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The Eskimo Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins
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them, and the cooking pots and knives and household things from
the beach, while Koolee made the fireplace in the tent.

She made the fireplace by driving four sticks into the ground and
lashing them together to make a framework.

She hung the cooking kettle by straps from the four corners.
Under the kettle on a flat stone she placed the lamp. Then the
stove was ready.

"We shall cook out of doors most of the time," she said to the
twins, "but in rainy weather we shall need the lamp."

It was only a little while before there was a whole new village
ready to live in, with plenty of fish and good fresh water right
at hand.


VI.

Menie and Monnie were happy in their new home. They climbed about
on the rock and found a beautiful cave to play in. They gathered
flowers and shells and colored stones and brought them to their
mother.

Then later they went for more fish with the men, and Kesshoo let
them stand on the stones and try to spear the fish just the way
the men did.

Menie caught one, and Koko caught one, but Monnie had no luck at
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