Sandford (now in the ascendant again) notices, as the clever boy, inscription on house-front, "Hier woonden Groen Van Prinsterer, 1838-76."
"I suppose that means Van Prinsterer lived here, Bosch?"
"Yass, dot vas it."
"And who was he?"
"He vas—wol, he vos a Member of de Barliaments."
"Was he celebrated?"
"Celebrated? oh, yaas!"
"What did he do?" (I think Merton gets this in.)
"Do?" says Bosch, quite indignantly, "he nefer do nodings!"
Bosch takes me into the Fishmarket, when he directs my attention to a couple of very sooty live storks, who are pecking about at the refuse.