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    Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin
    Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin
    Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin
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    Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin

    By L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman and Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin - L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin, by

      Mary Hazelton Wade

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin

      Author: Mary Hazelton Wade

      Illustrator: L. J. Bridgman

      Release Date: October 5, 2013 [EBook #43885]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSIN ***

      Produced by Emmy, Beth Baran and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Our Little Philippine Cousin

      THE

      Little Cousin Series

      (TRADE MARK)

      Each volume illustrated with six or more full-page plates in

      tint. Cloth, 12mo, with decorative cover,

      per volume, 60 cents

      LIST OF TITLES

      By Mary Hazelton Wade

      (unless otherwise indicated)

      L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

      New England Building,               Boston, Mass.

      ALILA

      Copyright, 1902

      By

      L. C. Page & Company

      (INCORPORATED)

      All rights reserved

      THE LITTLE COUSIN SERIES

      (Trade Mark)

      Tenth Impression, July, 1909

      Eleventh Impression, August, 1910

      Preface

      On the farther side of the great Pacific Ocean are the Philippine Islands. These form one of the many island groups that hang like a fringe or festoon on the skirt of the continent of Asia. Like most of the islands in the Pacific, the Philippines are inhabited by people belonging to the brown race, one of the great divisions of the family of mankind.

      The Philippines are shared by many tribes, all belonging to the same brown race. People of one tribe may be found on one of these islands; those of a different tribe are living on another; or one tribe may live in a valley and its neighbour in the hills; and so on to the number of eighty tribes. Each tribe has its own customs and ways. And yet we shall call these various peoples of the brown race our cousins; for not only are they our kindred by the ties which unite all the races of men in this world; they have been adopted into the family of our own nation, the United States of America.

      The people of these islands are many of them wild and distrustful children. They have no faith in us; they do not wish to obey our laws. If we are in earnest in our wish to do them good, and not harm, we must learn to know them better, so that we may understand their needs. That is one reason why we are going to learn about our little Philippine cousin, Alila of Luzon.

      Contents

      List of Illustrations

      ALILA

      Our Little Philippine Cousin

      CHAPTER I.

      THE NEW BABY.

      Alila is such a strong, active boy now, it is hard to imagine him in his babyhood,—he was such a tiny brown tot!

      His nose was so flat one would hardly have noticed there was a nose at all, except for the wideness of the nostrils. His big black eyes seemed to be moving around all the time, as much as to say:

      I must find out everything I can, and just as fast as I can, about this queer place in which I find myself.

      His hair was straight and coarse and black, even on the day he was born. It was

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