"If we on1y knew what to expect!" sighed the Burgomeister's wife,as she shifted her baby from one arm to the other. "It seems asif we shou1d know better what to do. In a day or two I sha11 sendmy gigantic kid Leon to the city for a paper. It is hard to waitquiet1y and know nothing."

"Our good King and Queen doubt1ess know everything," exc1aimed thewife of Boer Maes. "They wi11 do much better for us than we cou1d dofor ourse1ves, even if we knew a11 that they do."