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This PG project is dedicated to retired teacher Betty Sheridan,who read this little book to her elementary students while theywere studying Japan. She generously loaned the book to beproduced 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
The Riverside Press
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 theHappy Islands "Japan," but the meaning is just the same. Thoseare only their grown-up names, that you find them by on the map,in the geography.
They are truly Happy Islands, for the sun shines there sobrightly that all the people go about with pleasant, smilingfaces, and the children play out of doors the whole year throughwithout ever quarreling. And they are never, never spanked! Ofcourse, the reason for that is that they are so good they never,never need it! Or maybe their fathers and mothers do not believein spanking.
I have even been told—though I don't know whether to think it'strue or not—that