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The Adventures of Pinocchio · The Adventures of Pinocchio

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  Chapter one. How it happened that Mastro Cherry carpenter found a piece of wood
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  that wept and laughed like a child. Centuries ago there lived a king.
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  My little readers will say immediately, no, children, you are mistaken.
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  Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an
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  expensive piece of wood, far from it, just a common block of firewood,
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  one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in
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  the winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. I do not know how
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  this really happened, yet the fact remains that one fine day this piece of
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  wood found itself in the shop of an old carpenter. His name was Mastro
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  Antonio, but everybody called him Mastro Cherry, for the tip of his nose
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  was so round and red and shiny that it looked like a ripe cherry.
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  As soon as he saw that piece of wood, Mastro Cherry was filled with
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  joy. Rubbing his hands together happily, he mumbled half to himself, this
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  has come in the nick of time. I shall use it to make the
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  leg of a table. He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark
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  and shape the wood. But as he was about to give it the first
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  blow. He stood still with arm uplifted, for he had heard a wee
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  little voice say, in a beseeching tone, please be careful, do not
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  hit me so hard. With a look of surprise shone on Mastro Cherry's face,
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  his funny face became funnier still. He turned frightened eyes about the room
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  to find out where that wee little voice had come from, And he saw
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  no one. He looked under the bench, no one. He peeped inside
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  the closet, no one. He sir among the shavings, no one.
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  He opened the door to look up and down the street, and still no
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  one. Oh, I see, he said, laughing and scratching his wig.
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  It can easily be seen that I only thought I heard the tiny voice
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  say the words, well, well to work. Once more, he struck
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  a most solemn blow upon the piece of wood. Oh oh, you hurt,
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  cried the same far away little voice. Mastro Cherry groomed dumb, his
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  eyes popped out of his head, his mouth wide open, and his tongue
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  hung down on his chin. As soon as he regained the use of his
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  senses, he said, trembling and stuttering from fright where did that voice come
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  from when there is no one around? Might it be that this piece of
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  wood has learned to weep and cry like a child? I can hardly believe
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  it. Here it is a piece of common fire, good only to burn
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  in the stove, the same as any other. Yet might someone be hidden
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  in it? If so, the worse for him. I'll fix him with
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  these words. He grabbed the log with both hands and started to knock it
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  about unmercifully. He threw it to the floor, against the walls of the
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  room, and even up to the ceiling. He listened for the tiny voice
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  to moan and cry. He waited two minutes nothing, five minutes nothing,
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  ten minutes nothing. Oh I see, he said, trying bravely to laugh
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  and ruffling up his wig with his hand. It can easily be seen.
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  I only imagined I heard the tiny voice. Well, well, to work
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  once more. The poor fellow was scared half to death, so he tried
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  to sing a gay song in order to gain courage. He set aside the
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  hatchet and picked up the plane to make the wood smooth and even. But
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  as he drew it to and fro, he heard the same tiny voice.
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  This time it giggled as it spoke. Ha ha, stop it, stop
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  it, ha ha. You tickle my stomach this time, poor Mastro Cherry
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  fell as if shot. When he opened his eyes, he found himself sitting
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  on the floor. His face had changed fright, had turned even the tip
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  of his nose from red to deepest purple. End of chapter one, Chapter
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  two, Mastro Cherry gives the piece of wood to his friend Geppetto, who
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  takes it to make himself a marionette that will dance fence and turn somersaults.
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  In that very instant, a loud knock sounded on the door. Come in,
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  said the carpenter, not having an atom of strength left with which to
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  stand up at the words. The door opened, and a dapper little old
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  man came in. His name was Shippetto, but to the boys of the
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  neighborhood he was Polandina, on account of the wig he always wore, which
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  was just the color of yellow corn. Geppetto had a very bad temper.
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  Woe to the one who called him Polandina. He became as wild as a
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  beast, and no one could soothe him. Good day, Mastro Antonio,
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  said Gippetto, what are you doing on the floor. I am teaching the
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  ants their A B c's good luck to you? What brought you here?
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  Friend? Gippetto my legs? And it may flatter you to know, Mastro
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  Antonio, that I have come to beg for a favor. Here, I
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  am at your service, answered the carpenter, raising himself on to his knees.
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  This morning a fine idea came to me. Let's hear it. I
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  thought of making myself a beautiful wooden marionette. It must be wonderful one that
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  will be able to dance fence and turn somersaults with it. I intend to
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  go around the world to earn my crust of bread and cup of wine.
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  What do you think of it? Bravo Polandina, cried the same tiny voice,
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  which came from no one knew where. On hearing himself called Polandina,
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  Mastrogiapetto turned the color of a red pepper, and facing the carpenter, said
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  to him angrily, why do you insult me? Who is insulting you?
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  You called me Polandina? I did not I suppose you think I did?
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  Yet I know it was you. No, yes, no, yes,
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  And growing angrier each moment, they went from words to blows, and finally
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  began to scratch and bite and slash each other. When the fight was over,
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  Mastro Antonio had Gippetto's yellow wig in his hands, and Geppetto found the
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  carpenter's curly wig in his mouth. Give me back my wig, shouted Mastro
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  Antonio in a surly voice. You return mine, and we'll be friends.
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  The two little old men, each with his own wig back on his own
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  head, shook hands and swore to be friends for the rest of their lives.
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  Well, then, Mastro Geppetto, said the carpenter to show he bore
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  him. No ill, will what is it you want? I want a
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  piece of wood to make a marionette? Will you give it to me?
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  Mastro Antonio, very glad, indeed went immediately to his bench to get the
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  piece of wood which had frightened him so much. But as he was about
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  to give it to his friend, with a violent jerk, it slipped out
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  of his hands and hit against poor Geppetto's thin leg. Ah, is this
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  the gent away, Massro Antonio, in which you make your gifts. You
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  have made me almost lame. I swear to you I did not do it.
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  It was I. Of course, it is the fault of this piece
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  of wood. You're right, but remember you were the one to throw it
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  at my legs. I did not throw it. Liar Geppetto, do not
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  insult me, or I shall call you Polandina, idiot, Polandina, donkey,
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  Polandina, ugly monkey, Polandina. On hearing himself called Polandina for the
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  third time, Geppetto lost his head with rage and threw himself upon the carpenter.
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  Then and there they gave each other a sound thrashing. After this fight,
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  Mastro Antonio had two more scratches on his nose, and Geppetto had two
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  buttons missing from his coat. Thus, having said mettled their accounts, they
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  shook hands and swore to be good friends for the rest of their lives.
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  Then Geppetto took the fine piece of wood Saint Masstro Antonio, and limped away
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  towards home. End of chapter two. Chapter three. As soon as he
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  gets home, Geppetto fashions the marionette and calls it Pinocchio. The first pranks
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  of the marionette. Little as Geppetto's house was, it was neat and comfortable,
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  It was a small room on the ground floor, with a tiny window
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  under the stairway. The furniture could not have been much simpler. A very
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  old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble down table. A
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  fireplace full of burning logs was painted on the wall opposite the door. Over
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  the fire there was painted a pot full of something, which kept boiling happily
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  away and sending up clouds of what looked like real steam. As soon as
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  he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the
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  wood into a marionette. What shall I call him, he said to himself.
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  I think I'll call him Pinocchio. This name will make his fortune.
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  I knew a whole family of Pinocchi, once Pinocchio the father, Pinocchio the
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  mother, and Pinocchi the children, and they were all lucky. The richest
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  of them begged for his living. After choosing the name for his marionette,
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  Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair, the forehead, the eyes
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  fancy his surprise when he noticed that these eyes moved and then stared fixedly at
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  him. Geppetto, seeing this, felt insulted and said in a grieved tone
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  ugly wood in eyes, Why do you stare so There was no answer.
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  After the eyes, Geppetto made the nose, which began to stretch. As
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  soon as finished. It stretched and stretched and stretched, till it became so
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  long it seemed endless. Poor Geppetto kept cutting it and cutting it, but
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  the more he cut, the longer grew that impertinent nose. In despair,
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  he left it alone. Next he made the mouth. No sooner was it
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  finished than it began to laugh and poke fun at him. Stop laughing,
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  said Geppetto angrily. But he might as well have spoken to the wall.
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  Stop laughing, I say, he roared in a voice of thunder. The
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  mouth stopped laughing, but it stuck out a long tongue. Not wishing to
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  start an argument, Geppetto made believe he saw nothing and went on with his
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  work. After the mouth, he made the chin, then the neck,
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  the shoulders, the stomach, the arms, and the hands. As he
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  was about to put a last touches on the fingertips, Geppetto felt his wig
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  being pulled off. He glanced up, and what did he see? His
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  yellow wig was in the marionette's hand. Pinocchio, give me my wig,
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  but instead of giving it back, Pinocchio put it on his own head,
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  which was half swallowed up in it. At that unexpected trick, Geppetto became
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  very sad and downcast, more so than he had ever been before. Pinocchio,
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  You wicked boy, he cried out. You are not yet finished,
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  and you start out by being impudent to your poor old father. Very bad,
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  my son, very bad. And he wiped away a tear. The
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  legs and feet still had to be made. As soon as they were done,
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  Geppetto felt a sharp kick on the tip of his nose. I deserve
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  it, he said to himself. I should have thought of this before I
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  made him. Now it's too late. He took hold of the marionette under
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  the arms and put him on the floor to teach him to walk. Pinocchio's
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  legs were so stiff that he could could not move them, and Geppetto held
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  his hand and showed him how to put one foot after the other. When
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  his legs were timbered up, Pinocchio started walking by himself and ran all around
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  the room. He came to the open door, and with one leap he
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  was out into the street away he flew. Poor Geppetto ran after him,
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  but was unable to catch him, for Pinocchio ran in leaps and bounds his
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  two wooden feet as they beat on the stones of the street, making as
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  much noise as twenty peasants in wooden shoes. Catch him, catch him.
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  Geppetto kept shouting, but the people in the street, seeing a wooden marionette
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  running like the wind, stood still to stare and to laugh, until they
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  cried at last by sheer luck. A carabineer begin note a military policeman and
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  note happened along who, hearing all that noise, thought that it might be
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  a runaway colt, and stood bravely in the middle of the street with legs
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  wide apart, firmly resolved to stop it and prevent any trouble. Pinocchio saw
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  the carabineer from afar and tried his best to escape between the legs of the
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  big fellow, but without success. The carabineir grabbed him by the nose.
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  It was an extremely long one and seemed made on purpose for that very thing,
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  and returned him to Maestro Geppetto. The little old man wanted to pull
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  Pinocchio's ears. Think how he felt when, upon searching for them, he
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  discovered that he had forgotten to make them. All he could do was to
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  seize Pinocchio by the back of the neck and take him home. As he
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  was doing so, he shook him two or three times and said to him
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  angrily, we're going home now. When we get home, then we'll settle
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  this matter. Pinocchio, on hearing this, threw himself on the ground and
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  refused to take another step. One person after another gathered around the two said
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  one thing some another. Poor marionette called out, a man, I am
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  not surprised he doesn't want to go home. Geppetto, no doubt, will
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  beat him unmercifully. He is so mean and cruel. Geppetto looks like a
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  good man, added another. But with boys, he is a real tyrant.
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  If we leave that poor marionette in his hands, he may tear him
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  to pieces. They said so much that finally the carabinir ended matters by setting
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  Pinocchio at liberty and dragging Geppetto to prison. The poor old fellow did not
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  know how to defend himself, but wept and wailed like a child, and
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  said between his sobs ungrateful boy to think I tried so hard to make you
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  a well behaved marionette. I deserve it. However, I should have given
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  the matter more thought. What happened after this is an almost unbelievable story,
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  but you may read it, dear children, in the chapters that follow.
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  End of chapter three, Chapter four, the story of Pinocchio and the Talking
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  Cricket, in which one sees that bad children do not like to be corrected
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  by those who know more than they do. Very little time did it take
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  to get poor old geppetto to prison. In the meantime that Rascal Pinocchio,
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  free now from the clutches of the carabineer, was running wildly across the fields
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  and meadows, taking one short cut after another toward home. In his wild
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  flight, he leapt over brambles and bushes, and across brooks and ponds,
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  as if he were a goat or a hare chased by hounds. On reaching
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  home, he found the house door half open. He slipped into the room,
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  locked the door, and threw himself on the floor, happy at his
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  escape. But his happiness lasted only a short time, for just then he
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  heard someone saying creer, creer, creer, who is calling me? Asked
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  Pinocchio. Greatly frightened, I am Pinocchio, turned and saw a large cricket
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  crawling slowly up the wall. Tell me, cricket, who are you?
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  I am the talking cricket, and I have been living in this room for
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  more than one hundred years to day. However, this room is mine,
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  said the marionette. And if you wish to do me a favor, get
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  out now, and don't turn around even once. I refuse to leave this
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  spot, answered the cricket, until I have told you a great truth.
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  Tell it then and hurry. Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents
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  and run away from home. They will never be happy in this world,
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  and when they are older, they will be very sorry for it. Sing
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  on, cricket, mine as you please. What I know is that tomorrow
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  at dawn, I leave this place forever. If I stay here, the
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  same thing will happen to me, which happens to all other boys and girls.
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  They are sent to school, and whether they want to or not,
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  they must study. As for me, let me tell you I I hate
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  to study. It's much more fun I think to chase after butterflies, climb
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  trees and steal birds nests. Poor little silly, don't you know that if
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  you go on like that, you will grow into a perfect donkey, and
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  that you will be the living stock of everyone. Keep still, you,
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  ugly cricket, cried Pinocchio. But the cricket, who was a wise old
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  philosopher, instead of being offended at Pinocchio's impudence, continued in the same tone.
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  If you do not like going to school, why don't you at least
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  learn a trade so that you can earn an honest living Shall I tell you
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  something, asked Pinocchio, who was beginning to lose patience. Of all the
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  trades in the world, there is only one that really suits me. And
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  what can that be? That of eating, drinking, sleeping, playing,
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  and wandering around from morning till night. Let me tell you for your own
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  good, Pinocchio said the talking cricket in his calm voice, that those who
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  follow that trade always end up in the hospital or in prison. Careful,
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  ugly cricket, if you make me angry, you will be sorry. Poor
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  Pinocchio, I am sorry for you. Why because you are a marionette.
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  And what is much worse? You have a wooden head. At these last
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  words, Pinocchio jumped up in a fury, took a hammer from the bench,
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  and threw it with all his strength at the talking cricket. Perhaps he
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  did not think he would strike it, but sad to relate my dear children,
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  he did hit the cricket straight on its head with a last week crea
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  creat creet. The poor cricket fell from the wall dead end of chapter four.
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  Chapter five, Pinocchio is hungry and looks for an egg to cook himself
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  an omelet, but to his surprise, the omelet flies out the window.
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  If the cricket's death scared Pinocchio at all, it was only for a few
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  moments. For as night came on, a queer empty feeling at the pit
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  of his stomach reminded the marionette that he had eaten nothing as yet. A
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  boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer empty feeling
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  had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he
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  was as ravenous as a bear. Poor Pinocchio ran to the fireplace where the
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  pot was boiling, and stretched out his hand to take the cover off,
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  But to his amazement, the pot was only painted. Think how he felt
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  his long nose became at least two inches longer. He ran about the room,
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  dug in all the boxes and drawers, and even looked under the bed
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  and searched a piece of bread, hard though it might be, or a
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  cookie, or perhaps a bit of fish. A bone left by a dog
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  would have tasted good to him. But he found nothing, And meanwhile his
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  hunger grew and grew. The only relief poor Pinocchio had was to yawn,
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  and he certainly did yawn, such a big yawn that his mouth stretched out
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  to the tips of his ears. Soon he became dizzy and faint. He
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  wept and wailed to himself. The talking cricket was right. It was wrong
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  of me to disobey father and to run away from home. If he were
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  here now I wouldn't be so hungry. Oh how horrible it is to be
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  hungry. Suddenly he saw among the sweepings in the corner, something round and
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  white that looked very much like a hen's egg. In a jiffy, he
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  pounced upon it. It was an egg. The married AT's joy knew no
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  bounds. It is impossible to describe it, you must picture it to yourself.
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  Certain that he was dreaming, he turned the egg over and over in
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  his hands, fondled it, kissed it, and talked to it. And
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  now how shall I cook you? Shall I make you an omelet? No,
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  it is better to fry you in a pan. Or shall I drink
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  you? No? The best way is to fry you in the pan.
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  You will taste better. No sooner said than done. He placed a little
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  pan over a footwarmer full of hot coals. In the pan instead of oil
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  or butter, he poured a little water. As soon as the water started
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  to boil tac he broke the egg shell. But in place of the white
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  and the yolk of the egg, a little yellow chick, fluffy and gay
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  and smiling, escape from it. Bowing politely to Pinocchio, he said to
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  him many, many thanks, indeed, mister Pinocchio, for having saved me
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  the trouble of breaking my shell. Goodbye and good luck to you, and
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  remember me to the family. With these words, he spread out his wings,
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  and, darting to the open window, he flew away into space till
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  he was out of sight. The poor marionette stood out as if turned to
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  stone, with wide eyes, open mouthed, and the empty halves of the
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  egg shell in his hands. When he came to himself, he began to
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  cry and shriek at the top of his lungs, stamping his feet on the
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  ground and wailing. All the while. The talking cricket was right, if
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  I had not run away from home, and if father was here now,
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  I should not be dying of hunger. Oh, how horrible it is to
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  be hungry. And as his stomach kept grumbling more than ever, and he
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  had nothing to quiet it with, he thought of going out for a walk
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  to the nearby village in the hope of finding some charitable person who might give
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  him a bit of bread. End of chapter five. Chapter six, Pinocchio
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  falls asleep with his feet on a footwarmer, and awakens the next day with
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  his feet all burned off. Pinocchio hated the dark street, but he was
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  so hungry that in spite of it, he ran out of the house.
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  The night was pitch black, It thundered, and bright flashes of lightning.
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  Now it again shot across the sky, turning it into a sea of fire.
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  An angry wind blew cold and raised dense clouds of dust, while the
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  trees shook and moaned in a weird way. Pinocchio was greatly afraid of thunder
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  and lightning, but the hunger he felt was far greater than his fear.
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  And a dozen leaps and bounds he came to the village tired out, puffing
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  like a wail, and with tongue hanging. The whole village was dark and
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  deserted. The stores were closed, the doors, the windows in the streets.
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  Not even a dog could be seen. It seemed the village of the
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  dead. Pinocchio, in desperation, ran up to a doorway, threw himself
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  upon the bell, and pulled it wildly, saying to himself, someone will
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  surely answer that he was right. An old man in a nightcap opened the
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  window and looked out. He called down angrily, what do you want at
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  this hour of night? Will you be good enough to give me a bit
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  of bread? I am hungry. Wait a minute, and I'll come right
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  back, answered the old fellow, thinking he had to deal with one of
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  those boys who loved to roam around at night, ringing people's bells while they
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  are peacefully asleep. After a minute or two, the same voice cried,
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  get under the window and hold out your hat. Pinocchio had no hat,
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  but he managed to get under the window just in time to fill a shower
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  of ice. Cold water poured down on his poor wooden head, his shoulders,
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  and over his whole body. He returned home as wet as a rag,
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  and tired out from weariness and hunger. As he knows no longer had
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  any strength left with which to stand. He sat down on a little stool
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  and put his two feet on the stove to dry them. There he fell
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  asleep, and while he slept, his wooden feet began to burn. Slowly,
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  very slowly, they blackened and turned to ashes. Pinocchio snored away happily,
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  as if his feet were not his own. At dawn, he opened
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  his eyes just as a loud knocking sounded at the door. Who is it,
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  he called, yawning and rubbing his eyes. It is, I,
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  answered a voice. It was the voice of Geppetto end of chapter six,
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  Chapter seven, Geppetto returns home and gives his own breakfast to the marionette.
