LESSON XXXIX.
freight, cargo; that which forms a load.
convey'ance, the act of carrying.
jum'ble, a number of things crowded together without order.
bobbed, cut off short.
bewil'dering, confusing.
gild'ed, covered with a thin, surface of gold.
yoked, joined together with harness.
rare'ly, not often.
impris'oned, shut up or confined, as in a prison.
clat'tering, making a loud noise.
HOLLAND.—PART II.
Dutch cities seem, at first sight, to be a bewildering jumble of houses, bridges, churches, and ships, sprouting into masts, steeples, and trees. In some cities boats are hitched, like horses, to their owners' door-posts, and receive their freight from the upper windows.
Mothers scream to their children not to swing on the garden gate for fear they may be drowned. Water roads are more frequent there than common roads and railroads; water-fences, in the form of lazy green ditches, inclose pleasure-ground, farm, and garden.
Sometimes fine green hedges are seen; but wooden fences, such as we have in America, are rarely met with in Holland. As for stone fences, a Hollander would lift his hands with astonishment at the very idea.
There is no stone there excepting those great masses of rock that have been brought from other lands to strengthen and protect the coast.