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Pee-wee had a lot of scratches on him -- he looked as if he had crawled through a nutmeg grater. He was kind of lame too. But he was all right. He said it was a mortal peril he was in.
"It wasn't so terribly mortal," he said, "because I didn't get killed, but I almost did so it was kind of mortal."