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Meet the young Piccino, who lives in Ceraini, a small Italian town, with his family. A rich lady from England notices the child and wishes to adopt him and turn him into a fine boy from the upper class. Piccino is not certain he will ever adapt to such a new lifestyle, wishing nothing more than to go home… This is a story about innocence and the longing for home that no wealth can soothe. Piccino represents a nameless youth who’s not interested in raising up to social expectations. “Two Days in the Life of Piccino” is the first part of “Piccino and Other Child Stories”. Be sure to check this lovely tale!
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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CHAPTER I
Two Days in the Life of Piccino
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
CHAPTER I
If he lived a hundred years—to be as old as Giuseppe, who was little Roberto’s great-grand-father, and could only move when he was helped, and sat in the sun and played with bits of string—if he lived to be as old as that, he could never forget them, those two strange and dreadful days.
When sometimes he spoke of them to such of his playmates as were older than himself—especially to Carlo, who tended sheep, and was afraid of nothing, even making jokes about the forestieri—they said they thought he had been foolish; that as it seemed that the people had been ready to give him anything, it could not have been so bad but one could have tried to bear it, though they all agreed that it was dreadful about the water.
It is true, too, that as he grew older himself, after his mother died and his father married again—the big Paula who flew into such rages and beat him—and when he had to tend sheep and goats himself, and stay out on the hills all day in such ragged jackets and with so little food—because Paula said he had not earned his salt, and she had her own children to feed—then he longed for some of the food he would not eat during those two days, and wondered if he would do quite the same thing again under the same circumstances. But this was only when he was very hungry and the mistral was blowing, and the Mediterranean looked gray instead of blue.
He was such a tiny fellow when it happened. He was not yet six years old, and when a child is under six he has not reached the age when human creatures have begun to face life for themselves altogether; and even a little Italian peasant, who tumbles about among sheep and donkeys, which form part of his domestic circle, is still in a measure a sort of baby, whose mother or brother or sister has to keep an occasional eye on him to see that he does not kill himself. And then also Piccino had been regarded by his family as a sort of capital, a...
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Listen to Two Days in the Life of Piccino in the app. It's free and ad-free.
About this book
Meet the young Piccino, who lives in Ceraini, a small Italian town, with his family. A rich lady from England notices the child and wishes to adopt him and turn him into a fine boy from the upper class. Piccino is not certain he will ever adapt to such a new lifestyle, wishing nothing more than to go home… This is a story about innocence and the longing for home that no wealth can soothe. Piccino represents a nameless youth who’s not interested in raising up to social expectations. “Two Days in the Life of Piccino” is the first part of “Piccino and Other Child Stories”. Be sure to check this lovely tale!
Author
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Read by
Digital Voice
Story
CHAPTER I
Two Days in the Life of Piccino
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
CHAPTER I
If he lived a hundred years—to be as old as Giuseppe, who was little Roberto’s great-grand-father, and could only move when he was helped, and sat in the sun and played with bits of string—if he lived to be as old as that, he could never forget them, those two strange and dreadful days.
When sometimes he spoke of them to such of his playmates as were older than himself—especially to Carlo, who tended sheep, and was afraid of nothing, even making jokes about the forestieri—they said they thought he had been foolish; that as it seemed that the people had been ready to give him anything, it could not have been so bad but one could have tried to bear it, though they all agreed that it was dreadful about the water.
It is true, too, that as he grew older himself, after his mother died and his father married again—the big Paula who flew into such rages and beat him—and when he had to tend sheep and goats himself, and stay out on the hills all day in such ragged jackets and with so little food—because Paula said he had not earned his salt, and she had her own children to feed—then he longed for some of the food he would not eat during those two days, and wondered if he would do quite the same thing again under the same circumstances. But this was only when he was very hungry and the mistral was blowing, and the Mediterranean looked gray instead of blue.
He was such a tiny fellow when it happened. He was not yet six years old, and when a child is under six he has not reached the age when human creatures have begun to face life for themselves altogether; and even a little Italian peasant, who tumbles about among sheep and donkeys, which form part of his domestic circle, is still in a measure a sort of baby, whose mother or brother or sister has to keep an occasional eye on him to see that he does not kill himself. And then also Piccino had been regarded by his family as a sort of capital, a...
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