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09 - The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine, Pinocchio sells his A B. Sea Book to
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  Speaker 1: pay his way into the Marionette theater. See Pinocchio hurrying
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  Speaker 1: off to school with his new A B. Sea Book
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  Speaker 1: under his arm. As he walked along, his brain was
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  Speaker 1: busy planning hundreds of wonderful things, building hundreds of castles
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  Speaker 1: in the air. Talking to himself, he said, in school
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  Speaker 1: to day, I'll learn to read tomorrow, to write the
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  Speaker 1: day after tomorrow, while do arithmetic and clever as I am.
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  Speaker 1: I can earn a lot of money. With the very
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  Speaker 1: first pennies I make. I'll buy father a new cloth
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  Speaker 1: coat cloth Did I say no? It shall be of
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  Speaker 1: gold and silver with diamond buttons. That poor man deserves
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  Speaker 1: it for after all, isn't he in his shirt sleeves?
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  Speaker 1: Because he was good enough to buy a book for
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  Speaker 1: me on this cold day too. Fathers are indeed good
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  Speaker 1: to their children. As he talked to himself, he thought
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  Speaker 1: he heard sounds of pipes and drums coming from a distance.
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  Speaker 1: Pee pee pee pee pee pee Zum zum sum sum.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped to listen. Those sounds came from a little
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  Speaker 1: street that led to a small village along the shore.
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  Speaker 1: What can that noise be what a nuisance that I
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  Speaker 1: have to go to school otherwise? Then he stopped, very
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  Speaker 1: much puzzled. He felt he had to make up his
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  Speaker 1: mind for either one thing or another. Should he go
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  Speaker 1: to school or should he follow the pipes. To day,
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  Speaker 1: I'll follow the pipes, and tomorrow I'll go to school.
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  Speaker 1: There's always plenty of time to go to school, decided
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  Speaker 1: the little rascal at last, shrugging his shoulders. No. Sooner
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  Speaker 1: said than done. He started down the street, going like
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  Speaker 1: the wind. On he ran and louder grew the sounds
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  Speaker 1: of pipe and drum pee pee pee pee pee pee
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  Speaker 1: pee bp sum zum zum zum. Suddenly he found himself
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  Speaker 1: in a large square full of people, standing in front
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  Speaker 1: of a little wooden building painted in brilliant colors. What
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  Speaker 1: is that house, Pinocchio asked the little boy near him.
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  Speaker 1: Read the side, and you'll know I'd like to read,
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  Speaker 1: but somehow I can't. To day, Oh really, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: read it to you know? Then that written in letters
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  Speaker 1: of fire, I see the words Great Marionette Theater. When
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  Speaker 1: did the show start? It's starting now? And how much
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  Speaker 1: does one pay to get? In? Four pennies Pinocchio, who
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  Speaker 1: was wild with curiosity to know what was going on inside,
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  Speaker 1: lost all his pride and said to the boy shamelessly,
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  Speaker 1: will you give me four pennies until tomorrow? I'd give
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  Speaker 1: them to you gladly, answered the other, poking fun at him.
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  Speaker 1: But just now I can't give them to you for
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  Speaker 1: the price of four pennies. I'll sell you my coat
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  Speaker 1: if it rains. What shall I do with a coat
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  Speaker 1: of flowered paper? I could not take it off again.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to buy my shoes? They are only
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  Speaker 1: good enough to light a fire with? What about my hat?
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  Speaker 1: Fine bargain? Indeed a cap of dough? The mice might
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  Speaker 1: come and eat it from my head. Pinocchio was almost
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  Speaker 1: in tears. He was just about to make one last offer,
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  Speaker 1: but he lacked the courage to do so. He hesitated,
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  Speaker 1: he wondered, he could not make up his mind. At last,
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  Speaker 1: he said, will you give me four pennies for the book?
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  Speaker 1: I am a boy, and I buy nothing from boys,
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  Speaker 1: said the little fellow, with far more common sense than
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  Speaker 1: the marionette. I'll give you four pennies for your A. B. C. Book,
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  Speaker 1: said a ragpicker who stood by. Then and there the
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  Speaker 1: book changed hands. And to think that poor old Geppetto
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  Speaker 1: sat at home in his shirt sleeve eb shivering with cold,
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  Speaker 1: having sold his coat to buy that little book for
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  Speaker 1: his son. So ends Chapter nine,