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At the Back of the North Wind

CHAPTER IX
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I've heard him grumbling at me, when I was doing the very best I could for him.

Why, I've carried him eighty miles a day, again and again, right north." "He must have dodged for that," said Diamond, who had been watching the vessels, and had seen that they went other ways than the wind blew.
"Of course he must.

But don't you see, it was the best I could do?
I couldn't be South Wind.

And besides it gave him a share in the business.
It is not good at all--mind that, Diamond--to do everything for those you love, and not give them a share in the doing.

It's not kind.


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