FLANDERS. 91 in her hand. If she observes any of them idle, she reaches them a tap, and if that will not do, she rings a bell, which, by a little cord, is attached to the box. She points out the offender, and she is taken into another room and chastised. And I believe this way of ordering the young women in Germany (Flanders) is one great (The piece of lace from which this woodcut is taken has five or six different designs all joined together; probably patterns sent round for orders.) cause that the German women have so little twit twat, 11 and I am sure it will be as well were it so in England. There the children emulate the father—here they beggar him. Child,” he winds up, 11 An old term, still used in Scotland, for gossip, chatter.