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  The poor marionette, who was still half asleep, had not yet found out
• 26:56
  that his two feet were burned and gone As soon as he heard his father's
• 27:00
  voice, he jumped up from his seat to open the door, but as
• 27:04
  he did so, he staggered and fell headlong to the floor. In falling,
• 27:10
  he's made as much noise as a sack of wood falling from the fifth
• 27:12
  story of a house. Open the door for me, Geppetto, shouted from
• 27:18
  the street. Father, dear, father, I can't, answered the marionette,
• 27:23
  in despair, crying and rolling on the floor. Why can't you?
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  Because someone is eating my feet? And who is eating them? The cat,
• 27:33
  answered Pinocchio, seeing that little animal busily playing with some shavings in the
• 27:38
  corner of the room, Open, I say, repeated Geppetto. Or I'll
• 27:44
  give you a sound whipping when I get in. Father, believe me,
• 27:48
  I can't stand up. Oh dear, oh dear, I shall have to
• 27:52
  walk on my knees all my life. Geppetto, thinking that all these tears
• 27:57
  and cries are only other pranks of the marionette, climbed up the side of
• 28:02
  the house and went in through the window. At first he was very angry,
• 28:07
  but on seeing Pinocchio stretched out on the floor and really without feet,
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  he felt very sad and sorrowful. Picking him up from the floor, he
• 28:15
  fondled and caressed him, talking to him while the tears ran down his cheeks.
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  My little Pinocchio, My dear little Pinocchio, how did you burn your
• 28:26
  feet? I don't know, father, but believe me, the night has
• 28:30
  been a terrible one, and I still remembered as long as I live.
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  The thunder was so noisy and the lightning so bright, and I was hungry.
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  And then the talking cricket said to me, you deserve it. You
• 28:41
  were bad. And I said to him, careful, cricket, and he
• 28:45
  said to me, you are a marionette and you have a wooden head.
• 28:48
  And I threw the hammer at him, and I killed him. It was
• 28:51
  his own fault, but I didn't want to kill him. And I put
• 28:53
  the pan on the coals. But the chick flew away and said, I'll
• 28:56
  see you again, remember me to the family. And I hung grew and
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  I went out, and the old man with a nightcap looked out the window
• 29:03
  and threw water on me. And I came home and I put my feet
• 29:07
  in the stove to dry them because I was still hungry, and I fell
• 29:08
  asleep. And now my feet are gone. But my hunger isn't oh oh
• 29:12
  oh, and poor Pinocchio began to scream and cry so loudly that he could
• 29:18
  be heard for miles around. Geppetto, who had understood nothing of all that
• 29:23
  jumbled talk except that the marionette was hungry, felt sorry for him, and,
• 29:29
  pulling three pears out of his pocket, offered them to him, saying,
• 29:34
  these three pears were for my breakfast, but I give them to you.
• 29:38
  Gladly eat them and stop weeping. If you want me to eat them,
• 29:44
  please peel them for me. Peel them, asked Geppetto, very much
• 29:48
  surprised. I should never have thought, dear boy of mine, that you
• 29:52
  were so dainty and fussy about your food. Bad, very bad, and
• 29:57
  this world even his children. And we must accustom ourselves to eat of everything,
• 30:02
  for we never know what life may hold in store for us. You
• 30:06
  may be right, answered Pinocchio, but I will not eat the pears if
• 30:11
  they are not peeled. I don't like them. And good old Geppetto took
• 30:17
  out a knife, peeled the three pears, and put the skins on a
• 30:19
  row in the table. Pinocchio went one pair in a twinkling and started to
• 30:26
  throw the core away, but Geppetto held his arm. Oh no, don't
• 30:30
  throw it away. Everything in this world may be of some use, but
• 30:34
  the core I will not eat, cried Pinocchio in an angry tone. Who
• 30:40
  knows, repeated Geppetto calmly, And later the three cores were placed on the
• 30:45
  table next to the skins. Pinocchio had eaten the three pears, or rather
• 30:51
  devoured them. Then he yawned deeply and wailed, I'm still hungry, but
• 30:56
  I have no more to give you, really nothing nothing. I have only
• 31:03
  these three cores and these skins. Very well, then, said Pinocchio,
• 31:11
  if there is nothing else, I'll eat them. At first he made a
• 31:15
  wry face, but one after another, the skins and the cores disappeared.
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  Ah now I feel fine, he said, after eating the last one.
• 31:27
  You see, observed Geppetto that I was right when I told you that one
• 31:32
  must not be too fussy and too dainty about food. My dear, we
• 31:36
  never know what life may have in store for us. End of chapter seven.
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  Chapter eight, Gippetto makes Pinocchio a new pair of feet and sells his
• 31:51
  coat to buy him an ABC book. The Marionette as soon as his hunger
• 31:57
  was appeased, started to grumble and cry that he wanted a new pair of
• 32:02
  feet, But Mastro Geppetto, in order to punish him for his mischief,
• 32:07
  let him alone the whole morning. After dinner, he said to him,
• 32:13
  why should I make your feet over again to see you run away from home
• 32:16
  once more? I promise you, answered the marionette, sobbing that from now
• 32:22
  on, I'll be good. Boys always promise that when they want something,
• 32:27
  said Geppetto, I promise to go to school every day, to study and
• 32:31
  to succeed. Boys always sing that song when they want their own will.
• 32:37
  But I'm not like other boys. I am better than all of them,
• 32:42
  and I'll always tell the truth. I promise you, father that I'll learn
• 32:45
  a trade, and I'll be the comfort and staff of your old age.
• 32:50
  Geppetto, though trying to look very stern, felt his eyes fill with tears
• 32:55
  and his heart soften when he saw Pinocchio so unhappy. He said no more,
• 33:01
  but taking his tools and two pieces of wood, he set to work
• 33:07
  diligently. In less than an hour, the feet were finished, two slender,
• 33:12
  nimble, little feet, strong and quick modeled as if by an artist's
• 33:16
  hands, close your eyes and sleep. Geppetto then said to the marionette.
• 33:22
  Pinocchio closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, while Geppetto stuck on the
• 33:28
  two feet with a bit of glue melted in an egg shell, doing his
• 33:31
  work so well that the joint could hardly be seen. As soon as the
• 33:37
  marionette felt his new feet, he gave one leap from the table and started
• 33:42
  to skip and jump around as if he had lost his head from very joy.
• 33:46
  To show you how grateful I am to you, father, I'll go
• 33:50
  to school now. But to go to school, I need a suit of
• 33:52
  clothes. Geppetto did not have a penny in his pocket, so he made
• 33:59
  his son on a little suit of flowered paper, a pair of shoes from
• 34:02
  the bark of a tree, and a tiny cap from a bit of dough.
• 34:07
  Pinocchio ran to look at himself in a bowl of water, and he
• 34:10
  felt so happy that he said proudly, now I look like a gentleman,
• 34:16
  truly, answered Geppetto. But remember that fine clothes do not make the man
• 34:23
  unless they are neat and clean. Very true, answered Pinocchio. But in
• 34:30
  order to go to school. I still need something very important. What is
• 34:35
  it? An A B C Book, to be sure, But how shall
• 34:40
  we get it? That's easy, We'll go to the bookstore and buy it.
• 34:45
  And the money I have none, neither have, I said the old
• 34:52
  man sadly. Pinocchio, though a happy boy, always became sad and downcast
• 35:00
  at these words. When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it
• 35:06
  means. What does it matter? After all? Cried geppetto all at once,
• 35:10
  as he jumped up from his chair, Putting on his old coat full
• 35:15
  of darns and patches, he ran out of the house without another word.
• 35:20
  After a while he returned. In his hands he had the A B C
• 35:25
  Book for his son, but the old coat was gone. The poor fellow
• 35:30
  was in his shirt sleeves, and the day was cold. Where's your coat?
• 35:36
  Father? I have sold it. Why did you sell your coat?
• 35:42
  It was too warm? Pinocchio understood the answer in a twinkling, and,
• 35:49
  unable to restrain his tears, he jumped on his father's neck and kissed him
• 35:53
  over and over. So ends chapter eight. Chapter nine. Pinocchio sells his
• 36:04
  A B C. Book to pay his way into the Marionette Theater see Pinocchio
• 36:13
  hurrying off to school with his new A B. C. Book under his
• 36:15
  arm. As he walked along, his brain was busy planning hundreds of wonderful
• 36:22
  things, building hundreds of castles in the air. Talking to himself, he
• 36:27
  said, in school to day, I'll learn to read tomorrow, to write
• 36:31
  the day after tomorrow, while do arithmetic and clever as I am, I
• 36:36
  can earn a lot of money. With the very first pennies I make,
• 36:38
  I'll buy father a new cloth coat cloth. Did I say no? It
• 36:44
  shall be of gold and silver with diamond buttons. That poor man deserves it
• 36:47
  for after all, isn't he in his shirt sleeves because he was good enough
• 36:52
  to buy a book for me on this cold day too? Fathers are indeed
• 36:58
  good to their children. As he talked to himself, he thought he heard
• 37:02
  sounds of pipes and drums coming from a distance. Pee pee pee pee pee
• 37:08
  pee Zum zum sum sum. He stopped to listen. Those sounds came from
• 37:15
  a little street that led to a small village along the shore. What can
• 37:21
  that noise be? What a nuisance that I have to go to school otherwise?
• 37:27
  Then he stopped. Very much puzzled, he felt he had to make
• 37:31
  up his mind for either one thing or another. Should he go to school
• 37:37
  or should he follow the pipes. To day, I'll follow the pipes,
• 37:43
  and tomorrow I'll go to school. There's always plenty of time to go to
• 37:45
  school, decided the little rascal at last, shrugging his shoulders. No sooner
• 37:51
  said than done. He started down the street, going like the wind.
• 37:54
  On he ran and louder grew the sounds of pipe and drum pee pee pee
• 37:59
  pee pee pee peep peepee sum zum zum zum. Suddenly he found himself in
• 38:05
  a large square full of people, standing in front of a little wooden building
• 38:10
  painted in brilliant colors. What is that house, Pinocchio asked the little boy
• 38:16
  near him. Read the side, and you'll know I'd like to read,
• 38:21
  but somehow I can't today. Oh really, and I'll read it to you
• 38:24
  know then that written in letters of fire, I see the words Great Marionette
• 38:30
  Theater. When did the show start? It's starting now? And how much
• 38:36
  does one pay to get? In four pennies? Pinocchio, who was wild
• 38:42
  with curiosity to know what was going on inside, lost all his pride,
• 38:45
  and said to the boy shamelessly, will you give me four pennies until tomorrow?
• 38:51
  I'd give them to you gladly, answered the other, poking fun at
• 38:54
  him. But just now I can't give them to you for the price of
• 38:59
  four pennies. I'll I'll sell you my coat if it rains. What shall
• 39:02
  I do with a coat of flowered paper? I could not take it off
• 39:05
  again? Do you want to buy my shoes? They are only good enough
• 39:09
  to light a fire with. What about my hat? Fine bargain? Indeed
• 39:14
  a cap of dough? The mice might come and eat it from my head.
• 39:17
  Pinocchio was almost in tears. He was just about to make one last
• 39:23
  offer, but he lacked the courage to do so. He hesitated, he
• 39:30
  wondered, he could not make up his mind. At last, he said,
• 39:36
  will you give me four pennies for the book? I am a boy,
• 39:39
  and I buy nothing from boys, said the little fellow, with far
• 39:44
  more common sense than the marionette. I'll give you four pennies for your A.
• 39:49
  B. C. Book, said a ragpicker who stood by. Then
• 39:52
  and there the book changed hands. And to think that poor old geppetto sat
• 39:59
  at home his shirt sleeves, shivering with cold, having sold his coat to
• 40:05
  buy that little book for his son. So ends chapter nine. Chapter ten.
• 40:14
  The marionettes recognize their brother Pinocchio and greet him with loud cheers, but
• 40:19
  the director fire eater happens along and poor Pinocchio almost loses his life. Quick
• 40:28
  as a flash, Pinocchio disappeared into the Marionette theater, and then something happened
• 40:32
  which almost caused a riot. The curtain was up and the performance had started.
• 40:38
  Harlequin and Punchinella were reciting on the stage, and as usual, they
• 40:44
  were threatening each other with sticks and blows. The theater was full of people,
• 40:49
  enjoying the spectacle and laughing till they cried at the antics of the two
• 40:52
  marionettes. The play continued for a few minutes, and suddenly, without any
• 40:59
  warning, harle When stopped talking. Turning toward the audience, he pointed to
• 41:04
  the rear of the orchestra, yelling wildly. At the same time, look,
• 41:07
  look, am I asleep or awake? Do I really see Pinocchio there?
• 41:12
  Yes, yes, it is Pinocchio, screamed Pulchinella, it is it
• 41:17
  is, shrieked Signora Rosaura. Peeking from the side of the stage. It
• 41:23
  is Pinocchio. It is Pinocchio, yelled all the marionettes pouring out of the
• 41:28
  wings. It is Pinocchio. It is our brother, Pinocchio. Hurrah for
• 41:31
  Pinocchio. Pinocchio, come up to me, shouted Harlequin. Come to the
• 41:37
  arms of your wooden brothers. At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with
• 41:43
  one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows.
• 41:47
  With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a
• 41:51
  third he landed on the stage. It is impossible to describe the shrieks of
• 41:55
  joy, the warm embraces the knox, and the friendly readings with which that
• 42:00
  strange company of dramatic actors and actresses received Pinocchio. It was a heartrending spectacle.
• 42:07
  But the audience, seeing that the play had stopped, became angry and
• 42:12
  began to yell the play, the play, we want the play. The
• 42:17
  yelling was of no use for the marionettes, instead of going on with their
• 42:22
  act, made twice as much racket as before, and lifting up Pinocchio on
• 42:25
  their shoulders, carried him around the stage in triumph. At that very moment
• 42:31
  the director came out of his room. He had such a fearful appearance that
• 42:37
  one look at him would fill you with horror. His beard was black as
• 42:42
  pitch, and so long that it reached from his chin down to his feet.
• 42:47
  His mouth was as wide as an oven, his teeth like yellow fangs,
• 42:52
  and his eyes to glowing red coals. In his huge, hairy hands,
• 42:57
  along whip made of green snakes and black cats, tails twisted together,
• 43:00
  switched through the air in a dangerous way. At the unexpected apparition, no
• 43:06
  one even dared breathe. One could almost hear a fly go by. Those
• 43:12
  poor marionettes one and all trembled like leaves in a storm. Why have you
• 43:19
  brought such excitement into my theater? The huge fellow asked Pinocchio, with the
• 43:23
  voice of an ogre suffering from a gold Believe me, your honor, the
• 43:29
  fault was not mine enough. Be quiet, I'll take care of you later.
• 43:37
  As soon as the play was over, the director went to the kitchen,
• 43:39
  where a fine, big lamb was slowly turning on the spit. More
• 43:45
  wood was needed to finish cooking it. He called Harlequin and Puchinella and said
• 43:50
  to them bring that marionette to me. He looks as if he were made
• 43:54
  of well seasoned wood. He'd make a fine fire for this. Harlequin and
• 44:01
  Pulchinella hesitated a bit, then, frightened by a look from their master,
• 44:07
  they left the kitchen to obey him, a few minutes later they returned,
• 44:10
  carrying poor Pinocchio, who was wriggling and squirming like an eel and crying pitifully.
• 44:15
  Father saved me. I don't want to die. I don't want to
• 44:19
  die, so ends chapter ten. Chapter eleven, fire Eater's nieces and forgives
• 44:31
  Pinocchio, who saved his friend Pylaquin from death in the theater. Great excitement
• 44:40
  reigns fire Eater. This was really his name was very ugly, but he
• 44:49
  was far from being as bad as he looked. Proof of these is that
• 44:55
  when he saw the poor Marineth being brought into him, struggling with fear and
• 45:01
  crying, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, he
• 45:07
  felt sorry for him and began first to waiver and then to waken. Finally,
• 45:13
  he could control himself no longer and gave a loud sneeze. At that
• 45:19
  sneez Halkin, who until then had been as sad as a weeping willow,
• 45:25
  smiled happily, and leaning toward the Marnett, whispered to him, good news,
• 45:31
  brother mine. Fire Eater has knees, and this is a sign that
• 45:37
  he feels sorry for you. You are safe for being known that. While
• 45:44
  other people went sad and sorrowful, weep and wipe their eyes, fire Eater,
• 45:51
  on the other hand, had the strange habit of sneezing each time he
• 45:54
  felt unhappy. The way was just as good as any other to show the
• 46:00
  kindness of his heart. After sneezing, fire either ugly as ever, cried
• 46:07
  to Pinocchio, stop crying your waiights. Give me a funny feeling down here
• 46:13
  in my stomach. And it's gee, it's see. Two loud sneezes finished
• 46:21
  his speech. God bless you, said Pinocchio. Thanks, are your father
• 46:28
  and mother still living? Demanded fire either my father, yes, my mother.
• 46:36
  I have never known your poor father will suffer terribly if I were to
• 46:43
  use you as a fire with poor old man. I feel sorry for him.
• 46:51
  It's gee, it's gee, it's tea. Three more sneezes sounded louder
• 46:59
  than never God bless you, said Pinocchio. Thanks, however, I ought
• 47:07
  to be sorry for myself too. Just now my good dinner is spoiled.
• 47:15
  I have no more wood for the fire, and the lamb is only half
• 47:20
  cooked. Never mind in your place over some other marinette. Hey there,
• 47:27
  officers at the coal. Two wooden officers appeared long and thin as a yard
• 47:35
  of rope, with queer hats on their heads and swords in their hands.
• 47:43
  Fire either yelled at them in a hoarse voice, Take Harlequin, tie him
• 47:47
  and throw him on the fire. I want my lamb well done. See
• 47:52
  how poor Harlequin felt. He was so scared that his double up under him
• 48:00
  and he fell to the floor. Pinocchio, at that heartbreaking side, threw
• 48:09
  himself at the feet of fire eater, and, weeping bitterly, asked,
• 48:15
  in a pittiful voice which could scarcely be heard, have pity, I beg
• 48:22
  of you, senor. There are no signori here, Have pity, concert,
• 48:30
  there are no sirs here, Have pity, your excellancy. On hearing
• 48:37
  himself addressed as your excellancy, the director of the marinette theater sat up very
• 48:45
  straight in his chair, struck his long beard, and becoming suddenly kind and
• 48:52
  compassionate, smiled proudly as he said to Pinocchio, Well, what do you
• 49:00
  want for me now, Marinette? I beg for mercy for my poor friend
• 49:06
  Harlequin, who has never done the least harm in his life. There is
• 49:13
  no mercy here, Pinocchio, I have spared you. Harlequin must burn in
• 49:19
  your place. I am hungry and my dinner must be cooked. In that
• 49:25
  case, said Pinocchio proudly, as he stood up and flung away his cap
• 49:30
  up dough. In that case, my duty is clear. Come, officers,
• 49:37
  tie me up and throw me on those planes. No, it is
• 49:42
  no fair for poor Harlekin, the best friend that I have in the world,
• 49:46
  to die in my place. These brave words, said in a piercing
• 49:52
  voice, made all the other Marinett's cry. Even the officers who were made
• 50:00
  of wood also cried like two babies. Fire Eater at first remained hard and
• 50:07
  cold as a piece of eyes, But then little by little he softened and
• 50:14
  began to sneeze, And after four or five sneezes, he opened white his
• 50:22
  arms and said to Pinocchio, you are a brave boy. Come to my
• 50:28
  arms and kiss me. Pinocchio ran to him, and, scarring like a
• 50:32
  squirrel, up the long black beard. He gave fire Either a loving kiss
• 50:37
  on the tip of his nose. Has pardon been granted to me? Asked
• 50:44
  poortharking with a voice that was hardly a breath. Pardon is yours, answered
• 50:51
  fire Either, and sighing and wagging his hat, he added, well,
• 50:57
  tonight, I shall have to eat my legs. I'm only half cooked,
• 51:01
  but they were the next time, Marinette, at the news that pardon had
• 51:08
  been given, the Marinette's friend to the stage, and turning on all the
• 51:15
  lights, they danced and said till dawn. And of chapter eleven. Chapter
• 51:23
  twelve, fire Eater gives Pinocchio five gold pieces for his father, a Geppetto,
• 51:29
  but the Marionette meets a fox and a cat and follows them. The
• 51:34
  next day, fire Eater called Pinocchio aside and asked him, what is your
• 51:37
  father's name, Geppetto, and what is his trade? He's a wood carver.
