This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...but it was a long way, and he walked and walked--and came at last to the north wind. " Good day," said the lad, " and thanks for calling to see me yesterday." " Good day," answered the north wind, --his voice was hoarse and gruft, --" no thanks required. What do you want?" " Oh," said the lad, " I was only ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...but it was a long way, and he walked and walked--and came at last to the north wind. " Good day," said the lad, " and thanks for calling to see me yesterday." " Good day," answered the north wind, --his voice was hoarse and gruft, --" no thanks required. What do you want?" " Oh," said the lad, " I was only going to ask you to be good enough to let me have back that meal you took from me on the steps, because we haven't much, and if you are going on in this way, and take what little we have, we shall starve." " I haven't got any meal," said the north wind, " but since you are so hard up, you shall have a table-cloth, which will provide you with everything you wish, if you only say, ' Cloth, spread yourself and serve up all kinds of fine dishes!'" The lad was well satisfied with this. But as the way was so Jong that he couldn't get home that night, he went into a roadside inn, and when they were going to have supper, he put the cloth on a table which stood in the corner, and said, " Cloth, spread yourself, and serve up all kinds of fine dishes." He had scarcely said these words before the clotn did as it was told, and all in the room thought it was a very nice thing to have, but no one liked it better than the innkeeper's wife. She thought that would be the very thing for her. It would save her such a lot of trouble in frying and boiling, laying the cloth, and putting the things on the table, and so on. So in the middle of the night, when all were asleep, she took the cloth from the lad, and put another one in its stead, just like the one he had got from the north wind, but her cloth couldn't, of course, serve up as much as an oatmeal cake. When the lad awoke, he took the cloth and set out on his journey, and that day he got back to his mother. ..".
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