zalig

Updated: June 5, 2025

The children try to surprise their fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, and all the friends of the family in this way. They get up early, and hide themselves, so as to be able to jump out suddenly, and say "Een Zalig Nieuwjahr," which means "A Good New Year."

George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond - Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium