turns back to Wendy, hunger glinting
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3·6 The Darlings leap up at the dinner party as Nana, chain trailing, begs them to come home
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3·7 A boy's open palm releases golden fairy dust toward a child's bowed head in the nursery
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3·8 John and Wendy meet in mid-air in the night-nursery, laughing at their first flight
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3·9 From the snowy street, the Darlings and Nana watch three children circle in the window
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3·10 Peter Pan bursts into the starry night, with Wendy, John and Michael streaming after him
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3·11 The parents and their great black dog burst into the nursery a moment too late.
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Chapter 4 · 10 illustrations The flight to the Neverland and the scattering
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4·1 Four tiny children glide across a vast sea toward a faint island on the horizon
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4·2 Michael plummets in his sleep as Peter dives, fingers an inch from his nightshirt
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4·3 In the cold sky, Wendy tells John that none of them can stop or turn back
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4·4 From high above, golden sunset rays fan down onto the Neverland like pointing arrows
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4·5 Over the black island, the children huddle against a boy pounding the air with his fists
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4·6 Over the dark island, Peter proudly admits what he did to the pirate captain
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4·8 Long Tom's orange blast tears the night over the black island as echoes roll
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4·9 In the dark after the blast, John asks if Michael is shot and Michael answers solemnly
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4·10 Wendy tips John's top hat toward her face as a bright, sly fairy springs out of it
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4·11 Wendy, tiny in a vast black sky, follows Tinker Bell's golden glow toward her doom
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Chapter 5 · 10 illustrations The island comes alive; Wendy is shot
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5·1 The Neverland seen whole from high above at dusk, a compact island in a warm sea.
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5·2 At dusk, Captain Hook reclines in a chariot hauled by his crew, his iron hook raised
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5·3 A clumsy pirate lurches into Captain Hook's collar as the iron hook turns toward him
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5·4 In the empty dusk clearing, seven gnarled trees stand in a row, each with a hollow
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5·5 Captain Hook's sly smile breaks into gleeful laughter as he announces the poisoned cake
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5·6 Captain Hook freezes mid-step, hook trembling, at the crocodile's tick from the glade
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5·7 Five lost boys advance bent double, staring between their knees, as wolves back away
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5·8 Tinker Bell points and calls a false order as the lost boys gape up from below
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5·9 Tootles eagerly draws his bow, urged on by Tinker Bell glowing at his shoulder
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5·10 Tootles holds his bow raised as Wendy, struck by his arrow, tumbles down in her nightgown
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Chapter 6 · 10 illustrations The little house for Wendy
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6·1 Tootles stands proudly over the fallen Wendy as the other boys burst from the trees
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6·2 Peter holds the arrow like a dagger over kneeling Tootles, who bares his chest
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6·4 Peter holds up the acorn button beside the hole in Wendy's night-gown, proof she lives
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6·5 Peter stands rigid and cold-eyed, flinging his arm toward Tinker Bell to banish her
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6·6 In the dusk glade, Peter holds up a solemn palm to stop the boys from lifting the unconscious Wendy.
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6·7 Asleep on the mossy glade, Wendy sings of her dream house as boys and a fairy listen
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6·8 Wendy steps out of the little house; the boys doff caps and Peter looks on proudly
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6·9 The kneeling lost boys beg Wendy to be their mother as Peter watches from the side
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6·10 Wendy beckons the kneeling boys into the little house with a firm, motherly smile
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6·11 The little house glows among dark trunks as Peter stands guard with a drawn sword
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Chapter 7 · 8 illustrations The home under the ground
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7·1 A morning bird's-eye view of the island, smoke curling from the mushroom chimney
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7·2 Peter shoves a wedged John into his hollow tree as Wendy and Michael watch
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7·3 Underground, boys slide up and down the tree shafts as Wendy tends the washing
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7·4 Tink sits haughtily on her tiny Queen Mab couch, glowing among miniature furniture
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7·5 Late at night, Wendy flings up her arms over a basket of holed stockings, beaming
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7·6 Wendy looks at her slate of questions and realizes her memory of Mother is fading
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7·7 Peter, head bandaged, grins and sweeps out an arm as he recounts a grand adventure.
