UNDER GREEK SKIES
Little Schoolmate Series
EDITED BY
FLORENCE CONVERSE
By Katharine Lee Bates
UNDER GREEK SKIES
By Julia D. Dragoumis
A BOY IN EIRINN
By Padraic Colum
Others in Preparation
COMING·TOWARDS·THEM
E·P·DUTTON & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1913
BY
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
TO
MY THREE GRANDCHILDREN
NICO AND ALEXANDRA YANNICOSTA
AND
NADINE RALLI
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK [vii]
A LETTER TO THE ONE WHO READS THIS BOOK
Dear Little Schoolmate:
If you have read the story of Pilarica and Rafael in sunny Spain,you know that these “Stories for Little Schoolmates” arebeing written about the child you might have been, if your father andmother—or your grandfathers and grandmothers—had stayed inSpain, or some other far country, instead of coming across the sea tolive in America. “In Sunny Spain” told you what you mighthave been doing a few years ago, if you had been a Spanish child duringthe Cuban war; and now this new book will tell you how children workand play in Greece.
There are not yet many school children with Greek names in theUnited States, for most of the Greeks who have come to America