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This PG project is dedicated to retired teacher Betty Sheridan, who read this little book to her elementary students while they were studying Japan. She generously loaned the book to be produced for PG.
The Japanese Twins
by Lucy Fitch Perkins
To the Dutch Twins and their friends
Also by Lucy Fitch Perkins
Geographical Series
THE DUTCH TWINS PRIMER. Grade I.
THE ESKIMO TWINS. Grade II.
THE DUTCH TWINS. Grade III.
THE JAPANESE TWINS. Grade IV.
THE SWISS TWINS. Grade IV.
THE FILIPINO TWINS. Grade V.
THE IRISH TWINS. Grade V.
THE ITALIAN TWINS. Grade V.
THE MEXICAN TWINS. Grade V.
THE SCOTCH TWINS. Grade VI.
THE BELGIAN TWINS. Grade VII.
THE FRENCH TWINS. Grade VII.
Historical Series
THE CAVE TWINS. Grade IV.
THE SPARTAN TWINS. Grade V.
THE COLONIAL TWINS OF VIRGINIA. Grade VI.
THE AMERICAN TWINS OF 1812. Grade VI.
THE PIONEER TWINS. Grade VI.
THE AMERICAN TWINS OF THE REVOLUTION. Grade VII.
THE PURITAN TWINS. Grade VII.
Each volume is illustrated by the author
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY LUCY FITCH PERKINS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION--THE JAPANESE TWINS AND BOT'CHAN.
I. THE DAY THE BABY CAME
II. MORNING IN THE LITTLE HOUSE
III. HOW THEY WENT TO THE TEMPLE.
IV. A RAINY DAY
V. TAKE'S BIRTHDAY.
VI. GOING TO SCHOOL
VII. TARO'S BIRTHDAY.
THE JAPANESE TWINS
THE JAPANESE TWINS AND BOT'CHAN
Away, away, ever so far away, near the western shores of the Ocean of Peace, lie the Happy Islands, the Paradise of Children.
Some people call this ocean the "Pacific" and they call the Happy Islands "Japan," but the meaning is just the same. Those are only their grown-up names, that you find them by on the map, in the geography.
