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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.

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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 the fashion for our school children to learn by rote
the facts written down in their geography about all the corners of the
earth; they must know rather the children in these foreign lands,--the
sights they see, their work and play, their festivals and holidays,
their homes, their ambitions