• 51:43
  Does he earn much? He earns so much that he never has a
• 51:46
  pinion in his pockets. Just think that in order to buy me an ABC
• 51:50
  book for school, he had to sell the only cod he owned, a
• 51:52
  coat so full of darns and patches that it was a pity. Poor fellow.
• 51:57
  I feel sorry for him. Here, take these five gold piece go
• 52:00
  give them to him. With my kindest regards. Pinocchio, as may easily
• 52:05
  be imagined, thanked him a thousand times. He kissed each marionette in turn,
• 52:08
  even the officers, and beside himself with joy, set out on his
• 52:13
  homeward journey. He had gone barely half a mile when he met a lame
• 52:16
  fox and a blind cat walking together like two good friends. The lame fox
• 52:21
  leaned on the cat, and the blind cat let the fox lead him along.
• 52:24
  Good morning, Pinocchio, said the fox, greeting him courteously. How
• 52:28
  do you know my name? Asked the marionette. I know your father?
• 52:30
  Well? Where have you seen him? I saw him yesterday standing at the
• 52:35
  door of his house. What was he doing? He was in his shirt
• 52:39
  sleeves, trembling with cold. Oh poor father, But after today, God
• 52:44
  willing, he will suffer no longer. Why because I have become a rich
• 52:47
  man. You a rich man, said the fox, and he began to
• 52:52
  laugh out bloud. The cat was laughing also, but tried to hide it
• 52:55
  by stroking his long whiskers. There is nothing to laugh at, cried Pinocchio
• 53:00
  angrily. I am very sorry to make your mouth water, But these,
• 53:04
  as you know, are five new gold pieces. And he pulled out the
• 53:07
  gold pieces which fire Eater had given him. At the cheerful tinkle of gold,
• 53:10
  the fox unconsciously held out his paw that was supposed to be lame,
• 53:14
  and the cat opened wide his two eyes till they looked like live coals.
• 53:17
  But he closed them again so quickly that Pinocchio did not notice. And may
• 53:22
  I ask, inquired the fox. What you are going to do with all
• 53:24
  that money? First of all, answered the marionette, I want to buy
• 53:28
  a fine new coat for my father, a coat of gold and silver with
• 53:30
  diamond buttons. After that I'll buy an A B. C. Book for
• 53:35
  myself for yourself. For myself, I want to go to school and study
• 53:38
  hard. Look at me, said the fox, for the silly reason of
• 53:43
  wanting to study, I have lost a paw. Look at me, said
• 53:46
  the cat, for the same foolish reason, I have lost the sight of
• 53:50
  both eyes. At that moment, a blackbird perched on the fence along the
• 53:52
  road called out shap and clear, Pinocchio, do not listen to bad advice.
• 53:57
  If you do, you'll be sorry, poor little blackbird if he'd only
• 54:01
  kept his words to himself. In the twinkling of a eyelid, the cat
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  leapt on him and ate him, feathers and all. After eating the bird,
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  he cleaned his whiskers, closed his eyes, and became blind once more.
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  Poor blackbird, said Pinocchio to the cat, why did you kill him?
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  I killed him to teach him a lesson. He talks too much.
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  Next time, you will keep his words to himself. By this time,
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  the three companions had walked a long distance. Suddenly, the fox stopped in
• 54:27
  his tracks, and, turning to the marionette, said to him, do
• 54:30
  you want to double your gold pieces? What do you mean? Do you
• 54:34
  want one hundred a thousand, two thousand gold pieces for your miserable five?
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  Yes? But how the way is very easy. Instead of returning home,
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  come with us, and where will you take me? To the city of
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  simple simons. Pinocchio thought, awhile, and then said firmly no, I
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  don't want to go. Home is near, and I'm going where father is
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  waiting for me. How unhappy he must be that I have not yet returned.
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  I have been a bad son. And the talking cricket was right when
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  he said that a disobedient boy cannot be happy in this world. I have
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  learned this at my own expense. Even last night in the theater, when
• 55:08
  a fire eater bo the shivers run up and down my back at the mere
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  thought of it. Well, then said fox, if you really want to
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  go home, go ahead, but you'll be sorry. You'll be sorry,
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  repeated the cat. Think well, Pinocchio, you are turning your back on
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  Dame Fortune. On Dame Fortune, repeated the cat. Tomorrow your five gold
• 55:30
  pieces will be two thousand, two thousand, repeated the cat. But how
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  can they possibly become so many, asked Pinocchio, wonderingly. I'll explain,
• 55:39
  said the fox. You must know that just outside the city of Simple Simons,
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  there is a blessed field called the Field of Wonders. In this field,
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  you dig a hole, and in the hole you bury a gold piece.
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  After covering up the hole with earth, you water it well, sprinkle
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  a bit of salt on it, and go to bed. During the night,
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  the gold piece sprouts, grows, blossoms, and next morning you find
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  a beautiful tree that is loaded with gold pieces. So that if I were
• 56:08
  to bury my five gold pieces, cried Pinocchio, with growing wonder, next
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  morning I should find how many? It is very simple to figure out,
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  answered the fox. Why you can figure it on your fingers. Granted that
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  each piece gives you five hundred, multiply five hundred. By five next morning
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  you will find twenty five hundred new sparkling gold pieces, fine fine, cried
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  Pinocchio, dancing about with joy. And as soon as I have them,
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  I shall keep two thousand for myself, and the other five hundred i'll give
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  to you too, a gift for us, cried the fox, pretending to
• 56:42
  be insulted. Why of course not, of course not, repeated the cat.
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  We do not work for gain, answered the fox. We work only
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  to enrich others. Do enrich others, repeated the cat. What good people?
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  Thought? Pinocchio to himself, and forgetting his father, the new coat,
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  the A B. Sea Book, and all his good resolutions, he
• 57:01
  said to the fox and the cat, let us go, I am with
• 57:05
  you. End of chapter twelve, Chapter thirteen, The Inn of the Red
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  Lobster. Cat and fox and Marionette walked and walked and walked. At last,
• 57:19
  toward evening, dead tired, they came to the inn of the Red
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  Lobster. Let us stop here for a while, said the fox, to
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  eat a bye and rest for a few hours. At midnight we'll start out
• 57:31
  again, for at dawn tomorrow we must be at the field of Wonders.
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  They went into the inn and all three sat down at the same table.
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  However, not one of them was very hungry. The poor cat felt very
• 57:46
  weak, and he was able to eat only thirty five mullets with tomato sauce
• 57:51
  and four portions of tripe with cheese. Moreover, as he was so in
• 57:55
  need of strength, he had to have four more helpings of butter and cheese.
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  The fox, after a great deal of coaxing, tried his best to
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  eat a little. The doctor had put him on a diet, and he
• 58:07
  had to be satisfied with a small hair dressed with a dozen young and tender
• 58:10
  spring chickens. After the hare, he ordered some partridges, a few pheasants,
• 58:16
  a couple of rabbits, and a dozen frogs and lizards. That was
• 58:21
  all. He felt ill, he said, and could not eat another bite.
• 58:25
  Pinocchio ate least of all. He asked for a bite of bread and
• 58:30
  a few nuts, and then hardly touched them. The poor fellow, with
• 58:34
  his mind on the field of wonders, was suffering from a gold piece indigestion.
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  Supper over, the fox said to the innkeeper, give us two rooms,
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  one from mister Pinocchio and the other from me and my friend. Before
• 58:50
  starting out, we'll take a little nap. Remember to call us at midnight
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  sharp, for we must continue on our journey. Yes, sir, answered
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  the innkeeper, winking in a knowing way at the fox and the cat,
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  as if to say, I understand. As soon as Pinocchio was in bed,
• 59:07
  he fell fast asleep and began to dream. He dreamed he was in
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  the middle of the field. The field was full of vines, heavy with
• 59:15
  grapes. The grapes were no other than gold coins, which tinkled merrily as
• 59:21
  they swayed in the wind. They seemed to say, let him who wants
• 59:24
  us take us. Just as Pinocchio stretched out his hand to take a handful
• 59:30
  of them, he was awakened by three loud knocks at the door. It
• 59:34
  was the innkeeper who had come to tell him that midnight had struck are my
• 59:37
  friends ready, the marionette asked him. Indeed, yes, they went two
• 59:43
  hours ago. Why in such a hurry? Unfortunately, the cat received a
• 59:47
  telegram which said that his firstborn was suffering from chilblains and was on the point
• 59:52
  of death. He could not even wait to say goodbye to you. Did
• 59:55
  they pay for the supper? How could they do such a thing? Being
• 59:59
  people of great refinement, they did not want to offend you so deeply as
• 1:00:01
  not to allow you the honor of paying the bill. Too bad that offense
• 1:00:07
  would have been more than pleasing to me, said Pinocchio, scratching his head.
• 1:00:12
  Where did my good friends say they would wait for me? He added,
• 1:00:15
  At the Field of Wonders At sunrise tomorrow morning. Pinocchio paid a gold
• 1:00:21
  piece for the three suppers and started on his way toward the field that was
• 1:00:23
  to make him a rich man. He walked on, not knowing where he
• 1:00:29
  was going, for it was dark, so dark that not a thing was
• 1:00:31
  visible round about him. Not a leaf, stirred, a few bats skimmed
• 1:00:37
  his nose now and again, and scared him half to death. Once or
• 1:00:40
  twice he shouted, who goes there? And the far away hills echoed back
• 1:00:45
  to him, who goes there, Who goes there? Who goes? As
• 1:00:50
  he walked, Pinocchio noticed a tiny insect glimmering on the trunk of a tree,
• 1:00:54
  A small being that glowed with a pale, soft light. Who are
• 1:00:59
  you, he asked, I am the ghost of the talking cricket, answered
• 1:01:04
  the little being, in a faint voice that sounded as if it came from
• 1:01:07
  a far away world. What do you want, asked the marionette. I
• 1:01:12
  want to give you a few words of good advice. Return home and give
• 1:01:15
  the four gold pieces you have left to your poor old father, who is
• 1:01:20
  weeping because he has not seen you for many a day. Tomorrow my father
• 1:01:23
  will be a rich man, for these four gold pieces will become two thousand.
• 1:01:30
  Don't listen to those who promise you wealth over night, my boy.
• 1:01:32
  As a rule, they are either fools or swindlers. Listen to me and
• 1:01:37
  go home. But I want to go on. The hour is late,
• 1:01:42
  I want to go on. The night is very dark. I want to
• 1:01:45
  go on. The road is dangerous. I want to go on. Remember
• 1:01:52
  that boys who insist on having their own way, sooner or later come to
• 1:01:55
  grief. The same nonsense goodbye cricket. Good night, Pinocchio. I may
• 1:02:01
  Heaven preserve you from the assassins. There was silence for a minute, and
• 1:02:07
  the light of the talking cricket disappeared suddenly, just as if someone had stuffed
• 1:02:10
  it out. Once again, the road was plunged in darkness. End of
• 1:02:16
  chapter thirteen, Chapter fourteen. Pinocchio, not having listened to the good advice
• 1:02:22
  of the talking cricket, falls into the hands of the assassins. Dear,
• 1:02:30
  oh, dear, when I come to think of it, said the marionette
• 1:02:32
  to himself, as he once more set out on his journey. We boys
• 1:02:37
  are really very unlucky. Everybody scolds us, everybody gives us advice, everybody
• 1:02:42
  warns us. If we were to allow it, everyone would try to be
• 1:02:45
  father and mother to us, everyone, even the talking cricket. Take me,
• 1:02:50
  for example, just because I would not listen to that bothersome cricket.
• 1:02:52
  Who knows how many misfortunes may be awaiting me. Assassins. Indeed, at
• 1:02:58
  least I have never believed in them, or ever will to talk sensibly.
• 1:03:00
  I think assassins have been invented by fathers and mothers to frighten children who want
• 1:03:06
  to run away at night. And then even if I were to meet them
• 1:03:08
  on the road, what matter. I'll just run up to them and say,
• 1:03:12
  well, Signory, what do you want? Remember that you can't fool
• 1:03:15
  with me, Run along and mind your business. At such a speech,
• 1:03:19
  I can almost see those poor fellows running like the wind. But in case
• 1:03:22
  they don't run away, I can always run myself. Pinocchio was not given
• 1:03:29
  time to argue any longer, for he thought he heard a slight rustle among
• 1:03:34
  the leaves behind him. He turned to look, and behold, there in
• 1:03:37
  the blackness stood two big black shadows, wrapped from head to foot in black
• 1:03:44
  facts. The two figures leaped toward him, as softly as if they were
• 1:03:49
  ghosts. Here they come, Pinocchio said to himself, and not knowing where
• 1:03:54
  to hide the gold pieces, he stuck all four of them under his tongue.
• 1:04:00
  He tried to run away, but hardly had taken a step when he
• 1:04:02
  felt his arms grasped and heard two horrible, deep voices say to him your
• 1:04:08
  money or your life? On account of the gold pieces in his mouth,
• 1:04:14
  Pinocchio could not say a word, so he tried with head and hands and
• 1:04:18
  body to show as best he could, that he was only a poor marionette
• 1:04:23
  without a penny in his pocket. Come on, less nonsense, and out
• 1:04:27
  with your money, cried the two thebes in threatening voices. Once more Pinocchio's
• 1:04:31
  head and hands said I haven't a penny. Out with that money, or
• 1:04:38
  you're a dead man, said the taller of the two assassins. Dead man,
• 1:04:43
  repeated the other. And after having killed you, we will kill your
• 1:04:48
  father also your father. Also, No, no, not my father,
• 1:04:55
  cried Pinocchio, wild with terror. But as he screamed, the gold pieces
• 1:04:59
  tink together in his mouth. Ah, you rascals, So that's the game.
• 1:05:03
  You have the money hidden under your tongue. Out with it. But
• 1:05:08
  Pinocchio was as stubborn as ever. Are you deaf? Wait, young man,
• 1:05:13
  we'll get it from you. In a twinkling, one of them grabbed
• 1:05:16
  the marionette by the nose, the other by the chin, and they pulled
• 1:05:19
  him unmercifully from side to side in order to make him open his mouth.
• 1:05:25
  All was of no use. The marionette's lips might have been nailed together,
• 1:05:29
  they would not open. In desperation, the smaller of the two assassins pulled
• 1:05:34
  out a long knife from his pocket and tried to pry Pinocchio's mouth open with
• 1:05:40
  it. Quick as a flash, the marionette sank his teep deep into the
• 1:05:44
  assassin's hand, bit it off, and spat it out. Fancy is surprised
• 1:05:48
  when he saw that it was not a hand but a cat's paw. Encouraged
• 1:05:55
  by this first victory, he freed himself from the claws of his assailors,
• 1:05:59
  and, leaping over the bushes along the road, ran swiftly across the fields.
• 1:06:03
  His pursuers were after him at once, like two dogs chasing a hare.
• 1:06:08
  After running several miles or so, Pinocchio was well nigh exhausted. Seeing
• 1:06:13
  himself lost, he climbed up a giant pine tree and sat there to see
• 1:06:16
  what he could see. The assassins tried to climb also, but they slipped
• 1:06:21
  and fell. Far from giving up the chase, this only spurred them on.
• 1:06:27
  They gathered a bundle of wood, piled it up high at the foot
• 1:06:30
  of the pine, and set fire to it. In a twinkling, the
• 1:06:32
  tree began to sputter and burn, like a candle blown by the wind.
• 1:06:38
  Pinocchio saw the flames climb higher and higher, not wishing to end his days
• 1:06:43
  as a roasted marionette, he climbed quickly to the ground, and off he
• 1:06:45
  went, the assassins close to him as before dawn was breaking, When,
• 1:06:51
  without any warning whatsoever, Pinocchio found his path barred by a deep pool full
• 1:06:57
  of water the color of muddy coffee. What was there to do with a
• 1:07:01
  one, two three? He jumped clear across it. The assassins jumped also,
• 1:07:05
  but, not having measured their distance well, splashed. They fell right
• 1:07:11
  into the middle of the pool. Pinocchio, who heard the splash and felt
• 1:07:14
  it too, cried out, laughing, but never stopping in his race.
• 1:07:18
  A pleasant bath to you, signori. He thought they must surely be drowned,
• 1:07:25
  and turned his head to sea. But there were the two somber figures
• 1:07:29
  still following him, though their black sacks were drenched and dripping with water.
• 1:07:36
  So ends Chapter fourteen of Pinocchio. Chapter fifteen. The assassins chase Pinocchio,
• 1:07:45
  catch him, and hang him to the branch of a giant oak tree.
• 1:07:53
  As he ran, the marionette felt more and more certain that he would have
• 1:07:56
  to give himself up into the hands of his pursuers. Suddenly he saw a
• 1:08:00
  little cottage gleaming white as the snow among the trees of the forest. If
• 1:08:05
  I have enough breath left with which to reach that little house, I may
• 1:08:10
  be saved, he said to himself. Not waiting another moment, he darted
• 1:08:14
  swiftly through the woods, the assassins still after him. After a hard race
• 1:08:18
  of almost an hour, tired and out of breath, Pinocchio finally reached the
• 1:08:23
  door of the cottage and knocked. No one answered. He knocked again,
• 1:08:29
  harder than before, for behind him he heard the steps and the labored breathing
• 1:08:32
  of his persecutors. The same silence followed. As knocking was of no use.
• 1:08:39
  Pinocchio, in despair, began to kick and bang against the doors if
• 1:08:42
  he wanted to break it. At the noise, a window opened, and
• 1:08:45
  a lovely maiden looked out. She had asure hair and a face white as
• 1:08:50
  wax. Her eyes were closed, and her hands crossed upon her breast.
