What is the Armenian word for “mamma?”
What do the children learn in the church schools?
How do the children go home from school?
What do the boys do in winter? In summer?
ARMENIAN HOMES
Hagop and Garabet live at the foot of Mount Ararat in a small village.
Their father is very poor and cannot afford to build a house, so they live in a hut, built of mud, with walls three feet thick.
The inside of the house is plastered with chopped straw and mud mixed together. The mud roof is flat and is kept smooth by rolling it often with a stone, or treading it with bare feet. Hagop and Garabet think it is great fun to go up on the roof after it rains and tread the soft mud with their bare feet. Then their father rolls it with a big round stone until it is smooth and firm.