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Title: The Cave Twins

Author: Lucy Fitch Perkins

Illustrator: Lucy Fitch Perkins

Release Date: March 28, 2009 [EBook #28425]

Language: English

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The Cave Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins.

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In this 1916 Twins book, the sixth of the series by Lucy Fitch Perkins
we meet with Firetop and Firefly, and their family. The setting is in an
age where none of the nice things of the civilised world exist at all.
There are no books, no wheels, no firearms to hunt with, and everything
has to be done by sheer cunning, or found out by sheer accident. The
twins' parents set off on a short voyage of exploration, to see what
lies over the horizon, and the twins sneak off to follow them secretly.
Of course they soon have to make a "rescue me" signal when they find
they can't cope, but they are allowed to remain with their parents,
especially as they are quite good at shooting arrows with their bows,
and finding small items of food in other ways.

One day there is a huge earthquake and tsunami, and they find they are
all marooned on an island, which is what we now know as the Isle of
Wight. The twins' father gets an idea from something the twins do, and
creates the first canoe, with which he goes and fetches old Granny and
other members of the family. A short book, but quite a nice one.
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THE CAVE TWINS, BY LUCY FITCH PERKINS.

INTRODUCTION.

PREHISTORIC MAN.

_This is a story about things that happened ages and ages ago, before
any of us were born, or our great-great-grandfathers either, for that
matter. It was so very long ago that there were no houses, or farms, or
roads from one place to another, and there was not a single city, or a
town, or even a village in the whole earth_.

_There was just the great, round world, all fresh and new, and covered
with growing things; and there were wild beasts of all kinds in