Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Dutch Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins

Book Excerptg in her mouth. They went under bridges and by little canals that opened into the main canal. They passed so close to some of the houses that Kit and Kat could see the white curtains blowing in the windows, and the pots of red geraniums standing on the sill. 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