. St. Nicholas [serial] . occasionof a christening, a wedding, or a funeral, orwhen the dazzling brass knobs and knockers areto be rendered more dazzling still. The gardensare as prim and complete as the houses; but insummer the beds, all laid out in little patches,are bright with audacious flowers nodding sau-cily to the prim box border that incloses every garden has its zomerhuis and itspond. Some of these ponds have queer au-tomata — or self-moving figures — upon them :sometimes a duck that paddles about and flapsits wooden wings; sometimes a wooden sports-man standing upon the
. St. Nicholas [serial] . occasionof a christening, a wedding, or a funeral, orwhen the dazzling brass knobs and knockers areto be rendered more dazzling still. The gardensare as prim and complete as the houses; but insummer the beds, all laid out in little patches,are bright with audacious flowers nodding sau-cily to the prim box border that incloses every garden has its zomerhuis and itspond. Some of these ponds have queer au-tomata — or self-moving figures — upon them :sometimes a duck that paddles about and flapsits wooden wings; sometimes a wooden sports-man standing upon the shore, jerkily taking aimat the duck, but never quite succeeding in get-ting his range accurate enough to warrant firing ;and sometimes a dog stands among the shrub-bery and snaps his jaws quite fiercely when heis not too damp to work. Queer things, too,are seen in the growing box, which is trimmedso as to fail in resembling peacocks and , Broek is a very remarkable place. H4 THE LAND OF PLUCK. [ GfcciHbf vjftMWoNtfeVffi^ ALMOST SUPPER-TIME. The dairy-ly inclined inhabitants consider their commonly find themselves daintily housed be- kine as friends and fellow-lodgers, and so the neath the family roof. very cattle there live in fine style. Pet cows, In some Dutch houses the rooms are cov- it is said, often rejoice in pretty blue ribbons ered with two or three carpets, laid one over tied to their tails — and in winter they not un- the other, and others have no carpets at all, THE LAND OF PLUCK. but the floors are polished, or perhaps made oftiles laid in regular patterns. Sometimes doorsare curtained like the windows, and the bedsare nearly concealed by heavy draperies. Many
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