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What sort of a feeble creature are you? How did you get into the cave of the winds? 'He is my guest, said the old woman, 'and if you are not pleased with that explanation you may go into the bag! Now you know my opinion! This had its effect, and the Northwind told them where he came from, and where he had been for the last month. 'I come from the Arctic seas, he said.
Suddenly the lights and the perfumes and the stillness of the sky were overwhelmed, a fierce Northwind charged with storm and darkness burst roaring upon me. It lifted me up and carried me like a wisp of straw over fields, cities, rivers, and mountains, and through the midst of thunder-clouds, during a long night composed of a whole series of nights and days.
So his father the King picked up his tree cane in a rage and whacked him across the shins, and out Eastwind ran, crying and yelling till the trees of the forests sobbed too. And he cried so hard that rivers of tears ran from his eyes and over the earth. "Once more the old King picked up his big tree cane, and said to the eldest of his sons: "'Northwind, your home is right here in the North.
He wanted that fine suit of gold armour, for all he had himself was his long whiskers and his fur coat of snow. "At Mr. Sun he shook his fist. "Mr. Sun only laughed at him. "'Ho, ho! he said, 'Ho, ho! and again 'Ho, ho! "'Ho, ho! you say, mimicked Northwind, very angry, 'soon you will laugh on the other side of your mouth.
Everything about the beech-tree is of the highest and most careful selection; no other tree seems so to have forgotten itself; a noble nature that has lost the need of insisting its demands and making its values known, having long since called unto itself the perfect things.... There was one early May day of high northwind, that we entered the beech-wood, and saw those forest lengths of trunk swaying in a kind of planetary rhythm.
Had Giant Northwind gotten in the house at last! Marmaduke shivered and crept out of bed and hurried into the next room. He kept as far away from that giant shadow as he could. But he never cried out. He was very brave. On and on against the wall he tiptoed towards the chair by the fire, where the Toyman sat, thinking his strange thoughts. The Toyman felt a tug at his sleeve. He looked around.
Then he would blow the rivers over the banks, and spoil the gardens, and break the bridges, and drown the poor sheep, and all the rest of the animals too. "But the most cruel of all was Giant Northwind. Where his heart ought to be was a chunk of ice. Sometimes he was pleasant enough, but most often he was hard and unkind.
"By the way, lunch, please," said Charlie. "Yes, sir," responded eagerly the elder of two attendants in jackets striped blue and white. "Have a wash, guv'nor? Thanks, skipper, that'll do for the present." Mr. Prohack washed in amplitudinous marble, and wiped his paternal face upon diaper into which was woven the name "Northwind."
"Then for years and years the old Giant stamped up and down the Earth, trying to put out those little pieces of the Sun. And he couldn't do it at all. Like their father, the Sun, the little fires just laughed at him. "At last Northwind said to himself, said he: "'I know what I'll do, I'll get me some big grey wolves to put out those fires.
He would breathe on people, and freeze their noses and toeses, and leave many a poor fellow stiff on the snow. "Northwind grew and grew till he was the biggest giant on earth. Most as tall as a mountain himself was he, and when he raised his arm he could nearly touch the sky. He kept walking up and down the earth, roaring and hollering fit to blow his lungs out. And how he could travel!
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