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overcame and enslaved. But they would not 

 touch the graves where lay the chieftains of 

 the conquered folk, lest harm should come 

 upon them for the desecration. Many of the 

 neolithic people lived on as serfs, under the 

 Kelts, and much of their blood may be noted 

 in the Llanfair villagers at the present day. 

 The Briton who told me the road here was 

 himself indeed much more than an Ancient 

 Briton ; he was partly at least one of the 

 Ancientest Britons, a dark-haired, squat, 

 brown-skinned man, of the regular long- 

 headed Euskarian type. Professor Rhys has 

 heard men taunted even now at Carnarvon 

 with being the descendants of fairies ; that is 

 to say, I take it, with being members of the 

 servile race ; just as in America, supposing 

 blacks and whites to have amalgamated for 

 centuries, it might still be a term of insult to 

 call a man a nigger. When we remember 

 that in all popular tradition the fairies are 

 said to live inside green grass-grown hills, 

 and that their names are always connected 



