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At the Back of the North Wind

CHAPTER XXX
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`There!' said the little man; `we've brought you off! Do you see the little dog barking at us down there in the garden ?' I told him I couldn't see anything so far.

`Can you see anything so small and so far off ?' I said.
`Bless you, child!' said the little man; `I could pick up a needle out of the grass if I had only a long enough arm.

There's one lying by the door of the summer-house now.' I looked at his eyes.

They were very small, but so bright that I think he saw by the light that went out of them.

Then he took me up, and up again by a little stair in a corner of the room, and through another trapdoor, and there was one great round window above us, and I saw the blue sky and the clouds, and such lots of stars, all so big and shining as hard as ever they could!" "The little girl-angels had been polishing them," said Diamond.
"What nonsense you do talk!" said Nanny.
"But my nonsense is just as good as yours, Nanny.


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