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This was just what Peter had planned.

He unlocked the boy's chains with a key he had found, and armed them with Hook's weapon.

Then they all crept out on the deck while the pirates' backs were tirned.

Peter freed Wendy and took her place at the mast, wrapped in her cloak.

Then he let out a terrific " cockadoodle ".

The pirates spun round.
" Tis an lucky ship, " they cried, " with a captain with a hook ! "

" Tis because we have a woman on board, " said Hook quickly.
" Throw her over the side ! "

" No one can save you now, missy ! " said one of the kinder pirates, sadly.

" Here's one who can ! " cried Peter, throwing aside the cloak.
" Peter pan ! "

A great fight began.

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Swords and cutlasses clashed, and bodies fell into the water.

Slightly counted up to eleven, and soon only Hook was left.

His sword flashed like a circle of fire.

" Leave him to me, boys ! " cries Peter.

Although his arm was shorter, Peter wasnimbler, and soon wounded Hook.

At the sight of his own ugly blood, Hook turned pale and dropped his sword.
He rushed to set fire t the powder magazine, and blow the ship up.

The daring Peter snatched the torch from his hand and threw it into the sea.

Hook backed away from the menacing Peter and climbed on the bulwark.

Peter aimed a kick at him.

Hook lost his balance and went slithring down in to the sea.

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The crocodile, who had followed Peter, was waiting patiently below.

He opened his huge jaws and had the rest of Hook for his supper. 

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(15) The Return Home

That night the boys slept in the pirates' bunks, and next morning Wendy made them all scrub the ship from stem to stern.

Then they set off for home and England, with Peter as capain.

Meanwhile, in London, Mr and Mrs Darling were still grieving over the empty nursery and their lost children.

Mr Darling was sure it was all his fault for chaining up Nana, and as a punishment, he slept in her kennel.

He even went to the office in it.

One night he had crawled into the kennel in the nursery, feeling very miserable.
So he begged Mrs Darling to play the piano for him, in the room next door.

" Please shut the window ! " he asked.
" It's very draughty in the kennel. "
   
" You know I can't do that, dear ! " said Mrs Darling.
" The children might come home ! "

Little did she know that they were on their way !

She went into the day nursery and played, till Mr Darling went to sleep.

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The children had crossed the sea now, and were flying the last bit of the way.

Peter and Tinker Bell were ahead of the others, as Peter had a plan.

They found the open window and flew in.



Peter was going to shut the window, so that Wendy would think her mother had forgotten her, and go back with him to the Neverland.

But Mrs Darling was sitting sadly at the piano, with tears tricklingdown her face.

" She is fond of Wendy, too ! " thought Peter miserably.
" We can't both have her. what had I better do ? "

Then he said, " Oh, come on, Tink. We'l let them in. "

So Wendy and Michael and John slipped into the nursery, very surprised to see thier father in the kennel.

They decided to get into bed and pretend that they had never been away.

So when Mrs Darling came in to see if her husband was asleep, the beds were hull !

She thought it was a dream.

Then the children spoke to her.

She put her arms round them all, and called her husband and Nana to share her happiness.

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Peter Pan had had many strange experiences that other children could never know, but now hewas looking through the window at the one joy he coud never share.

Peter did come back one day.

The Darlings adopted the Lost Boys, and Mrs Darling let Wendy go back to the Neverland once a year to help Peter with the spring-cleaning.

He was living in Wendy's Little house, which the faires had put in the tree-tops for him.

Peter had not much idea of time, so he did not come every year.

Once he left it so long that Wendy was grown-up and had a little girl of her own, called Jane.

You can guess what happened !

Jane wanted to go back with him, and Wendy let her.

As Peter never grew up, one year Jane's daughter was the one who went.

And so it will go on, as long as there are children, and Neverland, and Peter pan !   

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