Peter Pan (11)

The LOST BOYS reached their underground home in the wood.

This was a cave, hollowed out under the roots of seven tall trees.

Each trunk had a hole in it, just enough for a boy to wriggle into.

There was a doors into the cave.
There was one for each boy, and one for Peter Pan.

So far the pirates had not discovered them.

The pirates wanted to catch Nibs as he ran away among the trees, but Hook held them back.

" I want all of them. One is no good ! " he said, and sat down on a large mushroom to wait, while they searched the wood.

Hook told Smee he hated Peter, for he had cut off his hand.

" He threw it to a passing crocodile, " snarled Hook.
" It liked the taste so much that it has followed me ever since, licking its lips for the rest od me !
It would have had me many times, but luckily it swallowed a clock.
It goes tick tick tick, so I can hear it coming, and escape. "

" One day, " said Smee, " the clock will run down, and it will get you ! "

" That's what I'm afraid of, " said Hook.

(11/30)