It was an opportunity , his wife felt , for telling him about the boy . At first he pooh-poohed the story , but he became thoughtful when she showed him the shadow . `` It is nobody I know , '' he said , examining it carefully , `` but it does look a scoundrel . '' `` We were still discussing it , you remember , '' says Mr. Darling , `` when Nana came in with Michael 's medicine . You will never carry the bottle in your mouth again , Nana , and it is all my fault . '' Strong man though he was , there is no doubt that he had behaved rather foolishly over the medicine . If he had a weakness , it was for thinking that all his life he had taken medicine boldly , and so now , when Michael dodged the spoon in Nana 's mouth , he had said reprovingly , `` Be a man , Michael . '' `` Wo n't ; wo n't ! '' Michael cried naughtily . Mrs. Darling left the room to get a chocolate for him , and Mr. Darling thought this showed want of firmness . `` Mother , do n't pamper him , '' he called after her . `` Michael , when I was your age I took medicine without a murmur . I said , ` Thank you , kind parents , for giving me bottles to make me well . ' '' He really thought this was true , and Wendy , who was now in her night-gown , believed it also , and she said , to encourage Michael , `` That medicine you sometimes take , father , is much nastier , is n't it ? '' `` Ever so much nastier , '' Mr. Darling said bravely , `` and I would take it now as an example to you , Michael , if I had n't lost the bottle . '' He had not exactly lost it ; he had climbed in the dead of night to the top of the wardrobe and hidden it there . What he did not know was that the faithful Liza had found it , and put it back on his wash-stand . `` I know where it is , father , '' Wendy cried , always glad to be of service . `` I 'll bring it , '' and she was off before he could stop her . Immediately his spirits sank in the strangest way .
`` John , '' he XXXXX , shuddering , `` it 's most beastly stuff .
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