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The little boy who never grows up flies into the Darlings' nursery window in search of his lost shadow. Accompanied by his feisty fairy sidekick, Tinkerbell, Peter teaches Wendy, John and Michael to fly. Before they know it, the children are whisked off to Never Land and caught up in high-flying battles against swashbuckling pirates led by Peter's archenemy, Captain Hook.

Peter Pan

Kat Albanese

At the sight of his own blood, whose peculiar colour, you remember, was offensive to him, the sword fell from Hook's hand, and he was at Peter's mercy.

"Now!" cried all the boys, but with a magnificent gesture Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword. Hook did so instantly, but with a tragic feeling that Peter was showing good form.

Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker suspicions assailed him now.

"Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.

"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form.

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