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AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND by GEORGE MAC DONALD

Digitized by Cardinalis Etext Press, C.E.K.
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.


                              ___________

                       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 t . . .