Introduction of the Dutch Twins This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Bianca The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitzperkins Kit and Cat This is a picture of Kit and Cat. They are twins and they live in Holland. Kit is the boy and Cat is the girl. Of course their real names are not Kit and Cat at all. Their real names are Christopher and Katrina. But you can see for yourself that such long names as that would never in the world fit such a short pair of twins. So the twins' mother, Frau Veder, said They cannot be called Christopher and Katrina until they are four and a half feet high. Now it takes a long time to grow four and a half feet of boy and girl. You know, chickens and puppies and goats and kittens always grow up much faster than twins. Kit and Cat ate a great many breakfasts and dinners and suppers and played a great many plays and had a great many happy days while they were growing up to their names. I will tell you about some of them. End of Kit and Cat Recording by Bianca in Utrecht, the Netherlands on October 30th 2009 Chapter 1 of The Dutch Twins This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Bianca The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins. The day they went fishing. One summer morning, very early, Frau Veder opened the door of her little Dutch kitchen and stepped out. She looked across the road which ran by the house, across the canal on the other side, across the level green fields that lay beyond, clear to the blue rim of the world where the sky touches the earth. The sky was very blue and the great round shining face of the sun was just peering over the tops of the trees as she looked out. Frau Veder listened. The roosters in the barnyard were crowing, the ducks in the canal were quacking and all the little birds in the fields were singing for joy. Frau Veder hummed a slow little tune of her own as she went back into her kitchen.  She gave them each a kiss. The twins opened their eyes and set up. Oh, Kit and Cat said Frau Veder. The sun is up, the birds are all awake and singing and grandfather is going fishing today. If you will hurry, you may go with him. He's coming at six o'clock, so pop out of bed and get dressed. I will put some lunch for you in the yellow basket and you may dig worms for bait in the garden. Only be sure not to step on the young cabbages that father planted. Kit and Cat bounced out of bed in a minute. Their mother helped them put on their clothes and new wooden shoes. Then she gave them each a bowl of bread and milk for their breakfast. They ate it sitting on the kitchen doorstep. This is a picture of Kit and Cat digging worms. You see, they did just as their mother said and did not step on the young cabbages. They sat on them instead. But that was an accident. Kit dug the worms and Cat put them into a basket with some earth in it to make them feel at home. When grandfather came, he brought a large fishing rod for himself and two little ones for the twins. There was a little hook on the end of each line. Frau Veder kissed Kit and Cat goodbye. Mind grandfather and don't fall into the water, she said. Grandfather and the twins started off together down the long road beside the canal. The house where the twins lived was right beside the canal. Their father was a gardener and his beautiful rows of cabbages and beets and onions stretched in long lines across the level fields by the roadside. Grandfather lived in a large town, a little way beyond the farm where the twins lived. He did not often have a holiday because he carried milk to the doors of the people in the town every morning early. Sometime I will tell you how he did it, but I must not tell you now because if I do, I can't tell you about their growing fishing. This morning grandfather carried his rod and the lunch basket. Kit and Cat carried the basket of worms between them and the rods over their shoulders and they were all three very happy. They walked along ever so far beside the canal. Then they turned to the left and walked along a path that went from the canal across the green fields to what looked like a hill. But it wasn't a hill at all, really, because there aren't any hills in Holland. It was a long, long wall of earth, very high, all as high as a house or even higher, and it had sloping sides. There is such a wall of earth all around the country of Holland where the twins live. There has to be a wall because the sea is higher than the land. If there were no walls to shut out the sea, the whole country would be covered with water. And if that were so, then there wouldn't be any Holland or any Holland twins or any story. So you see, it was very lucky for the twins that the wall was there. They called it a dyke. Grandfather and kid and cat climbed the dyke. When they reached the top, they sat down a few minutes to rest and look at the great blue sea. Grandfather sat in the middle with kid on one side and cat on the other. And the basket of worms and the basket of lunch were there too. They saw a great ship still slowly by making a cloud of smoke. Where do the ships go, Grandfather? Asked kid. To America and England and China and all over the world, said Grandfather. Why? asked cat. Cat almost always said why and what she didn't, kid did. To take flags and linen from the mills of Holland, to make dresses for little girls in other countries, said Grandfather. Is that all? asked kid. They take cheese and herring, bulbs and butter and lots of other things beside and bring back to us weed and meat and all sorts of good things from the lands across the sea. I think I'll be a sea captain when I'm big, said kid. So will I, said cat. Girls can't, said kid. But Grandfather shook his head and said, you can't tell what a girl may be by the time she's four feet and a half high and is called Katrina. There's no telling what girls will do anyway. But children, if we stay here, we shall not catch any fish. So they went down the other side of the dike and out onto a little pier that run from the sandy beach into the water. Grandfather showed them how to bait their hooks. Kid baited cats for her because cat said it made her all wiggly inside to do it. She did not like it and neither did the worm. They all sat down on the end of the pier. Grandfather sat on the very end and let his wooden shoes hang down over the water.  So you can't fall in, said Grandfather. They dropped their hooks into the water and said very still, waiting for bites. The sun climbed higher and higher in the sky and it grew hotter and hotter on the pier. The flies tickled cat's nose and made her sneeze. Keep still, can't you? said Kid crossly. You'll scare the fish. Girls don't know how to fish anyway.  She was perfectly sure she did. Cat squealed and jerked her rod. She jerked it so hard that one foot flew right up in the air and one of her new wooden shoes went splash right into the water. But that wasn't the worst of it. Before you could say Jack Robinson, cat's hook flew around and caught in Kid's clothes and pricked him. Kid jumped and said, Ow! And then no one could ever tell how it happened. There was Kid in the water too, splashing like a young whale with cat's hook still holding fast to his clothes in the back. Grandfather jumped in too, you may be sure. He caught hold of Cat's rod and pulled hard and called out steady there, steady. And in one minute there was Kid in the shallow water beside the pier, puffing and blowing like a grandpa's. Grandfather reached down and pulled him up. When Kid was safely on the pier Cat threw her arms around his neck though the water was running down in streams from his hair and eyes and ears. Then she said, I truly thought it was a fish on my line when I jumped. Just like a girl, said Kid, they don't know how to fish. You see, his teeth were chattering because the water was cold. Well anyway, said Cat, I caught more than you did. I caught you. Then Cat thought of something else. She shook her finger at Kid. Oh, Kid, she said. Mother told you not to fall into the water. It was all your fault, word Kid. You began it. Anyway, where should you wooden shoe? Where are both of yours? screamed Cat. Sure enough, where were they? No one had thought about shoes because they were thinking so hard about Kid. They went to the end of the pier and looked. There was Cat's shoe in North America, like a little boat. Kids were still bobbing about in the water near the pier.  But the tide was going out and carrying her shoe farther away every minute. They could not get it. But Grandfather reached down with his rod and fished out both of Kid's shoes. Then Cat took off her other one and her stockings and then all three went back to the beach. Grandfather and Cat covered Kid up with sand to keep him warm while his clothes were drying. Then Grandfather stuck the twinge fish poles up in the sand and tied the lines together for a closed line and hung Kid's clothes up on it and Cat put her three wooden shoes in a row beside Kid. Then they ate their luncheon of bread and butter, cheese and milk with some radishes from Father's garden. They tasted very good even if it was sandy. After lunch Grandfather said it will never do to go home without any fish at all. So by and by he went back to the pier and caught one while the twins played in the sand. He put it in the lunch basket to carry home. Cat brought shells and pebbles to Kid's because he had to stay covered up in the sand and Kid built a play dike with them and Cat dug a canal outside the dike. Then she made sandpies in clam shells and set them in a row in the sun to bake. They played until the shadow of the dike grew very long across the sandy beach and then Grandfather said it was time to go home. He helped Kid dress but Kid's clothes were still a little wet in the thick parts and Cat had to go barefooted in one wooden shoe. They climbed the dike and crossed the fields and walked along the road by the canal. The road shone like a strip of yellow ribbon across the green fields. They walked quite slowly for they were tired and sleepy. By and by Kid said I see our house and Cat said I see mother at the gate. Grandfather gave the fishy call to Kid and Cat and Frau Vetter cooked it for their supper and though it was not a very big fish they all had some. Grandfather must have told Frau Vetter something about what had happened. For that night when she put Kid to bed she felt of his clothes carefully but she didn't say a word about their being damp. And she said to Cat tomorrow we will see the shoemaker and have him make you another shoe. Then Kid and Cat hooked her and said good night and off to sleep before you could wink your eyes. End of the day they went fishing recording by Bianca in Utrecht the Netherlands on October 30th 2009. Chapter 2 of the Dutch Twins This Libri Fox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Bianca. The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins. Mark a day with father. One afternoon Kid and Cat were playing around the kitchen doorstep while their mother sat on a bench by the door peeling some onions for supper. It was not yet supper time but Frau Vetter was always ahead of the clock with the work. Kid and Cat had a pen of water and were teaching their ducklings to swim.  