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, nearthe very edge.
They are five years old.
Menie is the boy, and Monnie is the girl. But you cannot tell which isMenie and which is Monnie,—not even if you look ever so hard at theirpictures!
That is because they dress alike.
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 thenit is very hard to know which is Nip and which is Tup, because thelittle dogs are twins too.
Nobody was surprised that the little dogs were twins, because dogsoften are.
But everybody in the whole village where Menie and Monnie live wassimply astonished to see twin babies!
They had never known of any before in their whole lives.
Old Akla, the Angakok, or Medicine Man