The lad takes his girl about everywhere; they go to the _kermis_, skate, and amuse themselves, and no one troubles or inquires about them.

Even the girl's parents allow her to go about with her lover without asking any questions.'" A Dutch proverb says, "Take a Brabant sheep, a Guelderland ox, a Flemish capon and a Frisian cow".

The taking of the Frisian cow certainly presents few difficulties, for the surface of Friesland is speckled thickly with that gentle animal--ample in size and black and white in hue.

The only creatures that one sees from the carriage windows on the railway journey are cows in the fields and plovers above them.

Now and then a man in his blue linen coat, now and then a heron; but cows always and plovers always.