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"╨┼╘┼╥ ╨┴╬" ["╨ETER ╨AN ┴ND ╫ENDY"] (1911) ┬Y: ╙IR ╩AMES ═ATTHEW ┬ARRIE ╙COTTISH NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT (B.09-═AY-1860, D.19-╩UN-1937) ┴ ═ILLENNIUM ╞ULCRUM ┼DITION ├OPYRIGHTED (├) 1991 BY ─UNCAN ╥ESEARCH, ╔NC. ─ISTRIBUTION ╠IMITED TO THE ╒NITED ╙TATES OF ┴MERICA. ├HAPTER 07 ╘╚┼ ╚╧═┼ ╒╬─┼╥ ╘╚┼ ╟╥╧╒╬─ ╟-001: ╧NE OF THE FIRST THINGS ╨ETER DID NEXT DAY WAS TO MEASURE ╫ENDY ╟-002: AND ╩OHN AND ═ICHAEL FOR HOLLOW TREES. ╚OOK, YOU REMEMBER, HAD ╟-003: SNEERED AT THE BOYS FOR THINKING THEY NEEDED A TREE APIECE, BUT ╟-004: THIS WAS IGNORANCE, FOR UNLESS YOUR TREE FITTED YOU IT WAS ╟-005: DIFFICULT TO GO UP AND DOWN, AND NO TWO OF THE BOYS WERE QUITE ╟-006: THE SAME SIZE. ╧NCE YOU FITTED, YOU DREW IN [LET OUT] YOUR ╟-007: BREATH AT THE TOP, AND DOWN YOU WENT AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT SPEED, ╟-008: WHILE TO ASCEND YOU DREW IN AND LET OUT ALTERNATELY, AND SO ╟-009: WRIGGLED UP. ╧F COURSE, WHEN YOU HAVE MASTERED THE ACTION YOU ╟-010: ARE ABLE TO DO THESE THINGS WITHOUT THINKING OF THEM, AND NOTHING ╟-011: CAN BE MORE GRACEFUL. ╟-012: ┬UT YOU SIMPLY MUST FIT, AND ╨ETER MEASURES YOU FOR YOUR TREE ╟-013: AS CAREFULLY AS FOR A SUIT OF CLOTHES: THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BEING ╟-014: THAT THE CLOTHES ARE MADE TO FIT YOU, WHILE YOU HAVE TO BE MADE ╟-015: TO FIT THE TREE. ╒SUALLY IT IS DONE QUITE EASILY, AS BY YOUR ╟-016: WEARING TOO MANY GARMENTS OR TOO FEW, BUT IF YOU ARE BUMPY IN ╟-017: AWKWARD PLACES OR THE ONLY AVAILABLE TREE IS AN ODD SHAPE, ╨ETER ╟-018: DOES SOME THINGS TO YOU, AND AFTER THAT YOU FIT. ╧NCE YOU FIT, ╟-019: GREAT CARE MUST BE TAKEN TO GO ON FITTING, AND THIS, AS ╫ENDY WAS ╟-020: TO DISCOVER TO HER DELIGHT, KEEPS A WHOLE FAMILY IN PERFECT ╟-021: CONDITION. ╟-022: ╫ENDY AND ═ICHAEL FITTED THEIR TREES AT THE FIRST TRY, BUT ╩OHN ╟-023: HAD TO BE ALTERED A LITTLE. ╟-024: ┴FTER A FEW DAYS' PRACTICE THEY COULD GO UP AND DOWN AS GAILY ╟-025: AS BUCKETS IN A WELL. ┴ND HOW ARDENTLY THEY GREW TO LOVE THEIR ╟-026: HOME UNDER THE GROUND; ESPECIALLY ╫ENDY. ╔T CONSISTED OF ONE ╟-027: LARGE ROOM, AS ALL HOUSES SHOULD DO, WITH A FLOOR IN WHICH YOU ╟-028: COULD DIG [FOR WORMS] IF YOU WANTED TO GO FISHING, AND IN THIS ╟-029: FLOOR GREW STOUT MUSHROOMS OF A CHARMING COLOUR, WHICH WERE USED ╟-030: AS STOOLS. ┴ ╬EVER TREE TRIED HARD TO GROW IN THE CENTRE OF THE ╟-031: ROOM, BUT EVERY MORNING THEY SAWED THE TRUNK THROUGH, LEVEL WITH ╟-032: THE