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  Francisco

  Our Little Argentine Cousin

  THE

  Little Cousin Series

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  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)

  =Our Little African Cousin= =Our Little Alaskan Cousin= By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet =Our Little Arabian Cousin= By Blanche McManus =Our Little Armenian Cousin= =Our Little Australian Cousin= By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet =Our Little Brazilian Cousin= By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet =Our Little Brown Cousin= =Our Little Canadian Cousin= By Elizabeth R. MacDonald =Our Little Chinese Cousin= By Isaac Taylor Headland =Our Little Cuban Cousin= =Our Little Dutch Cousin= By Blanche McManus =Our Little Egyptian Cousin= By Blanche McManus =Our Little English Cousin= By Blanche McManus =Our Little Eskimo Cousin= =Our Little French Cousin= By Blanche McManus =Our Little German Cousin= =Our Little Greek Cousin= By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet =Our Little Hawaiian Cousin= =Our Little Hindu Cousin= By Blanche McManus =Our Little Hungarian Cousin= By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet =Our Little Indian Cousin= =Our Little Irish Cousin= =Our Little Italian Cousin= =Our Little Japanese Cousin= =Our Little Jewish Cousin= =Our Little Korean Cousin= By H. Lee M. Pike =Our Little Mexican Cousin= By Edward C. Butler =Our Little Norwegian Cousin= =Our Little Panama Cousin= By H. Lee M. Pike =Our Little Persian Cousin= By E. C. Shedd =Our Little Philippine Cousin= =Our Little Porto Rican Cousin= =Our Little Russian Cousin= =Our Little Scotch Cousin= By Blanche McManus =Our Little Siamese Cousin= =Our Little Spanish Cousin= By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet =Our Little Swedish Cousin= By Claire M. Coburn =Our Little Swiss Cousin= =Our Little Turkish Cousin=

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  FRANCISCO

  Our Little Argentine Cousin

  By Eva Cannon Brooks

  _Illustrated by_ John Goss

  Boston L. C. Page & Company _MDCCCCX_

  _Copyright, 1910_

  BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

  (INCORPORATED)

  _All rights reserved_

  First Impression, June, 1910

  TO

  Katharine and Elizabeth Brooks

  Preface

  IF you take a steamer in New York whose destination is the eastern coastof South America, and remain on it a little over four weeks, you willreach the great metropolis of our twin continent, Buenos Aires.

  In all probability they will be weeks of infinite content and delight,for the southern half of the Atlantic Ocean is milder in her moods thanthe northern half, and there will be a sufficient number of stops _enroute_ to relieve the journey of monotony.

  First comes the Barbadoes, then Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio-de-Janeiro, andSantos in Brazil, and then Montevideo, the capital of the Republic ofUruguay.

  At Montevideo the steamer leaves the ocean and enters the mouth of theRiver Plata, which is several hundred miles wide at this point, and inten hours the beautiful city of Buenos Aires, the gate-way to thePampas, is spread out before the eye.

  It is more like a city of North America than any of the South Americanmetropolises, both in its appearance and its remarkable spirit ofmodernization.

  Beyond, and about this attractive port, lie great tracts of levelcountry known as the _campo_, and here you will find conditions notunlike those existing in some parts of our own western territory. Largeranches predominate, although the industries are varied.

  The people are of mixed nationalities, but the greater proportion is ofSpanish extraction and a new race, or type, is being welded with asufficient infusion of Anglo-Saxon blood to counteract the inherenttendency of all Latin races towards procrastination. Because of this,and aided by an unequalled climate, a fertile soil, and definite aims,they are already achieving a part of their manifest destiny.

  This, the year of 1910, the publication date of this small volume, marksthe one hundredth anniversary of Argentina's independence; may it markalso the beginning of an era of even greater harmony and more splendidachievement.