JamesWhitehead
Piffle Prospector
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Ah, the dangers of unlikely things!
This stirred a memory from the reading of Peter Pan in early childhood: Captain Hook plans to poison the lost boys. He sets a cake as bait on Marooners’ Rock in Mermaid’s Lagoon. This is to entice the boys, because he thinks that no boy could resist such a delicacy. “They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don’t know how dangerous ‘tis to eat rich damp cake”
This made me wonder momentarily if my Maiden Aunts were evil for plying us with rich almond cake. The fear was set aside when other relatives would tell us that fresh bread was bad for our insides. We could spot the self-interest in that one! 8)
This stirred a memory from the reading of Peter Pan in early childhood: Captain Hook plans to poison the lost boys. He sets a cake as bait on Marooners’ Rock in Mermaid’s Lagoon. This is to entice the boys, because he thinks that no boy could resist such a delicacy. “They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don’t know how dangerous ‘tis to eat rich damp cake”
This made me wonder momentarily if my Maiden Aunts were evil for plying us with rich almond cake. The fear was set aside when other relatives would tell us that fresh bread was bad for our insides. We could spot the self-interest in that one! 8)