These also are decorated according to the pretty Hindeloopen usage, one for the dead of each trade.

Order even in death.

The Hindeloopen baker who has breathed his last must be carried to the grave on the bakers' bier, or the proprieties will wince.
After Hindeloopen the first town of importance on the way to Leeuwarden is Sneek; and Sneek is not important.

But Sneek has a water-gate of quaint symmetrical charm, with two little spires--the least little bit like the infant child of the Amsterdam Gate at Haarlem.

In common with so many Frisian towns Sneek has suffered from flood.