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XL. LOOKING FOR WORK 269
The door slowly opened " 70
The ice seemed fairly alive " 136
There was a movement upon the bed " 242
"Good-night," they cried " 280
Skating slowly the boys and girls moved forward " 314
HANS BRINKER
Or, The Silver Skates
HANS AND GRETEL
On a bright December morning long ago, two thinly clad children were kneeling upon the bank of a frozen canal in Holland.
The sun had not yet appeared, but the gray sky was parted near the horizon, and its edges shone crimson with the coming day. Most of the good Hollanders were enjoying a placid morning nap; even Mynheer von Stoppelnoze, that worthy old Dutchman, was still slumbering "in beautiful repose."
Now and then some peasant woman, poising a well filled basket upon her head, came skimming over the glassy surface of the canal; or a lusty boy, skating to his day's work in the town, cast a good-natured grimace toward the shivering pair as he flew along.
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