Her learning gone, she remains a very pleasant and clean little town.

By some happy arrangement all the painting seems to be done at once--so different from London, where a fresh facade only serves to emphasise a dingy one.

But although the quality of the paint can be commended, the painters of Franeker are undoubtedly allowed too much liberty.

They should not have been permitted to spread their colour on the statues of the stadhuis.
The principal street has an avenue of elm trees down its midst, in the place where a canal would be expected; but canals traverse the town too.

Upon the deck of a peat barge I watched a small grave child taking steady and unsmiling exercise on a rocking horse.
I did not go to Dokkum, which lies at the extreme north of Friesland.