At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald

it is a beginning. And a beginning is the greatest thing of all. To try to be brave is to be brave.

"This will never do. I can't give in to this. I've been to the back of the north wind. Things go right there, and so I must try to get things to go right here.

Thereupon Diamond thought it time that somebody did something, and as himself was the only somebody at hand, he must go and see whether he could not do something.

"But my nonsense is just as good as yours,