Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-07-19
4 Mother's Stratagem.


barge through without even so much as
scaping the fresh paint on her sides his
next was deliberately and cruelty to kick q
small, moonlaced boy who was lying on his
back, and looking up at a carved wooden
figure whose grotesque head grinncd from a
side rail
Many Of the loungers along the banks OF
the lock knew old Jan kammerick for a
mean and cruel Flemish boor, who NAL
treated his wife, his children his bargcmen,
and who sometimes flew into such terrific
fits of anger that he thrashed his own sides
with his round fists. You may see people
Just like him in some Of 1enier's paintings
men with low, cunning faces, SMALL twink
ling, greedy eyes, thick lips men with broad
shoulders aud stout limbs men who seem
always ready TO get down aud scramble away
on al-lours, like the animals they so much
resemble. No one in Antwerp-not market
woman on the shore of the Scheldt, nor a
bargeman on river or canal-lked the chol-
eric and brutal Jan Kammerick many times
the wretch had narrowly escaped a ducking
at the hands Of a mob, because of his cruel
ties and ON this occasion, seeing the poor
child who was kicked begin TO cry and to
crawl away toward refuge under a pile OF
rope, every one shouted
" Jan kammerick Jan kammerck you
are mean, bad man, and no one will be
sorry When you come TO harm y or ELAN
kammerick you shall be complained Of to
the Judge of the district -
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f,liago 81 Leagts AMI dra,,o,,s 81 n,,stical
fgures from nvtbolooies or. comicai fran.
scyints from EVERYDAY 6ntcb life~he studied
them carefully and will passionate odoro'
tion lie bai meyer been allowed to 90 into
The stre,ts and lool m them for hours at n
time rs he conld have wished to do. for old
Ian who nlied In and from =, Iittle VILLAGE on
the banks of the Scheldt. nj some distance
from Amtvern Womb never allow his Child
IN 90 ON shore dnr;ng any If their tri.,veetlv
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grand churches of which his mother had
Toll bim~catbedroIs in whose solemn stiII.
ness he could stand undisturbed all the day