The Sunbonnet Babies in Holland; A Second Reader

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...basket of flowers, --if you can. Oh, that will be easy! said May. then she raised her stick and struck hard at the flower basket, --but it was not there. How the children laughed and shouted! May pulled the handkerchief quickly of! from her eyes, and then she laughed, too. She had walked straight away from the flowers and had struck into the air at nothing. Now for the bag race, said Fritz. Four boys must be tied up in these stout bags. The boy who can run the fastest and the farthest in a bag gets a jackknife for a prize. It is not easy to run tied up in a bag, but it is fun. Try it and see. Molly and May thought they had never before seen anything so funny. They laughed until they cried. One boy fell down and couldn't get up again, though he kept trying very hard. Another boy rolled over and over, like a ball. The third boy took tiny, tiny steps, but he could not go fast or far. But the fourth boy was smarter than all the others. He hopped with both feet, just like a frog. He hopped halfway across the market place, and then he hopped back again. That night the jackknife went home with him in his big trousers pocket. Now let's have some poffertjes to eat, said Betje. I am hungry. So am I, said Molly. But what are poffertjes? They are delicious little Kermis cakes. Come, and we will have some. So they went to a booth where a Dutch woman sat on a high stool beside a fire. Above the fire was a large iron pan, with hollows the size of a silver dollar all over it. Near the woman was a bowl of batter, made of buckwheat flour and water and yeast. The woman dipped her long ladle into the batter and quickly filled all the hollows in the hot, buttered pan....