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Updated: September 9, 2025
He was dressed in bearskin trousers and jacket, and he had a sealskin cap drawn over his ears. Long icicles were hanging from his beard, and one hailstone after another dropped down from the collar of his jacket. 'Don't go straight to the fire, said the Prince. 'You might easily get chilblains! 'Chilblains! said the Northwind with a loud laugh. 'Chilblains! they are my greatest delight!
That was a funny word, but Marmaduke knew what it meant. A brave little boy must not cry even if he is afraid. Still the Giant Northwind kept running round and round the house with great leaps. And the windows creaked, and the trees thumped the house with their branches. Suppose the Giant should break in and carry him 'way, 'way off! The door of the next room was open.
As it approached the string Mr. Prohack saw that all the yachts were much larger than he imagined, and that the largest was enormous. The launch flicked itself round the stern of that yacht, upon which Mr. Prohack read the word "Northwind" in gold, and halted bobbing at a staircase whose rails were white ropes, slung against a dark blue wall; the wall was the side of the yacht. Mr.
Now he trampled on the roof, knocking off pieces of slate and a brick from the chimney, which fell, crash, through the glass cover of the little greenhouse. Marmaduke did not like the sounds cruel Giant Northwind made. And it was very dark in the room. To tell the truth he was just a little bit frightened. But he didn't say anything at all. For the Toyman had told him always to be "game."
There were the wild tigers, snarling at the window panes and leaping at the door. Hark! How the knobs rattled! And there were the wild lions, rushing and roaring through the tree-tops. And round and round and round the house raced old Giant Northwind himself. But all the while, in the fireplace the little red flames danced merrily, never afraid at all. Marmaduke jumped.
He could go clear around the world in about a week. "One fine day he went out for a walk and he saw Mr. Sun riding up high in the sky. Mr. Sun was a strange sort of a chap, all dressed up in gold armour. The gold armour shone so bright you could never see his eyes or his nose or his mouth, when he walked in the sky. "Giant Northwind grew very jealous of Mr. Sun.
And they let little Wienerwurst in, and saved him from the grey wolves and the wild tigers and the fierce lions of the Northwind. Little Wienerwurst barked happily and curled himself up by their feet, in front of the warm fire. After that Marmaduke spoke only once before he fell asleep. "You never had any little boys, did you, Toyman?"
You know that very well, old woman! and then he kissed his mother so heartily that she nearly fell backwards; he was indeed a wild boy. The Southwind appeared now in a turban and a flowing bedouin's cloak. 'It is fearfully cold in here, he said, throwing wood on the fire; 'it is easy to see that the Northwind got here first! 'It is hot enough here to roast a polar bear, said the Northwind.
After it had spent all its force it gave up in despair. Then the sun had its turn. It came out without noise or violence like the northwind. It did not whistle in the treetops nor bluster through the bushes. It did not buffet nor struggle with the man. It just went on pouring forth its heat. And it seemed as if it could never win, any more than the northwind.
A man in a blue suit with a peaked cap and a white cover on the cap was standing at the foot of the steps, just above the water and above a motor-launch containing two other men in blue jerseys with the name "Northwind" on their breasts and on their foreheads. A blue ensign was flying at the stem of the launch. "How d'ye do, Snow?" Charlie greeted the first man, who raised his cap.
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