. Helen on her travels: what she saw and what she did in Europe . w^as the strangest looking country whenw^e did see it! We were not on the sea any more,but sailing up a river; and on both sides the shorewas near enough for us to see the little houses, andthe funny looking people. And all the land was asflat as a floor, almost; there was nt even a little hill;and there were so many great wind-mills. In everydirection we would look, were four or five great wheelsup in the air, turning slowly with the wind. I liked to watch the people beside us, as much as Idid these other things; for some of th
. Helen on her travels: what she saw and what she did in Europe . w^as the strangest looking country whenw^e did see it! We were not on the sea any more,but sailing up a river; and on both sides the shorewas near enough for us to see the little houses, andthe funny looking people. And all the land was asflat as a floor, almost; there was nt even a little hill;and there were so many great wind-mills. In everydirection we would look, were four or five great wheelsup in the air, turning slowly with the wind. I liked to watch the people beside us, as much as Idid these other things; for some of them were Dutch 68 HELEN ON HEK TRAVELS. people, and some Germans, and tliey were dressed sooddly, and talked very strangely. Some of them weregoing to their homes, but they had been long enoughin England to learn a little English. They said Eng-land was a nice countrj^, but Germany was better wonder if I shall think so ! % I think I 11 stop now, and perhaps to-morrow writeyou another letter, before I forget what I want to tellabout Eotterdam and HELEX ON HER TRAVELS. 69 JflNETEEKTH LETTER. Susie : Mamma says I can send two letters by on-e mailthis time, so I will commence just where I left offyesterday. Our steamboat kept going slower and slower, tillwe stopped; and because the prettiest part of Rotter-dam lies along by the side of the river, we had a goodchance to see it. And the houses were so neat andwhite, and the sun was shining so brightly, and thesides of the river looked so cheerful with all the ships,that I thought it was much prettier than we almost touched the wharf, a great manymen and boys crowded up to the edge to see us; andyou would have laughed to have seen them, thoughthey did nt seem to think at all that there wasanything funny about them. They almost all worewooden shoes, and they were so thick and so large thatpapa called them boats; and they were really littleboats, for they were turned up at the toes like thecanoes
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