• 1:08:57
  With a voice so weak it could hardly be heard, she whispered, No
• 1:09:02
  one lives in this house. Every one is dead. Won't you at least
• 1:09:10
  open the door for me? Cried Pinocchio in a beseeching voice. I am
• 1:09:15
  also dead, dead, What are you doing at the window? Then I
• 1:09:20
  am waiting for the coffin to take me away. After these words, the
• 1:09:27
  little girl disappeared and the window closed without a sound. O lovely maiden with
• 1:09:33
  azure hair, cried, Pinocchio, open. I beg of you. Take
• 1:09:36
  pity on a poor boy who is being chased by to us. As he
• 1:09:40
  did not finish, for two powerful hands gripped him by the neck, and
• 1:09:45
  the same two horrible voices growled threateningly. Now we have you. The marionette,
• 1:09:54
  seeing death dancing before him, trembled so hard that the joints of his
• 1:09:59
  legs ran and the coins tinkled under his tongue. Well, the assassins asked,
• 1:10:06
  will you open your mouth now or not? Ah, you do not
• 1:10:13
  answer very well, This time you shall open it. Taking out two long,
• 1:10:21
  sharp knives, they struck two heavy blows on the Marionette's back, happly
• 1:10:28
  for him. Pinocchio was made of very hard wood, and the knives broke
• 1:10:31
  into a thousand pieces. The assassins looked at each other in dismay, holding
• 1:10:35
  the handles of their knives in their hands. I understand, said one of
• 1:10:42
  them to the other. There is nothing left to do now. But to
• 1:10:46
  hang him, to hang him, repeated the other. They tied Pinocchio's hands
• 1:10:54
  behind his shoulders and slipped the noose around his neck. Throwing the rope over
• 1:10:59
  the high limb of a giant oak tree, they pulled until the poor marionette
• 1:11:02
  hung far up in space. Satisfied with their work, they sat on the
• 1:11:08
  grass waiting for Pinocchio to give his last gasp. But after three hours,
• 1:11:13
  the Marionette's eyes were still open, his mouth still shut, and his legs
• 1:11:17
  kicked harder than ever. Tired of waiting, the assassins called to him mockingly,
• 1:11:24
  good bye till tomorrow. When we return in the morning, we hope
• 1:11:28
  you'll be polite enough to let us find you dead and gone with your mouth
• 1:11:32
  wide open. With these words they went. A few minutes went by,
• 1:11:41
  and then a wild wind started to blow. As it shrieked and moaned,
• 1:11:45
  the poor little supperer was blown to and fro like the hammer of the bell.
• 1:11:50
  The rocking made him seasick, and the noose, becoming tighter and tighter,
• 1:11:55
  choked him. Little by little. A film covered his eyes. Death
• 1:12:00
  was creeping nearer and nearer, and the marionette still hoped for some good soul
• 1:12:06
  to come to his rescue, but no one appeared. As he was about
• 1:12:11
  to die, he thought of his poor old father, and, hardly conscious
• 1:12:16
  of what he was saying, murmured to himself, Oh father, dear father,
• 1:12:25
  if you were only here, These were his last words. He closed
• 1:12:31
  his eyes, opened his mouth, stretched out his legs, and hung there
• 1:12:38
  as if he were dead. So ends Chapter fifteen of Pinocchio. Chapter sixteen,
• 1:12:49
  the lovely Maiden with azure hair sends for the poor Marionette, puts him
• 1:12:55
  to bed, and calls three doctors to tell her if Pinocchio is dead or
• 1:13:00
  alive. If the poor Marionette had dangled there much longer, all hope would
• 1:13:06
  have been lost. Luckily for him. The lovely Maiden with azure hair once
• 1:13:12
  again looked out of her window, filled with pity at the sight of the
• 1:13:16
  poor little fellow being knocked helplessly about by the wind. She clapped her hands
• 1:13:21
  sharply together three times. At the signal. A loud whirr of wings in
• 1:13:28
  quick flight was heard, and a large falcon came and settled itself on the
• 1:13:32
  window ledge. What do you command, my charming fairy, asked the falcon,
• 1:13:39
  bending his beak in deep reverence. For it must be known that,
• 1:13:44
  after all, the lovely maiden with azure hair was none other than a very
• 1:13:48
  kind fairy who had lived for more than a thousand years in the vicinity of
• 1:13:54
  the forest. Do you see that marionette hanging from the limb of that giant
• 1:14:00
  oak tree? I see him very well. Fly immediately to him with your
• 1:14:09
  strong beak, break the knot which holds him tied, take him down,
• 1:14:14
  and lay him softly on the grass at the foot of the oak. The
• 1:14:19
  falcon flew away, and after two minutes returned, saying, I have done
• 1:14:25
  what you commanded. How did you find him alive or dead? At first
• 1:14:33
  glance, I thought he was dead, But I found I was wrong,
• 1:14:36
  for as soon as I loosened the knot around his neck, he gave a
• 1:14:40
  long sigh and mumbled with a faint voice. Now I feel better. The
• 1:14:45
  fairy clapped her hands twice. A magnificent poodle appeared, walking on his hind
• 1:14:51
  legs just like a man. He was dressed in court livery. A tricorn
• 1:14:57
  trimmed with gold lace was set at a rakish angle over a wig of white
• 1:15:00
  curls that dropped down to his waist. He wore a jaunty coat of chocolate
• 1:15:05
  colored velvet with diamond buttons, and with two huge pockets which were always filled
• 1:15:13
  with bones dropped there at dinner by his loving mistress. Breeches of crimson velvet,
• 1:15:19
  silk stockings, and low silver buckled slippers completed his costume. His tail
• 1:15:26
  was encased in a blue silk covering, which was to protect it from the
• 1:15:30
  rain. Come Maduro, said the fairy to him, Get my best coach
• 1:15:36
  ready, and set out toward the forest. On reaching the oak tree,
• 1:15:43
  you will find a poor, half dead marionette stretched out on the grass.
• 1:15:48
  Lift him up, tenderly, place him on the silken cushions of the coach,
• 1:15:54
  and bring him here to me. The poodle, to show that he
• 1:15:59
  under stood, wagged his silk covered tail two or three times and set off
• 1:16:02
  at a quick pace. In a few minutes, a lovely little coach,
• 1:16:09
  made of glass, with lining as soft as whipped cream and chocolate pudding,
• 1:16:14
  and stuffed with canary feathers, pulled out of the stable. It was drawn
• 1:16:18
  by one hundred pairs of white mice, and the poodle sat on the coachman's
• 1:16:25
  seat and snapped his whip gaily in the air, as if he were a
• 1:16:28
  real coachman in a hurry to get to his destination. In a quarter of
• 1:16:32
  an hour, the coach was back. The fairy, who was waiting at
• 1:16:36
  the door of the house, lifted the poor little marionette in her arms,
• 1:16:41
  took him to a dainty room with mother of pearl walls, put him to
• 1:16:45
  bed, and sent immediately for the most famous doctors of the neighborhood to come
• 1:16:50
  to her. One after another, the doctors came a crow, an owl,
• 1:16:58
  and a talking cricket. I should like to know, signori, said
• 1:17:04
  the fairy, turning to the three doctors gathered about Pinocchio's bed, I should
• 1:17:11
  like to know if this poor marionette is dead or alive. At this invitation,
• 1:17:18
  the crow stepped out and felt Pinocchio's pulse, his nose, his little
• 1:17:23
  toe. Then he solemnly pronounced the following words. To my mind, this
• 1:17:30
  marionette is dead and gone, But if by any evil chance, he were
• 1:17:34
  not, then that would be a sure sign that he is still alive.
• 1:17:43
  I am sorry, said the owl, to have to contradict the crow,
• 1:17:47
  my famous friend and colleague. To my mind, this Marionette is alive.
• 1:17:53
  But if, by any evil chance, he were not, then that would
• 1:17:58
  be a sure sign that he is wholly dead. And do you hold any
• 1:18:04
  opinion, the fairy asked the talking cricket. I say that a wise doctor,
• 1:18:12
  when he does not know what he is talking about, should know enough
• 1:18:15
  to keep his mouth shut. However, that Marionette is not a stranger to
• 1:18:18
  me. I have known him a long time. Pinocchio, who until then
• 1:18:25
  had been very quiet, shuddered so hard that the bed shook. That Marionette
• 1:18:30
  continued, the talking cricket is a rascal of the worst kind. Pinocchio opened
• 1:18:38
  his eyes and closed them again. He is rude, lazy, a runaway.
• 1:18:45
  Pinocchio hid his face under the sheets. That Marionette is a disobedient son
• 1:18:50
  who is breaking his father's heart. Long shuddering sobs were heard, cries and
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  deep sighed. I think how surprised every one was when, on raising the
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  sheets they discovered Pinocchio half melted in tears. When the dead weep, they
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  are beginning to recover, said the crow solemnly. I am sorry to contradict
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  my famous friend and colleague, said the owl, But as far as I
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  am concerned. I think that when the dead weep, it means they do
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  not want to die. So ends Chapter sixteen of Pinocchio. Chapter seventeen,
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  Pinocchio eats sugar but refuses to take metzin. When the undertakers come for him,
• 1:19:47
  he drinks the mets in and feels better. Afterwards, he tells a
• 1:19:51
  lie, and in punishment, his nose grows longer and longer. As soon
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  as the three doctors had left the room, the fairy went to Pinocchio's bed,
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  and, touching him on the forehead, noticed that he was burning with
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  fever. She took a glass of water, put a white powder into it,
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  and, handing it to the marionette, said lovingly to him, drink
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  this, and in a few days you'll be up and well. Pinocchio looked
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  at the glass, made a wry face and asked, in a whining voice,
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  is it sweet or bitter? It is bitter, but it is good
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  for you. If it is bitter, I don't want it. Drink it.
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  I don't like anything bitter. Drink it, and I'll give you a
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  lump of sugar to take the bitter taste from your mouth. Where's the sugar?
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  Here? It is said the fairy taking a lump from a golden sugar
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  bowl. I want the sugar first, then i'll drink the bitter water.
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  Do you promise yes? The fairy gave him the sugar, and Pinocchio,
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  after chewing and swallowing it in a twinkling, said, smacking his lips,
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  if only sugar were metzin, I should take it every day. Now keep
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  your promise and drink these few drops of water. They'll be good for you.
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  Pinocchio took the glass in both hands and stuck his nose into it.
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  He lifted it to his mouth and once more stuck his nose into it.
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  It is too bitter, much, too bitter. I can't drink it.
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  How do you know when you haven't even tasted it. I can imagine it,
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  I smell it. I want another lump of sugar, then I'll drink
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  it. The fairy, with all the patience of a good mother, gave
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  him more sugar and again handed him the glass. I can't drink it like
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  that, the marionette said, making more wry faces. Why because that feather
• 1:22:24
  pillow on my feet bothers me. The fairy took away the pillow. It's
• 1:22:30
  no use, I can't drink it even now. What's the matter now?
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  I don't like the way that door looks. It's half open. The fairy
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  closed the door. I won't drink it, cried Pinocchio, bursting out crying.
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  I won't drink this awful water. I won't. I won't. No,
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  no, no, no, my boy, you'll be sorry. I
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  don't care. You are very sick. I don't care. In a few
• 1:23:08
  hours, the fever will take you far away to another world. I don't
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  care. Aren't you afraid of death? Not a bit. I'd rather die
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  than drink that awful metsin. At that moment, the door of the room
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  flew open, and in came four rabbits as black as ink, carrying a
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  small black coffin on their shoulders. What do you want from me, asked
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  Pinocchio. We have come for you, said the largest rabbit, for me.
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  But I'm not dead yet. No, not dead yet, but you
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  will be in a few moments, since you have refused to take them metsin,
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  which would have made you well, O fairy, my fairy, the
• 1:24:05
  marionette cried out, give me that glass quick, please. I don't want
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  to die. No, no, not yet, not yet. And holding
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  the glass with his two hands, he swallowed the medsin at one gulp.
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  Well, said the four rabbits, this time we have made the trip for
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  nothing, And turning on their heels, they marched solemnly out of the room,
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  carrying their little black coffin and muttering and grumbling between their teeth. In
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  a twinkling Pinocchio felt fine. With one leap, he was out of bed
• 1:24:48
  and into his clothes. The fairy, seeing him run and jump round the
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  room gay as a bird on a wing, said to him, My medicin
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  was good for you after all, wasn't it good? Indeed, it has
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  given me new life? Why then, did I have to beg you so
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  hard to make you drink it. I'm a boy, you see, and
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  all boys hate medsin more than they do sickness. What a shame boys ought
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  to know after all that medzin taking in time can save them from much pain
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  and even from death. Next time I won't have to be begged so hard.
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  I'll remember those black rabbits with the black coffin on their shoulders, and
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  I'll take the glass and pouf down it. Will go. Come here now
• 1:25:45
  and tell me how it came about that you found yourself in the hands of
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  the assassins. It happened that fire Eater gave me five gold pieces to give
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  to my father. But on the way I met a fox and a cat
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  who asked me, do you want the five pieces to become two thousand?
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  And I said yes, And they said, come with us to the Field
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  of Wonders, and I said, let's go. Then they said, let
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  us stop at the inn of the Red Lobster for dinner, and after midnight
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  we'll set out again. We ate and went to sleep. When I awoke,
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  they were gone, and I started out in the darkness all alone.
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  On the road, I met two assassins dressed in black coald sacks, who
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  said to me your money or your life, and I said, I haven't
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  any money for you. See, I've put my money under my tongue.
• 1:26:45
  One of them tried to put his hand in my mouth, and I bit
• 1:26:48
  it off and spat it out. But it wasn't a hand, it was
• 1:26:53
  a cat paw. And they ran after me, and I ran and ran
• 1:26:57
  till at last they caught me and tied my neck with a rope and hanged
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  me to a tree, saying tomorrow we'll come back for you, and you'll
• 1:27:05
  be dead, and your mouse will be open, and then we'll take the
• 1:27:09
  gold pieces that you have hidden under your tongue. Where are the gold pieces
• 1:27:15
  now, the fairy asked, I lost them, answered Pinocchio. But he
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  told a lie, for he had them in his pocket. As he spoke,
• 1:27:28
  his nose long though it was, became at least two inches longer.
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  And where did you lose them? In the wood near by? At this
• 1:27:41
  second lie, his nose grew a few more inches. If you lost them
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  in the nearby wood, said the fairy, we'll look for them and find
• 1:27:50
  them. For everything that is lost there is always found. Ah, now
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  I remember, replied the marionette, becoming more and more confused. I did
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  not lose the gold pieces, but I swallowed them when I drank the medzin.
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  At this third lie, his nose became longer than ever, so long
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  that he could not even turn round. If he turned to the right,
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  he knocked it against the bed or into the window panes. If he turned
• 1:28:24
  to the left, he struck the walls or the door. If he raised
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  it a bit, he almost put the fairy's eyes out. The fairy sat
• 1:28:33
  looking at him and laughing, why do you laugh, the marionette asked her,
• 1:28:40
  worried now at the sight of his growing nose, I am laughing at
• 1:28:45
  your lies. How do you know I'm lying? Lies, my boy,
• 1:28:51
  are known in a moment. There are two kinds of lies, lies with
• 1:28:57
  short legs and lies with long noses. Yours just now happened to have long
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  noses. Pinocchio, not knowing where to hide his shame, tried to escape
• 1:29:11
  from the room, but his nose had become so long that he could not
• 1:29:15
  get it out of the door. End of chapter seventeen. Chapter eighteen,
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  Pinocchio finds the fox and the cat again and goes with them to sow the
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  gold pieces in the field of wonders. Crying as if his heart would break,
• 1:29:35
  the marionette mourned for hours over the length of his nose. No matter
• 1:29:41
  how he tried, it would not go through the door. The fairy showed
• 1:29:45
  no pity toward him, as she was trying to teach him a good lesson
• 1:29:48
  so that he would stop telling lies, the worst habit any boy may acquire.
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  But when she saw him pale with fright and with his eyes half out
• 1:29:59
  of his head from terror, she began to feel sorry for him, and
• 1:30:02
  clapped her hands together. A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled
• 1:30:09
  themselves on Pinocchio's nose. They pecked and pecked so hard at that enormous nose
• 1:30:15
  that in a few moments it was the same size as before. How good
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  you are, my fairy, said Pinocchio, drying his eyes. And how
• 1:30:25
  much I love you. I love you, too, answered the fairy.
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  And if you wish to stay with me, you may be my little brother,
• 1:30:33
  and I'll be your good little sister. I should like to stay,
• 1:30:38
  But what about my poor father. I have thought of everything your father has
• 1:30:44
  been sent for, and before night he will be here, really, cried
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  Pinocchio joyfully. Then, my good fairy, if you are willing, I
• 1:30:54
  should like to go to meet him. I cannot wait to kiss that dear
• 1:30:58
  old man who has suffered so much for my sake. Surely go ahead,
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  but be careful not to lose your way. Take the wood path and you'll
• 1:31:08
  surely meet him. Pinocchio set out, and as soon as he found himself
• 1:31:13
  in the wood, he ran like a hare. When he reached the giant
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  oak tree, he stopped, for he thought he heard a rustle in the
• 1:31:19
  brush. He was right. There stood the fox and the cat, the
• 1:31:25
  two traveling companions with whom he had eaten at the inn of the Red Lobster.
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  Here comes our dear Pinocchio, cried the fox, hugging and kissing him.
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  How did you happen here? How did you happen here? Repeated the
• 1:31:43
  cat. It is a long story, said the marionette. Let me tell
• 1:31:48
  it to you. The other night, when you left me alone at the
• 1:31:51
  inn, I met the assassins on the road. The assassins, oh,
• 1:31:57
  my poor friend, And what did they want? They wanted my gold pieces.
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  Rascals, said the fox. The worst sort of rascals, added the
• 1:32:09
  cat. But I began to run, continued the marionette, And they after
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  me until they overtook me and hanged me to the limb of that oak.
• 1:32:20
  Pinocchio pointed to the giant oak near by. Could anything be worse? Said
• 1:32:27
  the fox? What an awful world to live in. Where shall we find
• 1:32:30
  a safe place for gentlemen like ourselves? As the fox talked thus, Pinocchio
• 1:32:38
  noticed that the cat carried his right paw in a sling. What happened to
• 1:32:43
  your paw, he asked. The cat tried to answer, but he became
• 1:32:46
  so terribly twisted in his speech that the fox had to help him out.
• 1:32:51
  My friend is too modest to answer. I'll answer for him. About an
• 1:32:57
  hour ago we met an old wolf on the road. He was half starved
• 1:33:00
  and begged for help, having nothing to give him. What do you think
• 1:33:04
  my friend did? Out of the kindness of his heart. With his teeth,
• 1:33:10
  he bit off the paw of his front foot and threw it at that
• 1:33:13
  poor beast, so that he might have something to eat. As he spoke,
• 1:33:17
  the fox wiped off a tear. Pinocchio, almost in tears himself,
• 1:33:24
  whispered in the cat's ear. If all the cats were like you, how
• 1:33:29
  lucky the mice would be. And what are you doing here, the fox
• 1:33:33
  asked the marionette. I am waiting for my father, who will be here
• 1:33:38
  at any moment now. And your gold pieces. I still have them in
• 1:33:45
  my pocket, except one which I spent at the inn of the red lobster.
• 1:33:49
  To think that those four gold pieces might become two thousand tomorrow, Why
• 1:33:56
  don't you listen to me, Why don't you sow them in the field of
• 1:34:00
  to day? It is impossible. I'll go with you some other time.
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  Another day will be too late, said the fox. Why because the field
• 1:34:12
  has been bought by a very rich man, and to day is the last
• 1:34:15
  day that it will be open to the public. How far is this field
• 1:34:20
  of wonders? Only two miles away? Will you come with us? We'll
• 1:34:26
  be there in half an hour. You can sew the money, and after
• 1:34:30
  a few minutes you will gather your two thousand coins and return home. Rich
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  are you coming? Pinocchio hesitated a moment before answering, for he remembered the
• 1:34:41
  good fairy Old Geppetto and the advice of the talking cricket. Then he ended
• 1:34:46
  by doing what all boys do when they have no heart and little brain.
• 1:34:51
  He shrugged his shoulders and said to the fox and the cat, let us
• 1:34:56
  go. I am with you. And they went. They walked and walked
• 1:35:01
  for half a day at least, and at last they came to the town
• 1:35:04
  called the City of Simple Simons. As soon as they entered the town,
• 1:35:10
  Pinocchio noticed that all the streets were filled with hairless dogs yawning from hunger,
• 1:35:15
  with sheared sheep trembling with cold, with combless chickens, begging for a grain
• 1:35:20
  of wheat, with large butterflies unable to use their wings because they had sold
• 1:35:26
  all their lovely colors, with tailless peacocks ashamed to show themselves, and with
• 1:35:31
  bedraggled pheasants scuttling away hurriedly grieving for their bright feathers of gold and silver lost
• 1:35:40
  to them forever. Through this crowd of paupers and beggars, a beautiful coach
• 1:35:45
  passed now and again. Within it sat either a fox, a hawk,
• 1:35:50
  or a vulture. Where is the field of wonders? Asked Pinocchio, growing
• 1:35:57
  tired of waiting, be patient. It is only a few more steps away.