FLOOR. ┬Y TEA-TIME IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT TWO FEET HIGH, AND ╟-033: THEN THEY PUT A DOOR ON TOP OF IT, THE WHOLE THUS BECOMING A ╟-034: TABLE; AS SOON AS THEY CLEARED AWAY, THEY SAWED OFF THE TRUNK ╟-035: AGAIN, AND THUS THERE WAS MORE ROOM TO PLAY. ╘HERE WAS AN ╟-036: ENOURMOUS FIREPLACE WHICH WAS IN ALMOST ANY PART OF THE ROOM ╟-037: WHERE YOU CARED TO LIGHT IT, AND ACROSS THIS ╫ENDY STRETCHED ╟-038: STRINGS, MADE OF FIBRE, FROM WHICH SHE SUSPENDED HER WASHING. ╟-039: ╘HE BED WAS TILTED AGAINST THE WALL BY DAY, AND LET DOWN AT 6:30, ╟-040: WHEN IT FILLED NEARLY HALF THE ROOM; AND ALL THE BOYS SLEPT ╟-041: IN IT, EXCEPT ═ICHAEL, LYING LIKE SARDINES IN A TIN. ╘HERE WAS A ╟-042: STRICT RULE AGAINST TURNING ROUND UNTIL ONE GAVE THE SIGNAL, WHEN ╟-043: ALL TURNED AT ONCE. ═ICHAEL SHOULD HAVE USED IT ALSO, BUT ╫ENDY ╟-044: WOULD HAVE [DESIRED] A BABY, AND HE WAS THE LITTLEST, AND YOU KNOW ╟-045: WHAT WOMEN ARE, AND THE SHORT AND LONG OF IT IS THAT HE WAS HUNG ╟-046: UP IN A BASKET. ╟-047: ╔T WAS ROUGH AND SIMPLE, AND NOT UNLIKE WHAT BABY BEARS WOULD ╟-048: HAVE MADE OF AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE IN THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES. ┬UT ╟-049: THERE WAS ONE RECESS IN THE WALL, NO LARGER THAN A BIRD-CAGE, ╟-050: WHICH WAS THE PRIVATE APARTMENT OF ╘INKER ┬ELL. ╔T COULD BE SHUT ╟-051: OFF FROM THE REST OF THE HOUSE BY A TINY CURTAIN, WHICH ╘INK, WHO ╟-052: WAS MOST FASTIDIOUS [PARTICULAR], ALWAYS KEPT DRAWN WHEN DRESSING ╟-053: OR UNDRESSING. ╬O WOMAN, HOWEVER LARGE, COULD HAVE HAD A MORE ╟-054: EXQUISITE BOUDOIR [DRESSING ROOM] AND BED-CHAMBER COMBINED. ╘HE ╟-055: COUCH, AS SHE ALWAYS CALLED IT, WAS A GENUINE ╤UEEN ═AB, WITH ╟-056: CLUB LEGS; AND SHE VARIED THE BEDSPREADS ACCORDING TO WHAT FRUIT- ╟-057: BLOSSOM WAS IN SEASON. ╚ER MIRROR WAS A ╨USS-IN-┬OOTS, OF WHICH ╟-058: THERE ARE NOW ONLY THREE, UNCHIPPED, KNOWN TO FAIRY DEALERS; THE ╟-059: WASHSTAND WAS ╨IE-CRUST AND REVERSIBLE, THE CHEST OF DRAWERS AN ╟-060: AUTHENTIC ├HARMING THE ╙IXTH, AND THE CARPET AND RUGS THE BEST ╟-061: (THE EARLY) PERIOD OF ═ARGERY AND ╥OBIN. ╘HERE WAS A CHANDELIER ╟-062: FROM ╘IDDLYWINKS FOR THE LOOK OF THE THING, BUT OF COURSE SHE LIT ╟-063: THE RESIDENCE HERSELF. ╘INK WAS VERY CONTEMPTUOUS OF THE REST OF ╟-064: THE HOUSE, AS INDEED WAS PERHAPS INEVITABLE, AND HER CHAMBER, ╟-065: THOUGH BEAUTIFUL, LOOKED RATHER CONCEITED, HAVING THE APPEARANCE ╟-066: OF A NOSE PERMANENTLY TURNED UP. ╟-067: ╔ SUPPOSE IT WAS ALL