--- title: Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE — Peter Pan · full text with trees · page 2 description: Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/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 V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE # Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/) **2** [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/page/3/) - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/101/) — “Shall I after him, Captain,” asked pathetic Smee, “and tickle him with Johnny Corkscrew?” - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/102/) — Smee had pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was Johnny Corkscrew, because he wiggled it in the wound. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/103/) — One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/104/) — For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/105/) — “Johnny’s a silent fellow,” he reminded Hook. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/106/) — “Not now, Smee,” Hook said darkly. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/107/) — “He is only one, and I want to mischief all the seven. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/108/) — Scatter and look for them.” - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/109/) — The pirates disappeared among the trees, and in a moment their Captain and Smee were alone. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/110/) — Hook heaved a heavy sigh, and I know not why it was, perhaps it was because of the soft beauty of the evening, but there came over him a desire to confide to his faithful bo’sun the story of his life. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/111/) — He spoke long and earnestly, but what it was all about Smee, who was rather stupid, did not know in the least. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/112/) — Anon he caught the word Peter. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/113/) — “Most of all,” Hook was saying passionately, “I want their captain, Peter Pan. ’ - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/114/) — Twas he cut off my arm.” - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/115/) — He brandished the hook threateningly. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/116/) — “I’ve waited long to shake his hand with this. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/117/) — Oh, I’ll tear him!” - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/118/) — “And yet,” said Smee, “I have often heard you say that hook was worth a score of hands, for combing the hair and other homely uses.” - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/119/) — “Ay,” the captain answered, “if I was a mother I would pray to have my children born with this instead of that,” and he cast a look of pride upon his iron hand and one of scorn upon the other. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/120/) — Then again he frowned. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/121/) — “Peter flung my arm,” he said, wincing, “to a crocodile that happened to be passing by.” - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/122/) — “I have often,” said Smee, “noticed your strange dread of crocodiles.” - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/123/) — “Not of crocodiles,” Hook corrected him, “but of that one crocodile.” - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/124/) — He lowered his voice. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/125/) — “It liked my arm so much, Smee, that it has followed me ever since, from sea to sea and from land to land, licking its lips for the rest of me.” - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/126/) — “In a way,” said Smee, “it’s sort of a compliment.” - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/127/) — “I want no such compliments,” Hook barked petulantly. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/128/) — “I want Peter Pan, who first gave the brute its taste for me.” - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/129/) — He sat down on a large mushroom, and now there was a quiver in his voice. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/130/) — “Smee,” he said huskily, “that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock which goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I hear the tick and bolt.” - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/131/) — He laughed, but in a hollow way. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/132/) — “Some day,” said Smee, “the clock will run down, and then he’ll get you.” - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/133/) — Hook wetted his dry lips. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/134/) — “Ay,” he said, “that’s the fear that haunts me.” - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/135/) — Since sitting down he had felt curiously warm. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/136/) — “Smee,” he said, “this seat is hot.” - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/137/) — He jumped up. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/138/) — “Odds bobs, hammer and tongs I’m burning.” - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/139/) — They examined the mushroom, which was of a size and solidity unknown on the mainland; they tried to pull it up, and it came away at once in their hands, for it had no root. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/140/) — Stranger still, smoke began at once to ascend. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/141/) — The pirates looked at each other. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/142/) — “A chimney!” they both exclaimed. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/143/) — They had indeed discovered the chimney of the home under the ground. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/144/) — It was the custom of the boys to stop it with a mushroom when enemies were in the neighbourhood. - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/145/) — Not only smoke came out of it. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/146/) — There came also children’s voices, for so safe did the boys feel in their hiding-place that they were gaily chattering. