MacDonald, George / 2008-06-13 00:00:00


AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND by GEORGE MAC DONALD
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Posted to Wiretap in July 1993, as norwind.txt.
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AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
BY GEORGE MAC DONALD
AUTHOR OF "DEALINGS WITH FAIRIES," "RANALD BANNERMAN," ETC., ETC.
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GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS
NEW YORK: 416 BROOME STREET
1871
CHAPTER I
THE HAY-LOFT
I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind.
An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were
so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and
drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not
think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. I am
going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there.
He lived in a low room over a coach-house; and that was not
by any means at the back of the north wind, as his mother very
well knew. For one side of the room was built only of boards,
and the boards were so old that you might run a penknife through
into the north wind. And then let them settle between them which
was the sharper! I know that when you pulled it out again the
wind would be after it like a cat after a mouse, and you would
know soon enough you were not at the back of the north wind.
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