[At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookAt the Back of the North Wind CHAPTER XXX 19/46
`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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