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Updated: June 7, 2025
"When I'm four feet and a half high, I'm going to jump over the canal on a jumping pole," said Kit. "O how brave you are!" said Kat. "I should be scared. And besides I'm afraid I should drop my shoes in the water." "Well, of course," said Kit, "boys can do a great many things that girls can't do." When they reached the pasture, there was Mevrouw Holstein waiting for them.
"Oh, I will not sit down with you, of course," Julia answered sweetly; "I will take my coffee in the little room; is it not so, Mevrouw?" Vrouw Van Heigen nodded; she did not know what else to do, and Julia went away, leaving them as awkward and at a loss for words as if they were the delinquents, not she.
Father means to bring Mevrouw Holstein in to-night, and I want her stable to be nice and clean for her." "We'll help you," said Kit and Kat very politely. "Good children!" their mother said. "You may carry the brushes." So they opened a door beside the fireplace, and walked right into the stable. The stable was really a part of the house. There were two stalls in the stable.
"You fix a bed for them," said Kat. So Kit turned up the box they had been sitting on, and put some hay in it; and they put the ducks in on the hay. Pretty soon the ducks went to sleep. Kit and Kat ran away to play out of doors and forgot all about them. They didn't think about them again until Father Vedder came home at night with Mevrouw Holstein.
However, it is not every day in the week one makes an excursion, so naturally things cannot be expected to go quite as usual when such an event occurs. The carriage came, Mevrouw had been waiting ten minutes, and three times been to see why Julia was not waiting with her. She was quite ready, but Mevrouw at that moment discovered that she had the wrong sunshade.
The next day, Sunday, Julia went to church with Mijnheer and Joost; Mevrouw did not find herself well enough for church, but she insisted that Julia should not stay at home on her account. Accordingly the girl accompanied father and son to the Groote Kerk and listened to the rather dull service there.
This was neither the day nor the time for the boat, Julia would have to walk; but, as she assured Mevrouw, she much preferred it. Accordingly, as soon as dinner was finished, she was given a great many messages, mostly of a condoling nature, for the old lady was ill in bed, some strengthening soup, and a little bottle of the peach-brandy.
And scour the pot with a double-handful of clean sand; it will be for your health as well as the kind's. Come here, jongen give me a look at the little tongue." The boy went to him confidently, and stuck it out, looking up with innocent wide eyes in the square, powerful face, as Saxham swung round his wallet, continuing, "Here, mevrouw, is a packet of Epsom salts.
With a slight but significant gesture, F. pointed to a group which there offered itself to our view. On a costly carpet lay several of Mr. Von N.'s black servants, both male and female, and in the midst of them was Mevrouw Von N., only to be distinguished from her companions by the richer materials of her dress.
Mevrouw Holstein was the cow's name. Kit and Kat named her. Vrouw Vedder tucked up her skirts and that was quite a task, for she wore a great many of them and sat down on a little stool. Kit and Kat stood beside her and waved their willow wands and said "Shoo!" to the flies; and Vrouw Vedder began to milk.
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