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    Our Little Roumanian Cousin
    Our Little Roumanian Cousin
    Our Little Roumanian Cousin
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    Our Little Roumanian Cousin

    By Clara Vostrovsky Winlow

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Our Little Roumanian Cousin - Clara Vostrovsky Winlow

      Project Gutenberg's Our Little Roumanian Cousin, by Clara Vostrovsky Winlow

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      Title: Our Little Roumanian Cousin

      Author: Clara Vostrovsky Winlow

      Release Date: September 4, 2013 [EBook #43637]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR LITTLE ROUMANIAN COUSIN ***

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      HathiTrust Digital Library.)

      Our Little Roumanian Cousin

      THE

      Little Cousin Series

      (TRADE MARK)

      Each volume illustrated with six or more full page plates in

      tint. Cloth, 12mo, with decorative cover

      per volume, 60 cents

      LIST OF TITLES

      By Mary Hazelton Wade, Mary F.

      Nixon-Roulet, Blanche McManus,

      Clara V. Winlow, Florence E.

      Mendel and Others

      THE PAGE COMPANY

      53 Beacon Street,                   Boston, Mass.

      OFFERED HIM HIS HAND. (See page 23)

      Copyright 1917, by

      The Page Company

      All rights reserved

      First Impression, July, 1917

      PREFACE

      In Southern Europe are a number of comparatively small countries known as the Balkan States, which remind one very much of quarrelsome children whose troubles have to be straightened out by older brothers and sisters. Many years ago there were more independent and partially independent states than now. Two of these little principalities called Walachia and Moldavia found that they could better protect themselves from their neighbors if they stood together. So they combined under one government, and the present country of Roumania was formed in 1857.

      In its native form the name of this country was Romania, representing the claim of the inhabitants to descent from the Roman legions that colonized the country. These colonists, who called themselves Romani, or Rumeni, came from the Carpathian lands and the present Transylvania in the early Middle Ages.

      When once started, Roumania grew quite strong as a state. The people wanted to learn, and improve their condition, and there is no better example of this than their farming, for this country has become one of the greatest grain exporting countries in Europe. This was done, for one thing, by giving up their old-fashioned wooden plows, which just scratched the surface of the ground, and using modern steel plows from other countries which turned the ground over, just as our plows do.

      The Roumanian men and women are strong and sturdy, and the men are noted for their bravery and hardiness. So, among the Roumanian children, we find hardy, manly little boys and cheerful, if serious-minded, little girls. However, they like to play, just as do all of our little foreign cousins. This little book tells about their everyday games and pastimes, how they live, and how they dress.

      The brave fathers and brothers of our little Roumanian cousins took their places in the battle line to defend their homes in the great war that is now being fought in Europe. No one knows what the outcome of this terrible struggle will be. Will Roumania be destroyed, or will she emerge a greater and more powerful country, standing for liberty and justice? Time only will tell.

      [viii]

      [ix]

      Contents

      List of Illustrations

      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.

      Jonitza paid no attention. Ever since he had been seriously ill the month before, he had grown accustomed to having people wait on him. He now turned on his back and began tracing in the air with his finger the pretty stenciled patterns that covered the walls. Tiring of that, he started beating a monotonous tattoo with one foot, until his mother, with the faintest shade of impatience, said: I think you'd better get up. You've been lying on the floor for a whole hour doing nothing.

      Jonitza arose languidly, stretched himself, and walking over to one of the big double windows, plumped himself down into a deep arm chair in front of it.

      Jonitza's home was a very

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