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At the Back of the North Wind

CHAPTER IV
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Outside lay broken things in general, from garden rollers to flower-pots and wine-bottles.

But the moment they reached the brow of the rising ground, a gust of wind seized them and blew them down hill as fast as they could run.

Nor could Diamond stop before he went bang against one of the doors in the wall.
To his dismay it burst open.

When they came to themselves they peeped in.

It was the back door of a garden.
"Ah, ah!" cried Diamond, after staring for a few moments, "I thought so! North Wind takes nobody in! Here I am in master's garden! I tell you what, little girl, you just bore a hole in old Sal's wall, and put your mouth to it, and say, 'Please, North Wind, mayn't I go out with you ?' and then you'll see what'll come." "I daresay I shall.


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