` With that he strode down the hill to the corner of the Great Woods -- Woods Corner , you call it now -- to the very place where he had first landed -- and I heard him moving through the thickets towards Horsebridge for a little , and then he was gone . That was how it happened . I saw it . ' Both children drew a long breath . ` But what happened to Hugh the novice ? ' said Una . ` And the sword ? ' said Dan . Puck looked down the meadow that lay all quiet and cool in the shadow of Pook 's Hill . A corncrake jarred in a hay-field near by , and the small trouts of the brook began to jump . A big white moth flew unsteadily from the alders and flapped round the children 's heads , and the least little haze of water-mist rose from the brook . ` Do you really want to know ? ' Puck said . ` We do , ' cried the children . ` Awfully ! ' ` Very good . I promised you that you shall see What you shall see , and you shall hear What you shall hear , though It shall have happened three thousand year ; but just now it seems to me that , unless you go back to the house , people will be looking for you . I 'll walk with you as far as the gate . ' ` Will you be here when we come again ? ' they asked .
` Surely , sure-ly , ' said XXXXX .
Horsebridge Hugh Pook Puck Una alders first hay-field trouts water-mist