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Title: At the back of the North Wind
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, ill
Subjects: Fairy tales
Publisher: Philadelphia : D. McKay
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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id North Wind, hurriedly. Itwouldnt be the song it seems to be if it did not swallow up alltheir fear and pain too, and set them singing it themselves withthe rest. I am sure it will. And do you know, ever since Iknew I had hair, that is, ever since it began to go out and away,that song has been coming nearer and nearer. Only I mustsay it was some thousand years before I heard it. But how can you say it was coming nearer when you didnot hear it.^ asked doubting little Diamond. Since I began to hear it, I know it is growing louder, there-fore I judge it was coming nearer and nearer until I did hearit first. Im not so very old, you know—a few thousand yearsonly—and I was quite a baby when I heard the noise fiist, butI Imew it must come from the voices of people ever so mucholder and wiser than I was. I cant sing at all, except now andthen, and I can never tell what my song is going to be; I onlyknow what it is after I have sung it.—^But this will never do.Will you stop here.P (72)
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She took his hand, and giving him the broad part of the spiral stairto walk on, led him down a good way. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND * I cant see anywhere to stop, said Diamond, Your hairis all down like a darkness, and I cant see through it if I knockmy eyes mto it ever so much. Look then, said North Wind; and, with one sweep ofher great white arm, she swept yards deep of darkness like agreat curtain from before the face of the boy. And lo! it was a blue night, lit up with stars. W^here it didnot shine with stars it shimmered with the milk of the stars,except where, just opposite to Diamonds face, the gray towersof a cathedral blotted out each its own shape of sky and stars. *0h! w^hats that.^ cried Diamond, struck with a kind ofterror, for he had never seen a cathedral, and it rose before himwith an awful reality in the midst of the wide spaces, conquer-ing emptiness with grandeur. A very good place for you to wait in, said North Wind.But we shall go in, and you shall judge for yo

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