Dutch painters of the nineteenth century. With biographical notices (1898)
Rooses, Max, 1839-1914 · London, S. Low, Marston and Company · leaf 105
the very weakest tea, Ras keeping time with a ruler, while a hymn was sung. Weak tea appears to have been, in those far away days, a sort of opium in the Utrecht schools, and even later too, for I remember the Rev. Dr. Riet, forty years afterwards, serving weak tea for his pupils (boys and girls)… … The Wodanseiken. (The Oaks of Wodan). Iq the possession of Mr. M. J. van Bosse at the Hague. didn’t, for we made sort of gutters, on the wooden tables, so as to convey the spilt tea and milk and water (principally water) down on to the parson’s trousers i). Yes, almost every one likes to look back…
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