OCTOBER Page 1 The First Day of School Page 1 Our Master Page 3 The Calabrian Boy Page 5 My Comrades Page 8 A Generous Deed Page 10 My Schoolmistress of the Upper First Page 12 In an Attic Page 14 The School Page 16 _The Little Patriot of Padua_ Page 17 The Chimney-Sweep Page 20 The Day of the Dead Page 22 NOVEMBER Page 24 My Friend Garrone Page 24 The Charcoal-Man and the Gentleman Page 26 My Brother's Schoolmistress Page 28 My Mother Page 30 My Companion Coretti Page 31 The Head-Master Page 35 The Soldiers Page 38 Nelli's Protector Page 40 The Head of the Class Page 42 _The Little Vidette of Lombardy_ Page 44 The Poor Page 50 DECEMBER Page 52 The Trader Page 52 Vanity Page 54 The First Snow-Storm Page 56 The Little Mason Page 58 A Snowball Page 60 The Mistresses Page 62 In the House of the Wounded Man Page 64 _The Little Florentine Scribe_ Page 66 Will Page 75 Gratitude Page 77 JANUARY Page 79 The Assistant Master Page 79 Stardi's Library Page 81 The Son of the Blacksmith-Ironmonger Page 83 A Fine Visit Page 85 The Funeral of Vittorio Emanuele Page 87 Franti Expelled from School Page 89 _The Sardinian Drummer-Boy_ Page 91 The Love of Country Page 100 Envy Page 102 Franti's Mother Page 104 Hope Page 105 FEBRUARY Page 108 A Medal Well Bestowed Page 108 Good Resolutions Page 110 The Engine Page 112 Pride Page 114 The Wounds of Labor Page 116 The Prisoner Page 118 _Daddy's Nurse_ Page 122 The Workshop Page 132 The Little Harlequin Page 135 The Last Day of the Carnival Page 139 The Blind Boys Page 142 The Sick Master Page 149 The Street Page 151 MARCH Page 154 The Evening School Page 154 The Fight Page 156 The Boys' Parents Page 158 Number 78 Page 160 A Little Dead Boy Page 163 The Eve of the Fourteenth of March Page 164 The Distribution of Prizes Page 166 Strife Page 172 My Sister Page 174 _Blood of Romagna_ Page 176 The Little Mason on His Sick-Bed Page 184 Count Cavour Page 187 APRIL Page 189 Spring Page 189 King Umberto Page 191 The Infant Asylum Page 196 Gymnastics Page 201 My Father's Teacher Page 204 Convalescence Page 215 Friends Among the Workingmen Page 217 Garrone's Mother Page 219 Giusepppe Mazzini Page 221 _Civic Valor_ Page 223 MAY Page 229 Children with the Rickets Page 229 Sacrifice Page 231 The Fire Page 233 _From the Apennines to the Andes_ Page 237 Summer Page 276 Poetry Page 278 The Deaf-Mute Page 280 JUNE Page 290 Garibaldi Page 290 The Army Page 291 Italy Page 293 Thirty-Two Degrees Page 295 My Father Page 297 In the Country Page 298 The Distribution of Prizes to the Workingmen Page 302 My Dead Schoolmistress Page 305 Thanks Page 308 _Shipwreck_ Page 309 JULY Page 317 The Last Page from my Mother Page 317 The Examinations Page 318 The Last Examination Page 321 Farewell Page 323