` I 'll do it , ' she said . Dan followed her example at once . ` Now are you two lawfully seized and possessed of all Old England , ' began Puck , in a sing-song voice . ` By right of Oak , Ash , and Thorn are you free to come and go and look and know where I shall show or best you please . You shall see What you shall see and you shall hear What you shall hear , though It shall have happened three thousand year ; and you shall know neither Doubt nor Fear . Fast ! Hold fast all I give you . ' The children shut their eyes , but nothing happened . ` Well ? ' said Una , disappointedly opening them . ' I thought there would be dragons . ' ' `` Though It shall have happened three thousand year , '' ' said Puck , and counted on his fingers . ` No ; I 'm afraid there were no dragons three thousand years ago . ' ` But there has n't happened anything at all , ' said Dan . ` Wait awhile , ' said Puck . ` You do n't grow an oak in a year -- and Old England 's older than twenty oaks . Let 's sit down again and think . I can do that for a century at a time . ' ` Ah , but you 're a fairy , ' said Dan . ` Have you ever heard me say that word yet ? '
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