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Hans Brinker has
"Goodness Within"

Hans Brinker is poor, the son of the village idiot, a classic underdog. Generations have come to love his solid Dutch sensibility and compassionate determination to cure his father and make a future for himself as a doctor.

Gretel Brinker is as spritely a heroine as the Victorian heart could desire. Sweet and spirited, she has her eye on the silver skates. But, like a Victorian Tonya Harding, her laces keep breaking.

Peter and Hilda are the pampered children of wealthy families, out on a skating lark with their friends. Yet they take time to show compassion, setting them apart from the run-of-the-windmill rich kids.

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Chapter 1:Hans and GretelChapter 25:Leyden
Chapter 2:HollandChapter 26:The Palace in the Wood
Chapter 3:The Silver SkatesChapter 27:The Merchant Prince and the Sister-Princess
Chapter 4:Hans and Gretel Find a FriendChapter 28:Through the Hague
Chapter 5:Shadows in the HomeChapter 29:A Day of Rest
Chapter 6:SunbeamsChapter 30:Homeward Bound
Chapter 7:Hans Has His WayChapter 31:Boys and Girls
Chapter 8:Introducing Jacob Poot and His CousinChapter 32:The Crisis
Chapter 9:The Festival of Saint NicholasChapter 33:Gretel and Hilda
Chapter 10:What the Boys Saw and Did in AmsterdamChapter 34:The Awakening
Chapter 11:Big Manias and Little OdditiesChapter 35:Bones and Tongues
Chapter 12:On the Way to HaarlemChapter 36:A New Alarm
Chapter 13:A CatastropheChapter 37:The Father's Return
Chapter 14:HansChapter 38:The Thousand Guilders
Chapter 15:HomesChapter 39:Glimpses
Chapter 16:Haarlem--The Boys Hear VoicesChapter 40:Looking For Work
Chapter 17:The Man With Four HeadsChapter 41:The Mysterious Watch
Chapter 18:Friends in NeedChapter 42:A Discovery
Chapter 19:On the CanalChapter 43:The Race
Chapter 20:Jacob Poot Changes the PlanChapter 44:Joy in the Cottage
Chapter 21:Mynheer Kleef and His Bill of FareChapter 45:Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs
Chapter 22:The Red Lion Becomes DangerousChapter 46:Broad Sunshine
Chapter 23:Before the CourtChapter 47:Conclusion
Chapter 24:The Beleaguered Cities