Based on the Hero of Haarlem, the book closes with a happy ending when Dr. Bochman suggests a risky, but successful, lobotomy.
The titular character lives in poverty with his sister, Gretel, and his parents. His father was a strong man, but he was injured while trying to save the village by holding up a dike and is now a simpleton. Based on the Hero of Haarlem, the book closes with a happy ending when Dr. Bochman suggests a risky, but successful, lobotomy. Gretel, and not her brother Hans wins the titular items in the end in, FTP, this novel by Mary Mapes Dodge, set in Holland and centered around a winter sport.
The titular character lives in poverty with his sister, Gretel, and his parents.
{Hans Brinker} or The {Silver Skates}