They were still there , but he could not remember how you put them on . The socks , for instance , were they worn on the hands or on the feet ? He was about to try one of them on his hand , when he had a great adventure . Perhaps the drawer had creaked ; at any rate , his mother woke up , for he heard her say `` Peter , '' as if it was the most lovely word in the language . He remained sitting on the floor and held his breath , wondering how she knew that he had come back . If she said `` Peter '' again , he meant to cry `` Mother '' and run to her . But she spoke no more , she made little moans only , and when next he peeped at her she was once more asleep , with tears on her face . It made Peter very miserable , and what do you think was the first thing he did ? Sitting on the rail at the foot of the bed , he played a beautiful lullaby to his mother on his pipe . He had made it up himself out of the way she said `` Peter , '' and he never stopped playing until she looked happy . He thought this so clever of him that he could scarcely resist wakening her to hear her say , `` Oh , Peter , how exquisitely you play . '' However , as she now seemed comfortable , he again cast looks at the window . You must not think that he meditated flying away and never coming back . He had quite decided to be his mother 's boy , but hesitated about beginning to-night . It was the second wish which troubled him . He no longer meant to make it a wish to be a bird , but not to ask for a second wish seemed wasteful , and , of course , he could not ask for it without returning to the fairies . Also , if he put off asking for his wish too long it might go bad . He asked himself if he had not been hard-hearted to fly away without saying good-bye to Solomon . `` I should like awfully to sail in my boat just once more , '' he said wistfully to his sleeping mother . He quite argued with her as if she could hear him .
`` It would be so splendid to tell the birds of this adventure , '' he XXXXX coaxingly .
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