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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