The stadhuis has also treasures of tapestry and Spanish leather, and a museum containing a very fine collection of antiquities, including one of the famous wooden petticoats of Nymwegen--a painted barrel worn as a penance by peccant dames.
From Nymwegen the train took me to Hertzogenbosch, or Bois le Duc, the capital of Brabant.

It is from Brabant, we were told by a proverb which I quoted in my first chapter on Friesland, that one should take a sheep.

Great flocks of sheep may be seen on the Brabant moors, exactly as in Mauve's pictures.

They are kept not for food, for the Dutch dislike mutton, but for wool.
Bois le Duc has the richest example of mediaeval architecture in Holland--the cathedral of St.John, a wonderful fantasy in stone, rich not only without, but, contrary to all Dutch precedent, within too; for we are at last again among a people who for the most part retain the religion of Rome.

The glass of the cathedral is poor, but there is a delicate green pattern on the vaulting which is very charming.