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At the Back of the North Wind

CHAPTER IX
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They're apt to get stupid with tumbling over each other's heads.

That's when they're fairly at it.
However, the boat got to a desert island before noon next day." "And what good will come of that ?" "I don't know.

I obeyed orders.

Good bye." "Oh! stay, North Wind, do stay!" cried Diamond, dismayed to see the windmill get slower and slower.
"What is it, my dear child ?" said North Wind, and the windmill began turning again so swiftly that Diamond could scarcely see it.

"What a big voice you've got! and what a noise you do make with it?
What is it you want?
I have little to do, but that little must be done." "I want you to take me to the country at the back of the north wind." "That's not so easy," said North Wind, and was silent for so long that Diamond thought she was gone indeed.


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