Excerpt from Dutch Days Never did two more excitable young persons board the harwich-and-hook boat for Hol land than Richard and Shirley Lane a certain evening in early April. Lovely England with its interesting cities, green meadows, and trim hedges lay behind; fascinating France was yet to be explored; but the pleasant memories of the one and the anticipations Of the other were completely crowded out by thoughts of the watery little country just across the North Sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.