the night and felt his bed shaking in the blasts of the
north wind. Then he could not help wondering if
the wind should blow the house down and he should
fall down into the manger, whether old Diamond
might not eat him up before he knew him in his night.
gown. And though old Diamond was quiet all night
long, yet when he woke up he got up like an earth-
quake. Then little Diamond knew what o'clock it
was, or at least what was to be done next, which was
--to go to sleep again as fast as he could!

Often there was hay at little Diamond's feet as he
lay in bed, and hay at his head, piled up in great
heaps to the very roof. Sometimes there was none
at all. That was when they had used it all and had
not yet bought more. Soon they bought more, and
then it was only through a little lane with two or
three turnings in it that he could reach his bed at all.

Sometimes when his mother undressed him in her
room and told him to trot away to bed by himself,
he would creep into the heart of the hay first. There
he would lie, thinking how cold it was outside in the
wind and how warm it would be inside his bed; and
how he would go to his bed when he pleased; only he
wouldn't just yet; he would get a little colder first.
As he grew colder lying in the hay, his bed seemed
to him to grow warmer. Then at last, he would

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