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Title: The Mexican Twins

Author: Lucy Fitch Perkins

Release Date: May 20, 2009 [EBook #28889]

Language: English

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[Illustration: This book belongs to]

[Illustration: To American Children and their friends of all nations.]

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THE MEXICAN TWINS

By Lucy Fitch Perkins

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY LUCY FITCH PERKINS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published November 1915_

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CONTENTS

Introduction--The Mexican Twins 1

I. San Ramon's Day In The Morning 5

II. The Blessing 19

III. The Party 45

IV. Tonio's Bad Day 59

V. Judas Iscariot Day 85

VI. The Adventure 109

VII. While They Were Gone 123

VIII. The Secret Meeting 133

IX. Christmas At The Hacienda 161

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THE MEXICAN TWINS

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THE MEXICAN TWINS

_This is a picture of Antonio Francisco Gomez[1] and his twin sister,
Margarita Teresa Gomez.

They live on the great hacienda