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Chapter 10


THE HAPPY HOME
One important result of the brush [with the pirates] on the lagoon was that it made the redskins their friends.

Peter had saved Tiger Lily from a dreadful fate, and now there was nothing she and her braves would not do for him.

All night they sat above, keeping watch over the home under the ground and awaiting the big attack by the pirates which obviously could not be much longer delayed.

Even by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking almost as if they wanted tit-bits to eat.
They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves [lying down] before him; and he liked this tremendously, so that it was not really good for him.
"The great white father," he would say to them in a very lordly manner, as they grovelled at his feet, "is glad to see the Piccaninny warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates." "Me Tiger Lily," that lovely creature would reply.

"Peter Pan save me, me his velly nice friend.


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