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Sketching rambles in Holland (1885)

Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905 · London, Macmillan · leaf 157

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Odorous A n tiquities. good measure, but if it is a short sermon we only give just enough to last." (The old boy spoke English.) Hearing of a museum of antiquities, we soon found our way to it ; but not so easily to the keeper. The old lady had to be sent for far and wide. She evidently had very… … THE OLD KOSTER. itors, and seemed lost in wonder that she had us. The place was painfully clean ; the walls were as ghastly as whitewash could make them, and the boards seemed wasting away under constant scrubbing ; but, oh, the long-pent-up agony of impris- oned smells that wafted by as the creaky…

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