Reading Peter Pan

"You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the firsttime, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all wentskipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."

Tedious talk this, but being a stay-at-home she liked it.

"And so," he went on good-naturedly, "there ought to be onefairy for every boy and girl."

"Ought to be? Isn't there?"

"No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don'tbelieve in fairies, and every time a child says, `I don't believein fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

Just started, but already love this book!