[Peter Pan by James M. Barrie]@TWC D-Link bookPeter Pan Chapter5 3/20
Poor kind Tootles, there is danger in the air for you to-night.
Take care lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
Tootles, the fairy Tink, who is bent on mischief this night is looking for a tool [for doing her mischief], and she thinks you are the most easily tricked of the boys. 'Ware Tinker Bell. Would that he could hear us, but we are not really on the island, and he passes by, biting his knuckles. Next comes Nibs, the gay and debonair, followed by Slightly, who cuts whistles out of the trees and dances ecstatically to his own tunes. Slightly is the most conceited of the boys.
He thinks he remembers the days before he was lost, with their manners and customs, and this has given his nose an offensive tilt.
Curly is fourth; he is a pickle, [a person who gets in pickles-predicaments] and so often has he had to deliver up his person when Peter said sternly, "Stand forth the one who did this thing," that now at the command he stands forth automatically whether he has done it or not.
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