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The Eskimo Twins

by Lucy Fitch Perkins

Pages
about 80
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
Reading time
88 min at 250 wpm
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From the opening

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

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.

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!

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!

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 Arctic winter in a little stone hut, called an "igloo."

In the summer they live in a tent, which they call a "tupik." The winters are very long and cold, and what do you think! They have one night there that is four whole months long!

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