152 Hans Brinker

“ Quick as a flash, he saw his duty. “Throwing away his
flowers, the boy clambered up the heights until he reached the
hole. His chubby little finger was thrust in, almost before he
knew it. The flowing was stopped! ‘Ah!’ he thought,

 

A LEAK IN THE DIKE! ‘¢¢WILL NO ONE COME?”’

with a chuckle of boyish delight, ‘the angry waters must stay
back now! Haarlem shall not be drowned while 7 am

here !”
“This was all very well at first; but the night was falling