[Peter Pan by James M. Barrie]@TWC D-Link bookPeter Pan Chapter4 6/13
Why, we burned your boat." "That's her, at any rate.
I say, John, I see the smoke of the redskin camp!" "Where? Show me, and I'll tell you by the way smoke curls whether they are on the war-path." "There, just across the Mysterious River." "I see now.
Yes, they are on the war-path right enough." Peter was a little annoyed with them for knowing so much, but if he wanted to lord it over them his triumph was at hand, for have I not told you that anon fear fell upon them? It came as the arrows went, leaving the island in gloom. In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime.
Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and above all, you lost the certainty that you would win.
You were quite glad that the night-lights were on.
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