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by putting glass into them, so that they are not 

 windows any longer, but only lightows. There are 

 four big ones called north, east, south, west, one 

 on each side, and four little ones high up in the 

 four corners of the walls, called north-east, north- 

 west, south-east, south-west. And because the 

 little ones are small and narrow, the wind comes 

 in much harder and fiercer than it does through the 

 big windows in the sides. And that is why gales 

 come from the south-west and north-west. They 

 have no glass in them, of course, or else the winds 

 could not come in, and yet they always seem to me 

 to be of different colours. Perhaps the colour is in 

 the wind, or perhaps the different coldness of the 

 winds makes us see different colours. The north 

 window looks blue, and the east window green, and 

 the south window golden yellow, and the west 

 window red. Perhaps that is why people look 

 blue when the wind comes in at the north window, 

 and why the earth grows green in spring, when 

 the wind comes in at the east, and why the corn 

 turns golden yellow in summer, and the red comes 

 bubbling out of the apples and grapes in the 

 autumn. Perhaps once upon a time all the winter 

 babies had blue eyes, and the spring babies greenish 

 eyes, and the summer babies orange, and the 



