Our Little Dutch, Belgian, and Spanish Cousins

CHAPTER VI The Lost Violin Gerard and his little band had now to decide how they should spend their prize money. Every day Gerard had a new plan. He asked advice from Helda and Aunt Ursula each time he brought the milk, and proposed the wildest things imaginable. One was that they should build a club-house: Karel suggested that they should get uniforms with the money, but when they came to figure it out they found they could only buy about two uniforms and a half so that was manifestly unpractical, while as for the club-house that was even more nearly impossible.

One serious-minded boy did suggest that they should lay in a stock of music, but all vetoed that motion. Even Gerard admitted that they ought to have some “real fun� with the money.

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