Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 29
s have sent down messages,more or less musical, upon thepeople. Dutch pluck has sailed allover the world. It has put itsstamp on commerce, science,and manufactures. It has setits seal on every quarter of theearth. Dutchmen were at homein Japan before either the Amer-icans or English had dared… … A DlTCH WINDMILL. THE LAND OF PLUCK. 505 she said, and asked no favors of the outsidebarbarians. Would they be kind enough tostay away? Most of the world gave an un-willing assent; but Holland undertook to showJapan the folly of rejecting the benefits of com-merce ; and in time, and after many a…
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