The ducklings squawked when Kid lifted them over the edge of the pen into the water. Don't do that, Kid, said Cat. The ducklings don't like it. You didn't like it when you fell into the water, did you? But I'm not a duck, said Kid. Well anyway they're tired and want to go to their mother, said Kid. Let's do something else. I'll tell you what. Let's go out to the garden and look at it. All right, said Kid. May we, mother? Yes, said Frau Vetter. And you may ask Father if he will take you to market with him tomorrow, if it's fair. Tell him, I said you could ask. Oh, goody goody! said Kid and Cat, both at once. And they ran as fast as their wooden shoes would take them out into the garden. They found their father cutting cabbages and gathering them so he was stopping to light his pipe when they reached him. Oh, Father, said Kid and Cat, both together. May we go on the boat to market with you tomorrow morning? Mother said we might ask. Father Vetter blew two puffs from his pipe without answering. We'll help you load the boat, said Kid. Yes, said Cat. I can carry a cabbage. I can carry two, said Kid. We'll both be good, said Cat. Very well, said Father at last. We'll see how you work. And tomorrow morning, if it's fair, I'll see. But you must go to bed early tonight because you'll have to get up very early in the morning if you go with me. Now you each take a cabbage and run along. Father Vetter went back to his work. Kid and Cat went to the cabbage pile. Cat took one and Kid took two, just to show that he could. When Father says I'll see, he always means yes. Cat said to Kid. Perhaps it seems queer to you that they should go to market in a boat, but it didn't seem queer at all to the twins. You see, in Holland there are great many canals. They cross the fields like roadways of water, and that is what they really are. Little canals open into big ones go clear to the sea. The canals flow through the towns too and make water streets, where boats go up and down as carriages go here. The twins and their father work like beavers, washing the vegetables and packing them in baskets until their good old boat was filled with cabbages and onions and beets and carrots and all sorts of good things to eat. By that time it was nearly dark and they were all three very hungry, so they went home. They found that Mother Feather had made buttermilk porridge for supper. The twins loved buttermilk porridge. They each ate three bowls of it and then their mother put them to bed. This is a picture of the bed. It opened like a cupboard right into the kitchen and it was like going to bed on a shelf in the pantry. The very next thing the twins knew it was morning and there was Frau Feather calling to them. It's market day and the sun is almost up. Come kitten cat if you want to go with father, she said. The twins bounced out like two rubber balls. They ate some breakfast and then ran to the boat. Father was there before them. He helped them into the boat and put them both on one seat and told them to sit still. Then he got in and took the pole and pushed off. Frau Feather stood on the canal bank to see them pass. Be good children, mind father and don't get lost. She called after them. Kit and cat were very busy all the way to town looking at the things to be seen on each side of the canal. It was so early in the morning that the grass was all shiny with dew. Black and white cows were eating the rich green grass and a few laborers were already in the fields. They passed little groups of farm buildings, their red-tiled roofs shining in the morning sun and the windmills threw long, long shadows across the fields. The blue blossoms of the flags nodded to them from the canal bank and once they saw a stork lie over a mossy green roof to her nest on the chimney with a frog in her mouth. They went under bridges and by little canals that opened into the main canal. They passed so close to some of the houses that Kit and cat could see the white curtains blowing in the windows and the pots of red uranium standing on the sill. In one house the family waved their hands to Kit and cat and a little farther on they passed a woman who was washing clothes in the canal. Other boats filled with vegetables and flowers of all colors passed them and they were going to market too. Only no other boat had twins in it. Good day, neighbor feather.  By and by they came to the town. There were a great many boats in the canal here and people calling back and forth to each other from them. Kit and cat saw a boat that the captain's family lived in. It was like a floating house. The twins thought it must be grand to live on a boat like that just going about from town to town seeing new sights every day. We should never have to go to school at all said Kit. They wished their own boat to move about in but father told them they must did very, very still all the time. There were houses on each side of the canal in the town and people were clattering along over the pavement in their wooden shoes. The marketplace was an open square in the middle of the town. It had little booths and stalls all about it. The farmers brought their fresh vegetables and flowers or whatever they had to sell and then sat there waiting for customers. Kit and Cat helped their father to unload the boat. Then they sat down on a box and father gave them each some bread and cheese to eat for they were hungry again. They put the cheese between slices of bread and took bites while they looked about. Soon there were a good many people in the square. Most of them were women with market baskets on their arms. They went to the different stalls to see what they would buy for dinner. A large woman with a big basket on her arm came along to the stall where Kit and Cat were sitting. Bless my heart she said are you twins? Yes ma'am said Kit and Cat and Cat said we're five years old. Oh my soul said the large woman so you are. What are your names? Christopher and Katrina but they call us Kit and Cat for short. It was Cat who said this and Kit said when we are four feet and a half high we are going to be called Christopher and Katrina. Well well well said the large woman so you are. Now my name is Frau van der Kloot. Are you helping father? Yes said the twins we're going to help him sell things. Then you may sell me a cabbage and ten onions said Frau van der Kloot. Father Feather's eyes twinkled and he smoked his pipe. Kit cut a cabbage for the Frau. You can get the ten onions he said to Cat. You see really Kit couldn't count ten and be sure of it so he asked Cat to do it. Cat wasn't afraid. She took out a little part of onions in a measure and said to Frau van der Kloot is that ten? Then Frau van der Kloot counted them with Cat very carefully. There were eleven and so she gave back one. Then she gave Cat the money for the onions and Kit the money for the cabbage. Father Feather said now Kit and Cat buy and buy when you get hungry again you can go over to Frau van der Kloot's stall and buy something from her. She keeps the sweetie shop. Oh, oh, quite Kit and Cat. We're hungry yet. Can't we go now? No, not now said Father. We must do some work first. The twins helped Father Feather a long time. They learned to count ten and to do several other things. Then their father gave them the money for the cabbage and the ten onions they had sold to Frau van der Kloot and said you may walk around the market and look in all the stalls and buy the thing you like best that costs just two cents. Then come back here to me. Kit and Cat sat forth on their travels to see the world. They each held the money tightly shot in one hand and with the other hand they held on to each other. The world is very large said Kit and Cat. They saw all sorts of strange things in the market. There were tables piled high with flowers.  One cage had five little birds in it sitting in a row. Oh Kit, quite Cat, let's buy the birds. They asked the woman if the birds cost two cents and she said no my angels, they cost fifty cents. You see, now that the twins could count ten they knew they couldn't get the birds for two cents when they cost fifty so they went to the next place. There there were chickens and ducks for sale but the twins had plenty of those at home. There were stalls and stalls of vegetables just like fathers and there were boots where meat and fish and wood and peat were sold but the twins couldn't find anything they wanted exactly two cents.  The twins held up their money. There on the counter was a whole row of St. Nicholas dolls with current eyes and they knew at once nothing else in all the market they should like so much. Do these cost two cents a piece? Dear Frau van der Kloot, ask Cat. No, said Frau van der Kloot. They cost one cent a piece. The twins were discouraged. I don't believe there's a single thing in this whole market that costs just two cents, said Cat. Keep still, said Kit. Let me think. They sat down on the curb. Cat kept still and Kit took hold of his head with both hands and thought hard. He thought so hard that he scowled all over his forehead. I tell you what it is, Cat, he said at last. If those St. Nicholas dolls cost one cent a piece I think we could get two of them for two cents. Oh, Kit, said Cat. How splendidly you can think.  