` I 'm youth , I 'm joy , ' Peter answered at a venture , ` I 'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg . ' This , of course , was nonsense ; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was , which is the very pinnacle of good form . ` To ' t again , ' he cried despairingly . He fought now like a human flail , and every sweep of that terrible sword would have severed in twain any man or boy who obstructed it ; but Peter fluttered round him as if the very wind it made blew him out of the danger zone . And again and again he darted in and pricked . Hook was fighting now without hope . That passionate breast no longer asked for life ; but for one boon it craved : to see Peter bad form before it was cold for ever . Abandoning the fight he rushed into the powder magazine and fired it . ` In two minutes , ' he cried , ` the ship will be blown to pieces . ' Now , now , he thought , true form will show . But Peter issued from the powder magazine with the shell in his hands , and calmly flung it overboard . What sort of form was Hook himself showing ? Misguided man though he was , we may be glad , without sympathising with him , that in the end he was true to the traditions of his race . The other boys were flying around him now , flouting , scornful ; and as he staggered about the deck striking up at them impotently , his mind was no longer with them ; it was slouching in the playing fields of long ago , or being sent up for good , or watching the wall-game from a famous wall . And his shoes were right , and his waistcoat was right , and his tie was right , and his socks were right . James Hook , thou not wholly unheroic figure , farewell . For we have come to his last moment . Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised , he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea . He did not know that the crocodile was waiting for him ; for we purposely stopped the clock that this knowledge might be spared him : a little mark of respect from us at the end . He had one last triumph , which I think we need not grudge him .
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