• 1:36:03
  They passed through the city, and just outside the walls, they stepped
• 1:36:08
  into a lonely field which looked more or less like any other field. Here
• 1:36:13
  we are, said the fox to the marionette. Dig a hole here and
• 1:36:16
  put the gold pieces into it. The marionette obeyed. He dug the hole,
• 1:36:23
  put the four gold pieces into it, and covered them up. Very
• 1:36:26
  carefully. Now, said the fox, go to that near by brook,
• 1:36:31
  bring back a pail full of water, and sprinkle it over the spot.
• 1:36:35
  Pinocchio followed the directions closely, but as he had no pail. He pulled
• 1:36:41
  off his shoe, filled it with water, and sprinkled the earth which covered
• 1:36:45
  the gold. Then he asked anything else, Nothing else, answered the fox.
• 1:36:51
  Now we can go return here within twenty minutes, and you will find
• 1:36:57
  the vine groan and the branches filled with gold pie. Pinocchio, beside himself
• 1:37:02
  with joy, thanked the fox and the cat many times and promised them each
• 1:37:08
  a beautiful gift. We don't want any of your gifts, answered the two
• 1:37:14
  rogues. It is enough for us that we have helped you to become rich
• 1:37:17
  with little or no trouble. For this we are as happy as kings.
• 1:37:23
  They said goodbye to Pinocchio, and wishing him good luck, went on their
• 1:37:28
  way. End of chapter eighteen. Chapter nineteen, Pinocchio is rabbed of his
• 1:37:36
  gold pieces and punishment is sentence to four months in prison. If the marionette
• 1:37:45
  had been told to wait a day instead of twenty minutes, the time could
• 1:37:48
  not have seemed longer to him. He walked impatiently to and fro and finally
• 1:37:56
  turned his nose toward the field of wonders. As he walked with hurried steps,
• 1:38:01
  his heart beat with an excited tick tack, just as if it were
• 1:38:08
  a wall clock, and his busy brain kept thinking, what if instead of
• 1:38:14
  a thousand, I should find two thousand, or instead of two thousand,
• 1:38:18
  I should find five thousand or one hundred thousand. I'll build myself a beautiful
• 1:38:26
  palace with a thousand stables filled with thousand wooden horses to play with, a
• 1:38:33
  cellar overflowing with lemonade and ice cream soda, and a library of candies and
• 1:38:39
  fruits and cakes and cookies. Thus amusing himself with fancies, he came to
• 1:38:45
  the field. There he stopped to see if, by chance a vine filled
• 1:38:49
  with gold coins was in sight. But he saw nothing. He took a
• 1:38:56
  few steps forward, and still nothing. He stepped onto the field. He
• 1:39:01
  went up to the place where he had dug the hole and buried the gold
• 1:39:05
  pieces. Again nothing. Pinocchiov became very thoughtful, and forgetting his good manners
• 1:39:15
  altogether. He pulled a hand out of his pocket and gave his head a
• 1:39:18
  thorough scratching. As he did so, he heard a hearty burst of laughter
• 1:39:26
  close to his head. He turned sharply, and there just above him,
• 1:39:30
  on the branch of a tree, sat a large parrot busily preening his feathers.
• 1:39:38
  What are you laughing at? Pinocchio asked feevishly. I'm laughing because in
• 1:39:44
  bringing my feathers I tickled myself under the wings. The marionette did not answer.
• 1:39:51
  He walked to the brook, filled his shoe with water, and once
• 1:39:55
  more sprinkled the ground, which covered the gold pieces. Again, another burst
• 1:40:01
  of laughter, even more impertinent than the first, was heard in a quiet
• 1:40:05
  field. Well, cried the marionette angrily this time. May I know,
• 1:40:13
  mister parrot, what amuses you so? I'm laughing at those simpletons who believe
• 1:40:21
  everything they hear, and who allow themselves to be caught so easily in the
• 1:40:27
  trap set for them. Do you perhaps mean me? I certainly do mean
• 1:40:34
  you, poor Pinocchio. You are such a little silly as to believe that
• 1:40:40
  gold can be sown in a field just like beans and squash. I do
• 1:40:45
  believe that once, and today I'm very sorry for it. Today, but
• 1:40:50
  too late I have reached the conclusion that in order to come by money honestly,
• 1:40:57
  one must work and know how to with hand or brain. I don't
• 1:41:03
  know what you're talking about, said the marionette, was beginning to tremble with
• 1:41:06
  fear too bad. I'll explain myself better, said the parrot. While you
• 1:41:13
  were away in the city, the fox and the cat returned here in a
• 1:41:16
  great hurry. They took the four gold pieces which you had buried, and
• 1:41:21
  ran away as fast as the wind. If you can catch them, you're
• 1:41:26
  a brave one. Pinocchio's mouth opened wide. He would not believe the parrot's
• 1:41:32
  words, and began to dig furiously at the earth. He dug, and
• 1:41:38
  he dug it till the hole was as big as himself, but no money
• 1:41:42
  was there. Every penny was gone. In desperation, he ran to the
• 1:41:50
  city and went straight to the courthouse to report the robbery to the magistrate.
• 1:41:56
  The judge was a monkey, a large gorilla, venerable with age. A
• 1:42:00
  flowing white beard covered his chest, and he wore gold rimmed spectacles from which
• 1:42:04
  the glasses had dropped out. The reason for wearing these, he said,
• 1:42:09
  was that his eyes had been weakened by the work of many years. Pinocchio,
• 1:42:15
  standing before him, told his pitiful tale word by word. He gave
• 1:42:19
  the names and descriptions of the robbers, and baked for justice. The judge
• 1:42:26
  listened to him with great patience, A kind look shone in his eyes.
• 1:42:30
  He became very much interested in stray. He felt moved. He almost wept.
• 1:42:35
  When the marionette had no more to say, the judge put out his
• 1:42:40
  hand and rang a bell. The sound two large mastiffs appeared, were in
• 1:42:45
  Carboneer's uniforms. Then the magistrate, pointing to Pinocchio, said, in a
• 1:42:50
  solemn voice, this poor simpleton has been robbed of four gold pieces. Take
• 1:42:59
  him therefore, and throw him in prison. The marionette, on hearing this
• 1:43:03
  sentence passed on him, was thoroughly stunned. He tried to protest, but
• 1:43:10
  the two officers clapped their paws on his mouth and tuzzled him away to jail.
• 1:43:15
  There he had to remain four long, weary months, and if it
• 1:43:21
  not been for a very lucky chance, he probably would have to stay there
• 1:43:25
  longer. For my dear children, is you must know that it happened just
• 1:43:30
  as the young emperor who ruled over the city of simple simons and gained to
• 1:43:34
  victory over his enemy. In celebration thereof, he ordered illuminations, fireworks shows
• 1:43:42
  of all kinds, and best of all, the opening of all prison doors.
• 1:43:47
  If the others go, I go too, said Pinocchio to the jailer.
• 1:43:53
  And not you, answered the jailer. You are one of those.
• 1:43:59
  I beg your pardon, then interrupted Pinocchio, I do amy thief. In
• 1:44:03
  that case, you are free to go, said the jailer. Taking off
• 1:44:06
  his cap, he bowed low. He opened the door the prison, and
• 1:44:10
  Pinocchio ran out and away, with never a look backward. End of chapter
• 1:44:17
  nineteen, Chapter twenty. Freed from prison, Pinocchio sets out to return to
• 1:44:25
  the ferry, but on the way he meets a serpent and later is caught
• 1:44:29
  in a trap. Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free. Without
• 1:44:35
  saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the
• 1:44:39
  road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
• 1:44:43
  It had rained for many days, and the road was so muddy that at
• 1:44:46
  times Pinocchio sank down almost to his knees, but he kept on bravely,
• 1:44:54
  tormented by the wish to see his father and his fairy sister. With ozar
• 1:44:58
  hair, he raised like a gray he. As he ran, he was
• 1:45:01
  splashed with mud even up to his cap. How unhappy I have been,
• 1:45:06
  he said, to himself, and yet I deserve everything, for I am
• 1:45:12
  certainly very stubborn and stupid. I will always have my own way. I
• 1:45:16
  won't listen to those who love me and who have more brains than I.
• 1:45:20
  But from now on I'll be different, and I'll try to become a most
• 1:45:24
  obedient boy. I have found out, beyond any doubt whatsoever, that disobedient
• 1:45:30
  boys are certainly far from happy, and that in the long run they always
• 1:45:35
  lose out. I wonder if Father is waiting for me. Will I find
• 1:45:41
  him at the Fairy's house? It is so long, poor man, since
• 1:45:45
  I have seen him, and I do so want his love and his kisses.
• 1:45:49
  And will the Fairy ever forgive me for all I have done? She
• 1:45:54
  who has been so good to me, and to whom I owe my life?
• 1:45:58
  Can there be a worse or more heartless boy than I am? Anywhere
• 1:46:02
  As he spoke, he stopped, suddenly frozen with terror. What was the
• 1:46:06
  matter? An immense serpent lay stretched across the road, A serpent with bright
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  green skin, fiery eyes which glowed and burned, and a pointed tail that
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  smoked like a chimney. How frightened was poor Pinocchio? He ran back wildly
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  for half a mile, and at last settled himself atop a heap of stones
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  to wait for the serpent to go on his way and leave the road clear
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  for him. He waited an hour, two hours, three hours, but
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  the serpent was always there, and even from afar one could see the flash
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  of his red eyes and the column of smoke which rose from his long pointed
• 1:46:47
  tail. Pinocchio, trying to feel very brave, walked straight up to him
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  and said, in a sweet, soothing voice, I beg your pardon,
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  mister serpent, which you be so kind as to step aside to let me
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  pass? He might as well have talked to a wall. The serpent never
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  moved once more. In the same sweet voice, he spoke, you must
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  know, mister serpent, that I am going home, where my father is
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  waiting for me. It is so long since I have seen him. Would
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  you mind very much if I passed? He waited for some sign of an
• 1:47:25
  answer to his questions, but the answer did not come. On the contrary,
• 1:47:30
  the green serpent, who had seemed until then wide awake and full of
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  life, became suddenly very quiet and still, his eyes closed, and his
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  tail stopped smoking. Is he dead, I wonder, said Pinocchio, rubbing
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  his hands together happily, without a moment's hesitation. He started to step over
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  him. But he had just raised one leg when the serpent shot up like
• 1:47:56
  a spring, and the marionette fell head over heels backward. He fell so
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  awkwardly that his head stuck in the mud, and there he stood, with
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  his legs straight up in the air, at the side of the marionette,
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  kicking and squirming like a young whirlwind. The serpent laughed so heartily and so
• 1:48:14
  long that at last he burst an artery and died on the spot. Pinocchio
• 1:48:19
  freed himself from his awkward position and once more began to run in order to
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  reach the fairy's house before dark. As he went, the pangs of hunger
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  grew so strong that, unable to withstand them, he jumped into a field
• 1:48:34
  to pick a few grapes. It tempted him. Woe to him. No
• 1:48:40
  sooner had he reached the grapevine than crack went his legs. The poor marionette
• 1:48:45
  was caught in a trap set there by a farmer for some weasels which came
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  every night to steal his chickens. End of chapter twenty Chapter twenty one,
• 1:48:58
  Pinocchio was caught by a farmer who uses him as a watch dog for his
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  chicken coop. Pinocchio, as you may well imagine, began to scream and
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  weep and beg, but all was of no use, for no houses were
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  to be seen, and not a soul passed by on the road. Night
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  came on A little because of the sharp pain in his legs, a little
• 1:49:21
  because of fright at finding himself alone in the darkness of the field. The
• 1:49:26
  marionette was about to faint when he saw a tiny glow worm flickering by.
• 1:49:31
  He called to her and said, dear little glowworm, will you set me
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  free? Poor little fellow, replied the glow worm, stopping to look at
• 1:49:43
  him with pity. How came you to be caught in this trap? I
• 1:49:47
  stepped into this lonely field to take a few grapes, And are the grapes
• 1:49:53
  yours? No? Who has taught you to take things that do not belong
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  to you? I was hungry. Hunger, my boy, is no reason
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  for taking something which belongs to another. It's true, It's true, cried
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  Pinocchio in tears. I won't do it again. Just then the conversation was
• 1:50:16
  interrupted by approaching footsteps. It was the owner of the field who was coming
• 1:50:21
  on tiptoes to see if, by chance he had caught the weasels which had
• 1:50:28
  been eating his chickens. Great was his surprise when holding up his lantern he
• 1:50:32
  saw that instead of a weasel, he had caught a boy. Ah,
• 1:50:38
  you little thief, said the farmer in an angry voice. So you are
• 1:50:42
  the one who steals my chickens. Not I, no, no, cried
• 1:50:46
  Pinocchio, sobbing bitterly. I came here only to take a very few grapes.
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  He who steals grapes may very easily steal chickens. Also, take my
• 1:50:59
  word for it. I'll give you a lesson that you'll remember for a long
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  while. He opened the trap, grabbed the marionette by the collar, and
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  carried him to the house as if he were a puppy. When he reached
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  the yard in front of the house, he flung him to the ground,
• 1:51:15
  put a foot on his neck, and said to him roughly, it is
• 1:51:18
  late now, and it's time for bed tomorrow. Will settle matters in the
• 1:51:24
  meantime. Since my watch dog died to day, you may take his place
• 1:51:29
  and guard my hen house. No sooner said than done. He slipped the
• 1:51:33
  dog collar around Pinocchio's neck and tightened it so that it would not come off.
• 1:51:40
  A long iron chain was tied to the collar. The other end of
• 1:51:43
  the chain was nailed to the wall. If to night it should happen to
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  rain, said the farmer, you can sleep in that little dog house near
• 1:51:51
  by, where you will find plenty of straw for a soft bed. It
• 1:51:57
  has been Malampo's bed for three years, and it will be good enough for
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  you. And if by any chance any thieves should come, be sure to
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  bark. After this last morning, the farmer went into the house and closed
• 1:52:12
  the door and barred it. Poor Pinocchio huddled close to the dog house,
• 1:52:17
  more dead than alive from cold, hunger, and fright now and again he
• 1:52:23
  pulled and tugged at the collar, which nearly choked him, and cried out
• 1:52:28
  in a weak voice, I deserve it, Yes, I deserve it.
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  I have been nothing but a truant and a vagabond. I have never obeyed
• 1:52:36
  any one, and I have always done as I pleased. If I were
• 1:52:41
  only like so many others, and had studied and worked and stayed with my
• 1:52:45
  poor old father. I should not find myself here now, in this field
• 1:52:49
  and in the darkness, taking the place of a farmer's watchdog. Oh if
• 1:52:56
  I could start all over again. But what is done can't be undone,
• 1:53:00
  and I must be patient. After this little sermon to himself, which came
• 1:53:06
  from the very depths of his heart, Pinocchio went into the dog house and
• 1:53:12
  fell asleep. End of chapter twenty one. Chapter twenty two, Pinocchio discovers
• 1:53:20
  the thieves, and as a reward for faithfulness, he regains his liberty.
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  Even though a boy may be very unhappy, he very seldom loses sleep over
• 1:53:30
  his worries. The Marionette, being no exception to this rule, slept on
• 1:53:34
  peacefully for a few hours till well along toward midnight, when he was awakened
• 1:53:39
  by strange whisperings and stealthy sounds coming from the yard. He stuck his nose
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  out of the dog house and saw four slender, hairy animals. They were
• 1:53:48
  weasels, small animals, very fond of both eggs and chickens. One of
• 1:53:53
  them left her companions, and, going to the door of the dog house,
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  said in the sweet voice, good evening, m Lampo. My name
• 1:54:01
  is not Malampo, answered Pinocchio. Who are you then? I am Pinocchio?
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  What are you doing here? I'm the watch dog? But where is
• 1:54:12
  Malampo? Where is the old dog who used to live in this house?
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  He died this morning, died, poor beast. He was so good still,
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  judging by your face, I think you too are a good natured dog.
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  I beg your pardon. I am not a dog. What are you
• 1:54:31
  then? I am a marionette? Are you taking the place of the watch
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  dog? I'm sorry to say that I am. I'm being punished. Well,
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  I shall make the same terms with you that we had with the dead
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  Malampo. I'm sure you will be glad to hear them. And what are
• 1:54:49
  the terms? This is our plan. Will come once in a while,
• 1:54:56
  as in the past, to pay a visit to this hen house, and
• 1:55:00
  we'll take away eight chickens. Of these, seven are for us and one
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  for you, provided of course, that you will make believe you are sleeping
• 1:55:10
  and will not bark for the farmer. Did Malampo really do that, asked
• 1:55:15
  Pinocchio. Indeed he did, and because of that we were the best of
• 1:55:18
  friends. Sleep away peacefully, and remember that before we go, we shall
• 1:55:25
  leave you a nice fat chicken all ready for your breakfast in the morning.
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  Is that understood even too well? Answered Pinocchio, and shaking his head in
• 1:55:34
  a threatening manner, he seemed to say, we'll talk this over in a
• 1:55:38
  few minutes, my friends. As soon as the four weasels had talked things
• 1:55:43
  over, they went straight to the chicken coop, which stood close to the
• 1:55:45
  dog house. Digging busily with teeth and claws, they opened the little door
• 1:55:50
  and slipped it. But they were no sooner in than they heard the door
• 1:55:55
  close with a sharp bay. The one who had done the trick was Pinocchio,
• 1:56:00
  who, not satisfied with that, dragged a heavy stone in front of
• 1:56:02
  it. That done, he started to bark, and he barked as if
• 1:56:06
  he were a real watchdog. Bow wow, Wow, bow wow. The
• 1:56:12
  farmer heard the loud barks and jumped out of bed, taking his gun.
• 1:56:15
  He leaped to the window and shouted, what's the matter? The thieves are
• 1:56:19
  here, answered Pinocchio, Where are they in the chicken coop? I'll come
• 1:56:24
  down in the second, And in fact he was down in the yard in
• 1:56:28
  a twinkling and running toward the chicken coop. He opened the door, pulled
• 1:56:31
  out the weasels one by one, and after tying them in a bag,
• 1:56:35
  said to them in a happy voice, you're in my hands at last.
• 1:56:40
  I could punish you now, but I'll wait. In the morning. You
• 1:56:43
  may come with me to the inn, and there you'll make a fine dinner
• 1:56:45
  for some hungry mortal. It is really too great an honor for you,
• 1:56:49
  one you do not deserve. But as you see, I am really a
• 1:56:53
  very kind and generous man, and I am going to do this for you.
• 1:56:57
  Then he went up to Pinocchio and began to pet and dress him.
• 1:57:00
  How did you ever find them out so quickly? And to think that Malampo,
• 1:57:03
  my faithful Malampo, never saw them in all these years. The marionette
• 1:57:09
  could have told then and there all he knew about the shameful contract between the
• 1:57:13
  dog and the weasels. But thinking of the dead dog, he said to
• 1:57:15
  himself, Malampo is dead. What is the use of accusing him? The
• 1:57:20
  dead are gone, and they cannot defend themselves. The best thing to do
• 1:57:24
  is to leave them in peace. Were you awake or asleep when they came?