Let's ask Frau van der Kloot. They went back to the good Frau who was selling some coffee bread to a woman with a basket. Oh, Frau van der Kloot, said Cat. Kit says if those St. Nicholas dolls cost one cent a piece he thinks we could get two for two cents. Do you think so? Of course you can, said Frau van der Kloot. And she winked at the lady with the bread. But you've got two cents and I've got two, said Cat to Kit. If you should get two Nicholas dolls, why? I should have my two cents left. Shouldn't I? Oh dear, it won't come out right anyway. Let me think some more, said Kit. And when he had thought some more, he said I'll tell you what let's. You get two with your two cents and I'll get two with mine. And I'll give my other one to mother and you can give your other one to father. That's just what we'll do, said Cat. They went back to Frau van der Kloot. We'll take four dolls, said Cat. Well, well, well said the Frau. So you figured it all out, have you? And she counted out the dolls. One for Kit and one for Cat and one for father and one for mother and an extra one for good measure. Oh Kit, she's given us one more, said Cat. Let's eat it right now. Thank you, dear Frau van der Kloot. So they ate up the one more then and there, beginning with the feet. Kit bit one off and Cat bit the other and they took turns until the Nicholas doll was all gone. And the other four others, said goodbye to the good Frau and went back to father's doll. They found that father had sold all his things and was ready to go home. They carried their empty baskets back to the boat and soon were on their way home. The twins sat on one seat holding tight to their dolls which were growing rather sticky. The boat was so light that they went home for market much more quickly than they had come and they did not seem long before they saw their own house. There it was with its mossy roof half hidden among the trees and Frau Vetter waiting for them at the gate. Dinner was all ready and the twins set a four St. Nicholas dolls in a row in the middle of the table. There's one for father and one for mother and one for Cat and one for me, said Kit. Kit can think. He thought just how many dolls he could buy when they were one for one cent. Isn't it fine that he can do that? You've learned a great deal at the market, said Frau Vetter. But Kit didn't say a word. He just looked proud and pleased and put his hands in his pockets. By and by, when you are four and a half feet high and are called Christopher, you can go with father every time, said Frau Vetter. I can think a little bit too, said Kit, can't I go? No, said Frau Vetter. Girls shouldn't think much. It isn't good for them. Leave thinking to the man. You can stay at home and help me. End of Market Day with Father Recording by Bianca in Utrecht, the Netherlands on November 7th, 2009. Chapter 3 of the Dutch Twins This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Bianca The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitzperkins Mother's Day Yesterday was a very long day, said Frau Vetter, on the morning after Market Day. You were gone such a long time. Kit gave her mother a great hug. We'll stay with you all day today, mother, said. Won't we, Kit? Yes, said Kit, and he hugged her too. And we'll help you just as much as we helped father yesterday. Won't we, Kit? More, said Kit. I shouldn't wonder, said father. I shall be glad of help, said Frau Vetter, because Grandma is coming and I want everything to be very clean and tidy when she comes. I'm going first to the pasture to milk the cow. You can go with me and keep the flies away. That will be a great help. Frau Vetter put a yoke across her shoulders with hooks hanging from each end of it. Then she hung a large pail on one of the hooks and a brass milk can on the other. She gave Kit a little pail to carry and Kit took some switches from the willow tree in the yard, with which to drive away the flies. Then the old tree started down the road to the pasture. Pretty soon, they came to a little bridge over the canal which they had to cross. Oh dear, said Kit, looking down at the water. I'm scared. You see, there was no railing at all to take hold of and the bridge was quite narrow. Oh, pretty Kit, said Kit. I'll go first and show you how. And I'll walk behind you, said Frau Vetter. Kit walked very slowly and held on hard to her pail and so she got over the bridge safely. When I'm four feet and a half high I'm going to jump over the canal on a jumping pole, said Kit. Oh, how brave you are, said Kit. I should be scared. And besides, I'm afraid I should drop my shoes in the water. Well, of course, said Kit. Boys can do a great many things that girls can't do. When they reach the pasture there was Mufra Holstein waiting for them. Mufra Holstein was the cow's name. Kit and Kit named her. Frau Vetter tucked up her skirts and that was quite a task for she wore a great many of them and sat down on a little stool. Kit and Kit stood beside her and waved their willow ones and said, Shoo! to the flies. And Frau Vetter began to milk. Mufra Holstein had eaten so much of the green meadow grass that Frau Vetter filled both the big pail and the brass can and the little pail too with rich milk. I shall have milk enough to make butter and cheese, said Frau Vetter. There are no cows like our Dutch cows in all the world I believe. All mother, are you going to churn today? Ask Kit. Yes, said the Frau. I have cream enough at home to make a good roll of butter and you may help me if you will be very careful and work steadily. I will be very steady, said Kit. I'm big enough now to learn. All Dutch girls must know how to make good butter and cheese, said Frau Vetter. And boys can drink the buttermilk, said Kit. I'll drink some too, said Kit. There'll be plenty for both, said their mother. When she had finished milking, Frau Vetter shook out her skirts, put the yolk across her shoulders again and lifted the large pail of milk. She hung it on one of the hooks and the brass milk can on the other. Kit took the small pail and they started back home. The milk was quite heavy so they walked slowly. They had crossed the bridge and were just turning down the road when what should they see was the ender walking along the road followed by six little goslings. Oh mother, mother! screamed Kit. There's the old goose that we haven't seen for so long.  They're taking them to the canal to swim. Quick, Kit, quick! said Frau Vetter. Don't let them get into the canal. We must drive them home. Kit went boldly forward in front of them and Kit went too. She spilled some of the milk but she wasn't such a hurry that she never knew it until afterwards when she found some in her wooden shoes. Said the old goose and she went straight for the twins with her mouth open and her wings spread. The old gander ran at them too. I can't begin to tell you how scared Kit was then. She stood right still and screamed. Kit was scared too but he stood by Kit like a brave boy and shook his willow switches at the geese and shouted Shoo Shoo just as he did at the flies. Frau Vetter set her pills down in the road and came out behind flapping her apron. Then the old goose and the gander and all the little goslings started slowly along the road all the way. Father Vetter was working in the garden when the procession came down the road. First came the geese looking very indignant and the goslings. Then came Kit with the leaves all whipped off his willow switches. Then came Kit with her pale and last of all Frau Vetter and the milk. When the new family of geese had been taken care of and the fresh milk had been put away to cool Frau Vetter got out her churn and scolded it well. Then she put in her cream and put a cover down over the handle of the dasher. Now Kit and Kat you may take turns, she said and see which one of you can bring the butter. But be sure you work the dasher very evenly or the butter will not be good. Me first said Kat and she began. Kit sat on a little stool and watched for the butter. Kat worked the dasher up and down up and down. The cream splashed and splashed inside the churn and a little white ring of spatters came up around the dasher. Kat worked until her arms ached. Now it's my turn, said Kit. Then he took the dasher and the cream splashed and splashed for quite a long time but still the butter did not come.  Of course you don't know how to churn. Let me try. And she took her turn. Dash, splash, splash, dash. She worked away and very soon around the dasher there was a ring of little specks of butter. Come, butter, come. Come, butter, come. Some for a honey cake, some for a bun. She sang in time to the dasher and truly when Frau Vetter opened the churn there was a large cake of yellow butter. Frau Vetter took out the butter and worked it into a nice roll. Then she gave each of the twins a cup of buttermilk to drink. While the twins drank the buttermilk their mother washed the churn and put it away. When she was old through it was still quite early in the morning because they had gotten up with the sun. Now we must clean the house, she said. She got out her scrubbing brushes and mobs and pills and dusters and began. First she shook out the pillows of the best bad that nobody ever slept in and pushed back the curtains so that the embroidered coverlet could be seen. Then she put the other beds in order and drew the curtains in front of them. She dusted the linen press and left it open just a little so that her beautiful rolls of white linen tied with ribbons would show. Kat dusted the chairs and Kit carried the big brass jugs outside the kitchen door to be polished. Then the old three rubbed and scoured and polished them until they shone like the sun. Now it's time to cook the dinner said Frau Vetter. We will have pork and potatoes and some cabbage. Kit run to the garden and bring a cabbage and Kat you may get a fire ready to cook it when Kit brings it in. Kat went to the stove but it was such a funny stove it wasn't the stove at all really. There was a sort of table built up against the chimney. It was all covered with pretty blue tiles with pictures of boats on them. Over this table there was a shelf like a mental shelf. There were plates on it and from the bottom of the shelf hung some chains with hooks on them. The coals were right out on the little table. Kat took the bellows and puff puff puff made the coals burn brighter. She peeped in the kettle to see that there was water in it. Then she put some more charcoal on the fire. Kit brought in the cabbage and Frau Vetter cut it up and put it into the pot of water hanging over the fire. She put the pork and potatoes into it. In a little while the pot was bubbling away merrily and Father Vetter, who was in the garden sniffed the air and said I know what we're going to have for dinner. While the pot boiled Frau Vetter scrubbed the floor and wiped the window. Then she took her brooms and scrubbing brush outside. She scrubbed the door and the outside of the house.   