Our Little Porto
Rican Cousin

By
Mary Hazelton Wade
Illustrated by
L. J. Bridgman


Boston
L. C. Page & Company
Publishers


Copyright, 1902
By L. C. Page & Company
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(INCORPORATED)
All rights reserved
Published, June, 1902
Fifth Impression, March, 1906
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.


Preface

The beautiful island of Porto Rico lies, as you will see by looking at the map, near that great open doorway to North America and the United States which we call the Gulf of Mexico. Very near it looks, does it not?