Image: Child life in the colonies - New Amsterdam (1907) (14784284385)

Description: Identifier: childlifeincolon00bake (find matches)Title: Child life in the colonies : New AmsterdamYear: 1907 (1900s)Authors: Baker, VirginiaSubjects: Publisher: Dansville, N.Y. : F.A. Owen Publ. Co.Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library SystemDigitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan FoundationView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:N NEW AMSTERDAM 13 duck, turkey or, perhaps, goose. There wereoften great lobsters, over a foot long, oysters,crabs, shad, or some other kind of fish. TheDutch behoved in always having their tableswell supplied with solid food. So Annetjes mother served with her meatsand fish a great many vegetables, cabbage andpotatoes, onions, carrots, turnips and beets. For dessert the children had pies of appleand pumpkin, ginger cakes, and honey cakes,crisp doughnuts, and, best of all, rich ^olykoeks glistening with sugar. There werefruits, too, in their season, apples and cherries,j)lums and melons, and always plenty ofcheese, and milk, cream, or buttermilk. Dinner was scarcely ended ere it was time forschool again. The afternoon session was verymuch like that of the morning. It closed atfour oclock. Then away scampered Jacobusand Oloff, a\ ith a score of their chosen school-mates, to play marbles, or knucklebones,until tea-time. Knuckle bones was a favor-ite game with the New Amsterdam boys. ItText Appearing After Image:Knuckie Bones CHILD LIFE IX NEW AMSTERDAM 15 was played with the knuckle bones of sheep,very much as you play jackstones, today. Annetje and her dear friends Tryntje, Anna,and Xeltje, hurried homewards, chatteringblithely all the way. At the back of Annetjeshouse was a sort of bower formed by a framework covered with vines. In this bower thelittle girls loved to play with their dolls, Ka-trina, Elsa, and Maryje. I wish you might haveseen those dolls with their round Dutch faces,staring eyes, and straight, stiff arms and legs. Annetje thought her Katrina very beautiful,and spent many hours knitting stockings andmaking skirts, and caps, and waistcoats for her. The children played happily until the faintsound of the cow-herds horn echoed in thedistance. The cows were coming back fromthe pastures, and the horn reminded Xeltjeand Tryntje that it was time they, too, werethinking of home. The dolls were tenderlyplaced in the bright calico pockets worn attheir sides, and, bidding Annetje goodNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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