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Title: Our little Dutch cousin
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: McManus, Blanche, b. 1869
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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During the dinner at Edam, a happy ideastruck Mynheer Joost. Children, he said, how would you like to have a ri ie in a 98 Our Little Dutch Cousin c trekschuit, or passenger barge ? There isone leaving here for Volendam in half an hour,the landlord of the inn tells me, and if you areready, we will go out and hunt it up. Oh, that will be great fun/ cried the twinsin one breath. There are few of these old-time conveyancesleft in Holland, and it was as much a noveltyfor them as for Theodore. You will see from the picture what an oddsort of a passenger craft the trekschuit reallyis. There is one man pulling it, while anotherwalks behind and steers it by the big tiller,which he handles from the shore in the samemanner that he would if he were on board. The children stood in the bows among thebig brass milk-cans and butter baskets of themarket-women, and said they knew just howcomfortable the fat Dutchmen feel, as they siton their cc tjalks, and let their women andchildren draw them about.
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11 THE CHILDREN STOOD IN THE BOWS Where the Cheeses Come from 99 The next day found our little friends homeagain, planning other good times. Soon the time came, however, when Theo-dore must leave his Dutch cousins and go backto America. The twins were nearly broken-hearted at the very idea of it; for they hadbecome as fond of Theodore as if he were abrother. Wilhelmina wept, and said she didntsee why Theodore could not stay for St. Nicho-las ; and Pieter himself had to wink hard tokeep back the tears. But Theodore consoled them by telling themthat he would come again and spend a winterwith them, so as to see a real Dutch Christmas,which, strange to say, is celebrated on the feastof good St. Nicholas, which comes on the sixthof December. Then they would have skatingand all kinds of winter sports together, which,to tell the truth, are the favourite amusementsof our little Dutch cousins. THE END. THE LITTLE COUSIN SERIES The most delightful and interesting accounts possibleof child life

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