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A Wanderer in Holland

CHAPTER XI
19/22

The kitchen is one of the prettiest things in Holland--with its shining brass and copper, its delicate and dainty tiles and its air of cheerful brightness.

Some of the carving in the other rooms is superb; the silver, the china, the clocks are all of the choicest.

The custodian has a childlike interest in secret drawers and unexpected recesses, which he exhibits with a gusto not habitual in the Dutch cicerone.

For the run of these old rooms a guelder is asked; one sees the three rooms on the other side of the entrance hall for twenty-five cents, the church and museum unit of Holland.

But they are uninteresting beside the larger suite.


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