The land of pluck; stories and sketches for young folk (1894)
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Century Co. · leaf 51
e Palace,1or late town-hall, of Amsterdam, is its back door. Bash-ful maidens hire beaus to escort them to the Kermis, orfair, on festival-days. Timid citizens are scared in the * V dead of the night by their own watchmen, who at everyquarter of the hour make such a noise with their woodenclappers,… … QOi 5 X 2; H -v o M* STREETS AND BYWAYS 35 will see sleds used in summer there. The}7 go bumpingover the bare cobblestones, while the driver holds a drip-ping oil-rag in advance of the runners to lessen the fric-tion. You will see streets of water; and the countryroads paved as carefully as…
Children's stories, American
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