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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: anything but savages; but this I do think, that out of old stories
of these savages grew up the stories of fairies, elves, and
trolls, and scratlings, and cluricaunes, and ogres, of which you
have read so many.
When stronger and bolder people, like the Irish, and the
Highlanders of Scotland, and the Gauls of France, came northward
with their bronze and iron weapons; and still more, when our own
forefathers, the Germans and the Norsemen, came, these poor little
savages with their flint arrows and axes, were no match for them,
and had to run away northward, or to be all killed out; for people
were fierce and cruel in those old times, and looked on every one
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