"[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country."

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Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (1875). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.34

Mary Mapes Dodge

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