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Title: The Eskimo Twins

Author: Lucy Fitch Perkins

Posting Date: March 10, 2009 [EBook #3774]
Release Date: February, 2003

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THE ESKIMO TWINS

by

Lucy Fitch Perkins

INTRODUCTION--THE ESKIMO TWINS

I. THE TWINS GO COASTING
II. KOOLEE DIVIDES THE MEAT
III. THE TWINS GO FISHING
IV. THE SNOW HOUSE
V. THE FEAST
VI. THE REINDEER HUNT
VII. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN MENIE AND KOKO WENT HUNTING BY THEMSELVES
VIII. THE WOMAN-BOATS
IX. THE VOYAGE
X. THE SUMMER DAY

SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS

THE ESKIMO TWINS

This is the true story of Menie and Monnie and their two little dogs,
Nip and Tup.

Menie and Monnie are twins, and they live far away in the North, near
the very edge.

They are five years old.

Menie is the boy, and Monnie is the girl. But you cannot tell which is
Menie and which is Monnie,--not even if you look ever so hard at their
pictures!

That is because they dress alike.

When they are a little way off even their own mother can't always tell.
And if she can't, who can?

Sometimes the twins almost get mixed up about it themselves. And then
it is very hard to know which is Nip and which is Tup, because the
little dogs are twins too.

Nobody was surprised that the little dogs were twins, because dogs
often are.

But everybody in the whole village where Menie and Monnie live was
simply astonished to see twin babies!

They had never known of any before in their whole lives.

Old Akla, the Angakok, or Medicine Man of the village, shook his head
when he heard about them. He said, "Such a thing never happened here
before. Seals and human beings never have twins! There's magic in this."

The name of the twins' father was Kesshoo. If you say it fast it sounds
just like a sneeze.

Their mother's name was Koolee. Kesshoo and Koolee, and Menie and
Monnie, and Nip and Tup, all live together in the cold Arct