` 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 days . But most of the others insisted on being Gods , and having temples , and altars , and priests , and sacrifices of their own . ' ` People burned in wicker baskets ? ' said Dan . ` Like Miss Blake tells us about ? '
` All sorts of sacrifices , ' said XXXXX .
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