ESPECIALLY ENTRANCING TO ╫ENDY, BECAUSE ╟-068: THOSE RAMPAGIOUS BOYS OF HERS GAVE HER SO MUCH TO DO. ╥EALLY ╟-069: THERE WERE WHOLE WEEKS WHEN, EXCEPT PERHAPS WITH A STOCKING IN ╟-070: THE EVENING, SHE WAS NEVER ABOVE GROUND. ╘HE COOKING, ╔ CAN TELL ╟-071: YOU, KEPT HER NOSE TO THE POT, AND EVEN IF THERE WAS NOTHING IN ╟-072: IT, EVEN IF THERE WAS NO POT, SHE HAD TO KEEP WATCHING THAT IT ╟-073: CAME ABOIL JUST THE SAME. ┘OU NEVER EXACTLY KNEW WHETHER THERE ╟-074: WOULD BE A REAL MEAL OR JUST A MAKE-BELIEVE, IT ALL DEPENDED UPON ╟-075: ╨ETER'S WHIM: HE COULD EAT, REALLY EAT, IF IT WAS PART OF A GAME, ╟-076: BUT HE COULD NOT STODGE [CRAM DOWN THE FOOD] JUST TO FEEL STODGY ╟-077: [STUFFED WITH FOOD], WHICH IS WHAT MOST CHILDREN LIKE BETTER THAN ╟-078: ANYTHING ELSE; THE NEXT BEST THING BEING TO TALK ABOUT IT. ═AKE- ╟-079: BELIEVE WAS SO REAL TO HIM THAT DURING A MEAL OF IT YOU COULD SEE ╟-080: HIM GETTING ROUNDER. ╧F COURSE IT WAS TRYING, BUT YOU SIMPLY HAD ╟-081: TO FOLLOW HIS LEAD, AND IF YOU COULD PROVE TO HIM THAT YOU WERE ╟-082: GETTING LOOSE FOR YOUR TREE HE LET YOU STODGE. ╟-083: ╫ENDY'S FAVOURITE TIME FOR SEWING AND DARNING WAS AFTER THEY ╟-084: HAD ALL GONE TO BED. ╘HEN, AS SHE EXPRESSED IT, SHE HAD A ╟-085: BREATHING TIME FOR HERSELF; AND SHE OCCUPIED IT IN MAKING NEW ╟-086: THINGS FOR THEM, AND PUTTING DOUBLE PIECES ON THE KNEES, FOR THEY ╟-087: WERE ALL MOST FRIGHTFULLY HARD ON THEIR KNEES. ╟-088: ╫HEN SHE SAT DOWN TO A BASKETFUL OF THEIR STOCKINGS, EVERY HEEL ╟-089: WITH A HOLE IN IT, SHE WOULD FLING UP HER ARMS AND EXCLAIM, "╧H ╟-090: DEAR, ╔ AM SURE ╔ SOMETIMES THINK SPINSTERS ARE TO BE ENVIED!" ╟-091: ╚ER FACE BEAMED WHEN SHE EXCLAIMED THIS. ╟-092: ┘OU REMEMBER ABOUT HER PET WOLF. ╫ELL, IT VERY SOON DISCOVERED ╟-093: THAT SHE HAD COME TO THE ISLAND AND IT FOUND HER OUT, AND THEY ╟-094: JUST RAN INTO EACH OTHER'S ARMS. ┴FTER THAT IT FOLLOWED HER ╟-095: ABOUT EVERYWHERE. ╟-096: ┴S TIME WORE ON DID SHE THINK MUCH ABOUT THE BELOVED PARENTS ╟-097: SHE HAD LEFT BEHIND HER? ╘HIS IS A DIFFICULT QUESTION, BECAUSE ╟-098: IT IS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY HOW TIME DOES WEAR ON IN THE ╟-099: ╬EVERLAND, WHERE IT IS CALCULATED BY MOONS AND SUNS, AND THERE ╟-100: ARE EVER SO MANY MORE OF THEM THAN ON THE MAINLAND. ┬UT ╔ AM ╟-101: AFRAID THAT ╫ENDY DID NOT REALLY WORRY ABOUT HER FATHER AND ╟-102: MOTHER; SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT THAT THEY WOULD ALWAYS KEEP ╟-103: THE WINDOW OPEN FOR HER TO FLY BACK BY, AND THIS GAVE HER ╟-104: COMPLETE EASE OF MIND. ╫HAT DID DISTURB HER AT TIMES WAS THAT ╟-105: ╩OHN REMEMBERED HIS PARENTS VAGUELY ONLY, AS PEOPLE HE HAD ONCE ╟-106: KNOWN, WHILE ═ICHAEL WAS QUITE WILLING TO BELIEVE THAT SHE WAS ╟-107: REALLY HIS MOTHER. ╘HESE THINGS SCARED HER A LITTLE, AND NOBLY ╟-108: ANXIOUS TO DO HER DUTY, SHE TRIED TO FIX THE OLD LIFE IN THEIR ╟-109: MINDS BY SETTING THEM EXAMINATION PAPERS ON IT, AS LIKE AS ╟-110: POSSIBLE TO THE ONES SHE USED TO DO AT SCHOOL. ╘HE OTHER BOYS ╟-111: THOUGHT THIS AWFULLY INTERESTING, AND INSISTED ON JOINING, AND ╟-112: THEY MADE SLATES FOR THEMSELVES, AND SAT ROUND THE TABLE, WRITING ╟-113: AND THINKING HARD ABOUT THE QUESTIONS SHE HAD WRITTEN ON ANOTHER ╟-114: SLATE AND PASSED ROUND. ╘HEY WERE THE MOST ORDINARY QUESTIONS -- ╟-115: "╫HAT WAS THE COLOUR OF ═OTHER'S EYES? ╫HICH WAS TALLER, ╞ATHER ╟-116: OR ═OTHER? ╫AS ═OTHER BLONDE OR BRUNETTE? ┴NSWER ALL THREE ╟-117: QUESTIONS IF POSSIBLE." "(┴) ╫RITE AN ESSAY OF NOT LESS THAN 40 ╟-118: WORDS ON ╚OW ╔ SPENT MY LAST ╚OLIDAYS, OR ╘HE ├ARAKTERS OF ╟-119: ╞ATHER AND ═OTHER COMPARED. ╧NLY ONE OF THESE TO BE ATTEMPTED." ╟-120: ╧R "(1) ─ESCRIBE ═OTHER'S LAUGH; (2) ─ESCRIBE ╞ATHER'S LAUGH; (3) ╟-121: ─ESCRIBE ═OTHER'S ╨ARTY ─RESS; (4) ─ESCRIBE THE ╦ENNEL AND ITS ╟-122: ╔NMATE." ╟-123: ╘HEY WERE JUST EVERYDAY QUESTIONS LIKE THESE, AND WHEN YOU ╟-124: COULD NOT ANSWER THEM YOU WERE TOLD TO MAKE A CROSS; AND IT WAS ╟-125: REALLY DREADFUL WHAT A NUMBER OF CROSSES EVEN ╩OHN MADE. ╧F COURSE ╟-126: THE ONLY BOY WHO REPLIED TO EVERY QUESTION WAS ╙LIGHTLY, AND NO ╟-127: ONE COULD HAVE BEEN MORE HOPEFUL OF COMING OUT FIRST, BUT HIS ╟-128: ANSWERS WERE PERFECTLY RIDICULOUS, AND HE REALLY CAME OUT LAST: ╟-129: A MELANCHOLY THING. ╟-130: ╨ETER DID NOT COMPETE. ╞OR ONE THING HE DESPISED ALL MOTHERS ╟-131: EXCEPT ╫ENDY, AND FOR ANOTHER HE WAS THE ONLY BOY ON THE ISLAND ╟-132: WHO COULD NEITHER WRITE NOR SPELL; NOT THE SMALLEST WORD. ╚E WAS ╟-133: ABOVE ALL THAT SORT OF THING. ╟-134: ┬Y THE WAY, THE QUESTIONS WERE ALL WRITTEN IN THE PAST TENSE. ╟-135: ╫HAT WAS THE COLOUR OF ═OTHER'S EYES, AND SO ON. ╫ENDY, YOU SEE, ╟-136: HAD BEEN FORGETTING, TOO. ╟-137: ┴DVENTURES, OF COURSE, AS WE SHALL SEE, WERE OF DAILY ╟-138: OCCURRENCE; BUT ABOUT THIS TIME ╨ETER INVENTED, WITH ╫ENDY'S ╟-139: HELP, A NEW GAME THAT FASCINATED HIM ENORMOUSLY, UNTIL HE ╟-140: SUDDENLY HAD NO MORE INTEREST IN IT, WHICH, AS YOU HAVE BEEN ╟-141: TOLD, WAS WHAT ALWAYS HAPPENED WITH HIS GAMES. ╔T CONSISTED IN ╟-142: PRETENDING NOT TO HAVE