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Do you remember how the topmost divinity smiled to me from her perilous perch, too high to rouse your jealousy, and how the little cherub that sat up aloft besprinkled us mischievously with eau de cologne? Was it from its inscribed beams that Shelley borrowed his famous lyric "Love's Philosophy"? for did we not read: Den Hemel drinckt, en d'Aerde drinckt: Waerom souden wij niet drinckt?
However, Rolf was keen to push on; they launched the canoe at once and speedily were flashing their paddles on the lake. The place looked sweetly familiar as they drew near. The crops in the fields were fair; the crop of chickens at the barn was good; and the crop of children about the door was excellent. "Mein Hemel! mein Hemel!" shouted fat old Hendrik, as they walked up to the stable door.
In a minute he was wringing their hands and smiling into great red, white, and blue smiles. "Coom in, coom in, lad. Hi, Marta, here be Rolf and Quonab. Mein Hemel! mein Hemel! what am I now so happy." "Where's Annette?" asked Rolf. "Ach, poor Annette, she fever have a little; not mooch, some," and he led over to a corner where on a low cot lay Annette, thin, pale, and listless.
"Father, father, mother says " and the rest was lost. "Myn Hemel! Myn Hemel! I thought it not so soon," and the fat Dutchman followed the child. A moment later he reappeared, his jolly face clouded with a look of grave concern. "Hi yo big Injun, yo cahn paddle canoe?" Quonab nodded. "Den coom. Annette, pring Tomas und Hendrik."
Soon she was sufficiently herself to scold a prodigally-minded spinster relative who had proposed that Little Dierck should be coffined in his new black Sabbath suit. "But you old maids have no sense, no more than so many cabbages. Little angels in the hemel can fly about in clean nightgowns look in the grandfather's big picture-Bible if you don't believe me.
"Quonab, better use that," and Rolf handed a line with which Skookum was secured and thus led to make a new record, for this was the first time in his life that he landed at Van Trumper's without sacrificing a chicken in honour of the joyful occasion. They entered the house as the family were sitting down to breakfast. "Mein Hemel! mein Hemel! It is Rolf and Quonab; and vere is dot tam dog?
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