Because of Hec's comment about happy thoughts and thimbles, dug up my old copy of JM Barrie's Peter Pan, and decided to reread again. I know it's weird but for some reason, I was never able to get past chapter one of the book, and all I know of the story is based on the Disney cartoon. Hrmmm... But I'm starting to doubt Disney. Heehee. After reading the original Grimm Brothers versions of Snow White and Cinderella and the others... Heheheh. Well, those weren't exactly kid-friendly versions, but.... I demand accuracy! LOL.
"Wendy", he continued in a voice that no woman has yet been able to resist. "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys."
Now Wendy was every inch a woman, though there were not very many inches, and she peeped out of the bedclothes.
"Do you really think so, Peter?"
"Yes, I do."
"I think it's perfectly sweet of you," she declared, "and I'll get up again"; and she sat with him on the side of the bed. She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.
"Surely you know what a kiss is?" she asked, aghast.
"I shall know when you give it to me," he replied stiffly; and not to hurt his feeling she gave him a thimble.
"Now," said he, "shall I give you a kiss?" and she replied with a slight primness, "If you please." She made herself rather cheap by inclining her face toward him, but he merely dropped an acorn button into her hand; so she slowly returned her face to where it had been before, and she said nicely that she would wear his kiss on the chain round her neck. It was lucky that she did put it on that chain, for it was afterwards to save her life.
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"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 don't mean a kiss, I mean a thimble."
"What's that?"
"It's like this." She kissed him.
"Funny!" said Peter gravely. "Now shall I give you a thimble?"
"If you wish to," said Wendy, keeping her head erect this time.
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