The book The Master of the Hill a Biography of John Meigs was written by author Walter Russell Bowie Here you can read free online of The Master of the Hill a Biography of John Meigs book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Master of the Hill a Biography of John Meigs a good or bad book?
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We should be astounded by such politeness in America, and they here must be aghast at our manners sometimes. I have noticed the children and the country children especially, and they seem to me the simplest, happiest lot of youngsters I have ever seen. It has been a positive delight to watch them at their play or at their domestic tasks. Even you would pronounce Holland the cleanest country in the world, and while they have a superabundance of water at their doors, literally, for many men can s...tep out of their front doors into the canal, if they so choose there is a clean, wholesome, constitu- 128 THE MASTER OF THE HILL tional characteristic that one fails utterly to see in Venice, where the streets are all canals. I am prouder than ever before of the infusion of Dutch blood in my veins, be it ever so slight. (Through his father's grandmother, Jemina Van Boskerk, of Albany). I shall be really happy only when I have spent days, not to say weeks, in this wonderful garden spot. The expanse of country is like an animated paint- ing.
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