ADVENTURES, IN DOING THE SORT OF THING ╟-143: ╩OHN AND ═ICHAEL HAD BEEN DOING ALL THEIR LIVES, SITTING ON ╟-144: STOOLS FLINGING BALLS IN THE AIR, PUSHING EACH OTHER, GOING OUT ╟-145: FOR WALKS AND COMING BACK WITHOUT HAVING KILLED SO MUCH AS A ╟-146: GRIZZLY. ╘O SEE ╨ETER DOING NOTHING ON A STOOL WAS A GREAT ╟-147: SIGHT; HE COULD NOT HELP LOOKING SOLEMN AT SUCH TIMES, TO SIT ╟-148: STILL SEEMED TO HIM SUCH A COMIC THING TO DO. ╚E BOASTED THAT HE ╟-149: HAD GONE WALKING FOR THE GOOD OF HIS HEALTH. ╞OR SEVERAL SUNS ╟-150: THESE WERE THE MOST NOVEL OF ALL ADVENTURES TO HIM; AND ╩OHN AND ╟-151: ═ICHAEL HAD TO PRETEND TO BE DELIGHTED ALSO; OTHERWISE HE WOULD ╟-152: HAVE TREATED THEM SEVERELY. ╟-153: ╚E OFTEN WENT OUT ALONE, AND WHEN HE CAME BACK YOU WERE NEVER ╟-154: ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN WHETHER HE HAD HAD AN ADVENTURE OR NOT. ╚E ╟-155: MIGHT HAVE FORGOTTEN IT SO COMPLETELY THAT HE SAID NOTHING ABOUT ╟-156: IT; AND THEN WHEN YOU WENT OUT YOU FOUND THE BODY; AND, ON THE ╟-157: OTHER HAND, HE MIGHT SAY A GREAT DEAL ABOUT IT, AND YET YOU COULD ╟-158: NOT FIND THE BODY. ╙OMETIMES HE CAME HOME WITH HIS HEAD ╟-159: BANDAGED, AND THEN ╫ENDY COOED OVER HIM AND BATHED IT IN LUKEWARM ╟-160: WATER, WHILE HE TOLD A DAZZLING TALE. ┬UT SHE WAS NEVER QUITE ╟-161: SURE, YOU KNOW. ╘HERE WERE, HOWEVER, MANY ADVENTURES WHICH SHE ╟-162: KNEW TO BE TRUE BECAUSE SHE WAS IN THEM HERSELF, AND THERE WERE ╟-163: STILL MORE THAT WERE AT LEAST PARTLY TRUE, FOR THE OTHER BOYS ╟-164: WERE IN THEM AND SAID THEY WERE WHOLLY TRUE. ╘O DESCRIBE THEM ╟-165: ALL WOULD REQUIRE A BOOK AS LARGE AS AN ┼NGLISH-╠ATIN, ╠ATIN- ╟-166: ┼NGLISH ─ICTIONARY, AND THE MOST WE CAN DO IS TO GIVE ONE AS A ╟-167: SPECIMEN OF AN AVERAGE HOUR ON THE ISLAND. ╘HE DIFFICULTY IS ╟-168: WHICH ONE TO CHOOSE. ╙HOULD WE TAKE THE BRUSH WITH THE REDSKINS ╟-169: AT ╙LIGHTLY ╟ULCH? ╔T WAS A SANGUINARY [CHEERFUL] AFFAIR, AND ╟-170: ESPECIALLY INTERESTING AS SHOWING ONE OF ╨ETER'S PECULIARITIES, ╟-171: WHICH WAS THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT HE WOULD SUDDENLY CHANGE ╟-172: SIDES. ┴T THE ╟ULCH, WHEN VICTORY WAS STILL IN THE BALANCE, ╟-173: SOMETIMES LEANING THIS WAY AND SOMETIMES THAT, HE CALLED OUT, ╟-174: "╔'M REDSKIN TO-DAY; WHAT ARE YOU, ╘OOTLES?" ┴ND ╘OOTLES ╟-175: ANSWERED, "╥EDSKIN; WHAT ARE YOU, ╬IBS?" AND ╬IBS SAID, ╟-176: "╥EDSKIN; WHAT ARE YOU ╘WIN?" AND SO ON; AND THEY WERE ALL ╟-177: REDSKINS; AND OF COURSE THIS WOULD HAVE ENDED THE FIGHT HAD NOT ╟-178: THE REAL REDSKINS