JULY 14: The Naughty Breezes
“One day old Mr. North Wind had been very busy,” commenced daddy. “He had told the Breeze Children that they must be very good because he had so much work to do.
“‘What have you to do?’ they asked him.
“‘I have to go to the woods and knock down all the old branches so they won’t fall on people’s heads! I must attend to many things.’
“Now the Breeze Children were very apt to be naughty. ‘Let’s do some work too,’ they said.
“‘What shall we do?’ one of them asked.
“‘Well, let’s blow about a little and find something.’
“Pretty soon they passed by a window of an office. There were a great many papers lying about on the desks and as one of the little Breeze Children said:
“‘There doesn’t seem to be much to do here,’ the papers began to blow this way and that.
“‘Oh, let’s blow papers,’ they shouted as they saw what had happened. And all that day they went about from window to window blowing all the papers they could find. Such a time they had!
“That is why there are paper weights—all because of the Breeze Children who are almost too fond of fun.”