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26 - The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi · Adventure Books Library

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  Chapter twenty six, Pinocchio goes to the sea shore with his friends to see
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  the terrible shark. In the morning, right and early, Pinocchio started for
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  school. Imagine what the boy said when they saw a MarioNet enter the classroom.
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  They laughed until they cried. Everyone played tricks on him. One pulled
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  his hat off, another tugged at his coat, A third tried to paint
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  a mustache under his nose. One even attempted to tie strength to his feet
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  in his hands to make him dance. For a while, Pinocchio was very
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  calm and quiet. Finally, however, he lost all patience, and turning
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  to his tormentors, he said to them threateningly, careful boys, I haven't
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  come here to be made fine of. I'll respect you, and I want
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  you to respect me. Hurray for doctor. Knowall you have spoken like a
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  printed book, howled the boys, bursting with laughter. One of them,
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  more impudent than the rest, put out his hand to pull the marinet's nose.
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  But he was not quick enough, for Pinocchio stretched his leg under the
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  table and kicked him hard on the shin. Oh what hard feet, cried
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  the boy, rubbing the spot where the marinet had kicked him, and but
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  elbows they are even harder than the feet, shouted another one, who because
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  of some other trick, had received a blow in the stomach. With that
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  cake, and that blow, Pinocchio gained everybody's favor. Everyone admired him.
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  Then's attendance upon him petty didn caressed him. As the days passed in two
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  weeks, even the teacher praised him, for he saw him attentive, hard
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  working, and wide awake, always the first to come in the morning and
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  the last leave when school was over. Pinocchio's only fault was that he had
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  too many friends. Among these were many well known rascals who cared not a
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  jot for study or for success. The teacher warned him each day, and
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  even the good Fairy repeated to him many times. Take care, Pinocchio.
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  Those bad companions will sooner or later make you lose your love for study.
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  Some day they will lead you astray. There's no such danger, answered the
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  Marionett, shrugging his shoulders and pointing to his forehead as if to say,
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  I'm too wise. So it happened that one day, as he was walking
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  to school, he met some boys who ran up to him and said,
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  have you heard the news? No, a shark as big as a mountain
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  has been seen near the shore. Really, I wonder if it could be
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  the same one I heard of when my father was drowned. We are going
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  to see it, are you coming? No? Not, I I must
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  go to school. What do you care about school? You can go there
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  tomorrow with a lesson more or less. We are always the same donkeys.
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  And what will the teachers say? Let him talk? He is paid to
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  grumble all day long. And my mother mothers don't know anything, answered those
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  camps. Do you know what I'll do, said Pinocchio, for certain reasons
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  of mine. I too want to see that chart, But i'll go after
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  school. I can see him then as well as now. Poor simpleton,
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  cried one of the boys. Do you think that a fish of that size
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  will stand there waiting for you? He turns, and off he goes,
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  and no one will ever be the wiser. How long does it take from
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  here to the shore, asked the marionette. One hour there and back.
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  Very well, then let's see who gets there first, cried Pinocchio. At
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  the signal, the little troop, with bugs under their arms, dashed across
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  the fields, Pinocchio led away, running as upon wings, the others following
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  as fast as they could. Now and again he looked back, and,
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  seeing his followers hot and tired, and with tongues hanging out, he laughed
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  out heartily. Unhappy boy, if he had only known then the dreadful things
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  that were to happen to him on account of his disobedience. End of Chapter twenty six