![]() ![]() Indeed, I am not sure whether I ought to call it a room at all for it was just a loft where they kept hay and straw and oats for the horses.Īnd when little Diamond–but stop: I must tell you that his father, who was a coachman, had named him after a favourite horse, and his mother had had no objection:–when little Diamond, then, lay there in bed, he could hear the horses under him munching away in the dark, or moving sleepily in their dreams. Still, this room was not very cold, except when the north wind blew stronger than usual: the room I have to do with now was always cold, except in summer, when the sun took the matter into his own hands. 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. ![]() 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. 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. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. ![]() 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. I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. Author of “Dealings with Fairies,” “Ranald Bannerman,” etc., etc. ![]()
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