Excerpt from Overheard in Fairyland This was because they had become very deeply interested in the history of the fairy boy, Peter Pan, and their sympathy greatly aroused because of his great fondness for stories. They understood why and how he used to hide with the swallows beneath the eaves of houses, or linger breathlessly near Open windows to catch snatches of the tales told to the earth-children; how, too, in one of these trips to the earth-world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.