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HANS BRINKER;
the lakes struggling to get out, and the overflowing canals, rivers, and ditches, in many districts there is no water fit to swallow: our poor Hollanders must go dry, or drink wine and beer, or send far into the inland, to Utrecht, and other favored
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A Dutch Water-Carrier.
localities, for that precious fluid older than Adam, yet young as the morning dew. Sometimes, indeed, the inhabitants can swallow a shower, when they are provided with any means of catching it; but generally they are like the albatross-haunted
