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The Burgomaster’s Wife
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CHAPTER XXXIII
15/23

There stood the superb tent of General Valdez, in which, over the bed, hung a map of the Rhine country, drawn by the Netherlander Beeldsnijder to injure his own nation.

The boys looked at it, and a Beggar, who had formerly been in a writing-school and now looked like a sea-bear, said: "Look here, my lads.

There is the Land-scheiding.
"We first pierced that, but more was to be done.

The green path had many obstacles, and here at the third dyke--they call it the Front-way--there were hard nuts to crack, and farther progress was impossible.

We now 45 returned, made a wide circuit across the Segwaertway, and through this canal here, where there was hard fighting, to North-Aa.


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