`` If you do n't live in Kensington Gardens now -- '' `` Sometimes I do still . '' `` But where do you live mostly now ? '' `` With the lost boys . '' `` Who are they ? '' `` They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way . If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expenses . I 'm captain . '' `` What fun it must be ! '' `` Yes , '' said cunning Peter , `` but we are rather lonely . You see we have no female companionship . '' `` Are none of the others girls ? '' `` Oh , no ; girls , you know , are much too clever to fall out of their prams . '' This flattered Wendy immensely . `` I think , '' she said , `` it is perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls ; John there just despises us . '' For reply Peter rose and kicked John out of bed , blankets and all ; one kick . This seemed to Wendy rather forward for a first meeting , and she told him with spirit that he was not captain in her house . However , John continued to sleep so placidly on the floor that she allowed him to remain there . `` And I know you meant to be kind , '' she said , relenting , `` so you may give me a kiss . '' For the moment she had forgotten his ignorance about kisses . `` I thought you would want it back , '' he said a little bitterly , and offered to return her the thimble .
`` Oh dear , '' said the nice Wendy , `` I do n't mean a XXXXX , I mean a thimble . ''
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