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 The Lad and the North Wind. 167 \Vhen the lad thought that the innkeeper had had enough, he said, "Stick of mine, leave off;" took his cloth and put it in his pocket, and with the stick in his hand, and leading the goat by a string, he started off home. And now, thought the lad, he had been very well paid for the meal he had lost.