There is a story told which I think will amuse you. An ambassador wrote to the Emperor of Morocco, that during certain seasons all the rivers of the Netherlands were covered with something resembling sugar-candy, and which could bear horses and carriages, and that vast multitudes glided over these cakes like ostriches, with smooth irons fastened to their feet. The Emperor thought this so marvellous that he called him a story-teller.
The people are very reckless; sometimes go gliding over the ice in sledges when it is really bending under their weight.
Ringwood.
QUEEN EMMA OF HOLLAND, AND PRINCESS WILHELMINA.
Volume 13, Number 13. Copyright, 1886, by D. Lothrop & Co. Jan. 30, 1886.
THE PANSY.