CHAPTER XX.
Flushing Middelburg once more--The Flushing baths--Shrimps and chivalry--A Dutch boy--Charles V.at Souburg--Flushing and the Spanish yoke--Philip and William the Silent--The capture of Brill--A far-reaching drunken impulse--Flushing's independence--Admiral de Ruyter--England's Revenge--The Middelburg kermis--The aristocracy of avoirdupois--The end.
It is wiser I think to stay at Middelburg and visit Flushing from there than to stay at Flushing.

One may go by train or tram.

In hot weather the steam-tram is the better way, for then one can go direct to the baths and bathe in the stillest arm of the sea that I know.

Here I bathed on the hottest day of last year, 1904, among merry albeit considerable water nymphs and vivacious men.

These I found afterwards should have dwelt in the water for ever, for they emerged, dried and dressed, from the machines, something less than ordinary Batavians.