. Hans Brinker; or, The silver skates .. . he bit! and, finally,how she shook hands with every boy in turn, and, throwinga deprecating glance at the female automaton, insisted uponfilling their pockets with gingerbread! All this time the kntting-needles clicked on, and the pipenever missed a puff. When the boys were fairly on their way again, they camein sight of Zwanenburg Castle, with its massive stone front,and its gateway towers, each surmounted with a sculpturedswan. Halfweg, boys,1 said Peter, off with your skates!You see, explained Lambert to his companion, the Yand the Haarlem Lake, me
. Hans Brinker; or, The silver skates .. . he bit! and, finally,how she shook hands with every boy in turn, and, throwinga deprecating glance at the female automaton, insisted uponfilling their pockets with gingerbread! All this time the kntting-needles clicked on, and the pipenever missed a puff. When the boys were fairly on their way again, they camein sight of Zwanenburg Castle, with its massive stone front,and its gateway towers, each surmounted with a sculpturedswan. Halfweg, boys,1 said Peter, off with your skates!You see, explained Lambert to his companion, the Yand the Haarlem Lake, meeting here, make it rather trouble-some. The river is five feet higher than the land: so wemust have everything strong in the way of dikes and sluice-gates, or there would be wet work at once. The sluicearrangements here are supposed to be something extra. Wewill walk over them, and you shall see enough to make youopen your eyes. The spring water of the lake, they say, hasthe most wonderful bleaching-powers of any in the world: 1 MAY WE ENTER AND WARM OURSELVES. JUFVROUW ? T OR, THE SILVER SKATES 73 all the great Haarlem bleacheries use it. I cant say muchupon that subject; but I can tell you one thing from personalexperience. What is that? Why, the lake is full of the biggest eels you ever caught them here, often—perfectly prodigious! I tellyou theyre sometimes a match for a fellow: theyd almostwriggle your arm from the socket, if you were not on yourguard. But youre not interested in eels, I perceive. Thecastles a big affair, isnt it? Yes. What do those swans mean? Any thing? askedBen, looking up at the stone gate-towers. The swan is held almost in reverence by us give the building its name, Zwanenburg,—swan-castle. That is all I know. This is a very important spot;for it is here that the wise ones hold council with regard todike matters. The castle was once the residence of thecelebrated Christiaan Brunings. What about him? asked Ben. P
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