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.

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

RAFAEL IN ITALY

CHAPTER I AN EVENING IN VENICE

CHAPTER II VIVA L'ITALIA!

CHAPTER III RAFAEL'S TRAINED TOPS

CHAPTER IV STREETS OF VENICE

CHAPTER V STRINGING VENETIAN BEADS

CHAPTER VI SUNSET FROM THE TOWER OF SAN GIORGIO

CHAPTER VII A CHAT ABOUT VERONA

CHAPTER VIII EDITH'S FLORENTINE MOSAIC

CHAPTER IX RAFAEL LEAVES VENICE

CHAPTER X GATHERING GRAPES IN TUSCANY

CHAPTER XI A MARATHON RUN TO ROME

CHAPTER XII "THE GOLDEN MILESTONE"

CHAPTER XIII A RAMBLE IN ROME

CHAPTER XIV A MORNING IN THE COLOSSEUM

CHAPTER XV MERRY NAPLES

CHAPTER XVI THE BURIED CITY

CHAPTER XVII THE MAGIC OF THE FOUNTAIN

VOCABULARY

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)