CHAPTER IV.

The coins: practice of vails-giving in Holland: fruit and vegetable sellers: Dutch passion for scrubbing and mopping: whimsical sarcasm of a traveller: singular offence offered to a chambermaid: Dutch prints of Lord Nelson: treatment of our countrymen at Verdun: Dutch compared with the Chinese: private collections of paintings: brief anecdote of the Vanderwerfs: remarks on Dutch and Flemish schools: Dort; anecdotes of distinguished persons there: anecdote of Cowper: interposition of Providence 30