Excerpt from With Roosevelt Through Holland
The visit of the great Roosevelt has, of course, been an event of exceptional interest for the small country of Holland. Not only because he is the late (and probably the future?) head of the most powerful democracy in the world, - a fact in itself of very great significance to Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina's little kingdom, wrested from the sea - but owing to yet another consideration which somewhat heightened our excitement. For does not this ex-president of the United States, whose fame has already made him one of the central figures of the present day in the world's history, more or less belong to the family in Holland? He who, according to President Taft, is the most eminent citizen of the great nation of the New World, is, in reality, our own distant cousin Teddy of Delft, and it was this very relationship, honoured though we felt by it, that caused us to be somewhat nervously apprehensive of this yet so welcome exalted visit.
I daresay you have heard the story of the ugly duckling. It just crossed my mind: We, the old family of ducks at the pool had, some centuries ago, owned a pure-bred aunt who, unwittingly, had hatched - not a swan's but far worse - a condor's egg.
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