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of the priests i* Austria aad Italy. The wonea o f Europe are as short- 
skirted as we are»-all hut those prosenaders. 7w Hesrard told tie which 
fishing village or what station la society each group represented , in- 
dicated fcy their head gear, "reat scfcene, isn't it. A great may had 
those round flat fasteners » like great buttons, at the sides of the f 
face, such as shows in the well known picture of the queen in native 
costume, that picture called the Tulip-lady, ihe prevailing type is 
very blonde. I3r Henrard is about.. a fj dark as I as, hut his wife id 
irery fair, with pale flaxen hair and light blue eyea, and so id little 
Tosa. After the large buildings of Austria and Germany, when I 
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got into Holland it looked as if the houses were play-houses , they 
seemed so small by contrast. It looked so cosy, and it was so good 
to see cattle again, cattle by the hundred, Thft&r picturesqueness 
was spoiled somewhat by the overcoats they wore of canvas — but their 
pretty placid faces were good to see. "here were no fences, the dif- 
ferent pastures "being ?T fenced 1 ' by ditches* The bridges £pp one to 
another' seemed to fee fixed like the crossings on our railroads fco pyfl 
vent cattle from crossing. Moat of the ditches were lull of water 
plants. In some men were draggiag then and piling up the stuff ( for 
fertiliser, 1 surmise • I» about an hour we ran out of this fertile 
part, aad I saw great stretches where there ware stacks of TT briclcs ff 
of brown Mud f so it looked, — I guess it was peat* 1 saw men wfcrkiag 
taking it up, but they were to- f far ftm the train to see clearly how 
they did it. ? fhejr for two hours, about, we ran through land iluxi 
looked like the barren est of the pine barrens of northern Indiana. I 
wasted to get oot and botanize, flam the canals began again* 1 c 
changed cars at Utrecht, and got 'some dinner while 1 waited*, She 
German here sounded more like my own, .and very easy to understand. 
The Hollanders speak -in the back of their mouths, as we do f instead 
of producing all sounds by the tip of the tongue, the teeth and lips f 
