At the Back of the North Wind Illustrated - online book

A Complete Illustrated children's fantasy book by George MacDonald.

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Diamond Makes a Beginning 173
and of all the lambs with the shakingest tails and the jumpingest feet baby 's the funniest baby's the bonniest and he never wails and he's always sweet and Diamond 's his nurse and Diamond's his nurse and Diamond 's his nurse
When Diamond's rhymes grew scarce, he always began dancing the baby. Some people wondered that such a child could rhyme as he did, but his rhymes were not very good, for he was only trying to re­member what he had heard the river sing at the back of the north wind.
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