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LESSON XXXIX.
freight, _cargo; that which forms a load_.
convey'ance, _the act of carrying_.
jum'ble, _a number of things crowded together without order_.
bobbed, _cut off short_.
bewil'dering, _confusing_.
gild'ed, _covered with a thin, surface of gold_.
yoked, _joined together with harness_.
rare'ly, _not often_.
impris'oned, _shut up or confined, as in a prison_.
clat'tering, _making a loud noise_.
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HOLLAND.
PART II.
Dutch cities seem, at first sight, to be a bewildering jumble of
houses, bridges, churches, and ships, sprouting into masts, steeples,
and trees. In some cities boats are hitched, like horses, to their
owners' door-posts, and receive their freight from the upper windows.
[Illustration]
Mothers scream to their children not to swing on the garden gate for
fear they may be drowned. Water roads are more frequent there than
common roads and railroads; water-fences, in the form of lazy green
ditches, inclose pleasure-ground, farm, and garden.
Sometimes fine green hedges are seen; but wooden fences, such as we
have in America, are rarely met with in Holland.
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