My Poor Relations, Vol. 1 of 2
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Excerpt from My Poor Relations, Vol. 1 of 2: Stories of Dutch Peasant Life Our conceptions of heaven - which is "De Hemel" - must inevitably remain inadequate at the best: perhaps the angels up yonder, in cloudland, cannot properly distinguish the gulf which, in our appreciation, sinks a pool of poverty and wickedness like this little Dutch hamlet beneath a favoured nook of our deteriorated Paradise such as, say, Monte Carlo. Still, the name is undoubtedly euphemistic: and yet, again, how easily the place might have been, or grown, worse! True, its houses, and heads, are untidily thatched; the nakedness of the land is as patent as that of many a yokel pretending to till it: never has anything connected with the village been properly drained or trained: never has anything been quite sufficiently scrubbed, excepting the newest born baby - yet, as a rule, the community washes itself grey, and in all its rag-and-bone debasement it tries to draw the line at vermin. Dutch squalor does. In Jan Hunkum´s day the old man´s cottage was the only hale and hearty building of the lot. 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.
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