Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . dam,who thought so well of it that he bought it. TheHeer Pastoor tells me in the letter which fol-lowed me to America, that with the compara-tively small sum of money old Martjes comfortis assured for the rest of her life, that is to say loo MARKEN AND ITS PEOPLE as much comfort as her daily bread will bringher, and so the portrait was good for somethingafter all. And it transpired that WillumKooitj, who made it his business to know all thattranspired
Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . dam,who thought so well of it that he bought it. TheHeer Pastoor tells me in the letter which fol-lowed me to America, that with the compara-tively small sum of money old Martjes comfortis assured for the rest of her life, that is to say loo MARKEN AND ITS PEOPLE as much comfort as her daily bread will bringher, and so the portrait was good for somethingafter all. And it transpired that WillumKooitj, who made it his business to know all thattranspired on Marken, got wind of the matter,excepting certain details, and told it circum-stantially, and with a deal of embroidery inwhich he personally figured, on the dike to themen and over the fences to the women. Willum -when he felt like it was a born raconteur andof repute even in Marken where there are dozenswho practice the art. Willum told it again andagain, and with each repetition it gained some-thing. Then inferior narrators essayed it andthus it circulated. This then is the reason whyMarken thereafter opened its doors to IVTINE boats sailed from the jetty that Wed-nesday night at sundown. I was in thePatroons boat by way of special , cold, gray and gusty, saw us off theTexel half way from Wieringen. The othereight boats were tossing on the dull greenish-graywater to the westward, their sails gleaming redlyagainst the sky. Two Stavoren boats were hov-ering near us, to the manifest wrath of thePatroon. To the westward we saw the smoke ofa steam trawler and in half an hour her hull wastossing up and down within a quarter of a mileof us. The Patroon swore in his yellow beardand spat overboard. lOI I02 MARKEN AND ITS PEOPLE The lanterns of the trawler had not beenturned out although it was an hour past trawler was from Ghoole, and her nets hungfrom the forward mast rusty brown in the graylight. Now and then she dipped her rusty fore-foo
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