And the Horses of the Hills picked their way from one wave to another by the lightning flashes ! That was how it was in the old days ! ' ` Splendid , ' said Dan , but Una shuddered . ` I 'm glad they 're gone , then ; but what made the People of the Hills go away ? ' Una asked . ` Different things . I 'll tell you one of them some day -- the thing that made the biggest flit of any , ' said Puck . ` But they did n't all flit at once . They dropped off , one by one , through the centuries . Most of them were foreigners who could n't stand our climate . They flitted early . ' ` How early ? ' said Dan . ' A couple of thousand years or more . The fact is they began as Gods . The Phoenicians brought some over when they came to buy tin ; and the Gauls , and the Jutes , and the Danes , and the Frisians , and the Angles brought more when they landed . They were always landing in those days , or being driven back to their ships , and they always brought their Gods with them . England is a bad country for Gods . Now , I began as I mean to go on . A bowl of porridge , a dish of milk , and a little quiet fun with the country folk in the lanes was enough for me then , as it is now .
I belong here , you see , and I have been mixed up with people all my XXXXX .
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