The land of pluck; stories and sketches for young folk (1894)
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Century Co. · leaf 26
lls, any more than it wouldbe Holland without its dikes and its Dutchmen. A certain zealous dame is said to have once attemptedto sweep the ocean away with a broom. The Dutch havebeen wiser than she. They are a slow and deliberate people.Desperation may use brooms, but deliberation prefers clayand… … A DUTCH DIKE AS SEEN FROM THE LAND SIDE. they are so skilfully slanted and paved on the outsidewith fiat stones that the efforts of the thumping wavesto beat them down only make them all the firmer! These Holland dikes are among the wonders of theworld. I cannot say for how many miles they…
Children's stories, American
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