• 1:57:28
  And continued the farmer I was asleep, answered Pinocchio, But they awakened
• 1:57:32
  me with their whisperings. One of them even came to the door of the
• 1:57:35
  dog house and said to me, if you promise not to bark, we
• 1:57:39
  will make you a present of one of the chickens for your breakfast. Did
• 1:57:43
  you hear that they have the audacity to make such a proposition as that to
• 1:57:45
  me? For you must know that though I am a very wicked marionette full
• 1:57:50
  of faults, still I never have been, nor ever shall be bribed.
• 1:57:56
  Fine boy, cried the farmer, slapping him on the shoulder in a friendly
• 1:57:59
  way. You ought to be proud of yourself, and to show you what
• 1:58:01
  I think of you. You are free from this instant and he slipped the
• 1:58:05
  dog collar from his neck. End of chapter twenty two. Chapter twenty three,
• 1:58:12
  Pinocchio weeps upon learning that the lovely maiden with azure hair is dead.
• 1:58:16
  He meets a pigeon who carries him to the sea shore. He throws himself
• 1:58:20
  into the sea to go to the aid of his father. As soon as
• 1:58:26
  Pinocchio no longer felt the shameful weight of the dog collar around his neck,
• 1:58:30
  he started to run across the fields and meadows, and never stopped till he
• 1:58:35
  came to the main road that was to take him to the fairy's house.
• 1:58:42
  When he reached it, he looked into the valley far below him, and
• 1:58:45
  there he saw the wood where unluckily he had met the fox and the cat,
• 1:58:50
  and the tall oak tree where he had been hanged. And though he
• 1:58:55
  searched far and near, he could not see the house where the fairy with
• 1:58:59
  was the azure hare lived. He became terribly frightened, and running as fast
• 1:59:03
  as he could, he finally came to the spot where it had once stood.
• 1:59:09
  The little house was no longer. There in its place lay a small
• 1:59:13
  marble slab which bore this sad inscription. Here lies the lovely fairy with azure
• 1:59:21
  hair, who died of grief when abandoned by her little brother Pinocchio. The
• 1:59:30
  poor marionette was heartbroken at reading these words. He fell to the ground,
• 1:59:36
  and, covering the cold marble with kisses, burst into bitter tears. He
• 1:59:44
  cried all night, and dawn found him still there, though his tears had
• 1:59:48
  dried, and only hard, dry sobs shook his wooden frame. But these
• 1:59:55
  were so loud that they could be heard by the far away hills. As
• 1:59:59
  he s sobbed, he said to himself, Oh my fairy, My dear
• 2:00:04
  dear fairy, why did you die? Why did I not die? Who
• 2:00:10
  am so bad instead of you? Who are so good? And my father
• 2:00:15
  where can he be? Please, dear fairy, tell me where he is
• 2:00:19
  and I shall never never leave him again. You are not really dead,
• 2:00:26
  are you. If you love me, you will come back alive as before.
• 2:00:30
  Don't you feel sorry for me? I'm so lonely. If the two
• 2:00:35
  assassins come, they'll hang me again from the giant oak tree and I will
• 2:00:40
  really die this time. What shall I do alone in the world now that
• 2:00:45
  you are dead and my father is lost? Where shall I eat? Where
• 2:00:49
  shall I sleep? Who will make my new clothes? Oh? I want
• 2:00:55
  to die, Yes, I want to die. Oh oh oh, Poor
• 2:01:01
  Pinocchio. He even tried to tear his hair, but as it was only
• 2:01:06
  painted on his wooden head, he could not even pull it. Just then,
• 2:01:13
  a large pigeon flew far above him. Seeing the marionette, he cried
• 2:01:17
  to him, Tell me, little boy, what are you doing down there?
• 2:01:23
  Can't you see I'm crying? Cried Pinocchio, lifting his head toward the
• 2:01:28
  voice and rubbing his eyes with his sleeve. Tell me, asked the pigeon.
• 2:01:32
  Do you by chance know of a marionette Pinocchio? By name Pinocchio?
• 2:01:39
  Did you say? Pinocchio? Replied the marionette, jumping to his feet,
• 2:01:44
  Why I am Pinocchio. At this answer, the pigeon flew swiftly down to
• 2:01:48
  the earth. He was much larger than a turkey. Then you know Geppetto
• 2:01:54
  also? Do I know him? He's my father, my poor dear father.
• 2:02:00
  Has he perhaps spoken to you of me? Will you take me to
• 2:02:04
  him? Is he still alive? Answer me? Please? Is he still
• 2:02:09
  alive? I left him three days ago on the shore of a large sea.
• 2:02:15
  What was he doing? He was building a little boat with which to
• 2:02:18
  cross the ocean. For the last four months, that poor man has been
• 2:02:21
  wandering around Europe looking for you, not having found you yet, he has
• 2:02:28
  made up his mind to look for you in the New World, far across
• 2:02:31
  the ocean. How far is it from here to the shore, asked Pinocchio
• 2:02:38
  anxiously, more than fifty miles. Fifty miles, Oh, dear pigeon,
• 2:02:45
  how I wish I had your wings? If you want to come, I'll
• 2:02:49
  take you with me. How astride my back? Are you very heavy?
• 2:02:56
  Heavy? Not at all, I'm only a feather, very well well,
• 2:03:00
  saying nothing more, Pinocchio jumped on the pigeon's back, and as he settled
• 2:03:04
  himself, he cried out, gaily, gallopon, gallop on, my pretty
• 2:03:10
  steed. I am in a great hurry. The pigeon flew away, and
• 2:03:15
  in a few minutes he had reached the clouds. The marionette looked to see
• 2:03:18
  what was below him. His head swam, and he was so frightened that
• 2:03:24
  he clutched wildly at the pigeon's neck to keep himself from falling. They flew
• 2:03:29
  all day. Toward evening, the pigeon said, I'm very thirsty, and
• 2:03:35
  I'm very hungry, said Pinocchio. Let us stop a few minutes at that
• 2:03:41
  pigeon coop down there, then we can go on and be at the sea
• 2:03:45
  shore in the morning. They went into the empty coop, and there they
• 2:03:48
  found nothing but a bowl of water and a small basket filled with chickpeas.
• 2:03:54
  The marionette had always hated chickpeas, according to him, they had always made
• 2:04:00
  him sick, but that night he ate them with a relish. As he
• 2:04:04
  finished them, he turned to the pigeon and said, I never should have
• 2:04:10
  thought that chickpeas could be so good. You must remember, my boy,
• 2:04:15
  answered the pigeon that hunger is the best sauce. After resting a few minutes
• 2:04:20
  longer, they set out again. The next morning they were at the sea
• 2:04:26
  shore. Pinocchio jumped off the pigeon's back, and the pigeon, not wanting
• 2:04:30
  any thanks for a kind deed, flew away swiftly and disappeared. The shore
• 2:04:38
  was full of people shrieking and tearing their hair as they looked toward the sea.
• 2:04:43
  What has happened, asked Pinocchio of a little old woman. A poor
• 2:04:48
  old father lost his only son some time ago, and today he built a
• 2:04:56
  tiny boat for himself in order to go in in search of him across the
• 2:05:01
  ocean. The water is very rough, and we are afraid he will be
• 2:05:08
  drowned. Where is the little boat? There? Straight down there, answered
• 2:05:15
  the little old woman, pointing to a tiny shadow, no bigger than a
• 2:05:18
  nutshell, floating on the sea. Pinocchio looked closely for a few minutes,
• 2:05:25
  and then gave a sharp cry. It's my father, it's my father.
• 2:05:30
  Meanwhile, the little boat, tossed about by the hungry waters, appeared and
• 2:05:33
  disappeared in the waves, and Pinocchio, standing on a high rock, tired
• 2:05:40
  out with searching, waved to him with hand and cap, and even with
• 2:05:44
  his nose. It looked as if Geppetto, though far away from the shore,
• 2:05:48
  recognized his son, for he took off his cap and waved also.
• 2:05:54
  He seemed to be trying to make everyone understand that he would come back if
• 2:05:58
  he were able, but the sea was so heavy that he could do nothing
• 2:06:01
  with his oars. Suddenly, a huge wave came and the boat disappeared.
• 2:06:10
  They waited and waited for it, but it was gone, poor man,
• 2:06:15
  said the fisherfolk on the shore, whispering a prayer as they turned to go
• 2:06:19
  home. Just then a desperate cry was heard. Turning around, the fisherfolk
• 2:06:26
  saw Pinocchio dive into the sea and heard him cry out, I'll save him,
• 2:06:32
  I'll save my father. The marionette, being made of wood, floated
• 2:06:39
  easily along and swam like a fish in the rough water. Now and again
• 2:06:43
  he disappeared, only to reappear once more in a twinkling. He was far
• 2:06:46
  away from land at last, he was completely lost to view. Poor boy
• 2:06:53
  cried the fisherfolk on the shore, and again they mumbled a few prayers as
• 2:06:58
  they returned home. End of chapter twenty three. Chapter twenty four, Pinocchio
• 2:07:04
  reaches the island of the Busy Bees and finds the fairy once more. Pinocchio,
• 2:07:11
  spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time
• 2:07:14
  to save him, swam all night long. And what a horrible night it
• 2:07:17
  was. It poured rain, it hailed, it thundered, and the lightning
• 2:07:23
  was so bright that it turned the night into day. At dawn, he
• 2:07:27
  saw not far away from him a long stretch of sand. It was an
• 2:07:30
  island in the middle of the sea. Pinocchio tried his best to get there,
• 2:07:34
  but he couldn't. The waves played with him and tossed him about as
• 2:07:39
  if he were a twig or a bit of straw. At last, and
• 2:07:42
  luckily for him, a tremendous wave tossed him to the very spot where he
• 2:07:45
  wanted to be. The blow from the wave was so strong that as he
• 2:07:49
  fell to the ground, his joints cracked and almost broke. But nothing daunted.
• 2:07:55
  He jumped to his feet and cried once more, I have escaped with
• 2:07:59
  my life. Little by little, the sky cleared, the sun came out
• 2:08:03
  in full splendor, and the sea became as calm as a lake. Then
• 2:08:07
  the marionette took off his clothes and laid them on the sand to dry.
• 2:08:11
  He looked over the waters to see whether he might catch sight of a boat
• 2:08:13
  with a little man in it. He searched, and he searched, but
• 2:08:16
  he saw nothing except sea and sky, and far away a few sails so
• 2:08:22
  small that they might have been birds. If only I knew the name of
• 2:08:26
  this island, he said to himself, if I even knew what kind of
• 2:08:28
  people I would find here? But whom shall I ask? There is no
• 2:08:33
  one here. The idea of finding himself in so lonesome a spot made him
• 2:08:37
  so sad that he was about to cry. But just then he saw a
• 2:08:41
  big fish swimming near by, with his head far out of the water.
• 2:08:43
  Not knowing what to call him, the marionette said to him, Hey,
• 2:08:46
  there, mister fish, May I have a word with you? Even do
• 2:08:50
  if you want? Answered the fish, who happened to be a very polite
• 2:08:54
  dolphin. Will you please tell me if on this island there are places where
• 2:08:58
  one may eat without necessarily being eaten. Surely there are, answered the dolphin.
• 2:09:03
  In fact, you will find one not far from this spot. And
• 2:09:07
  how shall I get there? Take that path on your left and follow your
• 2:09:11
  nose. You can't go wrong. Tell me another thing, You, who
• 2:09:15
  traveled day and night through the sea, did you not perhaps meet a little
• 2:09:18
  boat with my father in it? And who is your father? He is
• 2:09:22
  the best father in the world, even as I am the worst son that
• 2:09:24
  can be found In the storm of last night, answered the dolphin. The
• 2:09:28
  little boat must have been swamped, and my father by this time he must
• 2:09:33
  have been swallowed by the terrible shark, which, for the last few days
• 2:09:37
  has been bringing terror to these waters. Is this shark very big? Asked
• 2:09:41
  Pinocchio, who was beginning to tremble with fright. Is he big, replied
• 2:09:45
  the dolphin. Just to give you an idea of his size, let me
• 2:09:48
  tell you that he is larger than a five story building, and that he
• 2:09:52
  has a mouth so big, so deep, that a whole train and engine
• 2:09:54
  could easily get into it. Mother mine, cried the marionette, scared to
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  death, and dressed himself as fast as he could. He turned to the
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  dolphin, and said, farewell, mister fish, pardon the bother, and
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  many thanks for your kindnesses. This said. He took the path at so
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  swift a gait that he seemed to fly, and at every small sound he
• 2:10:13
  heard, he turned in fear to see whether the terrible shark, five stories
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  high and with a train in his mouth, was following him. After walking
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  a half hour, he came to a small country called the Land of the
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  Busy Bees. The streets were filled with people running to and fro about their
• 2:10:28
  tasks. Everyone worked, every one had something to do. Even if one
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  were to search with a lantern, not one idle man or one tramp could
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  have been found. I understand, said Pinocchio at once, wearily. This
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  is no place for me. I was not born for work. But in
• 2:10:46
  the meantime he began to feel hungry, for it was twenty four hours since
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  he had eaten. What was to be done, There were only two means
• 2:10:54
  left to him. In order to get a bite to eat. He had
• 2:10:58
  either to work or to beg. He was ashamed to beg because his father
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  had always preached to him that begging should be done only by the sick or
• 2:11:07
  the old. He had said that the real poor in this world, deserving
• 2:11:11
  of our pity and help, were only those who, either through age or
• 2:11:13
  sickness, had lost the means of earning their bread with their own hands.
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  All others should work, and if they didn't and went hungry, so much
• 2:11:22
  the worse for them. Just then, a man passed by, worn out
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  and wet with perspiration, pulling with difficulty two heavy carts filled with coal.
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  Pinocchio looked at him, and, judging him by his looks to be a
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  kind man, said to him, with eyes downcast in shame, will you
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  be so good as to give me a penny, for I'm faint with hunger?
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  Not only one penny, answered the coal man. I'll give you four
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  if you will help me pull these two wagons. I am surprised, answered
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  the marionette, very much offended. I wish you to know that I have
• 2:11:54
  never been a donkey, nor have I ever pulled a wagon. So much
• 2:11:58
  the better for you, answered the coal man. Then, my boy,
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  if you are really faint with hunger, eat two slices of your pride,
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  and I hope they don't give you indigestion. A few minutes after, a
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  bricklayer passed by, carrying a pail full of plaster on his shoulder. Good
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  man, will you be kind enough to give a penny to a poor boy
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  who is yawning from hunger? Gladly, answered the bricklayer. Come with me
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  and carry some plaster, and instead of one penny, I'll give you five.
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  But the plaster is heavy, answered Pinocchio, And the work is too
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  hard for me. If the work is too hard for you, my boy,
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  enjoy your yawns, and may they bring you luck. In less than
• 2:12:35
  half an hour, at least twenty people passed by, and Pinocchio begged of
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  each one, but they all answered, aren't you ashamed? Instead of being
• 2:12:43
  a beggar in the streets, why don't you look for work and earn your
• 2:12:46
  own bread. Finally, a little woman went by carrying two jugs of water.
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  Good woman, will you allow me to have a drink from one of
• 2:12:54
  your jugs, asked Pinocchio, who was burning up with thirst. With pleasure,
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  my boy, he answered, setting the two jugs on the ground before
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  him. When Pinocchio had had his fill, he grumbled as he wiped his
• 2:13:05
  mouth. My thirst is gone. If I could only as easily get rid
• 2:13:09
  of my hunger, On hearing these words, the good little woman immediately said,
• 2:13:13
  if you will help me carry these jugs home, I'll give you a
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  slice of bread. Pinocchio looked at the jug and said, neither yes nor
• 2:13:20
  no. And with the bread, I'll give you a nice dish of cauliflower
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  with white sauce on it. Pinocchio gave the jug another look and said,
• 2:13:28
  neither yes nor no, and after the cauliflower, some cake and jam.
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  At this last bribery, Pinocchio could no longer resist, and said, firmly,
• 2:13:39
  very well, I will take the jug home for you. The jug
• 2:13:41
  was very heavy, and the marionette, not being strong enough to carry it
• 2:13:45
  with his hands, had to put it on his head. When they arrived
• 2:13:48
  home, the little woman made Pinocchio sit down at a small table and placed
• 2:13:52
  before him the bread, the cauliflower, and the cake. Pinocchio did not
• 2:13:56
  eat. He devoured his stomachs a bottomless bit. His hunger finally appeased,
• 2:14:03
  he raised his head to thank his kind benefactress. But he had not looked
• 2:14:07
  at her long when he gave a cry of surprise, and sat there with
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  his eyes wide open, his fork in the air, and his mouth filled
• 2:14:13
  with bread. And cauliflower. Why all this surprise, asked the good woman,
• 2:14:18
  laughing because, answered Pinocchio, stammering and stuttering, because you look like
• 2:14:24
  you remind me of Yes, yes, the same voice, the same eyes,
• 2:14:26
  the same hair. Yes, yes, yes, you have also the
• 2:14:28
  same asure hair she had. Oh, my little fairy, my little fairy,
• 2:14:33
  tell me that it is you. Don't make me cry any longer.
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  If you only knew, I have cried so much, I have suffered so
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  and Pinocchio threw himself on the floor and clasped the knees of the mysterious little
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  woman. End of chapter twenty four. Chapter twenty five, Pinocchio promises the
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  fairy to be good and to study, as he is growing tired of being
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  a marionette and wishes to become a real bo. If Pinocchio cried much longer,
• 2:15:03
  the little woman thought he would melt away, so she finally admitted that
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  she was the little fairy with azure hair. You are a rascal of a
• 2:15:11
  marionette. How did you know it was I, she asked, laughing,
• 2:15:16
  My love for you told me who you were. Do you remember you left
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  me when I was a little girl, and now you find me a grown
• 2:15:22
  woman. I am so old I could almost be your mother. I am
• 2:15:28
  very glad of that. For then I can call you mother instead of sister.
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  For a long time I have wanted a mother, just like other boys.
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  But how did you grow so quickly? That is a secret. Tell
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  it to me. I want to grow a little. Look at me.
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  I have never grown higher than a penny's worth of cheese. But you cannot
• 2:15:46
  grow, answered the fairy. Why not? Because marionettes never grow. They
• 2:15:52
  are born marionettes, They live marionettes, and they die marionettes. Oh I
• 2:15:56
  am tired of always being a marionette, cried Pinocchio, disgustedly. It's about
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  time for me to grow into a man as everyone else does, and you
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  will if you deserve it. Really, what can I do to deserve it?
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  It's a very simple matter. Try to act like a well behaved child.
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  Don't you think I do? Far from it. Good boys are obedient,
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  and you, on the contrary, and I never obey. Good boys
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  love study and work, but you, I, on the contrary, am
• 2:16:26
  a lazy fellow and tramp all year round. Good boys always tell the truth,
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  and I always tell lies. Good boys go gladly to school and I
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  get sick. If I go to school from now on, I will be
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  different. Do you promise? I promise. I want to become a good
• 2:16:43
  boy and be a comfort to my father. Where is my poor father?
• 2:16:48
  Now? I do not know. Will I ever be lucky enough to find
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  him and embrace him once more? I think so, Indeed, I am
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  sure of it. At this answer, Pinocchio's happiness was very great. He
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  grasped the fairy's hands and kissed them so hard that it looked as if he
• 2:17:05
  had lost his head. Then, lifting his face, he looked at her
• 2:17:09
  lovingly and asked, tell me, little mother, it isn't true that you
• 2:17:11
  are dead, is it? It doesn't seem so, answered the fairy,
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  smiling. If you only knew how I suffered, and how I wept when
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  I read here lies I know, and for that I have forgiven you.
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  The depth of your sorrow made me see that you have a kind heart.
