DOI Heft:
No. 3 (June, 1893)
DOI Artikel:Bell, Arthur G.: Letters from artists to artists, [3]: sketching grounds
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17188#0137
Sketching Grounds. No. III.—Holland
by. Although Middelburg has a population of Pole I believe will turn out to be perfectly true.
16,100 there is no bank in the town ; this is the We hear that, in the sixteenth century, there was a
more curious as I have been told that the Dutch large colony of Scotch at Veere, living under their
really invented modern banking. At first I had own laws, and having their own judges; in the
some difficulty in getting a little money, but a Town Hall there is a letter written by Queen
Dutch friend of mine was very glad to give me all Elizabeth relating to these rights that the Scotch
I wanted if I wrote him cheques
to pay small accounts that he
had with English business
houses. When this became
known in the town, I very soon
found I could get more Dutch
money than I wanted. The
townspeople quite saw the ad-
vantage of the system of paying
by cheque, but no one seems
yet to have started a bank.
Professional men do not ap-
pear to be so well paid as they
are in England. For instance,
I have just been to consult the
best doctor in the town about
a pain that I have had in my
ears; he visited me once, and
I went to see him afterwards;
he gave me a prescription and
very soon I was well again; his
fee was 4s. 3^.
Whilst you are at Middelburg
you should take the steamer
along the canal to Veere; but
mind you see the Frank Hals
in the Town Hall before you
leave finally. Veere is a dead
city, so utterly dead that a
Dutchman told me that there
ought to be a board stuck in
the middle of the road leading
to it with these words written
on it: " Verboden te gaan under the shadow of the church
(no thoroughfare). In spite of
his opinion of the place we have lived and worked had acquired. My friend and companion, who is
here for several weeks, stopping at the Hotel a Scotchman, has just repeated some lines on his
Roland, where we are comfortable and live cheaply, own countrymen that will amuse you if you have
At first we had that pleasant feeling that we had not already heard them :
made a discovery, and a really fine one too. Vain Land o' careful cunning bodies,
thought, alas ! We had not lived here many days Foes to a' ungodly fun ;
before we saw the familiar form of a Scotch R.A. Land that sums up man's whole duties,
walking on the quay in front of the hotel. We Heaven, the Deil, and Number One.
hailed him and showed him hospitality; he had I have had a little girl of about six years old
been told of Veere by a fellow countryman who sitting for me here. She actually declined to take
had been there long before us. You see there is any money from me. I asked her to come and
no getting in front of the canny Scots, and that have some refreshment. I offered her some
story of finding one of them seated on the North lemonade or aniseed, which they drink here. What
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by. Although Middelburg has a population of Pole I believe will turn out to be perfectly true.
16,100 there is no bank in the town ; this is the We hear that, in the sixteenth century, there was a
more curious as I have been told that the Dutch large colony of Scotch at Veere, living under their
really invented modern banking. At first I had own laws, and having their own judges; in the
some difficulty in getting a little money, but a Town Hall there is a letter written by Queen
Dutch friend of mine was very glad to give me all Elizabeth relating to these rights that the Scotch
I wanted if I wrote him cheques
to pay small accounts that he
had with English business
houses. When this became
known in the town, I very soon
found I could get more Dutch
money than I wanted. The
townspeople quite saw the ad-
vantage of the system of paying
by cheque, but no one seems
yet to have started a bank.
Professional men do not ap-
pear to be so well paid as they
are in England. For instance,
I have just been to consult the
best doctor in the town about
a pain that I have had in my
ears; he visited me once, and
I went to see him afterwards;
he gave me a prescription and
very soon I was well again; his
fee was 4s. 3^.
Whilst you are at Middelburg
you should take the steamer
along the canal to Veere; but
mind you see the Frank Hals
in the Town Hall before you
leave finally. Veere is a dead
city, so utterly dead that a
Dutchman told me that there
ought to be a board stuck in
the middle of the road leading
to it with these words written
on it: " Verboden te gaan under the shadow of the church
(no thoroughfare). In spite of
his opinion of the place we have lived and worked had acquired. My friend and companion, who is
here for several weeks, stopping at the Hotel a Scotchman, has just repeated some lines on his
Roland, where we are comfortable and live cheaply, own countrymen that will amuse you if you have
At first we had that pleasant feeling that we had not already heard them :
made a discovery, and a really fine one too. Vain Land o' careful cunning bodies,
thought, alas ! We had not lived here many days Foes to a' ungodly fun ;
before we saw the familiar form of a Scotch R.A. Land that sums up man's whole duties,
walking on the quay in front of the hotel. We Heaven, the Deil, and Number One.
hailed him and showed him hospitality; he had I have had a little girl of about six years old
been told of Veere by a fellow countryman who sitting for me here. She actually declined to take
had been there long before us. You see there is any money from me. I asked her to come and
no getting in front of the canny Scots, and that have some refreshment. I offered her some
story of finding one of them seated on the North lemonade or aniseed, which they drink here. What
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