Lost House
The way the narrator describes everything in the Gardens make the reader spare a smile, and one of the situation is the description of the Lost House. It is a little wooden house where a man sits, and if a child gets lost he goes there and informs the man that he got lost. The way how the narrator performs it is humorous, and shows all the childish naivete: “so you tell the man that you are lost and then he finds you”.
Shelley the poet
The author gives a rather ironic description of Shelley. Shelley was “a young gentleman and as grown-up as he need ever expect to be. He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up”. The romantic mental set of the poets is treated humorously.
A wish
The fairies let Peter have a wish for his extremely good playing the pipe, and they promised they would make it true. Peter wished to go back to his mother, but fairies did not want to let go such a good player. They said it was such a small wish, and he should have another one – a big one. What Peter answered for this was: “Well, then, I think I shall have two little wishes instead of one big one.” The irony shows how creative and funny children can be.
