Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . stival of presentation upon this occasion. Then there are th^ church on Mittel Vlaar,as one of the Terpen is named, the school andthe town offices. There are about one thousandpeople on Marken, and there is a doctor wholives there in the summer. He is not, however,a native. His fees are regulated by the Burgo-meester, who is, by the way, a native, and Iimagine, therefore, that his mcome must be asmall one. They are a rugged, hardy race, quiteequal to
Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . stival of presentation upon this occasion. Then there are th^ church on Mittel Vlaar,as one of the Terpen is named, the school andthe town offices. There are about one thousandpeople on Marken, and there is a doctor wholives there in the summer. He is not, however,a native. His fees are regulated by the Burgo-meester, who is, by the way, a native, and Iimagine, therefore, that his mcome must be asmall one. They are a rugged, hardy race, quiteequal to any emergency. Peaceful enough whenlet alone, they resent any attempt to coercethem, and there seems no power, either persua-sive or threatening, that has any perceptible in-fluence upon this people,—either their bodies ortheir minds. They pursue their own waythough the skies fall, and the skies might fall asecond time before they would allow an intruderto do otherwise than their way. They have ahard, independent, savage way, almost, of show-ing their dislike for strangers whom they sus-pect of insincerity, and they will, especially the. TYPE OF HOUSE MARKEN 13 children, serve one such, nasty tricks. Theyintermarry and have small regard or respect forany outside their community. Even towardsthe Queen of Holland upon her last visit theywere reserved, merely remarking that it is a pityshe was not born a Markenite, and when she wasescorted about by the Burgomeester they in-quired why she did not leave her Klompen atthe door, as is the custom on Marken when oneenters a house. They assume that the sea, thesky, the shore, is theirs by right, and that if theyfelt inclined to assert their right, there are waysto accomplish it. They are thrifty, fond oftheir homes and children, hard workers andthoroughly honest and self-respecting. Maritalinfidelity and divorce is unknown among are really habitual or hard drinkers; thedays upon which they become very drunken areMay Day and C
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