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Updated: May 13, 2025
My father often said last summer that it troubled him to see such a bright-eyed, patient little maiden tending geese. Humph! She would not harm them, as you would, Janzoon Kolp, and she would not tread upon them, as you might, Kate Wouters." This would be pretty sure to start a laugh at the clumsy, ill-natured Kate's expense, and Annie would walk loftily away from the group of young gossips.
How she stares and stares! thought Janzoon. Well, I am a fine, weather-beaten fellow, anyway. "Janzoon Kolp, you impudent boy, go right away from me!" Annie often said. "I don't want any of your company." Ha! Ha! laughed Janzoon to himself. Girls never say what they mean. I'll skate with her every chance I can get.
Annie declared that she could not "to save her life" say one civil word to that odious boy. Janzoon believed her to be the sweetest, sauciest creature in the world. Annie laughed among her playmates at the comical flapping of Janzoon's tattered and dingy jacket; he sighed in solitude over the floating grace of her jaunty blue petticoat.
Do you remember how the mother said it would bring us luck and how she cried when Janzoon Kolp shot him? And she set it would bring him trouble. But the luck has come to us at last! Now, Hans, if the mother sends us to town tomorrow, you can buy the skates in the marketplace." Hans shook his head.
"No, CURED! Got his wits," said the coachman, shooting forth his words, one at a time, like so many bullets. He jumped as if he had been shot. "Goede Gunst! You don't say so!" The man pressed his lips together and looked significantly toward Master Kolp's shabby residence. Just then Janzoon saw a group of boys in the distance.
"Then you really are going to sell your new skates if you can find a customer?" "Well, Hans, if you ARE going to sell your skates," said Annie, quite confused, "I mean if you well, I know somebody who would like to buy them, that's all." "Not Janzoon Kolp?" asked Hans, flushing. "Oh, no," she said, pouting, "he is not one of my friends." "But you KNOW him," persisted Hans.
Even Janzoon Kolp's sister has been admitted, but Janzoon himself has been voted out by the directors, because he killed the stork, and only last summer was caught in the act of robbing a bird's nest, a legal offence in Holland. This Janzoon Kolp, you see, was There, I cannot tell the story just now. The race is about to commence. Twenty girls are formed in a line. The music has ceased.
Even Janzoon Kolp's sister has been admitted; but Janzoon himself has been voted out by the directors, because he killed the stork, and only last summer, was caught in the act of robbing a bird's nest, a legal offence in Holland. This Janzoon Kolp, you see, was There, I cannot tell the story just now. The race is about to commence. Twenty girls are formed in a line. The music has ceased.
In this case, however, the scheme failed. Annie detested Janzoon more and more at each encounter; and Janzoon liked her better and better every day. He killed a stork, the wicked old wretch! she would say to herself. She knows I am strong and fearless, thought Janzoon. How red and freckled and ugly he is! was Annie's secret comment when she looked at him.
Annie laughed, "Yes, I know him, and it's all the worse for him that I do. Now, please, Hans, don't ever talk any more to me about Janzoon. I hate him!" "Hate him! YOU hate anybody, Annie?" She shook her head saucily. "Yes, and I'll hate you, too, if you persist in calling him one of my friends.
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