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 of wind now and then. All the winds stopped blowing, because West Wind had warned the other brothers that Nenebuc would come and fight with them if they did not.

After a while things went badly again. There was no wind at all and the water became ill-smelling, and bad-tasting. People could not drink it. Fish could not live in it. Grandfather said, "We must have some wind or the people will die. Did you kill West Wind?"

"Oh, no," said Nenebuc. " But I'll have to go and see him again." So he went again toward that Darkening Land where West Wind dwelt.

"I came to tell you," he said to his brother, "that we must have some wind once in a while. It must not be a dead calm like this, but we don't want too much wind. It spoils the fishing."

So now the winds blow as they should, because West Wind told the other three brothers. Sometimes it is calm, and people go fishing; and sometimes it is windy.