Let us now kill a pirate , to show Hook 's method . Skylights will do . As they pass , Skylights lurches clumsily against him , ruffling his lace collar ; the hook shoots forth , there is a tearing sound and one screech , then the body is kicked aside , and the pirates pass on . He has not even taken the cigars from his mouth . Such is the terrible man against whom Peter Pan is pitted . Which will win ? On the trail of the pirates , stealing noiselessly down the war-path , which is not visible to inexperienced eyes , come the redskins , every one of them with his eyes peeled . They carry tomahawks and knives , and their naked bodies gleam with paint and oil . Strung around them are scalps , of boys as well as of pirates , for these are the Piccaninny tribe , and not to be confused with the softer-hearted Delawares or the Hurons . In the van , on all fours , is Great Big Little Panther , a brave of so many scalps that in his present position they somewhat impede his progress . Bringing up the rear , the place of greatest danger , comes Tiger Lily , proudly erect , a princess in her own right . She is the most beautiful of dusky Dianas -LSB- Diana  goddess of the woods -RSB- and the belle of the Piccaninnies , coquettish -LSB- flirting -RSB- , cold and amorous -LSB- loving -RSB- by turns ; there is not a brave who would not have the wayward thing to wife , but she staves off the altar with a hatchet . Observe how they pass over fallen twigs without making the slightest noise . The only sound to be heard is their somewhat heavy breathing . The fact is that they are all a little fat just now after the heavy gorging , but in time they will work this off . For the moment , however , it constitutes their chief danger . The redskins disappear as they have come like shadows , and soon their place is taken by the beasts , a great and motley procession : lions , tigers , bears , and the innumerable smaller savage things that flee from them , for every kind of beast , and , more particularly , all the man-eaters , live cheek by jowl on the favoured island . Their tongues are hanging out , they are hungry to-night . When they have passed , comes the last figure of all , a gigantic crocodile . We shall see for whom she is looking presently .
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