Middletown transcript., 1894-01-13

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{S5gzE earth, near th
: q s4szzy1 vide basin OF To
q znyder Zee.
~ His father va
an organ maker. Els mother kept th
house. Hans himself attended
school.
s s. ey coal9 af1orsi to keep ser
80 Ha6s helped his mother all HI
EleJa he wasn't skating on ont
hxls which. cuL the 6ne oil
town If AlnStsrdam into 90 islands
these islands, bs Tie way. beIdg ON
nected by 200 bridges. Under those
arches IIaus used to skim like bird tt
-and from school on his half-rocke1
skates ID the bitingly cold winters o.
{ the NeFth.
When liltls Hans mother died il
was terrible blow 10 him and to his
father. The latter asked Hans how he
would like to go to America, where
friends Of his had gone aud Jared well
when their house had been washed
away by the great inundation. Hans
said that lie would like to 60 very
much. as he was very sad where he
MAS
So one flie morning Hans and his
father sailed ON Captain Steiltz's
schooner out Of the Zuyder Zee, down
the North Sea, through the straits Of
Dover to Southampton, England.
Here Captain Steil.z unloaded his
cargo Of oats, rye, buckwheat, flax.
madder. woolens, leather, sugar and
tulip bulbs.
Hans and his father bade the Cap
tain good, by one Sunday afternoon in
May as they boarded the tender which
conveyed them to the great steamer
Elbe, which bore down through the
English Channel. That night Hans
1lept on the Atlantic.
Well, for three days and nights the
iidest kind of a storm swept the
Gamer every which way, and on the
bird night poor little Hans became an
Fphan, for his dear father ventured on
eck for fresh air from below, where
Everybody was ordered to- remain till
the storm was over, and he was swept
|oyerboard.
This was an awful blow to little
Hans, as now be was alone in the great
big world. he cried ever SO hard for
hours and hours. Then he thought
that lie would live to be a man, SO he
dried his tears and looked in his
fathers trunk to see If he could find
cut the names of bis fathers rfiends
j D America.
He was lucky enough to find a letter
written to his father by Mr.. Van
TwiIler, who lived up in Newburg, on
the hudson River, in thesState of New
York.
When be landed over on the Jersey
shore be was shown the way to the cars
which carried him to Newburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Twiiler were not
8 Ralf SO well off as Hans father had
thought. In fact, they were pretty
poor. But that lnads no difference in
their reception Of Hans, which was
cordial in the extreme,
fif-x the summer Mr.. Van Twiller
worked 4s assistant to the best gard
ener of the great Crownington estate
back Of Newturg and 9 few niles to
the north.
In the winter he helped cut ice along
the Hudson from Newbnrg to Rhine
beck. BE was valued by the Crown
ington people for his knowledge Of
Dutch bulbs aud tulips, which were
cultivated and priced BY The owner Of
the place; and as an ice-cntter he
earned $40 a week until rheumatism
incapacitated him from working regu-
larly.
But Mr., Van Twiller and his good
wife. as I have said, made homeless
little Hans welcome, aud as it was
summer Hans every day went along
with Uncle Van Twiller ID order to
learn how to become q gardner.
So the summer wore away and the
autumn came. Then followed winter
the coolest in 90 years.
Nobody Was working in the Van
Twiller house, and nubody had been
working sinca last autumn. Little
Hans felt very blue. He wanted to 60.
down oiNew X York 70 try to obtain
work in some big dry goods house, bot
Mr.. a2d <4zs sn TWiller couldn't
aiIQi1 r. ri@k The money that gould
ivy bis fare and keep him uytfi be got
work, for If he were unsuccessful their
money w'culd Be gone.
Il was the sias before Christmaa and
very blue day in the Van Twiller
household, for there would bsno Christ
mas dinuer Tomorrow nothing but
zbFead and tea ard few eggs,
Hans bad been away since early
mornine Ils had gone 0nt with his
nlI6tes ltnnf over his shoulder and 3
mi determlned Iook u bis cIear blue
= zltle Dutch jayY showed the|
Is1l r. fhe3 ez45 together, that
Him brutal Fs 10 b6il "a i
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