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Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates
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Sir Thomas Carr's Tour through Holland.
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Skipper. Master of a small trading vessel, – a pleasure-boat or ice-boat.
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Macaulay's History of England.
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In Holland, women of the lower grades of society do not take the title of Mrs. (or Mevrouw) when they marry, as with us. They assume their husband's name, but are still called Miss (Jufvrouw, pronounced Yuffrow).
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A building erected by Prince Maurice of Nassau.
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William, Prince of Orange, who became King of England, was a great grandson of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, who was murdered by Geraerts (or Gerard) July 10th, 1584.
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Ice-breaker – A heavy machine armed with iron spikes for breaking the ice as it is dragged along. Some of the small ones are worked by men – but the large ones are drawn by horses – sixty or seventy of which are sometimes attached to one Ysbreeker.
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This is not said in derision. Both the girls and boys of this Institution wear garments quartered in red and black, alternately. By making the dress thus conspicuous, the children are, in a measure, deterred from wrong-doing while going about the city. The Burgher Orphan Asylum affords a comfortable home to several hundred boys and girls. Holland is famous for its charitable institutions.
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