Friends in strange garments

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS

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A collection of illustrated short stories that portray everyday moments in the lives of children across several European and Near Eastern locales, often drawn from the author’s relief work. Brief vignettes highlight sharing, play, family duty, local customs, and small acts of kindness amid economic hardship, with regional dress and festivals providing visual detail. Each tale pairs a concise narrative scene with observational drawings to emphasize common human sympathies and the ways youngsters form friendships and resilience despite differing surroundings.

ILLUSTRATIONS

The blue bead was a charm against the evil eye	Colored Frontispiece
Writing for those who did not know how	10
Five boys sat matching pennies on the floor of a temple	14
He and the donkey trotted home along the sea wall	22
Stringing Peppers	36
Rustem and Marko	42
An Albanian Story-Teller (in color)	46
Zorka with Her Pet Pigs	52
Todor and the Squashes	70
Peter and Pavlo	74
Shared their dinner of hot corn on the cob (in color)	86
Began softly to play the Hillside Song	98
Rather shyly she opened the big painted chest	110
Basil Herding Geese	126
Her mother had sent her to draw a jar of water	130
They had waved good-bye to him (in color)	144