And she flashed like a dragon-fly across the water, whose surface
rippled and puckered as she passed. The next moment the man
in the boat glanced about him, and bent to his oars. The boat
flew over the rippling water. Man and boat and river were awake.
The same instant almost, North Wind perched again upon the river wall.

"How did you do that?" asked Diamond.

"I blew in his face," answered North Wind. "I don't see how
that could do it," said Diamond. "I daresay not. And therefore
you will say you don't believe it could."

"No, no, dear North Wind. I know you too well not to believe you."

"Well, I blew in his face, and that woke him up."

"But what was the good of it?"

"Why! don't you see? Look at him--how he is pulling. I blew
the mist out of him."

"How was that?"

"That is just what I cannot tell you."

"But you did it."

"Yes. I have to do ten thousand things without being able to tell how."