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  There is always hope for boys with hearts such as yours, though they may
• 2:17:33
  often be very mischievous. This is the reason why I have come so far
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  to look for you. From now on, I'll be your own, little
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  mother. Oh how lovely, cried Pinocchio, jumping with joy. You will
• 2:17:48
  obey me always and do as I wish, gladly, very gladly, more
• 2:17:52
  than gladly, beginning tomorrow, said the fairy. You will go to school
• 2:17:56
  every day. Pinocchio's face, well a little. Then you will choose the
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  trade you like best. Pinocchio became more serious. What are you mumbling to
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  yourself, asked the fairy, I was just saying, whined the marionette in
• 2:18:11
  a whisper, that it seems too late for me to go to school now.
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  No, indeed, remember it is never too late to learn. But
• 2:18:20
  I don't want either trade or profession. Why because work wearies me, My
• 2:18:26
  dear boy, said the fairy. People who speak as you do usually in
• 2:18:30
  their days, either in a prison or in a hospital. A man.
• 2:18:35
  Remember, whether rich or poor, should do something. In this world,
• 2:18:39
  no one can find happiness without work. Woe betide the lazy fellow. Laziness
• 2:18:45
  is a serious illness, and one must cure it immediately, yes, even
• 2:18:50
  from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end.
• 2:18:54
  These words touched Pinocchio's heart. He lifted his eyes to his fairy and said,
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  seriously, I'll work, I'll study, I'll do all you tell me.
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  After all, the life of a marionette has grown very tiresome to me,
• 2:19:07
  and I want to become a boy, no matter how hard it is.
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  You promise that, do you not? Yes, I promise, and
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  now it is up to you. End of chapter twenty five. Chapter twenty
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  six, Pinocchio goes to the seashore with his friends to see the terrible shark.
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  In the morning, right and early, Pinocchio started for school. Imagine
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  what the boy said when they saw a MarioNet enter the classroom. They laughed
• 2:19:39
  until they cried. Everyone played tricks on him. One pulled his hat off,
• 2:19:45
  another tugged at his coat, A third tried to paint a mustache under
• 2:19:48
  his nose. One even attempted to tie strength to his feet in his hands
• 2:19:52
  to make him dance. For a while, Pinocchio was very calm and quiet.
• 2:19:58
  Finally, however, he lost all patience, and turning to his tormentors,
• 2:20:03
  he said to them threateningly, careful boys, I haven't come here to
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  be made fine of. I'll respect you, and I want you to respect
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  me. Hurrah for doctor knowwoll you have spoken like a printed book, howled
• 2:20:16
  the boys, bursting with laughter. One of them, more impudent than the
• 2:20:20
  rest, put out his hand to pull the marionet's nose, But he was
• 2:20:24
  not quick enough, for Pinocchio stretched his leg under the table and kicked him
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  hard on the shin. Oh what hard feet, cried the boy, rubbing
• 2:20:31
  the spot where the marinet had kicked him. And but elbows, they are
• 2:20:35
  even harder than the feet, shouted another one, who because of some other
• 2:20:39
  trick, had received a blow in the stomach. With that cake, and
• 2:20:43
  that blow, Pinocchio gained everybody's favor. Every one admired him. Then's attendance
• 2:20:48
  upon him petty didn caressed him. As the days passed. In two weeks,
• 2:20:54
  even the teacher praised him, for he saw him attentive, hard working,
• 2:20:58
  and wide awake, always the first to come in the morning and the
• 2:21:01
  last leave when school was over. Pinocchio's only fault was that he had too
• 2:21:07
  many friends. Among these were many well known rascals who cared not a job
• 2:21:11
  for study or for success. The teacher warned him each day, and even
• 2:21:16
  the good Fairy repeated to him many times. Take care, Pinocchio. Those
• 2:21:20
  bad companions will sooner or later make you lose your love for study. Someday
• 2:21:26
  they will lead you astray. There's no such danger, answered the marionette,
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  shrugging his shoulders and pointing to his forehead as if to say, I'm too
• 2:21:33
  wise. So it happened that one day, as he was walking to school,
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  he met some boys who ran up to him and said, have you
• 2:21:43
  heard the news? No, A shark as big as a mountain has been
• 2:21:48
  seen near the shore. Really, I wonder if it could be the same
• 2:21:52
  one I heard of when my father was drowned. We are going to see
• 2:21:56
  it, are you coming? No? Not, I I must go to
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  s What do you care about school? You can go there tomorrow with the
• 2:22:05
  lesson more or less. We are always the same donkeys. And what will
• 2:22:09
  the teachers say? Let him talk? He is paid to grumble all day
• 2:22:13
  long. And my mother mothers don't know anything, answered those camps. Do
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  you know what I'll do, said Pinocchio, for certain reasons of mine,
• 2:22:24
  I too want to see that chart, but I'll go after school. I
• 2:22:28
  can see him then as well as now. Poor Simpleton, cried one of
• 2:22:33
  the boys. Do you think that a fish of that size will stand there
• 2:22:37
  waiting for you? He turns, and off he goes. And no one
• 2:22:39
  will ever be the wiser. How long does it take from here to the
• 2:22:43
  shore, asked the marionette. One hour there and back. Very well,
• 2:22:50
  then, let's see who gets there first, cried Pinocchio. At the signal,
• 2:22:54
  the little troop, with bugs under their arms, dashed across the fields.
• 2:22:58
  Pinocchio la running as if one wings, the others following as fast as
• 2:23:03
  they could. Now and again, he looked back, and, seeing his
• 2:23:07
  followers hot and tired, and with tongues hanging out, he laughed out heartily.
• 2:23:13
  Unhappy boy, if he had only known then the dreadful things that were
• 2:23:16
  to happen to him on account of his disobedience. End of chapter twenty six.
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  Chapter twenty seven, the great battle between Pinocchio and his playmates. One
• 2:23:28
  is wounded, Pinocchio is arrested. Going like the wind, Pinocchio took but
• 2:23:35
  a very short time to reach the shore. He glanced all about him,
• 2:23:39
  but there was no sign of a shark. The sea was as smooth as
• 2:23:43
  glass. Hey, there, boys, where's that shark? He asked,
• 2:23:46
  turning to his playmates. He may have gone for his breakfast, said one
• 2:23:52
  of them, laughing. Or perhaps he went to bed for a little nap,
• 2:23:56
  said another, laughing also from the answers, and the laugh which followed
• 2:24:00
  them, Pinocchio understood that the boys had played a trick on him. What
• 2:24:05
  now, he said angrily to them, what's the joke? Oh, the
• 2:24:09
  joke's on you, cried his tormentors, laughing more heartily than ever and dancing
• 2:24:13
  gaily around the marionette. And that is that we have made you stay out
• 2:24:18
  of school to come with us. Aren't you ashamed of being such a goody
• 2:24:22
  goody and of studying so hard you never have a bit of enjoyment? And
• 2:24:26
  what is it to you if I do study? What does the teacher think
• 2:24:30
  of us? You mean, why don't you see? If you study and
• 2:24:35
  we don't, we pay for it. After all, it's only fair to
• 2:24:39
  look out for ourselves. What do you want me to do? Hate school
• 2:24:43
  and books and teachers, as we all do. They are your worst enemies,
• 2:24:46
  you know, and they like to make you as unhappy as they can.
• 2:24:50
  And if I go on studying, what will you do to me?
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  You'll pay for it? Really, you amuse me, answered the marionette,
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  nodding his head. Hey, Pinocchio cried, the tallest of them all,
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  that will do. We are tired of hearing you bragging about yourself, you
• 2:25:05
  little turkey cock. You may not be afraid of us, but remember we
• 2:25:09
  are not afraid of you either. You are alone, you know, and
• 2:25:11
  we are seven like seven sins, said Pinocchio, still laughing. Did you
• 2:25:16
  hear that he has insulted us? All? He called us sins? Pinocchio,
• 2:25:20
  apologize for that, or look out, cuck oo, said the marionette,
• 2:25:26
  mocking them with his thumb to his nose. You'll be sorry, cuck
• 2:25:30
  oo. We'll whip you soundly, cuck oo. You'll go home with a
• 2:25:33
  broken nose. Cuck oo. Very well, then take that and keep it
• 2:25:39
  for your supper, called out the boldest of his tormentors, and with the
• 2:25:41
  words he gave Pinocchio a terrible blow on the head. Pinocchio answered with another
• 2:25:46
  blow, and that was the signal for the beginning of the fray. In
• 2:25:50
  a few moments, the fight raged, hot and heavy on both sides.
• 2:25:54
  Pinocchio, although alone, defended himself bravely with those two wooden feet of his
• 2:26:01
  He worked so fast that his opponents kept at a respectful distance. Wherever they
• 2:26:05
  landed, they left their painful mark and the boys could only run away and
• 2:26:09
  howl. Enraged at not being able to fight the marionette at close quarters,
• 2:26:13
  they started to throw all kinds of books at him. Readers, geographies,
• 2:26:18
  histories, grammars flew in all directions, but Pinocchio was keen of eye and
• 2:26:24
  swift of movement, and the books only passed over his head, landed in
• 2:26:28
  the sea, and disappeared. The fish, thinking they might be good to
• 2:26:31
  eat, came to the top of the water in great numbers. Some took
• 2:26:35
  a nibble, some took a bite, but no sooner had they tasted a
• 2:26:39
  page or two than they spat them out with a wry face, as if
• 2:26:43
  to say, what a horrible taste. Our own food is so much better.
• 2:26:48
  Meanwhile, the battle waxed more and more furiously. At the noise,
• 2:26:52
  a large crab crawled slowly out of the water, and with a voice that
• 2:26:54
  sounded like a trombone. Suffering from a cold, he cried out, stopped
• 2:27:00
  fighting, you rascals. These battles between you boys rarely end well. Trouble
• 2:27:05
  is sure to come to you, poor crab. He might as well have
• 2:27:07
  spoken to the wind instead of listening to his good advice. Pinocchio turned to
• 2:27:13
  him and said, as roughly as he knew how keep quiet, ugly crab.
• 2:27:16
  It would be better for you to chew a few cough drops to get
• 2:27:20
  rid of that cold you have. Go to bed and sleep. You will
• 2:27:22
  feel better in the morning. In the meantime, the boys, having used
• 2:27:28
  all their books, looked around for new ammunition. Seeing Pinocchio's bundle lying idly
• 2:27:33
  near by, they somehow managed to get hold of it. One of the
• 2:27:35
  books was a very large volume, an arithmetic text, heavily bound in leather.
• 2:27:41
  It was Pinocchio's pride among all his books. He liked that one the
• 2:27:46
  best, thinking it would make a fine missile. One of the boys took
• 2:27:48
  hold of it and threw it with all his strength at Pinocchio's head, But
• 2:27:52
  instead of hitting the marionette, the book struck one of the other boys,
• 2:27:56
  who, as pale as a ghost, cried out faintly, Oh mother,
• 2:28:01
  help, I'm dying, and fell senseless to the ground. At the sight
• 2:28:05
  of that little pale corpse, the boys were so frightened that they turned tail
• 2:28:09
  and ran. In a few moments all had disappeared, all except Pinocchio,
• 2:28:13
  although scared to death by the horror of what had been done, He ran
• 2:28:18
  to the sea and soaked his handkerchief in the cool water, and with it
• 2:28:22
  bathed the head of his poor little schoolmate. Sobbing bitterly, he cried to
• 2:28:26
  him, saying, Eugene, poor Eugene, open your eyes and look at
• 2:28:31
  me. Why don't you answer? I was not the one who hit you.
• 2:28:33
  You know believe me, I didn't do it. Open your eyes,
• 2:28:37
  Eugene. If you keep them shut, I'll die too. Oh dear me,
• 2:28:43
  how shall I ever go home? Now? How shall I ever look
• 2:28:46
  at my little mother again? What will happen to me? Where shall I
• 2:28:50
  go? Where shall I hide? Oh? How much better it would have
• 2:28:52
  been a thousand times better if only I had gone to school. Why did
• 2:28:58
  I listen to those boys? I always were a bad influence? And to
• 2:29:01
  think that the teacher had told me and my mother too, beware of bad
• 2:29:05
  company, That's what she said. But I'm stubborn and proud. I listen,
• 2:29:11
  but always I do as I wish, and then I pay. I've
• 2:29:15
  never had a moment's piece since I've been born. Oh dear, what will
• 2:29:18
  become of me? What will become of me? Pinocchio went on, crying
• 2:29:22
  and moaning and beating his head. Again and again he called to his little
• 2:29:26
  friend, when suddenly he heard heavy steps approaching. He looked up and saw
• 2:29:31
  two tall carabineers near him. What are you doing? Stretched out on the
• 2:29:35
  ground, they asked, Pinocchio, I'm helping this little schoolfellow of mine.
• 2:29:39
  Has he fainted? I should say so, said one of the carabineers,
• 2:29:43
  bending to look at Eugene. This boy has been wounded on the temple.
• 2:29:46
  Who has hurt him? Not? I, stammered the marionette, who had
• 2:29:52
  hardly a breath left in his whole body. If it wasn't you, who
• 2:29:54
  was it? Then? Not? I repeated Pinocchio. What was he wounded?
• 2:30:01
  With his book? And the marionette picked up the arithmetic text to show
• 2:30:05
  it to the officer. And whose book is this mine? Enough? Not
• 2:30:09
  another word? Get up as quickly as you can and come along with us.
• 2:30:13
  But but I come with us, But I am innocent, Come with
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  us. Before starting out, the officers called out to several fishermen passing by
• 2:30:20
  in a boat and said to them, take care of this little fellow who
• 2:30:24
  has been hurt, Take him home and bind his wounds. Tomorrow we will
• 2:30:28
  come after him. Then they took hold of Pinocchio, and, putting him
• 2:30:31
  between them, said to him, in a rough voice, march and go
• 2:30:35
  quickly, or it will be the worse for you. They did not have
• 2:30:39
  to repeat their words. The marionette walked swiftly along the road to the village,
• 2:30:43
  but the poor fellow hardly knew what he was about. He thought he
• 2:30:48
  had a nightmare. He felt ill, his eye saw everything double, his
• 2:30:52
  legs trembled, his tongue was dry, and try as he might, he
• 2:30:56
  could not utter a single word. Yet, in spite of this numbness of
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  feeling, he suffered keenly at the thought of passing under the windows of his
• 2:31:05
  good little fairy's house. What would she say on seeing him? Between two
• 2:31:09
  carabineers. They had just reached the village when a sudden gust of wind blew
• 2:31:13
  off Pinocchio's cap and made it go sailing far down the street. Would you
• 2:31:18
  allow me, the marionette asked the carabineers to run after my cap. Very
• 2:31:22
  well, go, but hurry. The marionette went picked up his cap,
• 2:31:24
  but instead of putting it on his head, he stuck it between his teeth.
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  And then raced toward the sea. He went like a bullet out of
• 2:31:31
  a gun. The carabineers, judging that it would be very difficult to catch
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  him, sent a large mastiff after him, one that had won first prize
• 2:31:41
  in all the dog races. Pinocchio ran fast, and the dog ran faster,
• 2:31:46
  at so much noise. People hung out of the windows were gathered in
• 2:31:50
  the street, anxious to see the end of the contest, but they were
• 2:31:52
  disappointed. For the dog and Pinocchio raised so much dust on the road that
• 2:31:58
  after a few moments it was im possible to see them. End of chapter
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  twenty seven. Chapter twenty eight, Pinocchio runs the danger of being fried in
• 2:32:09
  a pan like a fish. During that wild chase, Pinocchio lived through a
• 2:32:15
  terrible moment when he almost gave himself up as lost. This was when Elidoro,
• 2:32:20
  that was the mastiff's name, in a frenzy of running, came so
• 2:32:22
  near that he was on the very point of reaching him. The marionette heard
• 2:32:26
  close behind him the labored breathing of the beast who was fast on his trail,
• 2:32:31
  and now and again even felt his hot breath blow over him. Luckily,
• 2:32:35
  by this time he was very near the shore, and the sea was
• 2:32:39
  in sight, in fact, only a few short steps away. As soon
• 2:32:43
  as he set foot on the beach, Pinocchio gave a leap and fell into
• 2:32:48
  the water. Elidoro tried to stop, but as he was running very fast,
• 2:32:52
  he couldn't, and he too, landed far out in the sea.
• 2:32:56
  Strange though it may seem, the dog could not swim. He beat the
• 2:33:01
  water with his paws to hold himself up, but the harder he tried,
• 2:33:03
  the deeper he sank. As he stuck his head out once more, the
• 2:33:07
  poor fellow's eyes were bulging, and he barked out wildly. I drown,
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  I drown, drown, answered Pinocchio from afar, happy at his escape,
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  how Pinocchio, dear little Pinocchio, saved me from death. At those cries
• 2:33:24
  of suffering, the marionette, who after all had a very kind heart,
• 2:33:28
  was moved to compassion. He turned toward the poor animal and said to him,
• 2:33:33
  but if I help you, will you promise not to bother me again
• 2:33:35
  by running after me. I promise. I promise, only hurry, for
• 2:33:39
  if you wait another second, I'll be dead and gone. Pinocchio hesitated still
• 2:33:46
  another minute, then Remembering how his father had often told him that a kind
• 2:33:50
  deed is never lost, he swam to Alidoro, and catching hold of his
• 2:33:54
  tail, dragged him to the shore. The poor dog was so weak he
• 2:34:00
  could not stand. He had swallowed so much salt water that he was swollen
• 2:34:03
  like a balloon. However, Pinocchio, not wishing to trust him too much,
• 2:34:09
  threw himself once again into the sea. As he swam away, he
• 2:34:13
  called out, good bye, Eldoro, good luck, and remember me to
• 2:34:16
  the family. Good Bye, little Pinocchio answered the dog, a thousand thanks
• 2:34:22
  for having saved me from death. You did me a good turn. And
• 2:34:26
  in this world, what is given is always returned. If the chance comes,
• 2:34:31
  I shall be there. Pinocchio went on swimming close to shore. At
• 2:34:37
  last he thought he had reached a safe place. Glancing up and down the
• 2:34:41
  beach, he saw the opening of a cave, out of which rose a
• 2:34:43
  spiral of smoke. In that cave, he said to himself, there must
• 2:34:48
  be a fire, so much the better. I'll dry my clothes and warm
• 2:34:52
  myself, and then well, his mind made up. Pinocchio swam to the
• 2:34:58
  rocks, but as he started to climb, he felt something under him lifting
• 2:35:03
  him up higher and higher. He tried to escape, but he was too
• 2:35:07
  late. To his great surprise, he found himself in a huge net amid
• 2:35:11
  a crowd of fish of all kinds and sizes, who were fighting and struggling
• 2:35:16
  desperately to free themselves. At the same time, he saw a fisherman come
• 2:35:20
  out of the cave, a fisherman so ugly that Pinocchio thought he was a
• 2:35:24
  sea monster. In place of hair, his head was covered by a thick
• 2:35:30
  bush of green grass. Green was the skin of his body, green were
• 2:35:35
  his eyes, green was the long, long beard that reached to his feet.
• 2:35:39
  He looked like a giant lizard with legs and arms. When the fisherman
• 2:35:43
  pulled the net out of the sea, he cried out, joyfully, blessed
• 2:35:48
  Providence once more, I'll have a fine meal of fish. Thank Heaven.
• 2:35:52
  I'm not a fish, said Pinocchio to himself, trying with these words to
• 2:35:56
  find a little courage. The fisherman took the net and the fish to the
• 2:36:01
  cave, a dark, gloomy, smoky place. In the middle of it,
• 2:36:05
  a panful of oil sizzled over a smoky fire, sending out a repelling
• 2:36:11
  odor of tallow that took away one's breath. Now, let's see what kind
• 2:36:16
  of fish we have got today, said the green fisherman. He put a
• 2:36:20
  hand as big as a spade into the net and pulled out a handful of
• 2:36:24
  mullets. Fine mullets, these, he said, after looking at them and
• 2:36:28
  smelling them with pleasure. After that he threw them into a large empty tub.
