Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Notes

Because the chapters are relatively short, the illustrations have been placed to best suit the chapter sizes.

WINDMILLS AND WOODEN SHOES

BY
MAUDE M. GRANT

ILLUSTRATED BY
BESS BRUCE CLEAVELAND

THE SOUTHERN PUBLISHING COMPANY
DALLAS, TEXAS
1919

COPYRIGHTED 1919
BY THE SOUTHERN PUBLISHING COMPANY
DALLAS, TEXAS

PREFATORY NOTE

In “Windmills and Wooden Shoes” we have a continuous story of the doings of the Dutch children, Jan and Katrina and their little friends.

Teach the children to read this book so that the personalities of the children depicted therein will become vividly lifelike to the little readers. Encourage them to bring to class pictures of Dutch life and of Holland scenery.

Make the children in the book live for the children in the class. Let them close their eyes and see in imagination the big windmill, the canals with the drooping willow trees, the slow-moving barge, and the shadows in the water. Picture the busy market place, and the Dutch children at work and at play. Teach the children the words and music of the little song found on page 6. Both the words and music have been arranged to give the rhythmic sound of the wooden shoes as the little Dutch wearers “klip klop” about in their work and play.

The lessons in the book may be illustrated by the children with drawings and paper cuttings,--the Dutch house, the windmill, the Dutch children, the flowers in the garden, the stork, the geese, the dog and the milk-cart, the boats, the wooden shoes, and many other things that will suggest themselves from the text to the ingenious teacher.

MAUDE M. GRANT,
MONROE, MICHIGAN.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE

IN THE LAND OF WINDMILLS AND WOODEN SHOES 7

HOLLAND 9

THE DUTCH PEOPLE 10

THE WINDMILLS 12

JAN AND KATRINA 14

THE WOODEN SHOES 15

THE DUTCH FATHER 17

THE DUTCH MOTHER 19

THE BLUE DISHES 21

JAN’S WORK 23

KATRINA’S WORK 24

KATRINA’S DUCKS 25

KATRINA’S BAKING 27

KATRINA’S MOTHER 29

JAN’S DOG, RINK 32

THE LITTLE DUTCH FRIENDS 35

SELLING THE MILK 36

HILDA’S VISIT 38

THE DUTCH BEDS 41

THE DUTCH GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE 43

THE CUCKOO CLOCK 46

GRANDMOTHER’S DUTCH STOVE 49

VISITING AT GRANDMOTHER’S 50

JAN AND KATRINA ON THE DIKE 52

JAN’S BIRTHDAY 55

LITTLE WOODEN SHOES 58

THE DUTCH GARDENS 61

THE BARGE 64

BRAM’S LITTLE SISTER 68

THE LULLABY SONG 70

LITTLE RIKKA 71

RIKKA’S WONDER-BALL 73

THE FIRE AND WATER MAN 77

THE WINDMILL GAME 79

THE STORY IN JAN’S BOOK 82

A SLEIGH RIDE ON THE CANAL 86

GRANDMOTHER’S STORY OF ST. NICHOLAS 90

CHRISTMAS IN HOLLAND 97

CHRISTMAS MORNING WITH JAN AND KATRINA 99

BRAM’S RABBITS 102

THE MARKET 106

WINTER 109

KIND-HEARTED JAN 110

[Music: The Dutch Children