Then
his father took him home, and the men stopped up the hole in the dike.
Everybody praised Hans for what he had done.
The little children in Holland are very pretty. They have round, fat
faces, golden hair, and blue eyes. The boys wear wide trousers and
little round caps. The girls wear jackets and skirts and little caps
with gold braid.
Both boys and girls wear wooden shoes. And what a noise they do make
with their wooden shoes when they run around! They have great fun
playing their shoes are boats. They sit on the sides of the canals and
take off their shoes and sail them on the water like little boats.
They tie strings to the shoes so that they can draw them in whenever
they like.
[Illustration: Dutch Girl with Wooden Shoes.]
Dutch children do not wear shoes in the house, but wear slippers. When
they go home after playing or from school they take off their shoes.
They leave them outside the door. Would you not think it strange to
see rows of little shoes outside the doors?
Every Saturday the children clean their shoes. But they do not shine
them as we do. They wash them with soap and water, and dry them at the
fire. If the sun shines, they hang them on a bush to dry.
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