The reason is that he escaped from being a human when he was seven days’ old he escaped by the window and flew back to the Kensington Gardens. His age is one week, and though he was born so long ago he has never had a birthday, nor is there the slightest chance of his ever having one. Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother’s name. If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, “Why, of course, I did, child,” and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, “What a foolish question to ask, certainly he did.” Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, “Why, of course, I did, child,” but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Scanned and proofed by Ron Burkey Italicized text is delimited by underscores, _thusly_.
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