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238 " Very well ! " said the north wind, "you must stop here to-night then, for wc must have a whole day before us and perhaps more, if we are to reach it." Early next morning the north wind called her, and then he blew him self out and made him self so big and strong that he was terrible to look at. Away they went, high up through the air at such a fearful speed, as if they were going to the end of the world. There was such a hurricane on land that trees and houses were blown down, and when they came out on the big sea ships were wrecked by hundreds. And on wards they swept, so far, far, that no one would believe how far they went, and still farther and far ther out to sea, till the north wind got more and more tired and so knocked up that he was scarcely able to give an other blow, and was sink ing and going down more and more ; and at last they were so low that the tops of the billows touched their heels "Are you afraid?" said the north wind. — "No," she said, she