Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . t sienwir (of what use are candles and spectacles 112 MARKEX AXD ITS PEOPLE when the owl will not see). By which I under-stood that he did not wish to commit himself inthe matter. However, I found that imp, Willum Kooitj,of whom I had made use on other occasions, andby dint of questioning him, I learned that hehad seen the men at the mound again after theHeer Pastoor had prayed over the sailors bodyin the church, that he had hidden behind theshed oppo
Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . t sienwir (of what use are candles and spectacles 112 MARKEX AXD ITS PEOPLE when the owl will not see). By which I under-stood that he did not wish to commit himself inthe matter. However, I found that imp, Willum Kooitj,of whom I had made use on other occasions, andby dint of questioning him, I learned that hehad seen the men at the mound again after theHeer Pastoor had prayed over the sailors bodyin the church, that he had hidden behind theshed opposite, and that they (meaning themen, he would not specify them further) hadopened the door in the mound and removed thebody, that when they examined it, theyfound the sailors thumb in his mouth, and thatthey then carried him down to the dike and puthim in the sea. No amount of questioning himelicited anything further other than a recapitu-lation. Willum seemed to fear that he hadsaid too much already, and although I gave hima silver gulden, he seemed dumb with he shunned me for a time, and Ilearned no more of the T^HE house is like all the others outside, onestory, black with a tiled roof, containingtwo, three or four rooms. Of these the kitchenor living room is the largest. The ceiling is ofrough smoked-colored and time-stained spruceboards, the gable facing the brick-paved road-way. Through the small square green shut-tered window with its lace curtain, I can see themast of a fishing boat w^hich is moored at thedike. The room is fairly crammed with treas-ures of blue china, copper and brass, the latterpolished and gleaming like gold. From therafters hang lines of jugs, dried fish, and chimney-piece is of old, old blue tiles, each 113 114 MARKEN AND ITS PEOPLE one with a different picture of figures, trees,cows, boats and quaintly drawn tulips. Thereis a small narrow shelf midway over the fire-place, under which is a short curtain of plum-co
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