Never a bullock.

The meadows of Holland are a female republic.

Perkin Middlewick (in _Our Boys_) had made so much money out of pork that whenever he met a pig he was tempted to raise his hat; the Dutch, especially of North Holland and Friesland, should do equal homage to their friend the cow.

Edam acknowledges the obligation in her municipal escutcheon.
Stavoren may be dull and unalluring, but not so Hindeloopen, the third station on the railway to Leeuwarden, where we shall stay.

At Hindeloopen the journey should be broken for two or three hours.