Chapter I: Front Matter

THE LITTLE
MATCH MAN

_BY_ LUIGI BARZINI

_Illustrations by_
HATTIE LONGSTREET

THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY—PHILADELPHIA
1917

COPYRIGHT 1917
THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY

1917

The Little Match Man

THE LITTLE MATCH MAN

_Translated from the Italian of Luigi Barzini
by S. F. Woodruff_

CONTENTS

I. MY SURPRISE 11
II. THE FIRST ADVENTURE 19
III. HE CONFIDES IN ME 27
IV. ABOUT A STORK AND A BATTLE 33
V. THE HAJI SAVES THE WARRIOR 43
VI. THE SAD STORY OF THE TRANSFORMATION 51
VII. THE END OF FIAM’S FEARS 59
VIII. FIAM GOES TO THE WAR 67
IX. POSTAGE STAMPS 73
X. FIAMMIFERINO HAS A BATH 83
XI. A CURIOUS COSTUME 91
XII. FIAM AS A MOUNTAIN CLIMBER 97
XIII. A CHANGE OF RESIDENCE 103
XIV. FIAM OVERLOOKS THE BATTLE 109
XV. FIAM WEARS A FUR COAT 115
XVI. FIAM’S SILVER ARMOUR 123
XVII. A SINGULAR ENCOUNTER 129
XVIII. I AM ENTRUSTED WITH A DELICATE MISSION 137
XIX. THE EFFECT OF FIAM’S FORESIGHT 143
XX. FIAM GOES FORTH 149
XXI. THE ZEAL OF DR. TASA 159

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
“I Like This Fur” _Frontispiece_
The Little Man Moved 16
“Look at Me!” 22
“The Knot is Loose” 24
“You Are Right,” He Said 30
“My Friend the Stork Arrived” 36
“I Must Conquer or Cease to Live” 46
“You Will Be Adored” 48
“They Took Me First Into the Valley” 56
He Read What I Wrote 64
Going Down From Button to Button 70
He Hurried Under My Waistcoat 75
He Walked Over Them 80
Fiam Began to Dance 87
He Leaned Over 87
I Raised Him Up 88
Fiam Falls In 89
He Was Dreadfully Humiliated 95
“It Was a Long Tunnel” 101
I Found Him a Good Place 107
“Bravo, Advance!” 112
“Who is Winning?” 112
He Was Lying There Immovable 119
How Proud He Was 125
He Began to Caper 126
“I Will Tell You an Important Secret” 140
“Don’t Lose Time” 154
I Put Him on the Ground 157