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HOW DIAMOND GOT HOME AGAIN.
WHEN one at the back of the north wind wanted to know how things were going with any one he loved, he had to go to a certain tree, climb the stem, and sit down in the branches.

In a few minutes, if he kept very still, he would see something at least of what was going on with the people he loved.
One day when Diamond was sitting in this tree, he began to long very much to get home again, and no wonder, for he saw his mother crying.
Durante says that the people there may always follow their wishes, because they never wish but what is good.

Diamond's wish was to get home, and he would fain follow his wish.
But how was he to set about it?
If he could only see North Wind! But the moment he had got to her back, she was gone altogether from his sight.
He had never seen her back.

She might be sitting on her doorstep still, looking southwards, and waiting, white and thin and blue-eyed, until she was wanted.