She scrubbed the steps and even the trunk of the poplar tree in the yard. She scrubbed everything inside except Father Vetter and the twins. By and by she came to the door and called. Come to dinner. Only be sure to leave your wooden shoes outside when you come into my clean kitchen. Here are the shoes as they left them all in a row. And as it was Saturday the shoes were scrubbed too that night. When the dinner was cleared away Frau Vetter said to the twins it's almost time for grandmother to come. Let's walk out to meet her. They walked clear to the edge of the town before they saw her coming. They walked on top of the dike so they could look right down into the street and see all the houses in a row. Grandmother was coming up the street with a basket on her arm. What do you think is in that basket? Frau Vetter asked the twins. Honey cake said Kit and Kat said candy. And Kit and Kat were both white. There was a large honey cake and anise candies and some current buns besides. Grandmother let them peep in and see. They were very polite and did not ask for any. Frau Vetter was proud of the twins' good manners. Grandmother said this afternoon when we have tea you shall have some. I'm glad I ate such a lot of dinner said Kit to Kat as they walked along or else I just have to have a bun this minute. Yes said Kat it's much easier to be polite when you aren't hungry. When they got home Kit and Kat took their grandmother to see the new gaslings and to see the ducklings too and Frau Vetter showed her the butter that Kit and Kat had helped to churn and grandmother said My my what helpers they are getting to be. Then she said how clean the house is and then how the brass is shine. Yes said Frau Vetter the twins helped me make everything clean and tidy to show to you. I guess it's time for honey cake said grandmother. Then Frau Vetter stirred up the fire again and boiled the kettle and made tea. She took down her best china cups and put them out on the round table. Then grandmother opened her basket and took out the honey cake and buns and the candy and Frau Vetter brought out her fresh butter. I can't stay polite much longer said Kit to Kat Grandmother gave them each a thin slice of honey cake and a bun and Frau Vetter spread some of the butter on the buns and oh how good they were. Some for a honey cake and some for a bun said Kat. It didn't take the twins long to finish them. When they had drunk their tea grandmother brought out her knitting and mother Vetter began to spin. How many rolls of linen have you ready for Kat when she marries grandmother asked. I tried to make at least one roll each year so she has four now and I'm working on the fifth one said Frau Vetter. She shall be as well to do as any farmer's daughter near here when she marries. See this is the last one and Frau Vetter took from the press a roll of beautiful white linen tied with blue ribbons. Is that for me mother asked Kat. Yes said Frau Vetter. When you marry we shall have a fine press full of linen for you. Isn't Kit going to have some too? asked Kat. Grandmother laughed. The mother of the little girl who will someday marry Kit is working now on her linen no doubt so Kit won't need any of yours. The twins looked very solemn and went out into the yard. They sat down on the bench then Kat said Kit, do you suppose we've got to be married? It looks like it said Kit. Things seemed very dark indeed to the twins. Well said Kat, I just tell you I'm not going to do it. I'm going to stay at home with mother and father and you and the ducks and everything. What will they do with the linen then said Kit. I guess you'll have to be married. Kat began to cry. I'll just go and ask mother she said. I'll go with you said Kit. I don't want to any more than you do. So the twins got down from the bench and went into the kitchen where Grandmother and Frau Vetter were. Their mother was spinning flags to make linen twat. Mother said the twins will you please excuse us from being married? Oh my soul said Frau Vetter. She seemed surprised. We don't want to at all said Kat. We'd rather stay with you. You shan't be married until after you are four feet and a half high and are called Christopher and Katrina anyway said Frau Vetter. I promise you that. The twins were much relieved. They went out and fed their ducklings. They felt so much better that they gave them an extra handful of grain. And they carried a bun to father Vetter who was hoeing in the farthest corner of the garden. He ate it leaning on his hoe. When they went back to the house it was late in the afternoon. Grandmother was rolling up her knitting. I must go home to Grandfather she said. He'll be wanting his supper. The twins walked down the road as far as the first bridge with Grandmother. She kissed them goodbye and sent them home. When their mother put them to bed that night, Kat said Has this been a short day, mother? Oh very short, said Frau Vetter because you helped me so much. Then she kissed them good night and went out to feed the pigs and shut up the chickens for the night. When she was gone, Kat said I don't see how they got along before we came. We helped so much. No, said Kat I don't think but what she didn't think, no one will ever know because just then she popped off to sleep. End of Mother's Day Recording by Bianca in Utrecht, the Netherlands on November 14th 2009 Chapter 4 of the Dutch Twins This Libri Fox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Bianca The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitzperkins one Sunday One Sunday morning in early fall Kat and Kat woke up and peeped out from their cupboard bed to see what was going on in the world. The sun was shining through the little panes of the kitchen window making square patches of light on the floor. The kettle was singing on the fire and Frau Vetter was already putting away the breakfast things. Father Vetter was lighting his pipe with a coal from the fire. He had on his black Sunday clothes already for church. Father Vetter did not look at Kat and Kat at all. He just puffed away at his pipe and said to himself if there are any twins anywhere that want to go to church with me they'd better get dressed and eat their breakfasts. Kat and Kat tumbled out of the cupboard at once. Frau Vetter came to help them dress. I can't tell you how many petticoats she put on Kat but it was ever so many and over them all she put a skirt of plate. There was a waste of a different color and over that occurred sheave with bright red roses on it and over the skirt she put a new clean apron. Kat was dressed very splendidly too. He had full baggy trousers of velveteen that reached to his ankles and a jacket that buttoned with big silver buttons. His trousers had pockets in them. Kat and Kat both were stockings which Frau Vetter had knit and her best shoes of stout leather. When they were all dressed Frau Vetter stood them up side by side and had them turn around slowly to be sure they were all right. Now see that you behave well in meeting, she said. Sit up straight, look at the domini and do not whisper. Yes mother, said Kat and Kat. Then she tied a big apron over each of them and gave them each a bowl of bread and milk. While they were eating it Frau Vetter went out and looked at the pigs and chickens and smoked his pipe. When he came in Kat and Kat were quite ready.  She kissed them goodbye and they were off one on each side of Father Vetter holding tight to his hands. Mother Vetter looked after them proudly from the doorway. She did not go to church that day. They walked slowly along the roadway in a bright sunshine. Many of their neighbours and friends, all dressed in their best were walking to church too. Father Vetter and Kit and Kat went a little out of their way in order to pass a large windmill that was swinging its arms around and creaking out a kind of sleepy windmill song. This is the song it seemed to sing. Around and around and around I go sometimes fast and sometimes slow. I pump the water and grind the grain, the marshy fields of the lowland's drain. I harness the wind to turn my mill. Around and around and around with a will. Perhaps it was listening to the windmill song that made Kat say why do we have windmills, Father? Kit and Kat said why every few steps on that walk? You see, they didn't often have their father all to themselves to ask questions of. Why? What a little dutch girl said Father Vetter not to know what windmills are for. They pumped the water out of the fields to be sure. Don't you know how wet the fields are sometimes? If we didn't keep pumping the water out, they would be so wet we could not make gardens at all. Does the wind pump the water, asked Kat? Of course it does, goosey girl and grinds the grain too. The wind blows against the great arms and turns them round and round.  If it weren't for the good old windmills working away, who knows but the water would get the best of us some day and cover up all our land. Wouldn't the dykes keep out the sea? Asked Kit. Suppose the dykes should break, said Father Vetter. Even one little break can let in lots of water. The dykes have to be watched day and night all the time and the least bit of a hole stopped up right away so it can't grow any bigger and let in the sea. Oh dear, Kat said, what a leaky country. She ran near the mill and let the wind from the fence blow her hair and the white wings on her cap. As the great fence swung near the ground Kit jumped up and caught hold of one. It lifted him right off the ground as it swung around and in a minute he was dangling high in the air. Jump, jump, quick! shouted Father Vetter. Kit let go and dropped to the ground just in time. In another minute he would have been carried clear over. As it was he sat down very hard on the ground and had to have the dirt brushed off of his Sunday clothes. I'm surprised at you Father Vetter said while he brushed him.   Sitting down so hard in the dirt had hurt Kit a little bit and scared him a good deal so he said, no Father. Then they walked all around the mill. They peeped inside the door which was open and saw the pumps working away. Yes said Father Vetter. It is nip and tuck between wind and water in Holland. Let us sit down here on the canal bank in the sunshine and I will tell you what hard work has to be done to keep this good land of ours and it is a good land. We should be thankful for it. Just see the rich green meadows over there with the cows grazing in them. Father Vetter pointed to the beautiful fields across the canal. The grass is so rich and fresh that the cows here give more milk than any other cows in the whole world. That is what mother says, said Kit. The Holland butter and cheese are famous everywhere went on Father Vetter and we have all the good milk we want to drink besides. The Dutch gardens too are the finest in the world. And ours is one of the best of Dutch gardens, isn't it Father? said Kit. It is a very good garden, said Father Vetter proudly. No one can raise better onions and cabbage and carrots than I can. And the Dutch bulbs are tulips and hyacinths make the whole world bloom. Holland is really the greatest country there is, isn't it said Kit? Well, not in point of size perhaps, Father Vetter admitted. But in Pluck, my boy, it is. Did you know that sometimes people call Holland the land of Pluck? I don't see why, said Kit. I'm Dutch, but I'm afraid of lots of things. I'm afraid of spiders and of cross geese and of falling into the water.  