ns 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_

AGAINST THIS HE LAID HIS EAR, AND THEN HE HEARD THE
VOICE QUITE DISTINCTLY 12

IT WAS THE BACK DOOR OF A GARDEN 29

HE WAS SURE IT WAS NORTH WIND, BUT HE THOUGHT SHE MUST
BE DEAD AT LAST 47

WITHIN A MONTH HE WAS ABLE TO SPELL OUT MOST OF THE
VERSES FOR HIMSELF 73

HE FASTENED THE CHEEK-STRAP VERY CAREFULLY 78

AT THE BACK OF THE
NORTH WIND

CHAPTER I

DIAMOND MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF NORTH WIND

There was once a little boy named Diamond and he slept in a low room
over a coach house. In fact, his room was just a loft where they kept
hay and straw and oats for the horses. Little Diamond's father was a
coachman and he had named his boy after a favorite horse.

Diamond's father had built him a bed in the loft with boards all around
it, because there was so little room in their own end of the coach
house. So when little Diamond lay there in bed, he could hear the horses
under him munching away in the dark or moving sleepily in their dreams.
His father put old Diamond, the horse after whom he was named, in the
stall