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7·8 In a scratched ring, a barefoot boy stares down lions as two children watch from branches
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Chapter 8 · 10 illustrations The Mermaids' Lagoon: Peter alone on the rock
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8·1 A wordless bird's-eye view of the Mermaids' Lagoon on a sunny day after rain.
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8·2 On the grey rock, Peter stands rigid with a thin fixed smile, pointing at the water
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8·3 Captain Hook hauls himself dripping up the dinghy's side, his hook over the gunwale
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8·4 Hook's pride breaks as a hidden voice calls him a codfish; Smee and Starkey recoil
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8·5 Treading water in the lagoon, Peter crows his name to the pirates on Marooners' Rock
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8·6 On Marooners' Rock, Hook bites the hand Peter offers him
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8·7 Peter's wide, wounded eyes as Hook's iron claw swings in at the edge
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8·8 On the drowning rock, a bitten, bandaged hand grips the paper tail of Michael's kite
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8·9 On the shrinking rock in the cold lagoon, Peter pushes a clinging Wendy away into the kite's lift.
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8·10 Alone on Marooners' Rock as the tide rises, Peter stands tall and smiles at death
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Chapter 9 · 4 illustrations The Never bird saves Peter with her nest
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9·1 From high above, the Mermaids' Lagoon lies vast and silent under a low rising moon.
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9·2 The Never bird steers her floating nest toward the boy stranded on the sinking rock
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9·3 Peter cups the Never bird's two white eggs while the mother hovers above
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9·4 The boy on his nest and the Never bird on the hat drift apart, each crowing in triumph
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Chapter 10 · 7 illustrations The last happy evening underground
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10·1 The Neverland at dusk, smoke rising from the hidden home and tiny watchers guarding it
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10·2 Peter stands lordly as Tiger Lily and her braves lie at his feet and Wendy watches
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10·3 In the firelit underground home, a girl sews as the boys dance and the smallest laughs
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10·4 The boys haul a laughing Peter out of his hollow tree as Wendy sews by the hearth
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10·5 Wendy keeps her hand on Peter's shoulder as he calls himself her devoted son
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10·6 Hurt, Wendy sits alone on a mushroom stool at the shadowed end of the underground home
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10·7 The children lie in bed as Wendy starts her story, while Peter sits on his stool
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Chapter 11 · 5 illustrations Wendy's story and the farewell
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11·1 Peter tells of his barred window as the boys and the Darlings close round him in fright
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11·2 Tootles rises to his full height and shields Wendy with his drawn hanger
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11·3 Peter lifts his chin and forces a smile as he refuses Wendy's plea
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11·4 A brisk, cheery handshake takes the place of a kiss, and the girl's hand answers it limply.
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11·5 Underground, Wendy and the children freeze, arms out to Peter, as steel clashes overhead
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Chapter 12 · 6 illustrations Hook's ruse of the tom-tom
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12·1 The Neverland before dawn, mist on the stream and a ring of tiny figures on a grassy rise
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12·2 Panther breaks the pirate line with his tomahawk as Tiger Lily steps through the gap
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12·3 Captain Hook eyes his pirates, choosing the thinnest to ram down the hollow trees
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12·4 Underground, Wendy and the boys wait, gazing up the tree shafts to hear who has won
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12·5 Captain Hook silently points his hook at the drum under Smee, who grins in admiration
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12·6 Below ground, Peter throws up his sword and cries victory as Tootles and the boys smile
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Chapter 13 · 8 illustrations Hook's poison, Tink's sacrifice
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13·1 The Neverland from above at nightfall, pirate lanterns gathering round the hidden glade
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13·2 At dusk, Captain Hook looks down in cold triumph at the trussed, gagged Slightly
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13·3 In the dark, a trembling hand tips a vial of poison over the medicine cup
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13·4 A boy's hand closes round a wooden cup as a tiny light flickers behind it in warning
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13·5 Tink darts between Peter's lips and the poisoned cup, taking the draught meant for him
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13·6 Peter begs the unseen children to believe in fairies as dying Tinker Bell sits up
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13·7 Tinker Bell blazes back to life and loops through the room as Peter kneels and smiles
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13·8 In the snowy night wood, Peter holds up his dagger and swears his oath against Hook
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Chapter 14 · 7 illustrations The Pirate Ship: Hook's Gloom and Peter's Arrival
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14·1 A silent black night over the pirate river's mouth, seen from high above.
