Crossword-Solution: HAARLEM 7 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Come with me, friend John, and you shall help me deck the room with my garlic, which is all the way from Haarlem, where my friend Vanderpool raise herb in his glass-houses all the year.

Arthur and the Sword 204 Tarpeia 208 The Buckwheat 210 The Judgment of Midas 211 Why the Sea is salt 213 Billy Beg and his Bull 221 The Little Hero of Haarlem 233 The Last Lesson 238 The Story of Christmas 243 THE CHILD-MIND; AND HOW TO SATISFY IT A short List of Books in which the Story-teller will find Stories not too far from the Form in which they are needed 247 INTRODUCTION Not long ago, I chanced to open a magazine at a story of Italian life which dealt with a curious popular custom.

THE LITTLE HERO OF HAARLEM[1] [Footnote 1: Told from memory of the story told me when a child.] A long way off, across the ocean, there is a little country where the ground is lower than the level of the sea, instead of higher, as it is here.

Finding in one of the wards in the hospital at Haarlem a number of women going into convulsions and imitating each other in various acts of frenzy, he immediately ordered a furnace of blazing coals into the midst of the ward, heated cauterizing irons, and declared that he would burn the arms of the first woman who fell into convulsions.

And the last excuse for ignorance was removed from this world, when Elzevier of Haarlem began to print his cheap and popular editions.