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At the Back of the North Wind

CHAPTER IX
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Don't wait for me.

I've got to break a few of old Goody's toys; she's thinking too much of her new stock.

Two or three will do.

There! go now." Diamond rose, quite sorry, and without a word left the shop, and went home.
It soon appeared that his mother had been right about him, for that same afternoon his head began to ache very much, and he had to go to bed.
He awoke in the middle of the night.

The lattice window of his room had blown open, and the curtains of his little bed were swinging about in the wind.
"If that should be North Wind now!" thought Diamond.
But the next moment he heard some one closing the window, and his aunt came to his bedside.


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