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Title: Fil and Filippa
Story of Child Life in the Philippines

Author: John Stuart Thomson

Illustrator: Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Release Date: August 24, 2008 [EBook #26414]

Language: English

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Fil and Filippa

Story of Child Life
in the Philippines

By

John Stuart Thomson

Author of
"China Revolutionized"
"The Chinese"
"Bud and Bamboo" Etc.

Illustrations by

Maud and Miska Petersham

The Macmillan Company, Publishers

New York MCMXXIX

Copyright, 1917,
By the Macmillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1917.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEDICATED TO MY LITTLE FRIEND

FRANCIS DORIS

BY THE AUTHOR

CONTENTS

Chapter

I. Names.
II. Climate, Typhoons, Volcano
III. At Worship
IV. Houses
V. Cocoa and Coffee
VI. Hemp and Sugar
VII. The Coconut
VIII. Indigo; Mango; Guava; Durian
IX. The Forest
X. Minerals
XI. Water Buffalo
XII. Bats; Cattle; Horses; Cats; Monkeys
XIII. Flying Ants; Locusts
XIV. Boats and Fish
XV. Saw Mill; Mudsleighs; Wooden Plows
XVI. Umbrellas; Chairs; Milk-bottle; Milkman
XVII. Home Life
XVIII. Dress
XIX. The "Adios" Feast