Boys are always pluckier than girls, aren't they, Father? Really plucky people never boast, said Father Vetter. Kit looked the other way and dug the toe of his shoe into the dirt. Kit snuggled up to her father and sniffed at Kit. So their Kit was all she said. There's pluck enough to go round, said Father Vetter mildly. And we all needed boys and girls and men and women too. It was pluck that made Holland and it's pluck that keeps her from slipping back into the sea. How did Pluck make Holland? asked Kit. There wasn't any Holland in the first place, Father Vetter answered. There were only some marshes and some lands underwater. But people build a wall of earth around these flats and then they pumped out the water from the space inside the wall and made canals through the land and drained it. And after all that work we have our rich fields. How does Pluck keep them? asked Kit. The dykes have to be watched and the windmills have to work and work to keep the fields drained. No one can be lazy in Holland. Each one has to work well for what he gets. If Holland should grow lazy she would soon be back again in the Zuiderzee. So much children. You see, you must learn well and work hard. And that is all our sermon today. It's a better sermon than the Dominie will preach, I know, said Kit. Tud, tud, you must never say such things, said Father Feather. He got up and held out his hands to the twins. Come, we must walk along or we shall be late for church, he said. Here comes the Dominie now. There indeed was the Dominie. Kit and Kit knew him well. No one else dressed as he did. He wore a high silk hat and long black coat and trousers such as city people wear. As he came along the road all the people bowed respectfully.  Kit and Kit bobbed a curtsy too and the Dominie smiled at them and laid his hand on Kit's head. I wish he'd come to see us again, said Kit, after the Dominie had passed by. Father Feather was pleased. I'm glad to see that you love your pastor, my son, he said. Well, said Kit, I don't really like him so very much because we have to be washed and recite the catechism and mind all our manners when he comes. But Mother always has such good things to eat when the Dominie comes, doesn't she, Kit? Cake and preserves and everything. If it weren't for the catechism and such things it would be something like Saint Nicholas Day, said Kit. But the Dominie never forgets and last time I couldn't tell what saving Grace was. The cakes are good but good Dutch boys and girls always learn their catechism well, said Father Feather. Then they are glad to see the good Dominie as well as the cakes. Now, no more chatter. Here's a penny for each of you to put in the bag when it's passed. He gave them each a penny. Kit put it in his pocket. Kit didn't have a pocket so he first tied in her hand. At the church door they met Grandfather and Grandmother. Grandfather looked very fine indeed in his black clothes and Grandmother was all dressed up in her best black dress with a fresh white cap and a shawl over her shoulders. She carried a large sound book with golden clasps in one hand and a sand bottle in the other. She had some peppermints too. Kit and Kit smelled them. They all went into the church together and an old woman led them to their seats. Kit and Kit said one each side of Grandmother. Grandfather and Father Feather sat on the other side of the church with all the rest of the men.  Kit remembered the peppermints and set up like a soldier. So did Kit. Grandmaster came in and went up into the pulpit. He read a chapter from the Bible and then the dominies stood up in the pulpit and began to preach. He preached a long time. Kit and Kit tried very hard to sit still just as Grandmother had said but pretty soon their heads began to nod. Grandmother gave them each a peppermint. They worked up for a minute. But the dominies kept right on preaching until they were both sound asleep with their heads on Grandmother's shoulders, one on each side. And if they had been awake to see they might have thought that Grandmother took a nap too. The sermon was so very long that a great many people went to sleep. So, by and by the dominies said we will all sing the 91st Psalm. Everybody woke up. Grandmother opened the great golden clasps of her Psalm book and stood up with all the rest of the people. She stood up quickly so that no one would think she had been asleep. She forgot that the twins were asleep too with their heads on her shoulders. That was why, when she got up Kit and Kit fell against each other and bumped their heads. They forgot that they were in church. They said, ow, both together and Kit began to cry. But Grandmother said and gave them each a peppermint and that made them feel much better. Pretty soon the schoolmaster came along with a little bag on the end of a long stick. He passed it to each person. Kit and Kit each put in a penny though Kit had a hard time to get his out of his pocket. But Grandmother was so upset about the twins getting bumped that she forgot and put in a peppermint instead. When church was over and they were out on the street again, Grandmother said Now you are coming home with me to stay all night. Really and truly, said the twins and may we go with Grandfather to carry the milk in the morning? Yes, said Grandfather and Kit may drive the dogs. Kit jumped right up and down. He was so happy even if it was Sunday. May I too? May I too? asked Kit.  You may ride in the wagon. Oh, I wish tomorrow would come right away, said Kit. Then Kit and Kit said goodbye to Father further and went home with Grandmother and Grandfather. They lived on a little street in the town where the houses stood in a row close together. The houses were built of brick and wooden shutters at the windows and they were so clean they shone in the sun. This is a picture of Grandmother's house and of Grandmother and Kit and Kit going in. The door opened right into the kitchen. Grandmother put away her shawl and sandbook and sandbottle as soon as she was home. Then she put on a big apron and drew out a round table. She boiled the kettle and made coffee and when it was done, she set a coffee pot on a pretty little porcelain stove on the table to keep hot. She got out bread and cheese and smoked beef and best of all a plate of little cakes. Then they all forced her down to eat. I will not tell you how many cakes Kit and Kit ate, but it was a good many. After dinner Grandmother put away the things and Kit helped her. Kit sat beside Grandfather in the doorway while he smoked. Pretty soon Grandfather said bring me my accordion Kit. Kit went to the press in the corner. He knew where the accordion was kept.  Kit heard the music and came out too. She and Kit sat down on the doorstep one on each side of Grandfather to listen. Grandfather played six tunes. Then Grandmother said why don't we go to the woods to hear the band play? No reason at all said Grandfather. So very soon they were on their way to a grove on the edge of town. In the grove a band was playing and just as the twins and Grandfather and Grandmother came up it began to play the national hymn of Holland. All the people began to sing. There were a great many people in the grove and they all sang as loud as they could so there was a great sound. Grandfather and Grandmother and Kit and Kit all sang too for they all knew every word of the hymn. This is what they sang. Let hymn in whom old Dutch blood flows untainted free and strong whose heart for prince and country glows now join us in our song. Let hymn with us lift up his voice and sing in patriot band a song at which all hearts rejoice for Prince and Fatherland for Prince and Fatherland. We brothers true unto a man will sing the old song yet away with him who ever can his Prince or land forget. A human heart glowed in him there we turn him from our hands who callous hears the song and prayer for Prince and Fatherland for Prince and Fatherland. Preserve oh God where old ground thou to our fathers gave the land where we a cradle found and where we'll find the grave we call oh Lord to thee on high as near death's door we stand oh safety blessing to our cry for Prince and Fatherland for Prince and Fatherland. Loud ring through all rejoicings here our prayer Lord to thee preserve our Prince his house so dear to Holland great and free from youth through life be this our song till near to death we stand oh God preserve our sovereign long our Prince and Fatherland our Prince and Fatherland. Now while the people were singing with all their might and the band was playing and kid and cat were having the most beautiful time they had ever had in their whole lives what do you think happened down the long drive through the trees came a great splendid carriage drawn by a pair of beautiful white horses with wavy white tails and mains there were two soldiers on horseback riding in front of the carriage and the driver of the carriage was dressed in blue and orange livery the carriage was open and in it set a beautiful smiling young lady beside her set her husband and a nurse in the other seat held a baby in her arms when the people saw the carriage and the lady they waved her caps and shouted long live the queen look look kid and cat said grandfather it is your dear queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry and the little princess wave your hands kid and cat waved with all their might but they were so short and the people crowded beside the driver so that neither of them could see then grandfather called kid and lifted him up high and grandmother did the same with cat it was fine to be up so high kid and cat could see everything better than anyone else there and when the carriage came by the queen saw kid and cat she smiled at them and the nurse held little princess up high for them to see kid and cat were kisses to little princess and the princess waved her baby hand to kid and cat and then they were all gone like a bright dream but the soldiers were better to see even than queens kid thought cat thought the baby any baby was nicer than either when the carriage was out of sight grandfather and grandmother set the twins down on the ground everyone began to talk about the queen about how sweet she was and how good and the band played and everybody was happy as they could possibly be by and by it was time to go home for grandfather said Dutch girls and boys must learn to get up early in the morning especially twins that are going out with the milk cart so they went back to grandfather Winkle's house and grandmother put them to bed in a little cupboard like their own at home after they had had some supper and the last thing cat said that night was oh kid just to think that today we saw the queen and the soldiers and the queen's baby and tomorrow we're going to drive in a milk cart what a beautiful world it is just as they were dropping off to sleep they heard a great noise in the street clap clap clap it sounded eight times there goes the clapper man said grandmother Winkle eight o'clock and time all honest folk were a bad end of one Sunday recording by Bianca in Utrecht the Netherlands on November 27th 2009 chapter 5 of the Dutch twins this LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by Bianca the Dutch twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins the day they drove the milk cart the next morning kids and cat woke up very