“What child's play!” said North Wind freezingly. “You must come with me, Bobbie. I'll show you a polar bear riding on an iceberg, and then we'll blow the berg crashing down on an ocean liner, and—”


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Bobbie began to be frightened. He didn't think he'd enjoy doing any such thing. He was wishing he'd never come with the Winds when he heard a great commotion behind him, and their father, old King Eolus himself, came puffing up.

“Here, you young scalawags,” he shouted in a big voice, “what's all this nonsense? Where are you going? I know where you are going—you 're going home, straight home.”

“Sorry, sir,” said West Wind impudently, “but we told the fairy queen we'd take her friend Bobbie to the Rainbow.”