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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Kerchoooooo!!!! he sneezed a third time, and blew off the roofs from all the houses in the city, a hundred miles away. "When he was all through his sneezing he said to his children: "'Get ye out to the four corners of the earth and take up my business. "Now for a cane the old King used a tree with the branches pulled off. He picked it up and pointed to the south. "'Southwind, you go there.
'You are a polar bear yourself! said the Southwind. 'Do you want to go into the bag? asked the old woman. 'Sit down on that stone and tell us where you have been. 'In Africa, mother! he answered. 'I have been chasing the lion with the Hottentots in Kaffirland! What grass there is on those plains! as green as an olive.
He had been a great King but he was deader than a doornail now. "So his four children took up his work. "Up and down the south country wandered Southwind, with her rosebud mouth and golden hair. And wherever she went she scattered posies and violets upon the earth. "Back and forth over her country floated Westwind with her soft smile and gentle voice.
'Into the bag you go! And before he knew where he was she had the Southwind by the waist and in the bag; it rolled about on the ground, but she sat down upon it and then it had to be quiet. 'Your sons are lively fellows! said the Prince. 'Yes, indeed, she said; 'but I can master them! Here comes the fourth. It was the Eastwind, and he was dressed like a Chinaman.
She did open it and the Southwind crept out, but he was quite crestfallen because the strange Prince had seen his disgrace. 'Here is a palm leaf for the Princess! said the Southwind. 'The old phoenix, the only one in the world, gave it to me. He has scratched his whole history on it with his bill, for the hundred years of his life, and she can read it for herself.
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.
He was getting pretty old and he ached in all of his bones. "So he said to himself, said he: "'I'll let the kiddies do the work, and rest for a spell in my cave on the mountains. "There were four of 'em two boys and two girls and each had a name, of course. Southwind and Westwind were the girls, Eastwind and Northwind the boys, two strapping big fellows.
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