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Rh had seized hold of the South Wind by the body, and—into the sack with him. The bag with him in it kicked and rolled about the floor; but she seized it, held it fast and sat down on it, and then he was forced to lie still.

“They are desperately wild fellows, these sons of yours!” said the Prince.

“Yes, indeed they are,” answered she; but they must obey for all that. Ha! here we have the fourth.”

This was the East Wind, who was dressed like a Chinese.

“What! are you come from that corner of the world?” said his mother. “I thought you had been to the Garden of Paradise?”

“I am going there to-morrow," said the East Wind; "to-morrow it will be a hundred years since I was there. I come from China now, where I danced round the porcelain tower till I set all the bells a-tinkling. Below in the street the officers of state got such a beating that the bamboo-canes split across their shoulders; and these were personages from the first to the ninth degree.