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Updated: June 24, 2025
So Polly roused out of her dejection and set to work, and presently the hay-makers, and the Marken boys and girls, the funny little houses that looked as if they dropped down pellmell from the clouds and settled where they had dropped the high ridges along which the men and boys, walking in their full baggy trousers, looked as if they were blown up, and formed a Dutch perspective perfectly awful all these queer, delightful things were presently imprisoned in the two kodaks.
Marken has a history, you know; it was once connected with the mainland, but that was as long ago as the thirteenth century, and ever since the inhabitants have prided themselves on their old customs and costumes.
In order to liquidate those debts, we desired his creditors to announce themselves every day, and promised them a daily ducat until the end of the process." "I hope you two gentlemen were among his creditors," said Weingarten. "Certainly, we were, and also Baron Marken." "Therefore you have a threefold advantage from Trenck's imprisonment.
"I was thinking of Broek-in-Waterland, as I read it was near, and the sweetest place in Holland; however, we can go by-and-by, if " "But my plan includes Broek-in-Waterland, gives you a glimpse of Monnikendam, takes you to Marken, and winds up at Volendam, beloved of artists," said I. "I don't believe we'll find it easy to tear Starr from Volendam."
The trio approached, smiling seraphically; and it goes without saying that the three ladies began petting the two fantastic babes. "How do you do? You like see inside a Marken house?" asked the pretty girl, speaking English with the voice of a young siren. They all answered that they would be delighted. "I show my home. You come with me."
To be sure, there he was on the other side of the boat nearest Marken, with a big group of passengers, intently watching the Marken children running along in their clacking sabots, on the high bank, and holding out their arms, singing something all the while in a shrill, high key. "They want some stuivers," cried Jasper. "Come, Polly and Phronsie, let us toss them some."
Here and there, the gabled cottages, perched on hillocks, rose black against the dim gray sky. Here and there, a human figure appeared at the waterside, standing, fixed in contemplation of the strange boat. And that was all I saw of the island of Marken.
King wisely deciding that the fun of the expedition would lose its edge if postponed again, said, "Start!" So after breakfast they all went down to the Wester dock and embarked on the little steamer bound for the island of Marken in the Zuyder Zee. "Oh, Polly, look," said Jasper, "doesn't Amsterdam look fine?" as the little steamer slowly put forth.
So far we have had neither accident nor stoppage of any kind, and they have ceased to think it possible that anything can happen to the motor. Marken, with its tall-spired church, soon appeared to our eyes, the closely grouped little island-town seeming to float on the waves as San Giorgio Maggiore does at Venice, in the sunset hour.
So here she was, going down to Marken too. Adela ran and kneeled down on the seat by Polly's side and hung over the rail too. "Don't the houses lean over queerly?" she said, pointing to the long narrow buildings they were leaving behind. They look worse from the water than when we are in the midst of them." "It's just as if they were holding each other up," said Polly.
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