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You can see them coming to town when they are yet miles away across the veldt that is, if the day is bright. The dresses of the women-folks flash gaily in the sun, and the old vrouw would not change places with the Queen of Holland as she proudly surveys her offspring seated around her in the wagonette.
"Has this been a short day, Mother?" "Oh, very short!" said Vrouw Vedder, "because you helped me so much." Then she kissed them good-night and went out to feed the pigs, and shut up the chickens for the night. When she was gone, Kit said, "I don't see how they got along before we came. We help so much!"
"The Vrouw Jansen has fled away," he said, "and the street is quite quiet now, so I think that we had better be moving before any see us, my masters." Some days later the bodies of these Spanish soldiers were found with their faces smashed flat.
Feeling that I ought to speak, and not knowing what to say, I merely stammered "Good morning," whereon everyone broke into a roar of laughter, except Vrouw Prinsloo, who exclaimed: "Did any one ever see such a fool?" and even Marie smiled. Then Piet Retief appeared from somewhere dressed in tall boots and rough riding clothes, such as the Boers wore in those days.
"It is a day to pray, not to give and be given in marriage," commented Marais sulkily. "Moreover, Marie does not come of age before Monday, and until then the oath that I made to God holds." "My vatdoek for your oath!" exclaimed the vrouw, flapping that awful rag in his face. "How much do you suppose that God cares what you in your folly swore to that stinkcat of a nephew of yours?
But the Twins couldn't find anything they wanted that cost exactly two cents. At last, what should they see but Vrouw Van der Kloot's fat face smiling at them from a stall just full of cakes and cookies and bread, and chocolate, and honey cakes, and goodies of all kinds. The Twins held up their money. There on the counter was a whole row of St.
The knocking was heard again. "Come in," said madame softly. The door slowly opened, and Saint Nicholas, in full array, stood before them. You could have heard a pin drop. Soon he spoke. What a mysterious majesty in his voice! What kindliness in his tones! "Karel van Gleck, I am pleased to greet thee, and thy honored vrouw Kathrine, and thy son and his good vrouw Annie! "Children, I greet ye all!
Vrouw Vedder took her pails of water and her brushes and began to scrub. She scrubbed the walls, and the sides of the stalls, and the floor. The Twins scrubbed, too, until they were tired; and the stable was so clean, you would have liked to live there yourself. "Let's play out here," said Kat. "Let's play house." "All right," said Kit. "I'll be the father, and you be the mother."
Allow us to introduce Nicholas Van Wempel, of Flatbush: fat, phlegmatic, rich, and henpecked. He would like to be drunk because he is henpecked, but the wife holds the purse-strings and only doles out money to him when she wants groceries or he needs clothes. It was New Year's eve, the eve of 1739, when Vrouw Van Wempel gave to her lord ten English shillings and bade him hasten to Dr.
His wife and daughter may be seen on Sundays wearing gold and silver jewellery worth from fifty to one hundred pounds, and there is generally enough old delft and pewter in the house to start a local museum anywhere outside Holland. On high days and holidays, of which in Holland there are plenty, the average Dutch vrouw would be well worth running away with.
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