CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
Preface[v]
ILand of Persecution[1]
IIMushroom Gathering[9]
IIIA Slovak Folk Tale[17]
IVThe Voice of the Wood[30]
VSummer[34]
VIVillage Incidents[40]
VIIAn Adventure[50]
VIIIA Visit to "Matthew's Land"[60]
IXJozef Goes to School[66]
XSchool Days in Bohemia[74]
XIWar[85]
XIIUncle Jozef's Story[97]
XIIIUncle Jozef's Story Continued[104]
XIVThe Czecho-Slovak Republic[114]

List of Illustrations

PAGE
"The next day, Ruzena drove the geese to pasture" (See [page 41]) [Frontispiece]
"'Will a time never come when we shall be free?'"[5]
"The girls huddled together, too much frightened to move"[57]
"He used to wander . . . to the fortifications"[74]
"The villagers never tired of hearing it"[92]
"He . . . dropped his treasure at Ruzena's bedside"[96]