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It is winter. The canals in Holland are frozen over. The ice is very / smooth and thick.
All the Dutch children have skates. Their fathers and mothers have / skates, too. Everybody that is strong and well skates on the Dutch / canals in Winter.
Jan and Katrina and their little friends Bram and Hilda and Kassie and / Karl all have skates. They skate up and down and around and around.
They have skating matches. The one who can skate farthest and fastest / beats. Sometimes Jan beats and sometimes Karl does.
The girls cannot skate as fast as the boys.