Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (Illustrated Edition). Mary Mapes Dodge

      Mary Mapes Dodge

      Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (Illustrated Edition)

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Table of Contents

       Preface

       A Letter from Holland

       I. Hans and Gretel

       II. Holland

       III. The Silver Skates

       IV. Hans and Gretel Find a Friend

       V. Shadows in the Home

       VI. Sunbeams

       VII. Hans has His Way

       VIII. Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin

       IX. The Festival of Saint Nicholas

       X. What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam

       XI. Big Manias and Little Oddities

       XII. On the Way to Haarlem

       XIII. A Catastrophe

       XIV. Hans

       XV. Homes

       XVI. Haarlem.—The Boys Hear Voices

       XVII. The Man with Four Heads

       XVIII. Friends in Need

       XIX. On the Canal

       XX. Jacob Poot Changes the Plan

       XXI. Mynheer Kleef and His Bill of Fare

       XXII. The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous

       XXIII. Before the Court

       XXIV. The Beleaguered Cities

       XXV. Leyden

       XXVI. The Palace and the Wood

       XXVII. The Merchant Prince, and the Sister-princess

       XXVIII. Through the Hague

       XXIX. A Day of Rest

       XXX. Homeward Bound

       XXXI. Boys and Girls

       XXXII. The Crisis

       XXXIII. Gretel and Hilda

       XXXIV. The Awakening

       XXXV. Bones and Tongues

       XXXVI. A New Alarm

       XXXVII. The Father's Return

       XXXVIII. The Thousand Guilders

       XXXIX. Glimpses

       XL. Looking for Work

       XLI. The Fairy Godmother

       XLII. The Mysterious Watch

       XLIII. A Discovery

       XLIV. The Race

       XLV. Joy in the Cottage

       XLVI. Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs

       XLVII. Broad Sunshine

       Conclusion

       To my father, JAMES J. MAPES, this book is dedicated in gratitude and love

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      This little work aims to combine the instructive features of a book of travels with the interest of a domestic tale. Throughout its pages the descriptions of Dutch localities, customs, and general characteristics,