peter pan

• perilerin ortaya çıkışını wendy'ye şöyle anlatır:
  
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  "you see, wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
  
  tedious talk this, but being a stay-at-home child she liked it.
  
  "and so," he went on good-naturedly, "there ought to be one fairy for every boy and girl."
  
  "ought to be? isn't there?"
  
  "no. you see children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'i don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
  
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