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The Land of Pluck; Stories and Sketches for Young Folk
The Land of Pluck Stories and Sketches for Young Folk Author:Mary Mapes Dodge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: Century Co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Literary History / Europe / Western Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories Self-Help / General Travel / Europe / Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) ... more » Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV STREETS AND BYWAYS NLY an hour's ride on the railroad from Broek to Amsterdam -- and yet how different are the two! Here, as in the other large Dutch cities, you see a brisk business look on the men's faces. They are slighter in build than the rustic folk; and, not having such broad backs and short legs, not wearing leather breeches and wide jackets and big waist-buckles as the countrymen do, they quite make you forget that they are Dutch. In fact they look like New-Yorkers. Nowadays, the fashions and the stiff masculine costume of Paris and London tend to make nearly all city folk of the Christian world look alike. Still, often in Dutch cities you see something distinctive in costume, -- huge coal-scuttle bonnets on the women; and wooden shoes, that clatter-clatter at every step. Some of the women and girls have their hair cropped short and wear close-fitting caps ; and these caps and dresses are seen in great variety. Some have plain gold bands over the forehead, others have gold or silver plates at the back, and some have deep folds of rich lace hanging from them. The writer once saw two young women walking together in Eotterdam, one of whom wore a fashionable Frencli bonnet, and the other a queer head-gear with rosettes and golden " blinders " projecting on each side of her forehead. Little girls often are very charming with ...« less