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14·2 Captain Hook flinches as the schoolmaster's voice within him delivers its cutting retort.
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14·3 Hook's iron claw trembles above the bowed head of Smee, humming at the sewing machine
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14·4 Chained John slams the barrel before the pirate captain as his little brother refuses too
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14·5 Tied to the Jolly Roger's mast, Wendy speaks her mothers' message to the chained boys
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14·6 At the crocodile's first tick, Captain Hook crumples to the deck as everyone stares
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14·7 Wendy and the chained boys stare in joy as Peter rises over the bulwark, finger to lips
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Chapter 15 · 10 illustrations Hook or me: the fall of the pirates
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15·1 A tiny swimmer crosses Kidd's Creek toward the pirate brig, a second wake trailing him
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15·2 Unseen at the bulwark, Peter finds the pirate crew huddled in dread around their captain
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15·3 Peter's dagger silently fells the quartermaster as John smothers his groan
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15·4 The captain points his hook at the cabin door; his crew shoves the chained boys toward it
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15·5 Peter flings off Wendy's cloak and raises his dagger as the pirates reel back
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15·6 At Peter's shout, the boys hunt the scattering pirates as Hook stands rigid
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15·7 The cornered captain leaps to the powder hatch with a lit fuse, glancing back in defiance
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15·8 The pirate captain leaps onto the rail as the boy glides toward him, dagger poised
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15·9 Kicked by Peter, Captain Hook tips backward off the bulwark, arms wide, smiling
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15·10 Worn out, Peter sleeps against Long Tom, sobbing in a dream as Wendy holds him close
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Chapter 16 · 9 illustrations The Return Home: Peter Bars the Window, Then Lets Them In
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16·1 The children's ship comes about on a wide grey-blue sea, bow toward the faint mainland
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16·2 Mr. Darling crawls into the kennel as his wife coaxes him and Nana watches
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16·3 Mr. Darling, in his kennel atop a London cab, lifts his top hat to a peering lady
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16·4 Mrs. Darling stands at the open window in moonlight, keeping it open for her children
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16·5 Peter crouches on the window sill, hushing Tinker Bell with a finger to his lips
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16·6 Through the nursery door, a mother lays her head on the piano, two tears on her lashes
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16·7 Moved by Mrs. Darling's tears, Peter forces a sneer and grips the nursery window bar
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16·8 The three children sit up in bed as their mother, in the doorway, thinks them a dream
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16·9 Mrs. Darling hugs Wendy, John and Michael by the fire as Mr. Darling sleeps in his kennel
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Chapter 17 · 14 illustrations When Wendy Grew Up
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17·1 Mr. Darling's pompous grudge dissolves into tears as he admits he wanted to be asked.
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17·2 Mrs. Darling reaches out to the hovering boy, who recoils as Wendy watches
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17·4 A year on, Wendy flies off with Peter in her too-short frock as Michael watches
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17·5 In the night nursery, Michael whispers to Wendy his fear that Peter may not exist
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17·6 The grown Wendy gazes calmly toward the nursery window with a faint, rueful smile
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17·7 Wendy's daughter Jane looks at the bare nursery floor where the kennel once stood
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17·8 Under the sheet-tent, Wendy draws back as Jane says she hears Peter's crow in her sleep
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17·9 Grown Wendy, by the nursery fire, looks at Peter, unchanged in the moonlight
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17·10 Peter shrinks from the lamp Wendy offers to raise, his arm thrown up against the light.
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17·11 The lamp is turned up and Peter sees that Wendy has grown.
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17·12 In the night-nursery, Peter sobs on the floor, his dagger fallen beside him
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17·13 In the old nursery, Peter crows from the bed-post while Jane circles in solemn ecstasy.
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17·14 Peter says good-bye and rises toward the open window, Jane floating up beside him
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17·15 Grown Wendy watches her daughter and Peter dwindle into the starry sky
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