THE STORY OF THE WIND.

NCE upon a time there dwelt two
brethren in one village, and one
brother was very, very rich, and
the other brother was very, very
poor. The rich man had wealth
of all sorts, but all that the poor
man had was a heap of children.
One day, at harvest-time, the poor man left his

wife and went to reap and thresh out his little plot
of wheat, when the Wind came and swept all his corn
away down to the very last grain. The poor man
was exceeding wrath thereat, and said: ‘Come what
will, Vl go seek the Wind, and I'll tell him with
what pains and trouble I had got my corn to grow
and ripen, and then he, forsooth! must needs come
and blow it all away.”

 

So the man went home and made ready to go,
and as he was making ready, his wife said to him: