CHAPTER IV.

The coins: practice of vails-giving in Holland: fruit and vegetable

sellers: Dutch passion for scrubbing and mopping: whimsical

sarcasm of a traveller: singular offence offered to a

chambermaid: Dutch prints of Lord Nelson: treatment of our

countrymen at Verdun: Dutch compared with the Chinese: private

collections of paintings: brief anecdote of the Vanderwerfs:

remarks on Dutch and Flemish schools: Dort; anecdotes of

distinguished persons there: anecdote of Cowper: interposition of

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