TABLE OF CONTENTS

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In the Land of Windmills and Wooden Shoes[7]
Holland[9]
The Dutch People[10]
The Windmills[12]
Jan and Katrina[14]
The Wooden Shoes[15]
The Dutch Father[17]
The Dutch Mother[19]
The Blue Dishes[21]
Jan’s Work[23]
Katrina’s Work[24]
Katrina’s Ducks[25]
Katrina’s Baking[27]
Katrina’s Mother[29]
Jan’s Dog, Rink[32]
The Little Dutch Friends[35]
Selling the Milk[36]
Hilda’s Visit[38]
The Dutch Beds[41]
The Dutch Grandmother’s House[43]
The Cuckoo Clock[46]
Grandmother’s Dutch Stove[49]
Visiting at Grandmother’s[50]
Jan and Katrina on the Dike[52]
Jan’s Birthday[55]
Little Wooden Shoes[58]
The Dutch Gardens[61]
The Barge[64]
Bram’s Little Sister[68]
The Lullaby Song[70]
Little Rikka[71]
Rikka’s Wonder-Ball[73]
The Fire and Water Man[77]
The Windmill Game[79]
The Story in Jan’s Book[82]
A Sleigh Ride on the Canal[86]
Grandmother’s Story of St. Nicholas[90]
Christmas in Holland[97]
Christmas Morning with Jan and Katrina[99]
Bram’s Rabbits[102]
The Market[106]
Winter[109]
Kind-hearted Jan[110]

The Dutch Children

M. M. GRANT
M. M. GRANT

1. Oh, the children of Holland wear wooden shoes,[A]

With a klip, klop, klip, klop, klip, klop!

They can run, jump and walk just as fast as they choose,

With a klip, klop, klip, klop, klip, klop!

2. To the windmill they go for the meal and the flour,

With a klip, klop, klip, klop, klip, klop!

In the fields they tend great flocks of geese by the hour,

With a klip, klop, klip, klop, klip, klop!

3. Oh, I think ’twould be quite hard to walk, don’t you?

With a klip, klop, klip, klop, klip, klop!

Oh, I really don’t see how the Dutch children do,

When they walk with a klip, klip, klop!

(Used by permission of F. A. Owen Publishing Company.)]

[A] The children may beat time with their hands on the desks as they sing “Klip, klop.”

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