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Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/cuoreheartitaliaOOdeamrich i "THE BOY HAD WALKED TEN MILES." — Page 123 : CUORE (HEART) AN ITALIAN SCHOOLBOY'S JOUENAL a Booft for Bogs BY EDMONOO DE AMICIS TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRTY-NINTH ITALIAN EDITIOS BY ISABEL F HAPGOOD NEW YORK THOMAS Y CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS 41013, CopYMGHT, By THOMAS T 1887, 1895 and 1901 CROWELL & COMPANY Copyright, 1915 By ISABEL F HAPGOOD Printed in the United States of America 7^3 >A^ AUTHOR'S PREFACE This book is specially dedicated to the boys of the elementary schools between the ages of nine and teen years, Scholastic and might be Year written by a Pupil of an Italian Municipal School." a pupil of the third class, "The entitled: of the thir- Story of a Third Class In saying written by I not mean to say that was written by him exactly as it is printed 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 it outside the school; his father at the end of the year wrote these pages on those notes, taking care not to and preserving, when it was possible, Four years later the boy, being then in the lyceum, read over the MSS and added something of his own, drawing on his memories, still fresh, of persons and of things Now read this book, boys I hope that you will be pleased with it, and that it may you good alter the thought, the words of his son ; Edmondo De ii'r'^ia^iiiij Amicis Lit/ SHIP WRECK 516 Mario seized Giulietta by the bod}-, and threw het into the sea The girl uttered a cry and made a splash ; a sailor seized her by the arm, and dragged her into the boat The boy remained at the vessel's side, with his hea[...]... Head-Master The Soldiers Nelli's Protector The Head of the Class The Little Vidette 24 26 of Lomhardy The Poor 35 38 40 42 44 60 DECEMBER The Trader Vanity The First Snow-Storm The Little Mason 62 64 56 58 CONTENTS, iv A PAOl 61 Snowball Thb Mistresses In the House of the Wounded The Little Florentine Scribe 62 64 66 Man , Will 75 Geatitude 77 JANUARY The Assistant Master 79 Stardi's Library 81 The Son of the... quietly voice : — AN ACCIDENT, 5 "Forgive me, Signor Master." kissed him on the Jxrow, and The master my said, " Go, son." AN ACCIDENT Friday, 2l8t The year has begun with an accident On my way my father to school this morning I was repeating to these wdrds of our teacher, street was full of people, when we who were ' : We ' An accident The year ! entered with great pressing close to Suddenly the door of... made no reply, and seemed to hate and despise every one, to such an extent had privation And aflliction — ; saddened and irritated him by dint of persisting ceeded in making him unloose eJlers, rough words, a mixture of Nevertheless, three travin their questions, suchis tongue Venetian, ; and in a few French, and Spanish, he related his story These three travellers were not Italians, but they understood...CONTENTS OCTOBER, y^^ The First Dj^ y of School Our Master 1 3 An Accident 5 The Calabrian Boy 6 My A Comrades Generous Deed My 8 10 Schoolmistress of the Upper First In an Attic The School 14 16 Padua The Chimney-Sweep The Day of the Dead The 12 , Little Patriot of 17 20 22 NOVEMBER My Friend Garrone The Charcoal-Man and the Gentleman My Brother's Schoolmistress... neck, with sobs it was the mother of the baby who had been saved Both : and a desperate cry made My chUd " flew into the room, heard At : " Oh that my Giulio moment ! itself ! a carriage stopped before the door, and a little later the director made his appearance, with the boy in his arms the latter leaned his head on his shoulder, with pallid face and closed eyes Every one stood very still the sobs of... loudly : — " Ernesto Derossi " ! first prize Come '' — the boy who always has the Derossi rose here," said the master bench and stepped up to the little Derossi left his table, facing the Calabrian *' As the head boy in the school,'* said the master to bestow the embrace ot welcome on this new in the name ol the whole class the em'^race of the sons of Piedmont to the son oi Calnbria." Derossi embraced... SCHOOLMISTRESS OF THE UPPER FIRST Thursday, 27th My schoolmistress has kept her promise which she made, and came to-day just as I was on the point of my mother to carry some Unen to a poor woman recommended by the Gazette It was a year We all made a since I had seen her in our house She is just the same as ever, a little great deal of her thing, with a green veil wound about her bonnet, carelessly dressed, and with... their parents depart, began to cr}-, and the parents had to go back and comfort and reprimand them, and the teachers were in despair My little brother was placed in the class of Mistress Delcati; I was put with Master Perboni, up At ten o'clock we were all in stairs on the first floor : ; cor classes : fifty-four of us ; only fifteen or sixteen of my companions of the second class, among them, Derossi,... in another declared that he had found nothing but swindlers and brigands in Italy that Italian officials '' do not know how ; the third said to read 'If s an ignorant nation,' repeated the filthy nation,' added the second ' Ro — ' first 'A exclaimed THE CmMNET-SWEEP, 20 the third, meaning to say ' allowed to finish the word half-lire but he was not a tempest of soldi and robbers : ' ; descended upon... offence to this comrade, because he was not born in our province, would render himself unworthy of ever again raising his eyes from the earth when he passes the tricolored in school " But it : — ; flag." Hardly was the Calabrian seated in his place, when him with pens and sl print; and another boy, from the last bench, sent him a Swisfl his neighbors presented poetage-stamp UY COMRADES Tuesday, 25th The ... words of his son ; Edmondo De ii'r'^ia^iiiij Amicis Lit/ CONTENTS OCTOBER, y^^ The First Dj^ y of School Our Master An Accident The Calabrian Boy My A Comrades Generous Deed My 10 Schoolmistress... http://www.archive.org/details/cuoreheartitaliaOOdeamrich i "THE BOY HAD WALKED TEN MILES." — Page 123 : CUORE (HEART) AN ITALIAN SCHOOLBOY'S JOUENAL a Booft for Bogs BY EDMONOO DE AMICIS TRANSLATED... Soldiers Nelli's Protector The Head of the Class The Little Vidette 24 26 of Lomhardy The Poor 35 38 40 42 44 60 DECEMBER The Trader Vanity The First Snow-Storm The Little Mason 62 64 56 58 CONTENTS,