“Not bad; but—let us see—yes, that is better. The superfluous words, ‘on my head,’ weaken the impression of the whole.”
He scored through the superfluous words, and now Tryntje Fop has simply a cap on, without a head.
“This is the sort of terse and concise style I like.”
Wig somewhat to the left.
Lucas de Bryer, on our Country.
“Fatherland, cake, and almonds also,
In the moonlight I a-walking go;
Cake, Fatherland, and brandy-wine,
I go a-walking in the moonshine.
Five fingers have I upon my hand,