List of Illustrations
| PAGE | |
| "Offered him his hand." (See [page 23]) | [Frontispiece] |
| "'We stood as if paralyzed'" | [45] |
| "It was only Maritza" | [51] |
| "There . . . lay two long shiny snakes" | [72] |
| "'Will you not let me take you home in the car?'" | [100] |
| "Something carefully covered with a sheet was carried mysteriously into Jonitza's room" | [109] |
Our Little Roumanian
Cousin
CHAPTER I
THE DOCTOR PRESCRIBES
Jonitza lay sprawled out on the warm carpet in the living-room near a big brick stove that reached almost to the ceiling. Beside him were his playthings and two picture books with fancy covers, but he kicked his slippered feet discontentedly at them, until his mother, seated at the other end of the room, arose, put down her sewing, and with a scarcely audible sigh, picked them up and laid them on the table.