--- title: Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP — Peter Pan · full text with trees · page 2 description: Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: One green light squinting over Kidd’s Creek, which is near the mouth of the pirate river, marked where the brig, the _Jolly Roger_, lay, low in the water; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP # Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/101/) — “And I refuse,” cried Michael. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/102/) — “Rule Britannia!” squeaked Curly. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/103/) — The infuriated pirates buffeted them in the mouth; and Hook roared out, “That seals your doom. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/104/) — Bring up their mother. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/105/) — Get the plank ready.” - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/106/) — They were only boys, and they went white as they saw Jukes and Cecco preparing the fatal plank. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/107/) — But they tried to look brave when Wendy was brought up. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/108/) — No words of mine can tell you how Wendy despised those pirates. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/109/) — To the boys there was at least some glamour in the pirate calling; but all that she saw was that the ship had not been tidied for years. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/110/) — There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger “Dirty pig”; and she had already written it on several. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/111/) — But as the boys gathered round her she had no thought, of course, save for them. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/112/) — “So, my beauty,” said Hook, as if he spoke in syrup, “you are to see your children walk the plank.” - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/113/) — Fine gentlemen though he was, the intensity of his communings had soiled his ruff, and suddenly he knew that she was gazing at it. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/114/) — With a hasty gesture he tried to hide it, but he was too late. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/115/) — “Are they to die?” asked Wendy, with a look of such frightful contempt that he nearly fainted. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/116/) — “They are,” he snarled. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/117/) — “Silence all,” he called gloatingly, “for a mother’s last words to her children.” - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/118/) — At this moment Wendy was grand. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/119/) — “These are my last words, dear boys,” she said firmly. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/120/) — “I feel that I have a message to you from your real mothers, and it is this: ‘We hope our sons will die like English gentlemen.’” - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/121/) — Even the pirates were awed, and Tootles cried out hysterically, “I am going to do what my mother hopes. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/122/) — What are you to do, Nibs?” - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/123/) — “What my mother hopes. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/124/) — What are you to do, Twin?” - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/125/) — “What my mother hopes. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/126/) — John, what are—” - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/127/) — But Hook had found his voice again. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/128/) — “Tie her up!” he shouted. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/129/) — It was Smee who tied her to the mast. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/130/) — “See here, honey,” he whispered, “I’ll save you if you promise to be my mother.” - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/131/) — But not even for Smee would she make such a promise. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/132/) — “I would almost rather have no children at all,” she said disdainfully. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/133/) — It is sad to know that not a boy was looking at her as Smee tied her to the mast; the eyes of all were on the plank: that last little walk they were about to take. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/134/) — They were no longer able to hope that they would walk it manfully, for the capacity to think had gone from them; they could stare and shiver only. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/135/) — Hook smiled on them with his teeth closed, and took a step toward Wendy. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/136/) — His intention was to turn her face so that she should see the boys walking the plank one by one. - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/137/) — But he never reached her, he never heard the cry of anguish he hoped to wring from her. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/138/) — He heard something else instead. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/139/) — It was the terrible tick-tick of the crocodile. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/140/) — They all heard it—pirates, boys, Wendy; and immediately every head was blown in one direction; not to the water whence the sound proceeded, but toward Hook. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/141/) — All knew that what was about to happen concerned him alone, and that from being actors they were suddenly become spectators. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/142/) — Very frightful was it to see the change that came over him. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/143/) — It was as if he had been clipped at every joint. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/144/) — He fell in a little heap. - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/145/) — The sound came steadily nearer; and in advance of it came this ghastly thought, “The crocodile is about to board the ship!” - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/146/) — Even the iron claw hung inactive; as if knowing that it was no intrinsic part of what the attacking force wanted. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/147/) — Left so fearfully alone, any other man would have lain with his eyes shut where he fell: but the gigantic brain of Hook was still working, and under its guidance he crawled on the knees along the deck as far from the sound as he could go. - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/148/) — The pirates respectfully cleared a passage for him, and it was only when he brought up against the bulwarks that he spoke. - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/149/) — “Hide me!” he cried hoarsely. — checked by a teacher - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/150/) — They gathered round him, all eyes averted from the thing that was coming aboard. - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/151/) — They had no thought of fighting it. - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/152/) — It was Fate. - [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/153/) — Only when Hook was hidden from them did curiosity loosen the limbs of the boys so that they could rush to the ship’s side to see the crocodile climbing it. - [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/154/) — Then they got the strangest surprise of the Night of Nights; for it was no crocodile that was coming to their aid. - [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/155/) — It was Peter. - [156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/156/) — He signed to them not to give vent to any cry of admiration that might rouse suspicion. - [157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/157/) — Then he went on ticking. 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