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What a pleasant spacious garden our inn has, all sparkling with autumn flowers and bedizened with statues! At the end is a row of trees, and a summer-house, over the canal, where you might go and smoke a pipe with Mynheer Van Dunck, and quite cheerfully catch the ague. Yesterday, as we passed, they were making hay, and stacking it in a barge which was lying by the meadow, handy.
The Dutch bar-keeper leaned across the counter, and tapped him on the arm with a thick, stubby forefinger. "Mister Engelschman, I think you shall best go out of here." "Me? Go out? 'Oo are you gettin' at, Myn'eer Van Dunck?" swaggered W. Keyse. And he slipped one thin, freckled hand ostentatiously under his coat of shoddy summer tweed.
"I am sorry to be troublesome, Mynheer Van Dunck, but I can not say good-by without having your receipt in full for the old bilander." "Goot, it is vere good, Meester Lyth; you are te goot man for te pisness."
"The plan is clever enough," replied Robin, who was free from all mock-modesty, "But you heard what that old Van Dunck said. I wish he had not said it." "Ten tousan' tuyfels as the stingy old thief himself says he might have held his infernal croak. I hate to make sail with a croak astern; 'tis as bad as a crow on forestay-sail."
"Well, mynheer, you have only to pay the difference, and the ketch will do; the bilander sails almost as fast." But Master Van Dunck only heaved another sigh, and felt that his leather bag was safe and full in his breeches pocket. Then he turned his eyes away, and relieved his mind by swearing at his men.
Very good; Lieutenant Donovan, Mr. Avery, and Senior Volunteer Brett, oblige me by standing by to verify. Gentlemen, we will endeavor to hold what is judicially called an assay a proof of the purity of substances. The brand on these casks is of the very highest order the renowned Mynheer Van Dunck himself.
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