early without anyone's calling them you see they were afraid they would be too late to go with the milk cart but grandfather Winkle had only just gone out to get the milk ready and they had plenty of time to dress while grandmother got breakfast grandmother helped with the buttons and the hard parts grandmother Winkle's kitchen was quite like the kitchen at home only a little nicer it had red tiles on the floor and it had ever so many blue plates hanging around on the walls and standing on edge in a row on the shelves there was a warming pan with a bright brass cover hanging on the wall and I wish you could have seen the pillows and the coverlet on the best bed grandmother Winkle had embroidered those all herself and she was very proud of them when she had company she always drew the curtains back so that her beautiful bed would be seen she said that kid and cat were company and she always left the curtains open when they came to visit her when the twins were all dressed grandmother said mercy sakes you have on your best clothes now that's just like a man to promise to take you out in your best clothes in a milk wagon thinking about kid and cat thought she was going to say that they couldn't go so they dug their knuckles in their eyes and began to cry but they hadn't got farther than the first whimper when grandmother said well well we must fix it somehow don't cry now that's a good kid and cat so the twins took their knuckles out of their eyes and began to smile grandmother went to the press and brought out two aprons one was a very small apron it wouldn't reach to kid's knees but she put it on him and tied it around his waist this was your uncle Jan's when he was a little boy, she said it's pretty small but it will help some kid wished that uncle Jan had taken it with him when he went to America but he didn't say so then grandmother took another apron out of the press it looked as if it had been there a long time cat, you must wear this, she said it was your mother's when she was a little girl now this apron was all faded and it had patches on it of different kinds of cloth cat looked at her best dress then she looked at the apron then she thought about the milk cart she wondered if she wanted to go in the milk cart badly enough to wear that apron over her Sunday dress she stuck her finger in her mouth and looked sidewise at grandmother Winkle grandmother didn't say a word she just looked firm and held up the apron very soon cat came slowly, very slowly and grandmother buttoned the apron up behind and that was the end of that the twins could hardly eat any breakfast they were in such a hurry to go as soon as they had taken the last spoonful and grandfather Winkle had finished this coffee they ran out into the place where the dogs were kept to help grandfather harness them there were two black and white dogs, their names were Peter and Paul the wagon was small just the right size for the dogs and it was painted blue the bright brass cans full of milk were already in and there was a little seat for cat to sit on when the last strap was fastened grandfather lifted cat up and set her on the seat she held on with both hands then grandfather gave the lines to Kit and a little stick for a whip and told him to walk slowly along beside the dogs he told him to be sure not to let go of the lines grandfather walked behind carrying some milk cans grandmother stood in the door to see them off and as they started to weigh cat took one hand off the cart long enough to wave it to her then she held on again for the bricks in the pavement made the cart juggle a good deal we must go first to Frau de Vet grandfather called out one quart of milk go slowly at first Kit went slowly but pretty soon there was a great rattling behind him and Hans Heidt, a boy he knew drove right past him with his dog cart he drove fast and as he passed Kit he stuck out his tongue and called out milk for sale milk for sale a milk cart drawn by a pair of snails Kit forgot all about going slowly get up he said to the dogs and he touched them with his long stick Peter and Paul got up they jumped forward and began to run Kit ran as fast as his legs would go beside the dogs holding the lines but the dogs had four legs apiece and Kit had only two so you see he couldn't keep up very well cat began to scream the moment that Peter and Paul began to run the dogs thought that something that made a dreadful noise was after them and they went faster than ever you see grandfather Winkle never in the world screamed like that and Peter and Paul didn't know what to make of it so they ran and ran and ran Kit held on the best she could but he bounced up ever so far in the air every time the cart struck a bump in the street with milk cans and when they came down again the milk splashed out cat didn't always come down in the same spot all the spots were hard so it didn't really matter much which one she struck as she came down but cat didn't think about that she just screamed and Peter and Paul ran and ran and Kit ran and ran until he couldn't run anymore he just sat down hard in the middle of the pavement and slid along but he didn't let go of the lines when Kit sat down it jerked the dog so hard that they stopped suddenly but cat didn't stop she went right on she flew out over the front of the cart and landed on the ground among all of Peter and Paul's legs then she stopped going but she didn't stop screaming and though Kit was a boy she was a boy too then Peter and Paul pointed their noses up in the air and began to howl way back ever so far grandfather was coming along as fast as he could but that wasn't very fast all the doors on the street flew open and all the good housewives came clattering out to see what was the matter they picked Kit up and told her not to cry they took their aprons and stood Kit on his feet and patted the dogs and pretty soon Peter and Paul stopped barking and Kit and Kit stopped screaming and then it was time to find out what had really happened neither of the twins had any broken bones the good housewives wiggled all their arms and legs and felt of their bones to see but shocking things had happened nevertheless Kit had torn a great hole in his breast-dress and Kit had worn two round holes in the seat of his Sunday clothes where he slid along on the pavement and besides that the milk was slopped all over the bottom of the cart just then grandfather came up if it hadn't been that his pipe was still in his mouth I really don't know what he might not have said he looked at the cart and he looked at the twins then he took his pipe out of his mouth and sat sternly to Kit why didn't you do as I told you? I did said Kit very much scared you told me to be sure to hold tight to the lines and I did I never let go once yes and look at this close said one of the women she turned him around and showed grandfather the holes I told you to go slowly said grandfather now look at the cart and see what you've done by not minding spoiled your best clothes and cats and spilled the milk go back to grandmother but I couldn't mind twice at one time said Kit I was minding about not letting go oh dear I wish we were four and a half feet high now if we were this never would have happened grandfather took the dogs and went on to Frau de Vets without another word the twins took each other's hands and walked back to grandmother's house quite a number of little boys and girls in wooden shoes clattered along with them grandmother heard all the noise and went to the door to see what was the matter laws and mercy me I told you so she cried the moment she saw them look at your clothes see how you've torn them I can't see the holes in mine said Kit but I can said Kit and then all the children talked at once and what with wooden shoes and the tongs all going grandmother clapped her hands over her ears to shut out the noise then she do Kit and Kit into the kitchen and shut the door she put on her glasses and got down on the floor so she could see better then she turned Kit and Kit all around and looked at the holes oh my soul she said she took off the aprons and the torn clothes and put the twins to bed while she mended she got out a pair of grandfather's oldest velveteen breeches that had been patched a great deal and found a good piece to patch with then she patched the holes in Kit's breeches so neatly that one had to look very carefully indeed to see that there had ever been any holes there at all then she patched Kit's dress and when it was all done she shook it out and said to herself seems to me those twins have been quiet for a long time she went over to the cupboard bed and there were Kit and Kit fast asleep with their cheeks all stained with tears and dirt grandmother Winkle kissed them Kit and Kit woke up and grandmother dressed them in their Sunday clothes again and washed their faces and made them feel good as new by and by grandfather Winkle came home from going about with the milk grandmother Winkle scrubbed the cart and made it all clean again and by noon you would never have known unless you had looked very very closely much more closely than would be polite that anything happened to the twins or the milk cart or their clothes or anything after they had eaten their dinner and the dogs were arrested and grandfather had smoked his pipe he said Kit if you think you can mind I will take you and Kit both home in the dog cart Kit and Kit both nodded their heads very hard only I'll do the driving myself said grandfather Winkle and he did he put Kit and Kit both on the seat and he walked slowly beside the cart they went out on the road beside the canal toward home they got there just as the sun was getting low in the west and Frau Veder was going out to feed her chickens end of the day they drove the milk cart recording by Bianca in Utrecht Netherlands on October 11th 2009


