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050 4 _aPZ
100 1 _aBoschma, Hilbrandt,
_d1869-1954
245 1 0 _aBlank en Bruin
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-10
508 _aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg
520 _a"Blank en Bruin" by Hilbrandt Boschma is a juvenile novel written in the late 19th century. It follows Leo van Dintelburg, a Dutch-Indies boy, and his Javanese guardian Bamboe as they settle in a Dutch town, where schoolyard rivalry, class pride, and racial prejudice test character and faith. Opposite Leo stands Rudolf van Dintelburg, a privileged classmate, and the story frames youth as a choice between two paths, with a clear Christian, didactic bent. The opening of the novel sets out a prefatory promise: a contemporary Dutch tale for boys that avoids chauvinism, stays close to recent history, and urges youth to devote their lives to God by showing the contrast between serving Him and not. The story then introduces Bamboe and Leo arriving with parrots and a monkey, drawing rude curiosity from local boys led by Rudolf; Leo’s quick wit and a policeman end the first confrontation. At school, Mr. Selhof welcomes Leo, explains his mixed Dutch–Javanese background, and the class warm to him, with cultural misunderstandings (like “kool/kolen”) used for gentle humor. Tensions rise when Rudolf challenges Leo over the shared surname, but Dirk Drijver sides with Leo. Winter brings a planned, rule-bound snowball battle; Leo’s side fortifies a “fort,” a fierce fight ends with Rudolf accidentally felled by his own hard snowball, after which Leo and Bamboe tend him and Leo offers friendship—rejected out of class and color prejudice. The scene shifts to skating, where Rudolf spitefully sends a ball toward thin ice; Leo falls through, Bamboe bravely tries to save him and also goes in, and the episode breaks off with Dirk attempting a risky rescue. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_c's-Gravenhage: D. A. Daamen, 1912
653 _aChristian life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren's stories, Dutch
653 _aYouth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aIndonesia -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aRünckel, A.
_q(Arie),
_d1876-1956
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76853
999 _c117578
_d117578