. The sunbonnet babies in Holland; a second reader . Mays cup was the last one to be the sugar came to her it was a very smalllump. And May thought it was too small everto be used in coffee again. May was veryhungry for somecandy. Candycosts so much inHolland, childrencan buy very littleof it. So Mayslipped the bit of As quick as a wink May put the lump of sugar , into Wilhelmina s wide-open mouth SUgar rigllt intO her mouth. But she could not swallow thestring, and there it hung! What could she do? Willem, Paul, Anna, Fritz, and Wilhelminawere all looking straight at it in such
. The sunbonnet babies in Holland; a second reader . Mays cup was the last one to be the sugar came to her it was a very smalllump. And May thought it was too small everto be used in coffee again. May was veryhungry for somecandy. Candycosts so much inHolland, childrencan buy very littleof it. So Mayslipped the bit of As quick as a wink May put the lump of sugar , into Wilhelmina s wide-open mouth SUgar rigllt intO her mouth. But she could not swallow thestring, and there it hung! What could she do? Willem, Paul, Anna, Fritz, and Wilhelminawere all looking straight at it in such a dis-appointed way! May did not mean to be selfish. As quickas a wink she had the lump of sugar out of herown mouth and into the wide-open mouth ofWilhelmina, who sat close beside her. Dear little Wilhelmina was so surprised shealmost swallowed the lump, string and all, and IN THE FISHERMANS HOME 117. We live on the island of Marken every one at the table nearly choked fromlaughing at her. After the jolly dinner was over, Jan vanSteen said: There is a fine breeze blowing thisafternoon. Lets take a sail over to the island ofMarken in my fishing boat. We will show theseSunbonnet Babies one of the queerest corners in Holland. So they sailed away for two miles over theZuider Zee. They sailed to the little low islandof Marken, where the houses are built on tall 118 THE SUNBONNET BABIES IN HOLLAND posts to keep them above the high waters ofwinter. The Marken people say that only one horsehas ever been on their island, and that onlyone tree grows there. The men are all fishermen, like the Volen-dam men. But they do not look like theVolendam people, and they do not dress likethe Volendam people. Indeed, they do notdress like any other people in the whole queer clothes interested the Sunbonnet Babies very much. The littleboys and girls dress just alikeuntil they are six years ol
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