FASCINATED BY ╨ETER'S METHODS, AGREED TO BE ╟-179: LOST BOYS FOR THAT ONCE, AND SO AT IT THEY ALL WENT AGAIN, MORE ╟-180: FIERCLY THAN EVER. ╟-181: ╘HE EXTRAORDINARY UPSHOT OF THIS ADVENTURE WAS -- BUT WE HAVE ╟-182: NOT DECIDED YET THAT THIS IS THE ADVENTURE WE ARE TO NARRATE. ╟-183: ╨ERHAPS A BETTER ONE WOULD BE THE NIGHT ATTACK BY THE REDSKINS ON ╟-184: THE HOUSE UNDER THE GROUND, WHEN SEVERAL OF THEM STUCK IN THE ╟-185: HOLLOW TREES AND HAD TO BE PULLED OUT LIKE CORKS. ╧R WE MIGHT ╟-186: TELL HOW ╨ETER SAVE ╘IGER ╠ILY'S LIFE IN THE ═ERMAIDS' ╠AGOON, ╟-187: AND SO MADE HER HIS ALLY. ╟-188: ╧R WE COULD TELL OF THAT CAKE THE PIRATES COOKED SO THAT THE ╟-189: BOYS MIGHT EAT IT AND PERISH; AND HOW THEY PLACED IT IN ONE ╟-190: CUNNING SPOT AFTER ANOTHER; BUT ALWAYS ╫ENDY SNATCHED IT FROM THE ╟-191: HANDS OF HER CHILDREN, SO THAT IN TIME IT LOST ITS SUCCULENCE, ╟-192: AND BECAME AS HARD AS A STONE, AND WAS USED AS A MISSILE, AND ╚OOK ╟-193: FELL OVER IT IN THE DARK. ╟-194: ╧R SUPPOSE WE TELL OF THE BIRDS THAT WERE ╨ETER'S FRIENDS, ╟-195: PARTICULARLY OF THE ╬EVER BIRD THAT BUILT IN A TREE OVERHANGING ╟-196: THE LAGOON, AND HOW THE NEST FELL INTO THE WATER, AND STILL THE ╟-197: BIRD SAT ON HER EGGS, AND ╨ETER GAVE ORDERS THAT SHE WAS NOT TO ╟-198: BE DISTURBED. ╘HAT IS A PRETTY STORY, AND THE END SHOWS HOW ╟-199: GRATEFUL A BIRD CAM BE; BUT IF WE TELL IT WE MUST ALSO TELL THE ╟-200: WHOLE ADVENTURE OF THE LAGOON, WHICH WOULD OF COURSE BE TELLING ╟-201: TWO ADVENTURES RATHER THAN JUST ONE. ┴ SHORTER ADVENTURE, AND ╟-202: QUITE AS EXCITING, WAS ╘INKER ┬ELL'S ATTEMPT, WITH THE HELP OF ╟-203: SOME STREET FAIRIES, TO HAVE THE SLEEPING ╫ENDY CONVEYED ON A ╟-204: GREAT FLOATING LEAF TO THE MAINLAND. ╞ORTUNATELY THE LEAF GAVE ╟-205: WAY AND ╫ENDY WOKE, THINKING IT WAS BATH-TIME, AND SWAM BACK. ╧R ╟-206: AGAIN, WE MIGHT CHOOSE ╨ETER'S DEFIANCE OF THE LIONS, WHEN HE ╟-207: DREW A CIRCLE ROUND HIM ON THE GROUND WITH AN ARROW AND DARED ╟-208: THEM TO CROSS IT; AND THOUGH HE WAITED FOR HOURS, WITH THE OTHER ╟-209: BOYS AND ╫ENDY LOOKING ON BREATHLESSLY FROM TREES, NOT ONE OF ╟-210: THEM DARED TO ACCEPT HIS CHALLENGE. ╟-211: ╫HICH OF THESE ADVENTURES SHALL WE CHOOSE? ╘HE BEST WAY WILL ╟-212: BE TO TOSS FOR IT. ╟-213: ╔ HAVE TOSSED, AND THE LAGOON HAS WON. ╘HIS ALMOST MAKES ONE ╟-214: WISH THAT THE GULCH OR THE CAKE OR ╘INK'S LEAF HAD WON. ╧F ╟-215: COURSE ╔ COULD DO IT AGAIN, AND MAKE IT BEST OUT OF THREE; ╟-216: HOWEVER, PERHAPS FAIREST TO STICK TO THE LAGOON. [ ├ONTINUED IN ├HAPTER 08. ]