Excerpt from A Little Captive Lad The staid old Hoog Stract had never echoed with a madder clamor. Shopmen clapped to their shut ters, women scudded into their houses, boys in wooden shoes ran clattering across the brick walks. The glass windows, bright as crystal, high up in the gay brick houses, showed each its bunch of faces. Ruddy matrons in white caps, round-faced children, wrinkled grandmothers, all peered forth into the street. Down below on the clean-scoured walk the sober Dutch burghers who were lumbering about their business drew back and gaped. A little tailor poked his bald head out at the hatch of his shop. Ri, eil What's to do, Mynheer van Zandt? He cried. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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