Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . I CHRISTMAS ON MARKEN i8 III THE KOFFIJ HUIS 37 IV SOME CHARACTERISTICS, AND A GHOST STORY 50 V THE JOEN PIEZL 61 VI THE QUEENS BIRTHDAY 65 VII THE STORY-TELLER 79 VIII THE PORTRAIT OF OLD MARTIJ . 94 IX THE HERRING FLEET loi X THE GREAT STORM 106 XI MELANIJS FORTUNE 113 XII THE HEER PASTOOR 125 XIII THE WEDDING 131 XIV SUNDAY IN CHURCH AND OUT . .142XV OLD ARY PIK 153 XVI FROM MY WINDOW 162 XVII TOT WEERSIENS 170 PENCIL SKETCHES FROMTHE AUTHORS SKETC
Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . I CHRISTMAS ON MARKEN i8 III THE KOFFIJ HUIS 37 IV SOME CHARACTERISTICS, AND A GHOST STORY 50 V THE JOEN PIEZL 61 VI THE QUEENS BIRTHDAY 65 VII THE STORY-TELLER 79 VIII THE PORTRAIT OF OLD MARTIJ . 94 IX THE HERRING FLEET loi X THE GREAT STORM 106 XI MELANIJS FORTUNE 113 XII THE HEER PASTOOR 125 XIII THE WEDDING 131 XIV SUNDAY IN CHURCH AND OUT . .142XV OLD ARY PIK 153 XVI FROM MY WINDOW 162 XVII TOT WEERSIENS 170 PENCIL SKETCHES FROMTHE AUTHORS SKETCHBOOK Rivals Frontispiece FACING PAGE Type of House 12 The Wall Bed in Which I Slept . 26 Always Knitting • 32 Gossips ..... 40 The Patroon .... 50 A Boy and Girl . . , . 60 An Interior .... 72 Old Cronies .... 84 WiLLUM KooiTj . . . 94 A Young Mother and Child 102 Just Boys .... no Young Fishermen . 118 Putting on Her Skates . 124 A Wedding Costume • 132 Types in Sunday Dress . 142 A Living Room . 150 A Village Street . . . 158 Just Girls . . 166 A Daily Task . . , 172 On the Dyke . . . * . 178. ly/TARKEN, pronounced Marriker by theislanders, is really a number of smallsandy hillocks divided by shallow canals and re-enforced by low strong dikes upon which aremounds of earth brought from the mainland andconnected by narrow brick-paved paths, whereonthe wooden houses are built upon piling. Inthe spring when the waters of the Zuyder Zeeare swollen by the freshets, and during thesevere storms that sweep this vast shallow innersea, the dikes are flooded, and communicationbetween the islands is often difficult. Theangry waters dash against and flood the houses,and the dwellers are forced to seek the upper I 2 MARKEN AND ITS PEOPLE floors of the houses for comfort. There beingno stairways in the Marken houses, ladders areused, somewhat like those on the blunt-bowedbarges in the canals. I am unable to find the Zuyder Zee (pro-nounced Sowider Zay) on any map of Hol-land dated befor
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