There came also children 's voices , for so safe did the boys feel in their hiding-place that they were gaily chattering . The pirates listened grimly , and then replaced the mushroom . They looked around them and noted the holes in the seven trees . `` Did you hear them say Peter Pan 's from home ? '' Smee whispered , fidgeting with Johnny Corkscrew . Hook nodded . He stood for a long time lost in thought , and at last a curdling smile lit up his swarthy face . Smee had been waiting for it . `` Unrip your plan , captain , '' he cried eagerly . `` To return to the ship , '' Hook replied slowly through his teeth , `` and cook a large rich cake of a jolly thickness with green sugar on it . There can be but one room below , for there is but one chimney . The silly moles had not the sense to see that they did not need a door apiece . That shows they have no mother . We will leave the cake on the shore of the Mermaids ' Lagoon . These boys are always swimming about there , playing with the mermaids . They will find the cake and they will gobble it up , because , having no mother , they do n't know how dangerous 't is to eat rich damp cake . '' He burst into laughter , not hollow laughter now , but honest laughter . `` Aha , they will die . '' Smee had listened with growing admiration . `` It 's the wickedest , prettiest policy ever I heard of ! ''
he XXXXX , and in their exultation they danced and sang : `` Avast , belay , when I appear , By fear they 're overtook ; Nought 's left upon your bones when you Have shaken claws with Hook . ''
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