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THE WAVE

just been blown into life. Before the Wind had breathed upon her, she had been sleeping peacefully beneath the ocean, and had never been to the top; but now she had come right to the surface into the fresh air, and she wanted to stay there. So she did not lie down again with the others, but stayed and looked at the Wind.

She saw that he looked disappointed when the other waves turned over and went to sleep again, and she was such a gentle, happy little wave that she did not like to disappoint anyone. So she said, shyly, to the Wind: “I’ll play with you if you like.”

The Wind looked at her for a moment, thinking how small she was. Then he said: “You are a very tiny wave, but I believe I can soon make you big enough to play with.”

So he blew upon the Wave, at first gently, and then gradually with more force, until he had lifted her high up from the surface, and she was quite a large wave.

The Wind looked at her with approval, for, indeed, she was a wave to admire. She was all of a bright sea-green, with a tinge of blue, which broke into a crest of snow-white foam as she raised her head.

“I think you are big enough now to play

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