The tale is told in India that once the Wind and the Sun argued as to which was the more powerful. And while they were quarrelling, a man came by wrapped in a shawl and wearing a big cloth wound round his head. And they said, “It is no good quarreling. Let us put our power to the test and see who can deprive this man of the shawl he has wrapped round him.”

Then the Wind asked to be allowed to try first and said, “You will see that I will blow away the blanket in no time,” and the Sun said, “All right, you go first.”

So the Wind began to blow hard, but the man only wrapped his shawl more tightly round him to prevent its being blown away and fastened it round himself with his head cloth; and though the Wind blew as if to blow the man away, it could not snatch the shawl from him.

So the Wind gave up, and the Sun had a try. He rose in the sky and blazed with full force, and soon the man began to drip with sweat, and he took off his shawl and hung it on the stick he carried over his shoulder. Then, the Wind had to admit defeat.