In one house the
family waved their hands to Kit and Kat from the breakfast table,
and a little farther on they passed a woman who was washing
clothes in the canal. Other boats filled with vegetables and
flowers of all colors passed them. And they were going to market
too. Only no other boat had twins in it.
"Good day, neighbor Vedder," one man called out. "Are you taking
a pair of fat pigs to market?"
By and by they came to the town. There were a great many boats in
the canal here, and people calling back and forth to each other
from them.
Kit and Kat saw a boat that the Captain's family lived in. It was
like a floating house.
The Twins thought it must be grand to live on a boat like that,
just going about from town to town, seeing new sights every day.
"We should never have to go to school at all," said Kit.
They wished their own boat were big enough to move about in; but
Father told them they must sit very, very still all the time.
There were houses on each side of the canal, in the town, and
people were clattering along over the pavement in their wooden
shoes.
The market-place was an open square in the middle of the town. It
had little booths and stalls all about it. The farmers brought
their fresh vegetables and flowers, or whatever they had to sell,
into these stalls, and then sat there waiting for customers.
Kit and Kat helped their father to unload the boat. Then they sat
down on a box, and Father gave them each some bread and cheese to
eat; for they were hungry again.
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