When the narcissist realizes what they lost, you. Does the narcissist realize they lost a good person? Do they realize that they screwed up? When the narcissist knows you're gone and you're not coming back. There are certain things that they will do.  They will feel sad. They will be filled with remorse. And they will wish that they had done everything they could to save the relationship. But when you are dealing with a narcissist, it will be very different. They won't show any remorse or regret. They won't feel like they could have done anything more to save the relationship. Because they won't accept any blame on why the relationship ended.   They will say that you neglected them. They will say that you weren't there for them when they needed you. But maybe you just got fed up of them using you for your money. But no matter what you gave to the narcissist, in the end they will always say that you did nothing for them. They will always say that it wasn't enough. They will always say that you could have done more. They will always have some excuse for why they couldn't get a job. For why they couldn't make their own money. When really, they're just very lazy. They lack the desire and determination to achieve success. They lack the qualities and skills. They have an attitude and disposition that lacks constructive outcomes. They're not cooperative or optimistic. Instead of seeing opportunities, they see limitations. Which is why they only pay attention to your shortcomings. But they big themselves up. They exaggerate their own importance. They act like they're so much more than what they actually are. They're very arrogant and audacious. They have an exaggerated sense of their own qualities and abilities. But it's all a facade.  They didn't want to make you angry. They will act like they were trying to save your feelings. As though they had your best interest in mind. They will always blame you for how the relationship ended.  Narcissists are very manipulative. They've spent years of their lives perfecting their craft of manipulation. And it's been very effective for them in the past. You may have fallen for it in the past. You may have believed them when they said they would change. You may have given them countless chances. So they may not believe that you're serious. They may believe that they can get you back just like they always do. So when you leave the narcissist and you have no intention of coming back, they will be in denial. They won't believe that it's over. They will think you're just pretending.  And then they hoovered you. They love bomb their way back into your life. And you took them back. You gave them another chance. So they think it's just the same thing happening again. They think that they can get you back. So they will do the same things that they always do. In an attempt to win you over. Because in their minds they think that you still want them back. They think they're the best thing since sliced bread. So who wouldn't want them? Their thoughts about themselves are based on how effective their manipulation has been in the past. And it has been effective on many people before you. So they're already expecting it to work on you. They're not expecting you to see through the facade. But if you don't respond to them, they will fall back. They will wait for you to return. Because they're expecting you to miss them. They're expecting you to be feeling lonely without them. But as more and more time goes by, they eventually realize that you're not coming back. They realize that they're going to have to initiate contact with you. But they may not do it directly. Instead they will get their family or friends to contact you. And they will say that it's an emergency. They will say that they need your help. But when you still don't respond, they go into panic mode. They go into denial. They become paranoid. But eventually, they will realize that you are gone. And they will get very angry. They will want revenge. Because they will see it as an attack. They will see it as though you have caught them off guard. With harmful results. They will see it as an impudent lack of respect. As though you intended to offend them. They were probably already talking about you. To people while you were with them. But once you've left, they will put all of their efforts into a smear campaign as if they're going to die. But they don't want anyone to know the truth about them. So they will try to beat you to the punch. They will try to get to those people before you do. They will tell anyone who will listen about how you did them wrong. And how they're so happy you're gone. They will play the victim. They will try to make everyone feel sorry for them. And while they're doing that, they will also be putting some effort into their new supply. But if they don't have a new supply, they will panic. Because they cannot live without attention. They can't be alone. But eventually, they will move on. And they will seem to be happier with this new supply. Because the new supply is susceptible to the narcissist manipulation. They're validating the illusions of their false self. They're ready, eager, and prepared to fuel their ego. But even though they have moved on, they may still hoover you. They may still try to call or text you. But it's not because they miss or love you. It's because they want to see if you're still suffering. From the pain they caused you. They want to see if you've managed to move on. And if you haven't, they will see it as an open door for them to come back in. They will pretend that they've changed.  They will tell you that they messed up. They will tell you whatever they think you want to hear. Whatever they think will get them back in your good graces again. But they have no intention of changing anything. All they care about is what they want and need. They don't feel bad about losing you. They don't feel any regret. They don't even take the time to think about how they treated you. The relationship was never about you. It was all about them and their needs. They will lonely feel bad. Because you're no longer providing what they were getting. They're no longer getting your attention, money or affection. They see you as an object that exists to meet their needs. They don't see you as a separate individual with their own feelings. Which is why you will feel like you never meant anything to the narcissist. Because you never did. Which is why when all is said and done. They will try to manipulate you. They will get very angry. They will try to get revenge. And they will try to replace you as soon as possible. Because to them. You are not so important that someone else cannot take your place. Anyone is replaceable to a narcissist. There's no sentimental value. There's no association with fond memories. There's no value derived from personal or emotional association. Rather than its material worth. Which is why the relationship always felt so empty. Because they never loved you. They just loved what you could do for them. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate. My PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching inquiries. You can email me at coaching.naxiva.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


What's going on everybody? Got Kyle and Jay here relating sports cards up in 2023 museum collection baseball six box half case 36 pick your team. So we have Allen K with the Padres Anthony P has the Dodgers I got bud H with the race Charles O has the Tigers got Corey T with the Cubs Dan C has the Mariners and Red Sox Darren C has the Pirates Doug R with the Guardians Edward P has the Reds Mets Marlins Jack S has the Phillies and Twins Jeremy H has the Orioles Jays John C has the Angels and D-backs Matt L with the Cardinals Nate S has the Nationals Nick B with the Rangers Peter M Yankees Phillip M with the Brewers Robert M has the Astro Sean P White Sox Terry F with the Braves and the Giants Todd C with the Rockies and a Taiwan address has the Royals Royals Harper Harper gotcha order no gotcha Harper Harper has the Royals Harper thank you sir all right good luck on this one guys half case number 36 I got you Shipe hey have a go on my man I'll uh I'll be in touch with you sir we gotta cook something up for tomorrow appreciate you sir grabbing a spot there see what we got see what we got here and guys only spots left for today it's hoops basketball hoops random team stuff you guys want to grab some spots there get a 10 box half case going hoops basketball a bronze Clayton Kershaw Yelly first auto is going to be Jersey Auto 399 Jonathan India for the Reds Jonathan India Jersey Auto he's still going to be a Red come next season is he is it that's the question oh I say is he I don't know I don't know if you're trading or or Reds got some good young talent man there's a Otani bronze that's got some good young talent say a manufactured sketch that one's going to be O'Neill Cruz and Quad Relic primary pieces Trey Mancini or the Coveys for the Coveys say Red Rookie to 50 Zack Neto this little color match there for the Angels Neto rookie Bob Gibson Moreno Tatis and this one is one gone to 25 meaningful material on the game used Jersey Aaron Judge bronze Yuri Perez Grand Quixx Springer and JJ Bladette at 299 rookie for the Hayes JJ Bladette all righty there one box down good luck guys box two box number two guys appreciate y'all 26 to go hoops if we want to get that one going Todd grabbing some bowman draft spots here for later in the week and guys Monday is um first release it's going to be on Fanatics Live and then spots on sale for Tuesday Wednesday and on Bowman draft baseball going to rip a ton of it tomorrow or uh this week ton of it this week say bronze Shohei one's going to be Francisco Alvarez rookie and Jay's boy here we got um Anthony Rizzo to 99 on the dual patch there for the Yankees Yankees little Anthony Rizzo to 99 Jersey Otto they're saying that he wants the finishes crew there so nice I think that's perfect yeah yeah he's chilling there's a Volby to 299 rookie you got a ring he's chilling exactly there's a Seeker this one's going to be Ken Griffey on the manufacturer sketch and Quad Relic is going to be a Paul Goldie to 99 primary pieces oh Paul Goldie bronze Aaron Judge Tovar Mike Harris on the rookie and Otto is going to go to the Cardinals it'll be the 20 Ozzie Smith nice one there Hall of Famer the wizard seven out of 20 for the Cardinals very nice one there it's a low numbered wizard on purple the 99 Joey Vado Josh Young rookie Rocket Roger and a Matthew Libertor meaningful to 50 Cardinals on the game use Jersey rookie pitcher righty guys box two and we go with box three good luck good luck oh let's see some big ones here let's see some monsters do it do it be a frame nice frame oh those are nice those are one of those for one so far was uh max fruit it's nice and light yeah I remember that it was nice and uh nice and light hey I'm a pooholes yellow to 99 pooholes schwarburg zack netto rookie and this one is seah Suzuki to 25 that is a dirty patch there right on the top right man that is nice game use patch there seah for the cups down and dirty and nice little uh some clay on that one seah to 25 there's a couple marinos I've seen that have been really dirty too like they use the same jersey because I've seen a couple different ones really really dirty and guys do have Sam coming in at five today he'll get some more group breaks going Jordan walker rookie to 150 I'll get some group breaks going tonight if you guys want to check out his schedule as well can always check the break schedule on the website the 25 meaningful materials Yelly for the Brewers Christian Yellich well Yelly action at the uh that logo man out of yesterday Yelly that was clean oh redemption oh it's a white redemption bronze uh Bryce Harper it is going to be um single player swatches dual relic