ISBN: 9781437437447

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: i England," said Mynheer, "girls talk of 'inexpressibles' and yet embroider braces. In England the highest honours are a garter and a bath. Never mind; tell him that, next year, you will give him the best present he can get, Agapiet." "But then I have got nothing for this evening," said Agapiet. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: i England," said Mynheer, "girls talk of 'inexpressibles' and yet embroider braces. In England the highest honours are a garter and a bath. Never mind; tell him that, next year, you will give him the best present he can get, Agapiet." "But then I have got nothing for this evening," said Agapiet. CHAPTER II. . "SANTA CLAUS." An hour or two later the big room was lighted up, and full of movement and conversation. A buzz of excitement round a table laden with parcels, large and small, some unwieldy, some fantastic: flower-pots, cigar-boxes, pails of water, piles of plates. It is the custom in Holland to send these Santa Glaus presents, done up in so- called "surprises," no gift being in reality what it seems at the first moment. A book is a box. A cigar-case contains six real cigars and one imitation one with a breastpin inside it. A plate full of food has a false bottom; an oyster hides pearl ear-drops; a dead mouse in a trap is caught with its neck in a diamond ring. Elaborate imitations of the most various articles are spread out in the shops, costing as much in themselves as many a handsome present, but most families prefer to spend their ingenuity-and not their half-pence-in the fashioning of their own surprises, often from odds and ends, and often from household articles "which please return," all little incidents of the current year, individual peculiarities and family traditions, being taken into due account. Nor are ill-natured jokes altogether unknown; many a learned pro- The Sin of Joist Avelingh. 2 fessor or pompous official has been unpleasantly reminded of his idiosyncrasies on the Eve of Santa Claus. Years have robbed the feast of much of its simplicity. There is no limit now-a-days to the present-sending from house to house, and the things Books, History~~General, Sin-of-Joost-Avelingh~~Maarten-Maartens, , , , , , , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9781437437447

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2008, ISBN: 9781437437447

Kessinger Publishing, Gebundene Ausgabe, 324 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-12-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.42 kg, Geschichte, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Kategorien, Bücher, Geschichte … More...

Kessinger Publishing, Gebundene Ausgabe, 324 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-12-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.42 kg, Geschichte, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Kategorien, Bücher, Geschichte allgemein, Politik & Geschichte, Kessinger Publishing, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9781437437447

Kessinger Publishing, Gebundene Ausgabe, 324 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-12-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.42 kg, Geschichte, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Kategorien, Bücher, Geschichte … More...

Kessinger Publishing, Gebundene Ausgabe, 324 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-12-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.42 kg, Geschichte, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Kategorien, Bücher, Geschichte allgemein, Politik & Geschichte, Kessinger Publishing, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9781437437447

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Hardcover, 324 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-12-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.64 kg, Historical, Biographies & Memoirs, Subjects, Books, Netherlands, Europe, … More...

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Hardcover, 324 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-12-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.64 kg, Historical, Biographies & Memoirs, Subjects, Books, Netherlands, Europe, History, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008<