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Updated: May 14, 2025
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.
Not until moon and stars faded away and streaks of daylight began to appear did Meitje Brinker and Hans look hopelessly into each other's faces. They had searched the ground thoroughly, desperately, all round the tree; south, north, east, west. Glimpses Annie Bouman had a healthy distaste for Janzoon Kolp. Janzoon Kolp, in his own rough way, adored Annie.
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.
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.
"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.
She went tripping along by the canal, quite resolved to repeat the sin, ad infinitum, and tell nearly every girl and boy in the school. Meantime Janzoon Kolp came skating by. Of course, in two seconds, he was striking slippery attitudes and shouting saucy things to the coachman, who stared at him in indolent disdain. This, to Janzoon, was equivalent to an invitation to draw nearer.
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.
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