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‘Don’t worry. No problem. Italy is on the same planet,
we’ll find him. The point is it’s too warm there.’ The North
Wind took a puff of his pipe.
‘What’s wrong about it?’ Snezhana looked surprised.
‘Snowflakes. They melt easily, it may be they won’t
reach the place.’
‘Snowflakes? Why them?’
‘Because snowflakes have to deliver the message, ’the
North Wind said firmly.
‘How that? Who are you?’ the girl asked, her eyes look-

ing troubled.
‘You can call me Notherny if you like. Don’t panic, I’m
not mad, just travel a lot and I’ m powerful enough, if
needed. Even the North Wind happens to sympathize’.
At this he turned back into the wind and rushed up.
High there he gathered the most snowflakes possible
to make a compact rolling cloud. The North Wind blew
it upper and southward, where tangerine trees were
blooming.
‘ Are you in power to cover the distance to the earth
without vanishing in thin air? ’the Wind asked the halved
flakes.
‘ Of course, we are,’ they replied. ‘If only we could find
Tomasso.’
‘ No trouble, I know where you could find him,’ the
Wind said soothingly.
Tomasso was sitting on the beach. It’d become pitch
dark, but he hated to go home. He’d bought a cottage

on the seashore, willing to live there with his beloved,
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