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George. "Yes, sir," replied Rollo. "Saandam was a great place for building ships in those days. They say that while he was there, he went to work regularly, like a ship carpenter, as if he wished to learn the trade himself. But I don't believe he worked a great deal." "No," said Mr. George. "I presume he did not.
They walked about half a mile along the canal on one side, and then, crossing by a ferry, they came back on the other side. In the course of this walk they went to see the hut where Peter the Great lived while he was in Holland engaged in studying ship building in the ship yards of Saandam.
The waiter went out, and in a few minutes a well-dressed and very respectable looking young man came in, and advancing towards Mr. George, said, "Did you wish to see a commissioner, sir?" "Yes," said Mr. George. "I want to make some inquiries about going to Broek and to Saandam, to-morrow. I want to know what the best way is to go, and what the expenses will be." So saying, Mr.
"There," continued James, "we take a carriage." "And how much will the carriage be?" asked Mr. George. "To go to Broek and back, and then to Saandam, will be ten guilders." Mr. George made memoranda of these sums on his paper, as James named them. "And the tolls," continued James, "will be one guilder and twenty-five cents more." "And the driver?" asked Mr. George.
"He slipped away, and came in privately with a few merchants to accompany him. And instead of going to the great palace which the government of Amsterdam had provided and fitted up for him, he left that to his ambassadors, and went himself to a small house, by a ship yard, where he could be at liberty, and go and come when he pleased." "And afterwards, I suppose he went to Saandam," said Mr.
Rollo was always ready for any plan which involved the going away from the place where he, was, to some new place which he had not seen before. "But how are we going to find the way there?" said Rollo. "I shall take a commissioner," said Mr. George. "I am going to Saandam, too, where Peter the Great learned ship carpentry."
George and Rollo entered the carriage again, and returned by the same way that they came, for some miles towards Amsterdam, until they came to the place where the road turned off to go to Saandam.
But if his time is very short, or if he wishes to make excursions into the neighborhood of a town where he does not understand the language of the people, then such a servant is of very great advantage. Mr. George thought that his proposed excursion to Broek and Saandam was an occasion on which a commissioner could be very advantageously employed.
Saandam was the place that he came to. While he was there he lived in a small, wooden house, near the place where the ship building was going on. That house is there now, and almost every body that comes to this part of the country goes to see it." "How long ago was it that he was there?" asked Rollo. "It was more than one hundred and fifty years ago," said Mr. George.
At last, after an infinite number of turnings and windings, by means of which every part of the surrounding country was brought in succession into view before Mr. George and Rollo as they sat in their carriage, they arrived at the town of Saandam. The town consists of two streets, one on each embankment of a great canal.
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