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ON THE BEACH AT SCHEVENINGEN.

CHAPTER V
DUTCIL ODDITIES

Now, is not Holland a funny land? Where else do the
people pray for fish and never pray for rain? Where
else do they build enormous factories for the cutting and
polishing of such little things as diamonds? Where
else do peasant women wear solid gold and costly old
lace on their heads? Where else do persons carry foot-
stoves about in their hands? Where else do crowds
of folk sit on the sea-shore as at Scheveningen, every one
in a great high hut-like wicker chair with a window on
each side? In what other country are over eighteen hun-

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