The Pict can not run away from the arrow , or crawl under it . He is a bowman himself . He knows ! ' ' I suppose you were fighting Picts all the time , ' said Dan . ` Picts seldom fight . I never saw a fighting Pict for half a year . The tame Picts told us they had all gone North . ' ` What is a tame Pict ? ' said Dan . ' A Pict -- there were many such -- who speaks a few words of our tongue , and slips across the Wall to sell ponies and wolf-hounds . Without a horse and a dog , and a friend , man would perish . The Gods gave me all three , and there is no gift like friendship . Remember this ' -- Parnesius turned to Dan -- ` when you become a young man . For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make . ' ` He means , ' said Puck , grinning , ` that if you try to make yourself a decent chap when you 're young , you 'll make rather decent friends when you grow up . If you 're a beast , you 'll have beastly friends . Listen to the Pious Parnesius on Friendship ! ' ' I am not pious , ' Parnesius answered , ` but I know what goodness means ; and my friend , though he was without hope , was ten thousand times better than I. Stop laughing , Faun ! ' ` Oh , Youth Eternal and All-believing , ' cried Puck , as he rocked on the branch above . ` Tell them about your Pertinax . '
` He was that friend the Gods sent me -- the boy who spoke to me when I XXXXX came .
All-believing Faun Parnesius Pertinax Pict Picts Puck first wolf-hounds year