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along in such practised style, we may be sure they were
taught at the dog-school in Amsterdam. But oftener, in
Holland, the small milk-cart or water-cart is drawn by
a robust boy, or a pretty rosy-cheeked girl with eyes
brighter than the shining brass water-jar she may

 

CARRYING MILK AND CHEESE TO MARKET.

carry. Those canal-boats around the corner, wending
their way among the houses, are loaded with peat for
the people to burn; coal is a luxury used only by the
rich. That barge by the market-place, drawn up to
the street’s edge (for many of the principal thoroughfares