E-text prepared by Joseph R. Hauser, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 18614-h.htm or 18614-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/8/6/1/18614/18614-h/18614-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/8/6/1/18614/18614-h.zip) AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND Eleventh Impression * * * * * THE CHILDREN'S CLASSICS Each beautifully illustrated in color and tastefully bound BY WASHINGTON IRVING THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW RIP VAN WINKLE SELECTED TALES OF WASHINGTON IRVING'S ALHAMBRA BY JOHN RUSKIN THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES SELECTED HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES BY MISS MULOCK THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE BY EMMA GELLIBRAND J. COLE BY JOHANNA SPYRI MONI THE GOAT BOY BY OUIDA MOUFFLOU AND OTHER STORIES THE NUeRNBERG STOVE A DOG OF FLANDERS SELECTED WONDERLAND STORIES ALL TIME TALES BY JONATHAN SWIFT GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (LILLIPUT LAND) BY GEORGE MACDONALD THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN THE PRINCESS AND CURDIE AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND * * * * * [Illustration: NORTH WIND, WHO WAS DANCING WITH HIM, ROUND AND ROUND THE LONG BARE ROOM _Page 111_] George Macdonald Stories For Little Folks AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND Simplified by ELIZABETH LEWIS Author of "The Princess and the Goblin Simplified" With Six Full Page Illustrations in Color by Maria L. Kirk [Illustration] Philadelphia and London J. B. Lippincott Company Copyright, 1914 By J. B. Lippincott Company Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U.S.A. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. DIAMOND MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF NORTH WIND 9 II. DIAMOND'S FIRST TRIP WITH THE NORTH WIND 20 III. NORTH WIND SINKS A SHIP 31 IV. THE LAND AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND 41 V. DIAMOND'S FATHER LOSES HIS EMPLOYMENT 52 VI. DIAMOND LEARNS TO DRIVE A HORSE 62 VII. DIAMOND DRIVES THE CAB 73 VIII. DIAMOND VISITS NANNY 84 IX. THINGS GO HARD WITH DIAMOND'S FAMILY 93 X. DIAMOND IN HIS NEW HOME 102 XI. ANOTHER VISIT FROM NORTH WIND 109 XII. NORTH WIND CARRIES DIAMOND AWAY 119 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE NORTH WIND, WHO WAS DANCING WITH HIM, ROUND AND ROUND THE LONG BARE ROOM _Frontispiece_