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I can hardly attempt to describe the strange exultant feelings which surged through me as I marched along, conscious of having left "Brother Bosch" behind. Eventually, singing a marching song, I rounded a corner and found myself in a village street, almost opposite a house in front of which hung a sign, just distinguishable in the darkness: "Hotel Van Dijk."
"Reading the sign!" exclaimed Paul, laughing; "a fellow would knock all the teeth out of his head in attempting to speak some of these words." "But many of them are very like English words. A dike is a dijk." "Steamboats are stoombooten," said Paul; "and a street is a straat. What are canals?" "Grachten; the drawbridge is ophaalbruggen." "Whew!" whistled Paul.
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