The Dutch Twins

thout any one's calling them. You see, they were af

ady, and they had plenty of time to dress while Grandmother got

ad ever so many blue plates hanging around on the walls, and standing on edge in a row on the shelves. There was a warming-pa

ad company, she always drew the curtains back so that her beautiful bed would be seen. She said

ere all dressed,

t like a man to promise to take you out in your best clothe

o they dug their knuckles in their eyes and began to cry. But the

, that's a good Kit and Kat." So the Twins took th

One was a very small apron. It wouldn't reach to Kit's k

was a little boy," she said. "It's

aken it with him when he went t

on out of the press. It looked as

e said. "It was your mother's

he looked at the apron. Then she thought about the milk cart. She wondered if she wanted to go in the milk cart badly eno

word. She just looked f

-and Grandmother buttoned the apron u

they had taken the last spoonful, and Grandfather Winkle had finished his coffee, th

d white dogs. Their nam

it was painted blue. The bright brass cans full of milk wer

ndfather lifted Kat up and set her on

k for a whip, and told him to walk slowly along beside th

d behind, carryin

Kat took one hand off the cart long enough to wave it to her. Then she hel

," Grandfather called out. "She t

him; and Hans Hite, a boy he knew, drove right past him with his dog cart! H

sale! Milk

rawn by a pai

all about g

e dogs, and he touched

up." They jumped for

ding the lines. But the dogs had four legs apiece, and Ki

e a dreadful noise was after them, and they ran faster than ever. You see, Grandfather Winkle never in th

the air every time the cart struck a bump in the street. So did th

ll the spots were hard, so it didn't really mat

and ran, and Kit ran and ran, until he couldn't run any more; he just sat d

top; she went right on. She flew out over the front of the cart and landed on the ground,

ome too. Then Peter and Paul pointed the

r was coming along as fast as he

at up and told her not to cry, and wiped her eyes with their aprons, and stood Kit on his feet, and patted the dogs; and pretty

ing things had happened, nevertheless! Kat had torn a great hole in the front of her best dress; and Kit had worn two round holes in the

th, I really don't know what he might not have said! He looked at the cart, and he

you do as

u told me to be sure to hold tight to th

one of the women. She turned him ar

rt, and see what you've done by not minding, spoiled your best c

one time," said Kit. "I was

four and a half feet high now! If we

and went on to Vrouw de Ve

e a number of little boys and girls in wooden shoes clattered along with them.

ried, the moment she saw them. "Look at

he holes in mi

all going, Grandmother clapped her hands over her ears to shut out the noise. Then she took Kit and Kat in

oles. "O! my soul!" she said. She took off the aprons and

, and found a good piece to patch with. Then she patched the holes in Kit's breeches so neatly t

nd, when it was all done, she s

Twins have been qui

tained with tears and dirt. Grandmother Winkle kissed them. Kit and Kat woke up, and Grandmother d

de it all clean again; and by noon you would never have known, unless you had looked very, very closely-much more

and the dogs were rested and Gran

n the dog cart." Kit and Kat both nodded their heads very hard. "Onl

ent out on the road beside the canal toward home. They got there just as the sun