Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . hieves! Recognizing me at last, he grinned and shookmy hand, but I could not make him understandme. The neighbors looked in on him and sawthat he was fed, but with the apathy and indif-ference of the peasantry, they complained that OLD ARY PIK i6i he apparently neither could get well nor passon. I went to the Burgomeester and laid thematter before him and induced him to make outthe necessary papers to get the old man admittedto the Huis as it was call
Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . hieves! Recognizing me at last, he grinned and shookmy hand, but I could not make him understandme. The neighbors looked in on him and sawthat he was fed, but with the apathy and indif-ference of the peasantry, they complained that OLD ARY PIK i6i he apparently neither could get well nor passon. I went to the Burgomeester and laid thematter before him and induced him to make outthe necessary papers to get the old man admittedto the Huis as it was called, where such help-less old folk were cared for by the State. Thiswas finally accomplished not without much re-sistance upon his part, I was told, for I was noton Marken when he was removed. It is said thathe lived only a few months in the hospital. OldMarretje says that the shock he received whenthey washed him and put him between cleansheets finished him. And so Marken knows him no more, and hisplace on the dike end is occupied by another, lesspicturesque it is true, but the boats come and go,as usual, and no one seems to miss Old T^HE house on the opposite side of the narrowcanal is a typical one. Really there arefour distinct habitations beneath the steep-slop-ing, moss-covered, red-tiled roof, which is of adelightful mellow patchwork of old and newwork, and having tall brick chimneys protrudingat unexpected places quite arbitrarily. Thehouse like all the others is of tarred or pitch cov-ered wooden wide boards placed horizontally be-low bjut vertically above the junction of theeavies. The gable end is towards the canal andhere the earth is diked up forming a sort of levelwalk, and it is fringed sparsely with a grayish-green wiry coarse grass. There is a sort of bal- 162 FROM MY WINDOW 163 ustrade of rough beams at intervals but this issimply to hang the nets upon. At first sightthere seems to be a great confusion of old planksand marine impedimenta, but upon closer
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