Peter watches the water as it rises around him. He notices something in the water and wonders if it is part of the kite. Whatever it is, Peter realizes that it is fighting the tide. “Peter, always sympathetic to the weaker side, could not help clapping” (88). The something in the water turns out to be a bird in her nest. The bird calls out to Peter, and he calls out to the bird, “but of course neither of them understood the other’s language. In fanciful stories people can talk to the birds freely, and I wish for the moment I could pretend that this was such a story” (88-9).

Peter finds a hat on the rock and uses it to secure the bird’s eggs. Then, he takes the nest and floats home. Everyone is excited when Peter returns home, but Wendy rushes everyone to bed.

Because Peter saved Tiger Lily, the Indians swear to do anything for him. “They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves before him; and he liked this tremendously, so that it was not really good for him” (91). The lost boys become annoyed with him, and although