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/147/) — The pirates listened grimly, and then replaced the mushroom. - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/148/) — They looked around them and noted the holes in the seven trees. - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/149/) — “Did you hear them say Peter Pan’s from home?” - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/150/) — Smee whispered, fidgeting with Johnny Corkscrew. - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/151/) — Hook nodded. - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/152/) — He stood for a long time lost in thought, and at last a curdling smile lit up his swarthy face. - [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/153/) — Smee had been waiting for it. - [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/154/) — “Unrip your plan, captain,” he cried eagerly. - [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/155/) — “To return to the ship,” Hook replied slowly through his teeth, “and cook a large rich cake of a jolly thickness with green sugar on it. - [156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/156/) — There can be but one room below, for there is but one chimney. - [157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/157/) — The silly moles had not the sense to see that they did not need a door apiece. - [158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/158/) — That shows they have no mother. - [159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/159/) — We will leave the cake on the shore of the Mermaids’ Lagoon. - [160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/160/) — These boys are always swimming about there, playing with the mermaids. - [161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/161/) — They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don’t know how dangerous ’tis to eat rich damp cake.” - [162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/162/) — He burst into laughter, not hollow laughter now, but honest laughter. - [163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/163/) — “Aha, they will die.” - [164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/164/) — Smee had listened with growing admiration. - [165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/165/) — “It’s the wickedest, prettiest policy ever I heard of!” he cried, and in their exultation they danced and sang: - [166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/166/) — “Avast, belay, when I appear, By fear they’re overtook; Nought’s left upon your bones when you Have shaken claws with Hook.” - [167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/167/) — They began the verse, but they never finished it, for another sound broke in and stilled them. - [168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/168/) — There was at first such a tiny sound that a leaf might have fallen on it and smothered it, but as it came nearer it was more distinct. - [169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/169/) — Tick tick tick tick! - [170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/170/) — Hook stood shuddering, one foot in the air. - [171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/171/) — “The crocodile!” he gasped, and bounded away, followed by his bo’sun. - [172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/172/) — It was indeed the crocodile. - [173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/173/) — It had passed the redskins, who were now on the trail of the other pirates. - [174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/174/) — It oozed on after Hook. - [175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/175/) — Once more the boys emerged into the open; but the dangers of the night were not yet over, for presently Nibs rushed breathless into their midst, pursued by a pack of wolves. - [176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/176/) — The tongues of the pursuers were hanging out; the baying of them was horrible. - [177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/177/) — “Save me, save me!” cried Nibs, falling on the ground. - [178](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/178/) — “But what can we do, what can we do?” - [179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/179/) — It was a high compliment to Peter that at that dire moment their thoughts turned to him. - [180](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/180/) — “What would Peter do?” they cried simultaneously. - [181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/181/) — Almost in the same breath they cried, “Peter would look at them through his legs.” - [182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/182/) — And then, “Let us do what Peter would do.” - [183](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/183/) — It is quite the most successful way of defying wolves, and as one boy they bent and looked through their legs. - [184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/184/) — The next moment is the long one, but victory came quickly, for as the boys advanced upon them in the terrible attitude, the wolves dropped their tails and fled. - [185](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/185/) — Now Nibs rose from the ground, and the others thought that his staring eyes still saw the wolves. - [186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/186/) — But it was not wolves he saw. - [187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/187/) — “I have seen a wonderfuller thing,” he cried, as they gathered round him eagerly. - [188](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/188/) — “A great white bird. - [189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/189/) — It is flying this way.” - [190](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/190/) — “What kind of a bird, do you think?” - [191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/191/) — “I don’t know,” Nibs said, awestruck, “but it looks so weary, and as it flies it moans, ‘Poor Wendy.’” - [192](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/192/) — “Poor Wendy?” - [193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/193/) — “I remember,” said Slightly instantly, “there are birds called Wendies.” - [194](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/194/) — “See, it comes!” cried Curly, pointing to Wendy in the heavens. - [195](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/195/) — Wendy was now almost overhead, and they could hear her plaintive cry. - [196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/196/) — But more distinct came the shrill voice of Tinker Bell. - [197](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/197/) — The jealous fairy had now cast off all disguise of friendship, and was darting at her victim from every direction, pinching savagely each time she touched. - [198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/198/) — “Hullo, Tink,” cried the wondering boys. - [199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/199/) — Tink’s reply rang out: “Peter wants you to shoot the Wendy.” - [200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/200/) — It was not in their nature to question when Peter ordered. 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