sky-maker

Updated: May 12, 2025

"'Twas the only blue I could find," he said, looking ruefully at the fading flowers. "And what for did ye want blue, then, my lad?" "To make the sky with," said Jan. "The powers of the air be good to us!" said the stranger, setting his broad hat back from his face, as if to obtain a clearer view of the little pig-minder. "Are ye a sky-maker as well as a swineherd?

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Jan of the Windmill