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Title: Rafael in Italy
A Geographical Reader

Author: Etta Blaisdell McDonald
Julia Dalrymple

Release Date: May 12, 2009 [EBook #28765]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

The Vocabulary at the end of the book gives the Phonetic
pronunciation of the Italian words used in the book.

The Unicode alphabets have been given wherever available.
But the following two Phonetic diacritical marks do not
have a Unicode representation.

inverted "T" -- (uptack)

"T" -- (downtack)

[Illustration: ON THE APPIAN WAY]

LITTLE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE

RAFAEL IN ITALY

A GEOGRAPHICAL READER

BY ETTA BLAISDELL McDONALD

Joint author of "Boy Blue and His Friends,"
"The Child Life Readers," etc.

AND JULIA DALRYMPLE

Author of "Little Me Too," "The Make-Believe Boys," etc.

SCHOOL EDITION

BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

1910

_Copyright_, _1909_,

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

* * * * *

PREFACE

The very best way to understand the life and customs of a foreign
country is to visit it. If that is impossible one may still learn much
by reading a story of the people who live there. As this is true of
grown people, so is it true of children. They can become acquainted
with the children of other lands by reading stories of their simple,
daily life, and by living it for a little while within the pages of
the story-book.

It is no longer th