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  Cuore

  Edmondo De Amicis]

  "THE BOY HAD WALKED TEN MILES."--Page 123.]

  CUORE

  (HEART)

  AN

  ITALIAN SCHOOLBOY'S JOURNAL

  _A Book for Boys_

  BY

  EDMONDO DE AMICIS

  _TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRTY-NINTH ITALIAN EDITION_

  BY

  ISABEL F. HAPGOOD

  NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS

  COPYRIGHT, 1887, 1895 and 1901.

  BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY

  COPYRIGHT, 1915.

  BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD

  Printed in the United States of America

  AUTHOR'S PREFACE

  THIS book is specially dedicated to the boys of the elementary schoolsbetween the ages of nine and thirteen years, and might be entitled: "TheStory of a Scholastic Year written by a Pupil of the Third Class of anItalian Municipal School." In saying written by a pupil of the thirdclass, I do not mean to say that it was written by him exactly as it isprinted. He noted day by day in a copy-book, as well as he knew how,what he had seen, felt, thought in the school and outside the school;his father at the end of the year wrote these pages on those notes,taking care not to alter the thought, and preserving, when it waspossible, the words of his son. Four years later the boy, being then inthe lyceum, read over the MSS. and added something of his own, drawingon his memories, still fresh, of persons and of things.

  Now read this book, boys; I hope that you will be pleased with it, andthat it may do you good.

  EDMONDO DE AMICIS.

  CONTENTS.

  OCTOBER. PAGE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 1 OUR MASTER 3 AN ACCIDENT 5 THE CALABRIAN BOY 6 MY COMRADES 8 A GENEROUS DEED 10 MY SCHOOLMISTRESS OF THE UPPER FIRST 12 IN AN ATTIC 14 THE SCHOOL 16 _The Little Patriot of Padua_ 17 THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP 20 THE DAY OF THE DEAD 22

  NOVEMBER.

  MY FRIEND GARRONE 24 THE CHARCOAL-MAN AND THE GENTLEMAN 26 MY BROTHER'S SCHOOLMISTRESS 28 MY MOTHER 30 MY COMPANION CORETTI 31 THE HEAD-MASTER 35 THE SOLDIERS 38 NELLI'S PROTECTOR 40 THE HEAD OF THE CLASS 42 _The Little Vidette of Lombardy_ 44 THE POOR 50

  DECEMBER.

  THE TRADER 52 VANITY 54 THE FIRST SNOW-STORM 56 THE LITTLE MASON 58 A SNOWBALL 61 THE MISTRESSES 62 IN THE HOUSE OF THE WOUNDED MAN 64 _The Little Florentine Scribe_ 66 WILL 75 GRATITUDE 77

  JANUARY.

  THE ASSISTANT MASTER 79 STARDI'S LIBRARY 81 THE SON OF THE BLACKSMITH-IRONMONGER 83 A FINE VISIT 85 THE FUNERAL OF VITTORIO EMANUELE 87 FRANTI EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL 89 _The Sardinian Drummer-Boy_ 91 THE LOVE OF COUNTRY 100 ENVY 102 FRANTI'S MOTHER 104 HOPE 105

  FEBRUARY.

  A MEDAL WELL BESTOWED 108 GOOD RESOLUTIONS 110 THE ENGINE 112 PRIDE 114 THE WOUNDS OF LABOR 116 THE PRISONER 118 _Daddy's Nurse_ 122 THE WORKSHOP 132 THE LITTLE HARLEQUIN 135 THE LAST DAY OF THE CARNIVAL 139 THE BLIND BOYS 142 THE SICK MASTER 149 THE STREET 151

  MARCH.

  THE EVENING SCHOOLS 154 THE FIGHT 156 THE BOYS' PARENTS 158 NUMBER 78 160 A LITTLE DEAD BOY 163 THE EVE OF THE FOURTEENTH OF MARCH 164 THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES 166 STRIFE 172 MY SISTER 174 _Blood of Romagna_ 176 THE LITTLE MASON ON HIS SICK-BED 184 COUNT CAVOUR 187

  APRIL.

  SPRING 189 KING UMBERTO 191 THE INFANT ASYLUM 196 GYMNASTICS 201 MY FATHER'S TEACHER 204 CONVALESCENCE 215 FRIENDS AMONG THE WORKINGMEN 217 GARRONE'S MOTHER 219 GIUSEPPE MAZZINI 221 _Civic Valor_ 223

  MAY.

  CHILDREN WITH THE RICKETS 229 SACRIFICE 231 THE FIRE 233 _From the Apennines to the Andes_ 237 SUMMER 276 POETRY 278 THE DEAF-MUTE 280

  JUNE.

  GARIBALDI 290 THE ARMY 291 ITALY 293 THIRTY-TWO DEGREES 295 MY FATHER 297 IN THE COUNTRY 298 THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES TO THE WORKINGMEN 302 MY DEAD SCHOOLMISTRESS 305 THANKS 308 _Shipwreck_ 309

  JULY.

  THE LAST PAGE FROM MY MOTHER 317 THE EXAMINATIONS 318 THE LAST EXAMINATION 321 FAREWELL 323

  CUORE.

  AN ITALIAN SCHOOLBOY'S JOURNAL.