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The carriers accordingly entered by the backway, and Elsje, deliberately paying them their ten stuivers, and seeing them depart, left the box lying in a room at the rear and hastened to the shop in front. Here she found the thread and ribbon dealer and his wife, busy with their customers, unpacking and exhibiting their wares.
The carriers accordingly entered by the backway, and Elsje, deliberately paying them their ten stuivers, and seeing them depart, left the box lying in a room at the rear and hastened to the shop in front. Here she found the thread and ribbon dealer and his wife, busy with their customers, unpacking and exhibiting their wares.
Twenty-four stuivers, or two shillings, a day were allowed by the States-General for the support of each prisoner and his family.
At last on promise of payment of ten stuivers, which was considered an exorbitant sum, the skipper and son agreed to transport the chest between them on a hand-barrow. While they were trudging with it to the town, the son remarked to his father that there was some living thing in the box. For the prisoner in the anguish of his confinement had not been able to restrain a slight movement.
But some one of them always got the money. "Dear me! they've eyes just like birds!" exclaimed Parson Henderson; "to think of finding anything in that thick grass." "Let them alone for that," laughed old Mr. King; "their wits are sharpened by practice." "Look out, Phronsie!" exclaimed Jasper. "Your stuivers went into the water. Here, I'll hold you up, then you can throw it farther.
Twenty-four stuivers, or two shillings, a day were allowed by the States-General for the support of each prisoner and his family.
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