AUTHOR﹀S PREFACE
OCTOBER
The First Day of School
Our Master
An Accident
The Calabrian Boy
My Classmates
A Noble Action
My School Mistress of the Upper First
In an Attic
The School
The Little Patriot of Padua
NOVEMBER
The Chimney Sweep
All Souls﹀Day
My Friend Garrone
The Charcoal Man and the Gentleman
My Brother﹀s School-Mistress
My Mother
My Companion Coretti
The Principal of the School
The Soldiers
The Protector of Nelli
The First of the Class
The Little Vidette of Lomdardy
The Poor
DECEMBER
The Trading Boy
Vanity
The First Snow Storm
The Little Mason
A Snow Ball
The School-Mistress
In the Home of the Wounded Man
The Little Florentine Writer
Will
Gratitude
FANUARY
The Substitute
Stardi﹀s Library
The Son of the Blacksmith
A Nice Visit
The Funeral of Vittorio Emanuele
Franti Expelled from School
The Sardinian Drummer-Boy
The Love of Our Country
Envy
Franti﹀s Mother
Hope
FEBRUARY
A Well-Awarded Medal
Good Resolutions
The Little Railway Train
Pride
The Wounds of Work
The Prisoner
Papa﹀s Nurse
The Workshop
The Little Clown
The Last Day of Carnival
The Blind Boys
The Sick Master
The Street
MARCH
The Evening Schools
The Fight
The Boys﹀ Relatives
Number 78
The Little Dead Boy
The Eve of the 14th of March
The Distribution of Prizes
A Quarrel
My Sister
Blood of Romagna
The Little Mason Seriously III
The Count Cavour
APRIL
Spring
King Umberto
The Infant Asylum
At the Gymnasium
My Father﹀s Teacher
Convalescence
The Friend of the Workman
Garrone﹀s Mother
Giuseppe Mazzini
Civic Valor
MAY
The Children with the Rickets
Sacrifice
The Fire
From the Apennines to the Andes
Summer
Poetry
The Deaf and Dumb Girl
FUNE
Garibaldi
The Army
Italy
Thirty-two Degrees Centigrade
My Father
In the Country
The Distribution of Prizes to the Workmen
My Dead School-Mistress
Thanks
A Shipwreck
FULY
The Last Page from My Mother
The Examination
The Last Examination
Farewell