Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . LIVING ROOM SUNDAY IN CHURCH AND OUT 151 low, red-tiled roofs of the clustering canals like silver ribbons separate it fromthe house on the island where I lodge with Mar-retje amid such treasures of old silver, blue andwhite platters, brass pots and platters and or-nate marquetry furniture, and serving as a sortof dado is a flapping strip of pink, yellow, blueand white clothes hung out to dry in the softbreeze. The grass grows rankly on the
Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . LIVING ROOM SUNDAY IN CHURCH AND OUT 151 low, red-tiled roofs of the clustering canals like silver ribbons separate it fromthe house on the island where I lodge with Mar-retje amid such treasures of old silver, blue andwhite platters, brass pots and platters and or-nate marquetry furniture, and serving as a sortof dado is a flapping strip of pink, yellow, blueand white clothes hung out to dry in the softbreeze. The grass grows rankly on the lowmeadow land in bands of rich golden yellow,tan and vivid green. Dark patches of tall gray-ish-green rushes grow rankly here and there onthe borders of the canals, where old moss-cov-ered flatboats are tethered. In them the chil-dren play, their shrill voices softened by distance. Some women and young boys are rakingthe rank grayish-green hay newly mown, andjust under my window a very old wrinkled andbent woman in a taD embroidered cap fromwh^.ch hang two thick strands of yellow twistedsilk, sits with a fat, ornately arrayed baby in he
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