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On Midsummer's Eve, Dan and Una enact A Midsummer Night's Wish three times over - right under Pook's Hill. That's that they meet Puck, "the oldest Old Thing in Britain" and the previous of the Folks of the Hillsides. Through Puck, they are launched to the nearly forgotten webpages of old England's record and to people that can light up their own historical predicaments. The god Weland is freed from an unwanted heathen immortality by way of a amateur monk, Hugh, who goes on to become warrior and innovator. The centurion, Parnesius, shows an insight that is absent from the higher echelons of the declining Roman Empire in cooperating with the Picts. Actually posted in 1906, these 10 stories and accompanying poems were designed for both men and women and children. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born of British parents in Bombay, India. At 17, he began work as a journalist and then proven a global reputation with his stories and verses of Indian and military life. In 1907 he became the first British writer to receive the Nobel Reward.