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    Peter Pan by J.M.

    Barrie

    Peter Pan is the story about Wendy, Michael and John, who meet Peter Pan, a boy who doesn’t want to grow up. Peter takes the
    children with him to his magical island home, Neverland.
    Chapter 8: The Mermaids’ Lagoon
    If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colors suspended
    in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colors become so
    vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire. But just before they go on fire you see the lagoon. This is the
    nearest you ever get to it on the mainland, just one heavenly moment; if there could be two moments you might see
    the surf and hear the mermaids singing.
    The children often spent long summer days on this lagoon, swimming or floating most of the time, playing
    the mermaid games in the water, and so forth. You must not think from this that the mermaids were on friendly
    terms with them: on the contrary, it was among Wendy’s lasting regrets that all the time she was on the island she
    never had a civil word from one of them. When she stole softly to the edge of the lagoon she might see them by
    the score, especially on Marooners’ Rock, where they loved to bask, combing out their hair in a lazy way that quite
    irritated her; or she might even swim, on tiptoe as it were, to within a yard of them, but then they saw her and
    dived, probably splashing her with their tails, not by accident, but intentionally.
    They treated all the boys in the same way, except of course Peter, who chatted with them on Marooners’ Rock by
    the hour, and sat on their tails when they got cheeky. He gave Wendy one of their combs.
    The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but
    the lagoon is dangerous for mortals then. Wendy was often at the lagoon, however, on sunny days after rain, when
    the mermaids come up in extraordinary numbers to play with their bubbles. The bubbles of many colors made in
    rainbow water they treat as balls, hitting them gaily from one to another with their tails, and trying to keep them in the
    rainbow till they burst. The goals are at each end of the rainbow, and the keepers only are allowed to use their hands.
    Sometimes a dozen of these games will be going on in the lagoon at a time, and it is quite a pretty sight.

    Q&A Vocabulary
    Circle the correct answer. Circle the correct meaning for each word.
    What do the mermaids play with? bask
    A. balls B. bubbles A. swim B. talk quietly
    C. the moon D. rocks C. eat fish D. lie in the sun

    Who do the mermaids talk to? score


    A. Peter B. Michael A. large number B. sandy beach
    C. Wendy D. everyone C. rocks D. rainbow

    When do the mermaids utter wailing cries? lagoon


    A. at sunset B. at midnight A. game B. waterfall
    C. at the turn of the moon D. at sunrise C. a pond near the ocean D. desert island

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