relic autograph copper of adley ruchman wow there we go orials nice one there on the adley uh dual relic autumn nice one there we'll get that in a mag for your orials single player dual relic swatches copper there we go oats nice one there very nice for the orials keep it going here yeah unfortunately he did it unfortunately he had them in the last case there's a bronze fray freeman very nice one there oh very nice devours there's a rookie bryson or no that's uh nola gorman i thought that was bryson stott pretty close pretty close honestly nolan gorman rookie and paul goldschmidt on the auto to 199 cardinals golden paul goldschmidt to 199 rookie for the cardinals box fort thank you slone grabbing a couple spots in star wars breaking later tonight thank you matthew grabbing inception random teams and guy grabbing a couple inception random team spots very nice very nice yeah i know it happens man it's happened to me plenty of times too it's i think it's happened all of us yeah it stinks plenty of times yeah i don't blame him if you first half case you don't want to watch the second half case i've certainly done that a few times certainly had to second half case and not want to watch the first yeah that's fair yeah i'd be in scare don't hit anything don't hit anything don't hit anything the whole time waiting is a bronze rookie megal vargas dodgers here's an auto steve garvey to 199 extra hitting this one steve garvey auto to 199 and quad relic that's going to the mets baby alvarez mcneal and lindore to 99 a couple rookies a couple non rookies i do yeah definitely man it's a 99 clayton kershaw purple one's gonna be clayton kershaw got a is that george springer manufactured relic and tigers we got rpa to 50 nice one there signature swatches riley green there we go very nice one there congrats tigers nice riley there to 50 on the dual patch rpa go huskies last couple mini boxes and we got two more masters good luck everybody say corbin carol bronze each hero and jordan walk jordan walker rookie base and on the back we have a dual jersey um to 50 hoey polanco and max kepler dual game use jerseys there for the 20s that's funny because like those guys the twins are interested in trading really jeez this one feels heavy my frame here we do silver frame should be the 15 got a um yellow to 299 colchman should be the 15 on the frame oh we're gonna look who has this team yeah we are that is john c john c helped us close out the last couple let's go john deserved let's go john let's go john silver ink silver frame on 15 is gonna be my trial let's go oh look at that 10 out of 15 for the angels we go mr mic see here we go the museum frame silver ink silver frame we'll mag that for you john 10 out of 15 that is clean there we go mr john nice hit uh two man the uh sometimes a little streaky on those gray pens but they got it this time nice one there on the trout at 15 get that right in a mag yeah no streaks at all with those markers too man sometimes they do because sometimes they streak up three go yeah nice one here uh box five now there we go john c we go john hey there's spencer you must have just missed our riley you must have missed the riley rp8 of 50 yeah that'll work that'll work what's up french that's j we got j today got j today what's going on mr french mr contraband the other one that says uh baseball doesn't work out always football yeah i figured that and they'd have a they'd have something on that one you know you're all good one it's a bronze price harper i figured there'd be a big uh bounty coming out on that one i figured there would be nice one here for the white socks that is jim told me not always a white sock there to 50 it's jim told me on the dual patch the white socks i don't always seem as a white sock now yeah you're good will now you're all good will no worries exactly one of them's gotta be right just keep saying it so it's right yellow to 299 your don a little shawn matt j dylan dylan jake and donnie one of those asked to be right there's a rookie adley rushford bobe shet bregman and quad relic is going to be called schwarbaum to 75 fillies schwarbaum two more minis and then we got our last um master box doesn't ask me a question yeah that's true not as not as many as donnie that's for sure donnie will get some questions going to 150 randy johnson on the blue it's pretty sweet patch cunha o'neill cruise and this one is to 10 it's gonna be brandon marsh with the nice angels patch there meaningful material currently a filly it's an angel though on the brandon marsh another one for john nice little uh game use patch to the best of my knowledge shame i think so i think donnie's name is donnie i'm not sure i think so i don't think he has a full name there's a corbin burns it probably is just donnie no donald around here it's gonna be uh francisco and itch you wrote man itch you wrote there you got a j-card and this is whore hey pasada that was number to 10 man nice one there yankees five out of 10 on the pasada very nice 210 nice one yankees and last box here guys number six half case 36 could be a stage name donnie and donnie jr oh man as long as you're not donnie jr i guess you don't want to be donnie jr i don't want to be don jr don mclovin all right guys good luck on this one get jeremy taking a few spots for later on tonight some inception spots some certified and jeffrey grabbing a few more on bowman draft spots thank you guys some bowman drafts a bunch of spots been flying in over the whole weekend since thursday man we started listing them and seeing bowman draft spots flying off the board so keep an eye on it guys if you are interested in uh release day here there's a dom Fletcher 299 rookie debacks josh young rookie rocket roger austin riley and quad relic primary piece is the 15 joe musgrove that'll be padres on the game use quad joe musgrove got a bronze soda jay's boy on sotel tovar michael harris cody bellinger that in fact the newest lanky yep the 299 it's dalton var show quad relic out of there that'll go to the uh blue jace dalton var show to 299 the last two minis good luck everybody we'll get bowman chrome you go in next we'll get bowman chrome you go in next guys it's a purple the 99 paul goldschmidt and it's going to be kyle schwarber and akunya akunya on the relic and there's riley green it's a 35 only rookie meaning from material game use patch the tiger's tiger and last one good luck everybody and they paul goldschmidt bronze matt mclean rookie tim anderson my trout and on the back we have a rookie out of 299 gonna be drew waters drew waters for the royals all righty there guys that will do it that will do it for museum collection half case 36 in just a second we'll do a quick hit recap and then we'll move on to bowman chrome you we'll do bowman chrome you here next guys that one is filled up still got 26 to go on hoops hoops random teams if we want to get the 10 boxer going let's do a quick hit recap quad relic for the mats we had a polanco and um kepler liberator riley green yellich won gone and brandon marsh had paul goldschmidt uh mancini schwarber sozuki and musk rope now for autos we had drew waters blede garvey goldschmidt ozzy smith or hey basata patch autos was dalton varshow jonathan india anthony rizzo nice riley green there to 50 tigers and jim tomie for the white socks and we had a um adley rushman rpa on the dual um auto copper and nice one here my trout to 15 on the silver ink silver frame auto nice one there for the angels take a quick picture of that one all righty guys we'll get those right out to you thank you for filling up museum we'll do uh bowman chrome


Okay. So what are the different manifestations that we see in normal ovarian physiology? Well, you can see here that we've got a diagram of an ovary with multiple different stages of follicular development. So you can see a number of different cysts over that time. So we'll call them cysts even though they're physiologically normal. And they range from a follicular cyst to a corpus luteum cyst, to a hemorrhagic cyst, and sometimes ovarian inclusion cysts. And those are the main four stages that we see, but there are even some stages in between, as you can see from the diagram. So depending on the stage of when the patient is imaged, the ovary can have a very dynamic appearance because of the variable physiology. And they're quite dynamic organs. So it's important to keep that in mind when you're evaluating patients with ultrasound and MR, particularly in the premenopausal age group. What are the commonly seen ovarian cysts? And you'll see here that I have cysts in quotation marks. And that's because I don't necessarily want to apply the label of a cyst, which may imply some mythology to a normal appearance of an ovary depending on its physiologic state. So we tend to call these appearances cysts, but keep in mind that cysts can be normal or abnormal, depending on whether they fit with the ovarian physiology. So here we've got a follicular cyst and then we've got a corpus luteum or corpus albicans, hemorrhagic cyst, endometrioma, and ovarian inclusion cyst. And those are some of the different ultrasound appearances you may see when scanning patients, particularly in the premenopausal state. So a follicular cyst is hormone dependent. And it really develops because of arrested follicular development. So when the follicle stops growing, you have a lot of fluid in the sac. And if you tend to image the patient at that point, you're going to see that. And that's just normal physiology. Then we've got the corpus luteum, which develops after ovulation. And it's got the function of maintaining the early pregnancy. So it has a bit of a thick wall, it's quite vascular. And that's the typical appearance that we'll see on sonography. The hemorrhagic cyst is usually quite characteristic on ultrasound. And it tends to have the appearance of a cobweb or a lace like configuration with lots of vibrant strands. And it's got kind of an angular clot that you can see sort of retracting. And that's quite often seen outlined here with very angular and straight margins. So that's what a hemorrhagic cyst looks like. And most of those resolve within eight weeks. The endometrioma is a cystic collection of mixed blood products. And it is very characteristically described as having diffuse low level internal echos. As you can see throughout the cyst here, it's got this kind of ground glass appearance. And it does have through transmission. And sometimes there is overlap between a hemorrhagic cyst and an endometrioma. And then finally here, we've got an ovarian inclusion cyst, which happens because of invagination of the cortical surface of the ovary following ovulation. And that results in a simple cyst being formed. And usually those measure less than 10 millimeters in size. And often we still see them in the postmenopausal population.