The little acrobat: a story of Italy

THE LITTLE ACROBAT
A STORY OF ITALY
BY JANIE PRICHARD DUGGAN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY NANA FRENCH BICKFORD
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1919
Copyright, 1919 , By Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved Published, September, 1919 Norwood Press Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
DEDICATED TO MEMORIES OF TWO LITTLE “ANGELICALS” OF ROME SPOTTISWOODE AND SUSIE BY “CUDDIE”
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE LITTLE ACROBAT
A STORY OF ITALY
The July sunshine lay hot and golden over the fields of wheat on the Italian hillsides, and the deep shade of the chestnut woods along the road was more inviting than the white glare beyond. The sun stood directly overhead, and along the middle of that white, dusty road there was not an inch of shadow.