which had been 24s. lost, I fear.  While we were here buying of pictures, we saw Mr. Edward and his company land.  Who told me that they had been at Leyden all night, at which I was very angry with Mr. Pierce, and shall not be friends I believe a good while.  To our lodging to dinner.  After that out to buy some linen to wear against to-morrow, and so to the barber’s.  After that by waggon to Lausdune, where the 365 children were born.  We saw the hill where they say the house stood and sunk wherein the children were born.  The basins wherein the male and female children were baptized do stand over a large table that hangs upon a wall, with the whole story of the thing in Dutch and Latin, beginning, “Margarita Herman Comitissa,” &c.  The thing was done about 200 years ago.

The town is a little small village which answers much to one of our small villages, such a one as Chesterton in all respects, and one could have thought it in England but for the language of the people.  We went into a little drinking house where there were a great many Dutch boors eating of fish in a boorish manner, but very merry in their way.  But the houses here as neat as in the great places.  From thence to the Hague again playing at crambo—­[Crambo is described as “a play at short verses in which a word is given, and the parties contend who can find most rhymes to it."]—­in the waggon, Mr. Edward, Mr. Ibbott, W. Howe, Mr. Pinkney, and I. When we were come thither W. Howe, and Mr. Ibbott, and Mr. Pinckney went away for Scheveling, while I and the child to walk up and down the town, where I met my old chamber-fellow, Mr. Ch.  Anderson, and a friend of his (both Physicians), Mr. Wright, who took me to a Dutch house, where there was an exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport, but it being Saturday we could not have much of her company, but however I staid with them (having left the child with my uncle Pickering, whom I met in the street) till 12 at night.  By that time Charles was almost drunk, and then broke up, he resolving to go thither again, after he had seen me at my lodging, and lie with the girl, which he told me he had done in the morning.  Going to my lodging we met with the bellman, who struck upon a clapper, which I took in my hand, and it is just like the clapper that our boys frighten the birds away from the corn with in summer time in England.  To bed.

20th.  Up early, and with Mr. Pickering and the child by waggon to Scheveling, where it not being yet fit to go off, I went to lie down in a chamber in the house, where in another bed there was a pretty Dutch woman in bed alone, but though I had a month’s-mind

     [Month’s-mind.  An earnest desire or longing, explained as alluding
     to “a woman’s longing.”  See Shakespeare, “Two Gentlemen of Verona,”
     act i. sc. 2: 

“I see you have a month’s mind to them.”—­M.  B.]