The story illustrates either the credulity of magistrates or the practical character of some varieties of maternal love.
Kampen, nearer the mouth of the Yssel, close to Zwolle, is exceedingly well worth visiting.

The two towns are very different: Zwolle is patrician, Kampen plebeian; Zwolle suggests wealth and light-heartedness; at Kampen there is a large fishing population and no one seems to be wealthy.

Indeed, being without municipal rates, it is, I am told, a refuge of the needy.

Any old town that is on a river, and that river a mouth of the Rhine, is good enough for me; but when it is also a treasure house of mediaeval architecture one's cup is full.

And Kampen has many treasures: beautiful fourteenth-century gateways, narrow quaint streets, a cheerful isolated campanile, a fine church, and the greater portion of an odd but wholly delightful stadhuis in red brick and white stone, with a gay little crooked bell-tower and statues of great men and great qualities on its facade.
For one possession alone, among many, the stadhuis must be visited--its halls of justice, veritable paradises of old oak, with a very wonderful fireplace.