Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. Mary Mapes Dodge

       Mary Mapes Dodge

      Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

       Children’s Classics

      e-artnow, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN: 4064066057923

Table of Contents

       Preface

       A Letter from Holland

       Hans and Gretel

       Holland

       The Silver Skates

       Hans and Gretel Find a Friend

       Shadows in the Home

       Sunbeams

       Hans Has His Way

       Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin

       The Festival of Saint Nicholas

       What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam

       Big Manias and Little Oddities

       On the Way to Haarlem

       A Catastrophe

       Hans

       Homes

       Haarlem—The Boys Hear Voices

       The Man With Four Heads

       Friends in Need

       On the Canal

       Jacob Poot Changes the Plan

       Mynheer Kleef and His Bill of Fare

       The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous

       Before the Court

       The Beleaguered Cities

       Leyden

       The Palace in the Wood

       The Merchant Prince and the Sister-Princess

       Through the Hague

       A Day of Rest

       Homeward Bound

       Boys and Girls

       The Crisis

       Gretel and Hilda

       The Awakening

       Bones and Tongues

       A New Alarm

       The Father’s Return

       The Thousand Guilders

       Glimpses

       Looking For Work

       The Mysterious Watch

       A Discovery

       The Race

       Joy in the Cottage

       Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs

       Broad Sunshine

       Conclusion

      To my father

       James J. Mapes

       this book is dedicated

       in gratitude and love