176 Hans Brinker

“Order!” cried the captain. ‘Now, boys, I must seek
this great Dr. Boekman before I sleep. If he is in Leyden, it
will be no great task to find him; for he always puts up at
the Golden Eagle when he comes here. I wonder that you
did not all go to bed at once. Still, as you are awake, what
say you to walking with Ben up by the Museum or the
Stadhuis ?”’

“¢ Agreed,” said Ludwig and Lambert; but Jacob preferred
to go with Peter. In vain Ben tried to persuade him to remain
at the inn, and rest. He declared that he never felt “ petter,”
and wished, of all things, to take a look at the city ; for it was
his first “‘ stop mit Leyden.”

“ Oh, it will not harm him!” said Lambert. “ How long
the day has been! and what glorious sport we have had! It
hardly seems possible that we left Broek only this morning.”

Jacob yawned.

“] have enjoyed it well,” he said; “but it seems to me at
least a week since we started.”

Carl laughed, and muttered something about “ twenty naps.”

“ Here we are at the corner. Remember, we all meet at the
Red Lion at eight,” said the captain, as he and Jacob walked
away.