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    Our Little Dutch Cousin
    Our Little Dutch Cousin
    Our Little Dutch Cousin
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    Our Little Dutch Cousin

    By Blanche McManus

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Our Little Dutch Cousin - Blanche McManus

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Little Dutch Cousin, by Blanche McManus

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      Title: Our Little Dutch Cousin

      Author: Blanche McManus

      Illustrator: Blanche McManus

      Release Date: February 26, 2013 [EBook #42203]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR LITTLE DUTCH COUSIN ***

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      Our Little Dutch Cousin

      THE

      Little Cousin Series

      (TRADE MARK)

      Each volume illustrated with six or more full-page plates in tint. Cloth, 12mo, with decorative cover, per volume, 60 cents

      LIST OF TITLES

      By Mary Hazelton Wade

      (unless otherwise indicated)

      L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

      New England Building,             Boston, Mass.

      PIETER AND WILHELMINA

      Copyright, 1906

      By L. C. Page & Company

      (INCORPORATED)

      All rights reserved

      THE LITTLE COUSIN SERIES

      (Trade Mark)

      Fifth Impression, July, 1909

      Preface

      Our little Dutch cousins have much in common with little American cousins, not so much perhaps with respect to present-day institutions and manners and customs, as with the survivals and traditions of other days, when the Dutch played so important a part in the founding of the new America.

      It was from Holland, too, from the little port of Delfshaven, that the Pilgrim Fathers first set sail for the New World, and by this fact alone Holland and America are bound together by another very strong link, though this time it was of English forging.

      No European country, save England, has the interest for the American reader or traveller that has the little land of dikes and windmills, and there are many young Americans already familiar with the ways of their cousins from over the seas from the very fact that so many of them come to Holland to visit its fine picture-galleries, its famous and historic buildings, its tulip-gardens, and its picturesque streets and canals, which make it a paradise for artists.

      Our little Dutch cousins mingle gladly with their little American cousins, and the ties that bind make a bond which is, and always has been, inseverable.

      Contents

      List of Illustrations

      Our Little Dutch Cousin

      CHAPTER I.

      PIETER AND WILHELMINA

      What do you think of a country where you can pick up sugar-plums along the road? Well, this was just what Pieter and Wilhelmina were going to do as, hand in hand, they flew up the road as fast as their little wooden shoes would let them, to meet a carriage which was rapidly approaching. Behind the carriage ran a crowd of children, laughing and tumbling over each other.

      Oh! they are throwing the 'suikers' now; run faster, Wilhelmina, panted Pieter; and, sure enough, as the carriage went by, a shower of candies fell all about them. One piece dropped right in Wilhelmina's mouth, which of course was open, because she had been running so hard. But there was no time to laugh, as the children were all scrambling hard to pick up the sweets. Then they tried to catch up with the carriage again, but it was nearly out of sight by this time, and so one by one the young folk stopped to count up their gains, and compare them with one another.

      This was a wedding-party returning from church. In the carriage sat the bride and groom. The carriage sat high up on its two great wheels, and was gaudily painted and gaily decked with flowers and ribbons.

      Pieter and Wilhelmina had been on the lookout for this bridal party with more than usual interest, for two relatives of the bride had come to their mother a few days before to invite her to the wedding ceremony, and the children thought these young men had looked very fine in their best clothes, with flowers stuck in the sides of their caps.

      The bride had her arms full of candies, and, as was the custom, she threw them out to the children as they drove along. The little Dutch children call these candies suikers. As you may imagine, this is a great treat for them, and accordingly the children of Holland take more of an interest in weddings than do the children of other countries.

      Put all the 'suikers' in my apron, Pieter, said Wilhelmina, and let us go and show them to the mother, and the children quickly ran back home.

      Wilhelmina and Pieter

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