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nothing left to offer in the way of food or drink, but they
had themselves, their homes and their undying ap-
preciation for the Canadians who had been their guests a
few months earlier.
"What a Feest we had. There was dancing in the streets,
accordians and violins playing and klompen. Strangely
enough, the trucks which brought us from Elst somehow
sprouted cans of meat, biscuits, tinned fruit, fruit cake,
cigarettes and candy and many more items that were not
army rations, but just a hint that they might have been
made in Canada.
Biers stayed in Nieuwkirk for two days. With
man t a ul farewells they returned to camp, to prepare
for t return to Canada.
Memories like these make the Clinton Klompen Feest
very meaningful for Bob Campbell.
"Someday," he says, "I will go back to Nieuwkirk and
perhaps to Alphen on the Rhine where a little Dutch girl
and her mother gave me a silver bracelet made out of pre-
war 10 cent pieces, called `dubbeltjes.'
"Another place I would visit would be Nichols
Piekstraate in Tilburg, where an old man gave me a silver
ring with the Dutch Lion on it.
"Yes I will go back to Holland and I can almost bet that
I will again hear that well used phrase, 'Nix in the Winkle,
Alles in de Kelder, Kelder, Kaput."
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