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1The redskins disappear as they have come like shadows, and soon their place is taken by the beasts, a great and motley
2procession: lions, tigers, bears, and the innumerable smaller savage things that flee from them, for every kind of
3beast, and, more particularly, all the man-eaters, live cheek by jowl on the favoured island. Their tongues are hanging
4out, they are hungry to-night. When they have passed, comes the last figure of all, a gigantic crocodile. We shall see
5for whom she is looking presently. The crocodile passes, but soon the boys appear again, for the procession must
6continue indefinitely until one of the parties stops or changes its pace. Then quickly they will be on top of each
7other. All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind. This
8shows how real the island was. The first to fall out of the moving circle was the boys. They flung themselves down on
9the sward, close to their underground home. "I do wish Peter would come back," every one of them said nervously, though
10in height and still more in breadth they were all larger than their captain. "I am the only one who is not afraid of the
11pirates," Slightly said, in the tone that prevented his being a general favourite; but perhaps some distant sound
12disturbed him, for he added hastily, "but I wish he would come back, and tell us whether he has heard anything more
13about Cinderella." They talked of Cinderella, and Tootles was confident that his mother must have been very like her. It
14was only in Peter's absence that they could speak of mothers, the subject being forbidden by him as silly. "All I
15remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, 'Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of
16my own!' I don't know what a cheque-book is, but I should just love to give my mother one." While they talked they heard
17a distant sound. You or I, not being wild things of the woods, would have heard nothing, but they heard it, and it was
18the grim song: "Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life, The flag o' skull and bones, A merry hour, a hempen rope, And hey for
19Davy Jones." At once the lost boys--but where are they? They are no longer there. Rabbits could not have disappeared
20more quickly. I will tell you where they are. With the exception of Nibs, who has darted away to reconnoitre, they are
21already in their home under the ground, a very delightful residence of which we shall see a good deal presently. But how
22have they reached it? for there is no entrance to be seen, not so much as a large stone, which if rolled away, would
23disclose the mouth of a cave. Look closely, however, and you may note that there are here seven large trees, each with a
24hole in its hollow trunk as large as a boy. These are the seven entrances to the home under the ground, for which Hook
25has been searching in vain these many moons. Will he find it tonight? As the pirates advanced, the quick eye of Starkey
26sighted Nibs disappearing through the wood, and at once his pistol flashed out. But an iron claw gripped his shoulder.
27"Captain, let go!" he cried, writhing. Now for the first time we hear the voice of Hook. It was a black voice. "Put back
28that pistol first," it said threateningly. "It was one of those boys you hate. I could have shot him dead." "Ay, and the
29sound would have brought Tiger Lily's redskins upon us. Do you want to lose your scalp?" "Shall I after him, Captain,"
30asked pathetic Smee, "and tickle him with Johnny Corkscrew?" Smee had pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was
31Johnny Corkscrew, because he wiggled it in the wound. One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after
32killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon. "Johnny's a silent fellow," he reminded Hook. "Not now,
33Smee," Hook said darkly. "He is only one, and I want to mischief all the seven. Scatter and look for them." The pirates
34disappeared among the trees, and in a moment their Captain and Smee were alone. Hook heaved a heavy sigh, and I know not
35why it was, perhaps it was because of the soft beauty of the evening, but there came over him a desire to confide to his
36faithful bo'sun the story of his life. He spoke long and earnestly, but what it was all about Smee, who was rather
37stupid, did not know in the least. Anon he caught the word Peter. "Most of all," Hook was saying passionately, "I want
38their captain, Peter Pan. 'Twas he cut off my arm." He brandished the hook threateningly. "I've waited long to shake his
39hand with this. Oh, I'll tear him!" "And yet," said Smee, "I have often heard you say that hook was worth a score of
40hands, for combing the hair and other homely uses." "Ay," the captain answered, "if I was a mother I would pray to have
41my children born with this instead of that," and he cast a look of pride upon his iron hand and one of scorn upon the
42other. Then again he frowned. "Peter flung my arm," he said, wincing, "to a crocodile that happened to be passing by."
43"I have often," said Smee, "noticed your strange dread of crocodiles." "Not of crocodiles," Hook corrected him, "but of
44that one crocodile." He lowered his voice. "It liked my arm so much, Smee, that it has followed me ever since, from sea
45to sea and from land to land, licking its lips for the rest of me." "In a way," said Smee, "it's sort of a compliment."
46"I want no such compliments," Hook barked petulantly. "I want Peter Pan, who first gave the brute its taste for me." He
47sat down on a large mushroom, and now there was a quiver in his voice. "Smee," he said huskily, "that crocodile would
48have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock which goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can
49reach me I hear the tick and bolt." He laughed, but in a hollow way. "Some day," said Smee, "the clock will run down,
50and then he'll get you." Hook wetted his dry lips. "Ay," he said, "that's the fear that haunts me." Since sitting down
51he had felt curiously warm. "Smee," he said, "this seat is hot." He jumped up. "Odds bobs, hammer and tongs I'm
52burning." They examined the mushroom, which was of a size and solidity unknown on the mainland; they tried to pull it
53up, and it came away at once in their hands, for it had no root. Stranger still, smoke began at once to ascend. The
54pirates looked at each other. "A chimney!" they both exclaimed. They had indeed discovered the chimney of the home under
55the ground. It was the custom of the boys to stop it with a mushroom when enemies were in the neighbourhood. Not only
56smoke came out of it. There came also children's voices, for so safe did the boys feel in their hiding-place that they
57were gaily chattering. The pirates listened grimly, and then replaced the mushroom. They looked around them and noted
58the holes in the seven trees. "Did you hear them say Peter Pan's from home?" Smee whispered, fidgeting with Johnny
59Corkscrew. Hook nodded. He stood for a long time lost in thought, and at last a curdling smile lit up his swarthy face.
60Smee had been waiting for it. "Unrip your plan, captain," he cried eagerly. "To return to the ship," Hook replied slowly
61through his teeth, "and cook a large rich cake of a jolly thickness with green sugar on it. There can be but one room
62below, for there is but one chimney. The silly moles had not the sense to see that they did not need a door apiece. That
63shows they have no mother. We will leave the cake on the shore of the Mermaids' Lagoon. These boys are always swimming
64about there, playing with the mermaids. They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother,
65they don't know how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake." He burst into laughter, not hollow laughter now, but honest
66laughter. "Aha, they will die." Smee had listened with growing admiration. "It's the wickedest, prettiest policy ever I
67heard of!" he cried, and in their exultation they danced and sang: "Avast, belay, when I appear, By fear they're
68overtook; Nought's left upon your bones when you Have shaken claws with Hook."
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