Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 257
ont you ? It is a small countryin Europe, somewhat north of Germany. You capture Haarlem. The city was almost sur-rounded by water, then frozen over, as it waswinter. There were a few ships lying nearHaarlem, but they were held fast by the ice,and might easily have been captured had notthe sailors… … remember the story, how a brave boy stoppeda leak in the dike in this same place; youknow, too, that the country is lower than thesea-level and there have to be big walls, calleddikes, to keep the water from sweeping overthe land. This fight was a desperate one, forKing Philip was so eager to…
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