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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Then she was like some great giant, and Diamond trembled at the roaring winds and the crashing peals of thunder: Yet he was safe, nestled in North Wind's strong arms. Whether it was all a dream or not, I cannot tell, but this I know. Diamond loved North Wind so much that he grew to love all the more her great, wonderful, beautiful house, with its blue ceiling, its grassy floor, and all the living things in it that North Wind loves and cares for. ? George Macdonald. From At the Bade of the North Wind. THE O'LINCOLN FAMILY A Flock of merry singing birds were sporting in the grove, Some were warbling cheerily, and some were making love. There were Bobolincoln, Wadolincoln, Winterseeble, Conquedle, ? A livelier set was never led by tabor, pipe, or fiddle, ? Crying, Phew, shew, Wadolincoln, see, see, Bobolincoln, Down among the tickletops, hiding in the buttercups ! I know the saucy chap, I see his shining cap Bobbing in the clover there ? see, see, see ! Up flies Bobolincoln; perching on an apple tree, Startled by his rival's song, quickened by his raillery, Soon he spies the rogue afloat, curveting in the air, And merrily he turns about, and warns him to beware ! Tis you that would a-wooing go, down among the rushes, 0! But wait a week, till flowers are cheery, ? wait a week, and ere you marry, Be sure of a house wherein to tarry ! Wadolink, Whiskodink, Tom Denny, wait, wait, wait! Every one's a funny fellow; every one's a little mellow; Follow, follow, follow, follow, o'er the hill and in the hollow; Merrily, merrily, there they hie; now they rise and now they fly; They cross and turn, and in and out, and down in the middle, and wheel about, ? With a Phew, shew, Wadolincoln, listen to me, Bobolincoln, Happy's...
