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Title: The Scotch Twins

Author: Lucy Fitch Perkins

Posting Date: July 4, 2009 [EBook #4086]
Release Date: May, 2003
First Posted: November 16, 2001
Last Updated: July 16, 2007

Language: English

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THE SCOTCH TWINS

By

Lucy Fitch Perkins

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

Geographical Series

THE DUTCH TWINS PRIMER. Grade I.
THE DUTCH TWINS Grade III.
THE ESKIMO TWINS. Grade II.
THE JAPANESE TWINS. Grade IV.
THE IRISH TWINS. Grade V.
THE SCOTCH TWINS. Grades V and VI.
THE MEXICAN TWINS. Grade VI.
THE BELGIAN TWINS. Grade VI.
THE FRENCH TWINS. Grade VII.

Historical Series

THE CAVE TWINS. Grade IV.
THE SPARTAN TWINS. Grades V-VI.

Each volume is illustrated by the author

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY LUCY PITCH PERKINS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

I. THE LITTLE GRAY HOUSE ON THE BRAE
II. THE RABBIT AND THE GAMEKEEPER
III. THE SABBATH
IV. THE NEW BOY
V. EVENING IN THE WEE BIT HOOSIE
VI. TWO DISCOVERIES
VII. THE CLAN
VIII. THE POACHERS
IX. A RAINY DAY
X. ON THE TRAIL
XI. ANGUS NIEL AND THE CANNY CLAN
XII. NEWS
XIII. THE NEW LAIRD

GLOSSARY

SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS

THE SCOTCH TWINS

I. THE LITTLE GRAY HOUSE ON THE BRAE

If you had peeped in at the window of a little gray house on a
heathery hillside in the Highlands of Scotland one Saturday
morning in May some years ago, you might have seen Jean Campbell
"redding up" her kitchen. It was a sight best seen from a safe
distance, for, though Jean was only twelve years old, she was a
fierce little housekeeper every day in the week, and on Saturday,
when she was getting ready for the Sabbath, it was a bold person
indeed who would venture to put himself in the path of her broom.
To be sure, there