. The sunbonnet babies in Holland; a second reader . North Sea from covering all this lowland. If we did not build dikes we should nothave any dry land, for the sea is higher thanmuch of our land. That is why our country is * called Holland, or The Hollow Land. Sometimes people call it the Water Landbecause we have so many canals, Some day I shall tell you whywe have these canals and how they are made,but now we are almost home. Here is our littlecity of Middleburg. We shall have to drive amile into the country, and then you will seemy windmill. How many windmills will mine
. The sunbonnet babies in Holland; a second reader . North Sea from covering all this lowland. If we did not build dikes we should nothave any dry land, for the sea is higher thanmuch of our land. That is why our country is * called Holland, or The Hollow Land. Sometimes people call it the Water Landbecause we have so many canals, Some day I shall tell you whywe have these canals and how they are made,but now we are almost home. Here is our littlecity of Middleburg. We shall have to drive amile into the country, and then you will seemy windmill. How many windmills will minemake, May? Oh, dear! I have lost my count, Uncle am sure we have passed hundreds of think, Molly, Uncle Jan has a really trulywindmill of his own! Very soon the little travelers were goingthrough a gate into a tiny Dutch garden. Thegarden was filled with lovely flowers, with tulipsand lilacs and lilies. THE ARRIVAL 27 In the open door of the small, low housestood Tante Anna. Both her hands were heldout with a smiling Dutch In the open door stood Tante Anna There was a clatter of wooden shoes, andtwo queer little people hurried out into thegarden. They were Hans and Betje, the littleDutch cousins. Baby Mina was peeping frombehind her mother in the doorway. Hans and Betje stood very still, and lookedat the Sunbonnet Babies. They never, never hadseen such strange and pretty little girls. 28 THE SUNBONNET BABIES IN HOLLAND And Molly and May looked and looked atHans and Betje, for they never, never had seensuch a queer little boy and girl Then they all laughed, and Hans and Betjesaid, Hoe gaat het met je? and Molly andMay said, How do you do? and they werefriends.
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