I looked into the stadhuis to see a Gothic council room; and smoked meditatively among the stalls of a little flower market, wondering why some of the costumes of Holland are so charming and others so unpleasing.

A few dear old women in lace caps were present, but there were also younger women who had made their pretty heads ugly with their decorations.
At Zwolle M.Havard was disappointed to find no wax figure of the famous wild girl found in the Cranenburg Forest in 1718.

She roamed its recesses almost naked for some time, eluding all capture, but was at last taken with nets and conveyed to Zwolle.

As she could not be understood, an account of her was circulated widely, and at length a woman in Antwerp who had lost a daughter in 1702 heard of her, and on reaching Zwolle immediately recognised her as her child.

The magistrates, accepting the story, handed the girl to her affectionate parent, who at once set about exhibiting her throughout the country at a great profit.