Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Level G

Dictation Sentences from Peter Pan
Level G: Lists 59-69

List 59

“And if he forgets them so quickly,” Wendy argued, “how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?”
“There are such a lot of them,” he said. “I expect she is no more.”
“They don’t want us to land,” he explained.
“You just think lovely wonderful thoughts,” Peter explained, “and they lift you up in the air.”
“It was because I heard father and mother,” he explained in a low voice, “talking about what I was to be when I became a man.”
“I came back for my mother,” he explained, “to take her to the Neverland.”
Even when she explained he could not remember.
“There are always lots of young ones,” explained Wendy.
They were waiting below to give Wendy time to explain about them.
Tinker Bell could not explain this, for even she did not know the dark secret.
“They were married, you know,” explained Wendy, “and what do you think they had?”
I have no real experience.
Now such an experience had come that night to Peter.
I would take it now as an example to you.
“Oh Wendy, who is she?” cried Nibs, every bit as excited as if he didn’t know.
There was the same excitement over John.
Perhaps there was some excuse for him.
The children were having their dinner, all except Peter, who had gone out to get the time.
All wanted blood except the boys, who liked it as a rule, but tonight were out to greet their captain.
She can’t sleep except when she’s sleepy.
All children, except one, grow up.
There was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window.

List 60

He immediately knew that the sleeper was in his power.
“All right,” Peter said with a smile, and immediately they rushed to get their things.
Immediately, every head was blown in one direction.
He immediately answered in Hook’s voice.
Immediately, without opening her eyes, Wendy began to sing.
He was quite a practical boy.
In his absence things are usually quiet on the island.
Usually when she began to tell this story he left the room or put his hands over his ears.
What usually happened was that they forgot to do this or did it too much.
“I thought so,” she said, and went and sat by herself at the extreme end of the room.
He might have forgotten it so completely that he said nothing about it.

List 61

“She was here just now,” he said, a little impatiently.
I suppose that was the real difference between him and all the rest.
The only difference is that the clothes are made to fit you, while you have to be made to fit the tree.
The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to him make-believe and true were exactly the same thing.
It added up differently each time.
“Father knows best,” she always said, whatever her private opinion must be.
Peter was already of the opinion that he had never cried: in his life.
He looked in again to see why the music had stopped.
The doomed children answered with a cheer that was music to the black hearts above.

List 62

We will seize the children and carry them to the boat.
It was not to receive his thanks, however, that she hung there in the sky. It was not even to watch him get into the nest. It was to see what he did with her eggs.
Of course, neither of them understood the other’s language.
I can neither fly nor swim.
Neither knew that the other was coming.
He was the only boy on the island who could neither write nor spell, not the smallest word.
There was not a sound, and he drew himself up firmly to his full height.

List 63

Suppose we tell of the birds that were Peter’s friends, particularly of the Never bird.
“No, no,” Mr. Darling always said, “I am responsible for it all.”
She died of old age, and in the end she had been difficult to get on with.
It’s awfully difficult to be a twin.
The difficulty is which one to choose.
This is a difficult question, because it is quite impossible to say how time does wear on in the Neverland.
Unless your tree fitted you it was difficult to go up and down, and no two of the boys were quite the same size.
It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.
He had hoped to fly, keeping not far from the ground so that nothing should escape his eyes.
Was his enemy to escape him after all?

List 64

Almost immediately they repeated their goodbyes to Peter.
“I want you,” the bird said, and repeated it all over.
Last come the Twins, who cannot be described because we should be sure to be describing the wrong one.
“There is one thing,” Peter continued, “that every boy under me has to promise, and so must you.”
“You did a little,” Peter said carelessly, and continued to dance.
The night-lights by the beds of the three children continued to burn clearly.
“They flew away,” Wendy continued, “to the Neverland, where the lost children are.”
“You see,” he continued, “it would make me seem so old to be their real father.”
Just as she had prepared it, she saw a look on his face that made her heart sink.
But there was one who did not fear him. There was one prepared to enter that circle.
“Let us carry her down to the house,” he suggested.
“Let us creep in,” John suggested, “and put our hands over her eyes.”
Every child is affected the first time he is treated unfairly.

List 65

Peter climbed it on the opposite side.
Nothing could have disappeared more quickly.
Two red spots appeared in them and lit them up.
The birds had such strange names that they were wild and difficult of approach.

List 66

Perhaps the machine brought it to his mind.
It was in his darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the third person.
There was a fixed rule that they must never hit back, but should refer the matter to Wendy.
Had he known he would have stopped, for to board by help of the tick, though a good idea, had not occurred to him.

List 67

He had seen the animal pass by without noticing anything peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been ticking.
Peter, boylike, was indifferent to appearances.
Terrible as the sudden appearance of the pirates must have been to them, they remained stationary.
There was a step above, and Wendy, you may be sure, was the first to recognize it.
Strange to say, they all recognized it at once.

List 68

He wanted John to decide, and John wanted him to decide.
Then he decided not to take his medicine.
John said, “How ripping,” but decided to have tea first.
“We were still discussing it, remember,” he said, “when she came in with his medicine.”
Their progress had become slow, exactly as if they were pushing their way through.
They could not follow him in this with much success.

List 69

But on this occasion he had fallen at once to sleep.
She had found her two older children playing at being herself and father on the occasion.
They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out.
At present she was full of jealousy of Wendy.
“Better to do what the captain orders,” he said nervously.
“I do wish Peter would come back,” every one of them said nervously.
For a time he seemed unconscious of their presence.
Of this, as of almost everything else, he was quite unconscious.
These he had boiled down into something quite unknown to science, which was probably the worst poison in existence.
He did it with such an air that she was too fascinated to cry out.
It had become a very familiar scene, this, in the home under the ground, but we are looking on it for the first time.