The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: fairy language. You ordinary children can never hear it, but if
you were to hear it you would know that you had heard it once
before.
Tink said that the shadow was in the big box. She meant the
chest of drawers, and Peter jumped at the drawers, scattering
their contents to the floor with both hands, as kings toss
ha'pence to the crowd. In a moment he had recovered his shadow,
and in his delight he forgot that he had shut Tinker Bell up in
the drawer.
If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it
was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would
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