Chapter

 1 6 | Society of Haarlem offered a prize for the discovery (we dare
 2 6 |     that the founders of the prize might just as well have
 3 7 |     step towards gaining the prize offered by the Horticultural
 4 7 |      guilders of the Haarlem prize to-the poor. And yet ---- " ~
 5 8 |      year of grace 1673, the prize of a hundred thousand guilders
 6 8 |   Van Baerle, would have the prize of a hundred thousand guilders,
 7 11|     know, or may not know, a prize of a hundred thousand guilders
 8 11|      Black Tulip for which a prize of a hundred thousand guilders
 9 13|      sure to buy with it the prize of the Haarlem Society? ~
10 23|     be certain to obtain the prize; and then the tulip, instead
11 25|    committee previous to the prize being awarded." ~"Oh, sir!"
12 26|     the black tulip, and the prize of a hundred thousand guilders.
13 26|   out that you had given the prize to a man for something which
14 27| appropriating to herself the prize of a hundred thousand guilders,
15 31|    ceremony of bestowing the prize should be a fete which should
16 31|      himself should give the prize of a hundred thousand guilders,
17 32| faltering voice, -- ~"Is the prize given to-day, sir?" ~"Yes,
18 32|     to-day, sir?" ~"Yes, the prize for the black tulip." ~Cornelius'
19 33|     has brought us here? ~"A prize of one hundred thousand