“Since you put me on your head like a hat to keep me safe, I shall give you a different kind of cap in return, the kind sailors most desire.

A cap full of wind. But there’s one warning, no human hand will ever be able to take it off.”

Then with a blink, the fairy man disappeared leaving a striped cap behind.

Young Jon put the cap on his head and ran home to tell his mother.

“No good will come of the wind cap,” she said. But the lad would have none of her cautions.

The very next day, putting on the sailor’s cap, he ran off to the sea. On seeing a ship anchored near the shore, he requested the captain to take him along.

Thus began his first ever sea voyage!

Well, the wind cap worked as the fairy had said but that one condition prevailed! Now that was both bad and good.

It was bad because Jon could neither take his cap off before his captain nor at bedtime.

And it was good because neither could he lose the cap nor could it be stolen from him.

Since it was wind that sailors called for, and wind that Jon could supply he soon became very popular.

When he twisted the cap he could summon the east wind and the west wind. He could also turn it to call both the north as well as the south wind.

The captain would therefore never part with his prized sailor and let him ashore.

For a year and a day, young Jon did not set foot on land. He saw nothing but the churning of the waves.

Soon there grew in his heart a strong desire to see the land.