Chapter 10
THE HAPPY HOMEOne important result of the brush [with the pirates] on the
lagoon was that it made the redskins their friends. Peter had saved
Tiger Lily from a dreadful fate, and now there was nothing she and
her braves would not do for him. All night they sat above, keeping
watch over the home under the ground and awaiting the big attack by
the pirates which obviously could not be much longer delayed. Even
by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking
almost as if they wanted tit-bits to eat.
They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves
[lying down] before him; and he liked this tremendously, so that it
was not really good for him.
"The great white father," he would say to them in a very lordly
manner, as they grovelled at his f
