Studentenalmanak 1913 - pagina 186

172 FARRAGO

village near the east-coast of the Isle, everyone will advise

you, to see L i t t l e J a n e ' s cottage and grave.

But the inquiring tourist will probably ask: Who on

earth was >Little Jane«? — Who? —

The answer is always the same: »She was only a

most ordinary girl, who had the good fortune to say her

catechism to the satisfaction of her talented evangelical

clergyman. <

Now, because she suddenly died, only fifteen years

old, her memory has been vivid until t h i s day in the

hearts of the Brading-men . . . .

So simple are the people of the Island Wight!

Another characteristic of these people, typically English,

is their m a t c h - f e v e r .

Everywhere in the little villages — and often too in

the greater ones and towns — they organize mutual

matches in force and handiness.

I saw such a competition in R y d e : it was very

pleasant indeed! ^)

Childish, you say? Is it not their o n l y amusement?

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And n o w — we must come to an end!

It has not been my intention, to give an elaborate

description of this Isle: it was only my purpose — as I

have already said in the »Introduction« —, to sketch in

various, varicolored lines the beauty and peculiarity of this

Island.

Yes! I s l e of W i g h t , you are at once beautiful and

peculiar!

B e a u t i f u l in the m o r n i n g , when the splendid

Queen of the day, the Sun, who seems to rise out of the

1) Cf. my sketch „'n Competition" {N.D.D.D., No. 159).

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