• 2:36:33
  Many times he repeated this performance. As he pulled each fish out of
• 2:36:39
  the net, his mouth watered with the thought of the good dinner coming,
• 2:36:41
  and he said, fine fish, these bass, very tasty, These whitefish,
• 2:36:48
  delicious flounders, These what splendid crabs, and these dear little anchovies with
• 2:36:54
  their heads still on. As you can well imagine, the bass, the
• 2:36:58
  flounder, the whitefish, and even the little anchovies all went together into the
• 2:37:03
  tub to keep the mullets company. The last to come out of the net
• 2:37:07
  was Pinocchio. As soon as the fisherman pulled him out, his green eyes
• 2:37:11
  opened wide with surprise, and he cried out in fear. What kind of
• 2:37:16
  fish is this? I don't remember eating anything like it. He looked at
• 2:37:20
  him closely, and after turning him over and over, he said, at
• 2:37:24
  last, I understand he must be a crab. Pinocchio, mortified at being
• 2:37:31
  taken for a crab, said, resentfully, what nonsense a crab? Indeed,
• 2:37:35
  I am no such thing. Beware how you deal with me. I
• 2:37:39
  am a marionette. I want you to know a marionette, asked the fisherman.
• 2:37:43
  I must admit that a marionette fish is for me an entirely new kind
• 2:37:48
  of fish. So much the better. I'll eat you with greater relish eat
• 2:37:54
  me. But can't you understand that I'm not a fish? Can't you hear
• 2:37:58
  that I speak and think as you do? It's true, answered the fisherman.
• 2:38:03
  But since I see that you are a fish, well able to talk
• 2:38:07
  and think as I do, I'll treat you with all due respect, and
• 2:38:11
  that is that as a sign of my particular esteem, I'll leave to you
• 2:38:15
  the choice of manner in which you are to be cooked. Do you wish
• 2:38:18
  to be fried in a pan? Or do you prefer to be cooked with
• 2:38:22
  tomato sauce? To tell you the truth? Answered Pinocchio. If I must
• 2:38:28
  choose, I should much rather go free so I may return home. Are
• 2:38:31
  you fooling? Do you think that I want to lose the opportunity to taste
• 2:38:35
  such a rare fish, A marionette fish does not come very often to these
• 2:38:39
  seas. Leave it to me. I'll fry you in the pan with the
• 2:38:43
  others. I know you'll like it. It's always a comfort to find one's
• 2:38:48
  self in good company. The unlucky marionette, hearing this, began to cry
• 2:38:54
  and wail and beg with tears streaming down his cheeks. He said, how
• 2:38:58
  much better it would have been for me to go to school. I did
• 2:39:03
  listen to my playmates, and now I am paying for it. Oh oh
• 2:39:07
  oh, And as he struggled and squirmed like an eel to escape from him,
• 2:39:13
  the green fisherman took a stout cord and tied him hand and foot and
• 2:39:18
  threw him into the bottom of the tub with the others. Then he pulled
• 2:39:22
  a wooden bowl full of flour out of a cupboard and started to roll the
• 2:39:26
  fish into it one by one. When they were white with it, he
• 2:39:30
  threw them into the pan. The first to dance in the hot oil were
• 2:39:33
  the mullets. The bass followed, then the whitefish, the flounders, and
• 2:39:39
  the anchovies. Pinocchio's turn came last. Seeing himself so near to death,
• 2:39:46
  and such a horrible death, he began to tremble, so with fright that
• 2:39:50
  he had no voice left with which to beg for his life. The poor
• 2:39:54
  boy beseeched only with his eyes, but the green fisherman, not even noticing
• 2:40:00
  that it was he turned him over and over in the flower until he looked
• 2:40:03
  like a marionette made of chalk. Then he took him by the head and
• 2:40:09
  end of chapter twenty eight. Chapter twenty nine, Pinocchio returns to the fairy's
• 2:40:16
  house and she promises him that on the morrow he will cease to be a
• 2:40:20
  marionette and become a boy. A wonderful party of coffee and milk to celebrate
• 2:40:26
  the great event. Mindful of what the fisherman had said, Pinocchio knew that
• 2:40:31
  all hope of being saved had gone. He closed his eyes and waited for
• 2:40:37
  the final moment. Suddenly, a large dog, attracted by the odor of
• 2:40:41
  boiling oil, came running into the cave. Get out, cried the fisherman,
• 2:40:46
  threateningly, and still holding on to the marionette, who was all covered
• 2:40:50
  with flour. But the poor dog was very hungry and whining and wagging his
• 2:40:54
  tail. He tried to say, give me a bite of the fish.
• 2:40:58
  I'll go in peace. Get out, I say, repeated the fisherman,
• 2:41:03
  and he drew back his foot to give the dog a kick. Then the
• 2:41:05
  dog, who being really hungry, would take no refusal, turned in a
• 2:41:09
  rage toward the fisherman and bared his terrible fangs. At that moment, a
• 2:41:15
  pitiful little voice was heard, saying, save me, Alidoro. If you
• 2:41:18
  don't, I'll fry. The dog immediately recognized Pinocchio's voice. Great was his
• 2:41:24
  surprise to find that the voice came from the little flower covered bundle that the
• 2:41:28
  fisherman held in his hand. Then what did he do? With one great
• 2:41:33
  leap, he grasped that bundle in his mouth, and, holding it lightly
• 2:41:37
  between his teeth, ran through the door and disappeared like a flash. The
• 2:41:43
  fisherman, angry at seeing his meal snatched from under his nose, ran after
• 2:41:46
  the dog, but a bad fit of coughing made him stop and turn back.
• 2:41:52
  Meanwhile, Alidoro, as soon as he had found the road which led
• 2:41:54
  to the village, stopped and dropped Pinocchio softly to the ground. How much
• 2:42:00
  I do, thank you, said the marionette. It's not necessary answered the
• 2:42:05
  dog. You saved me once, and what is given is always returned.
• 2:42:09
  We are in this world to help one another. But how did you get
• 2:42:13
  in that cave? I was lying here on the sand, more dead than
• 2:42:16
  alive, when an appetizing odor of fright fish came to me. That odor
• 2:42:22
  tickled my hunger, and I followed it. Oh, if I had come
• 2:42:26
  a moment later, don't speak about it, wailed Pinocchio, still trembling with
• 2:42:31
  fright. Don't say a word. If you had come a moment later,
• 2:42:35
  I would be fried, eaten, and digested by this time. Er I
• 2:42:39
  shiver at the mere thought of it. Alidoro laughingly held out his paw to
• 2:42:43
  the marionette, who shook it heartily, feeling that now he and the dog
• 2:42:46
  were good friends. Then they bid each other good bye, and the dog
• 2:42:50
  went home. Pinocchio, left alone, walked toward a little hut near by,
• 2:42:56
  where an old man sat at the door, sunning himself, and asked,
• 2:42:58
  tell me, have you heard anything of a poor boy with a wounded
• 2:43:03
  head whose name was Eugene. The boy was brought to this hut, and
• 2:43:07
  now now he's dead, Pinocchio interrupted, sorrowfully. No, he is now
• 2:43:11
  alive, and he has already returned home. Really, really, cried the
• 2:43:15
  marionette, jumping around with joy. And the wound was not serious, but
• 2:43:20
  it might have been even Martle, answered the old man, For heavy book
• 2:43:24
  was thrown at his head, and who threw it? A schoolmate of his,
• 2:43:28
  a certain Pinocchio. And who is this Pinocchio, asked the marionette,
• 2:43:33
  feigning ignorance. They say he is a mischief maker, a tramp, a
• 2:43:37
  street urchin calumnies, all calumnies. Do you know this Pinocchio by sight,
• 2:43:43
  answered the marionette. And what do you think of him? Answered the old
• 2:43:46
  man. I think he is a very good boy, fond of study,
• 2:43:50
  obedient, kind to his father and to his whole family. As he was
• 2:43:54
  telling all these enormous lies about himself, Pinocchio touched his nose and found it
• 2:44:00
  twice as long as it should be. Scared out of his wits, he
• 2:44:03
  cried out, don't listen to me, a good man. All the wonderful
• 2:44:07
  things I have said are not true at all. I know Pinocchio well,
• 2:44:09
  and he is indeed a very wicked fellow, lazy and disobedient, who,
• 2:44:13
  instead of going to school, runs away with his playmates to have a good
• 2:44:16
  time. At this speech, his nose returned to its natural size. Why
• 2:44:22
  are you so pale? Asked the old man. Suddenly, let me tell
• 2:44:26
  you, without knowing it, I've rubbed myself against a newly painted wall.
• 2:44:31
  He lied, ashamed to say that he had been made ready for the frying
• 2:44:33
  pan. What have you done with your coat and your hat and your breeches?
• 2:44:39
  I met thieves and they robbed me. Tell me, my good man,
• 2:44:41
  have you not perhaps a little suit to give me so that I may
• 2:44:45
  go home? My boy? As for clothes, I have only a bag
• 2:44:48
  in which I keep hops. If you want it, take it there it
• 2:44:52
  is. Pinocchio did not wait for him to repeat his words. He took
• 2:44:56
  the bag, which happened to be empty, and after cutting a big hole
• 2:45:01
  at the top and two at the sides, he slipped into it as if
• 2:45:03
  it were a shirt. Lightly clad as he was, he started out toward
• 2:45:07
  the village. Along the way, he felt very uneasy. In fact,
• 2:45:11
  he was so unhappy that he went along, taking two steps forward and one
• 2:45:16
  back. And as he went he said to himself, how shall I ever
• 2:45:20
  face my good little fairy? What will she say when she sees me.
• 2:45:24
  Will she forgive this last trick of mine? I am sure she won't.
• 2:45:28
  Oh no, she won't, and I deserve it, as usual, for
• 2:45:31
  I am a rascal, fine on promises which I never keep. He came
• 2:45:35
  to the village late at night. It was so dark he could see nothing,
• 2:45:39
  and it was raining pitchforks. Pinocchio went straight to the fairy's house,
• 2:45:43
  firmly resolved to knock at the door. When he found himself there, he
• 2:45:48
  lost courage and ran back a few steps. A second time he came to
• 2:45:52
  the door, and again he ran back. The third time, he repeated
• 2:45:56
  his performance the fourth time, before he had time to lose his courage.
• 2:46:00
  He grasped the knocker and made a faint sound with it. He waited,
• 2:46:05
  and waited and waited. Finally, after a full half hour, a top
• 2:46:11
  floor window the house had four stories opened and Pinocchio saw a large snail look
• 2:46:16
  out. A tiny light glowed on top of her head. Who knocks at
• 2:46:22
  this late hour? She called? Is the fairy home? Asked the marionette.
• 2:46:26
  The fairy is asleep and does not wish to be disturbed. Who are
• 2:46:31
  you it is? I? Who's I? Pinocchio? Who is Pinocchio,
• 2:46:37
  the marionette, the one who lives in the fairy's house. Oh, I
• 2:46:43
  understand, said the snail. Wait for me there. I will come down
• 2:46:48
  to open the door for you. Hurry, I beg of you, for
• 2:46:50
  I am dying of cold, my boy, I am a snail, and
• 2:46:56
  snails are never in a hurry. An hour passed, two hours the door
• 2:47:03
  was still closed. Pinocchio, who was trembling with fear and shivering from the
• 2:47:09
  cold rain on his back, knocked a second time, this time louder than
• 2:47:13
  before. At that second knock, a window on the third floor opened,
• 2:47:18
  and the same snail looked out. Dear little snail, cried Pinocchio from the
• 2:47:22
  street. I have been waiting two hours for you, and two hours on
• 2:47:26
  a dreadful night like this are as long as two years. Hurry, please,
• 2:47:31
  my boy, answered the snail in a calm, peaceful voice. My
• 2:47:35
  dear boy, I am a snail, and snails are never in a hurry.
• 2:47:41
  And the window closed. A few minutes later, midnight struck, then
• 2:47:46
  one o'clock, two o'clock, and the door still remained closed. Then Pinocchio,
• 2:47:54
  losing all patience, grabbed the knocker with both hands, fully determined to
• 2:47:58
  wake the whole house in the street with it. As soon as he touched
• 2:48:01
  the knocker, however, it became an eel and wiggled away into the darkness.
• 2:48:05
  Really cried Pinocchio, blind with rage. If the knocker is gone,
• 2:48:09
  I can still use my feet. He stepped back and gave the door a
• 2:48:13
  most solemn kick. He kicked so hard that his foot went straight through the
• 2:48:18
  door, and his leg followed almost to the knee. No matter how he
• 2:48:22
  pulled and tugged, he could not pull it out there. He stayed as
• 2:48:26
  if nailed to the door. Poor Pinocchio. The rest of the night he
• 2:48:31
  had to spend with one foot through the door and the other one in the
• 2:48:35
  air. As dawn was breaking, the door finally opened. That brave little
• 2:48:41
  animal, the snail, had taken exactly nine hours to go from the fourth
• 2:48:45
  floor to the street. How she must have raced. What are you doing
• 2:48:50
  with your foot through the door, she asked the marionette, laughing it was
• 2:48:54
  a misfortune. Won't you try, pretty little snail, to free me from
• 2:48:58
  this terrible torture. My boy, we need a carpenter here, and I
• 2:49:03
  have never been one. Ask the fairy to help me. The fairy is
• 2:49:07
  asleep and does not want to be disturbed. But what do you want me
• 2:49:11
  to do? Nailed to the door like this, enjoy yourself, counting the
• 2:49:16
  ants which are passing by. Bring me something to eat at least, for
• 2:49:20
  I am faint with hunger. Immediately, in fact, after three and a
• 2:49:26
  half hours, Pinocchio saw her return with the silver tray on her head.
• 2:49:31
  On the tray there were bread, roast, chicken, fruit. Here is
• 2:49:35
  the breakfast the fairy sends to you, said the snail. At the sight
• 2:49:39
  of all these good things, the marionette felt much better. What was his
• 2:49:43
  disgust? However, when, on tasting the food he found the bread to
• 2:49:48
  be made of chalk, the chicken of cardboard, and the brilliant fruit of
• 2:49:52
  colored alabaster, he wanted to cry. He wanted to give himself up to
• 2:49:56
  despair. He wanted to throw away the tray in all that was on it.
• 2:50:01
  Instead, either from pain or weakness, he fell to the floor and
• 2:50:05
  a dead faint. When he regained his senses, he found himself stretched out
• 2:50:09
  on a sofa, and the fairy was seated near him. This time I
• 2:50:13
  forgive you, said the fairy to him. But be careful not to get
• 2:50:18
  into mischief again. Pinocchio promised to study and to behave himself, and he
• 2:50:24
  kept his word for the remainder of the year. At the end of it
• 2:50:28
  he passed first in all his examinations, and his report was so good that
• 2:50:33
  the fairy said to him, Happily, tomorrow your wish will come true.
• 2:50:37
  And what is that Tomorrow you will cease to be a marionette and will become
• 2:50:43
  a real boy. Pinocchio was beside himself with joy. All his friends and
• 2:50:48
  schoolmates must be invited to celebrate the great event. The fairy promised to prepare
• 2:50:52
  two hundred cups of coffee and milk, and four hundred slices of toast,
• 2:50:56
  buttered on both sides. The day must be a very gay and happy one.
• 2:51:01
  But unluckily, in a marionette's life there's always a butt which is apt
• 2:51:09
  to spoil everything. End of chapter twenty nine, Chapter thirty, in which
• 2:51:18
  Pinocchio, instead of becoming a boy, runs away to the land of toys
• 2:51:24
  with his friend lamp Wick. Coming out at last from the surprise into which
• 2:51:35
  the Fairy's words had thrown him, Pinocchio asked for permission to give out the
• 2:51:41
  invitations. Well, indeed, you may invite your friends to tomorrow's party,
• 2:51:52
  only remember to return home before doctor. You understand. Oh, I'll be
• 2:51:58
  back in one hour without fail, answered the marionette. Well take care,
• 2:52:03
  Pinocchio. Boys give promises very easily, but they as easily forget them.
• 2:52:13
  But I am not like those others. When I give my word, I
• 2:52:16
  keep it. We shall see in case you do disobey, you will be
• 2:52:24
  the one to suffer, not any one else. Why, because boys who
• 2:52:31
  do not listen to their elders always come to grief. Well, I certainly
• 2:52:37
  have said Pinocchio, but from now on I obey. Well, we shall
• 2:52:46
  see if you were telling the truth. And without adding another word, Pinocchio
• 2:52:52
  bade the good fairy good bye, and, singing and dancing, he left
• 2:52:56
  the house in a little more than an hour. All his friends were invited.
• 2:53:05
  Some accepted quickly and gladly. Others had to be coaxed. But when
• 2:53:11
  they heard that the toast was to be buttered on both sides, they all
• 2:53:16
  ended by accepting the invitation with the words, oh, we'll come to please
• 2:53:24
  you. Now. It must be known that among all his friends Pinocchio had
• 2:53:31
  one whom he loved most of all. The boy's real name was Romeo,
• 2:53:41
  but every one called him lamp Wick because he was tall and thin and had
• 2:53:48
  a woebegone look about him. Lamp Wick was the laziest boy in the school
• 2:53:54
  and the biggest mischief maker, but Pinocchio loved him. Dearly that day,
• 2:54:03
  he went straight to his friend's house to invite him to the party, but
• 2:54:07
  lamp Wick was not at home. He went a second time, and again
• 2:54:13
  a third, but still without success. Or where could he be? Pinocchio
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  searched here, and there and everywhere, and finally discovered him hiding under a
• 2:54:26
  farmer's wagon. Or what are you doing there? Asked Pinocchio, running up
• 2:54:31
  to him. Oh, I'm waiting for midnight to strike, to go where
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  far far away? And I have gone to your house three times to look
• 2:54:43
  for you? Or what did you want from me? Haven't you heard the
• 2:54:48
  news? Don't you know what good luck is mine? Or what is it?
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  Tomorrow I end my days as a marionette and become a boy like you,
• 2:54:58
  then all my my other friends, well may it bring your luck?
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  Well? Shall I see you at my party tomorrow? But I'm telling you
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  that I go tonight, what time at midnight? Where are you going to?
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  A real country, the best in the world, A wonderful place.
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  What's it called. It's called the Land of Toys. Why don't you come
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  to I? Oh? Now where you're making a big mistake, Pinocchio.
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  Believe me, If you don't come, you'll be sorry. Now, where
• 2:55:39
  can you find a place that will agree better with you and me? No
• 2:55:43
  schools, no teachers, no books in that blessed place. There is no
• 2:55:50
  such thing as study here. It is only on Saturdays that we have no
• 2:55:56
  school in the Land of Toys. Every day except Sunday. It's a Saturday.
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  Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of
• 2:56:09
  December. Now that's the place for me. All countries should be like it,
• 2:56:16
  How happy we should all be. But how does one spend the day
• 2:56:24
  in the Land of toys? Asked Pinocchio. Days are spent in play and
• 2:56:28
  enjoyment from morn till night. At night one goes to bed, and the
• 2:56:33
  next morning the good times begin all over again. What do you think of
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  it? Mm, said Pinocchio, nodding his wooden head as if to say,
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  well, it's the kind of life they would agree with me perfectly.
• 2:56:48
  Well, you want to go with me, then yes or no? You
• 2:56:50
  have to make up your mind. No, no, and again no.
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  I promise my fairy to become a good boy, and I want to keep
• 2:57:01
  my word. You see, the sun is setting, and I must leave
• 2:57:05
  you and run goodbye, good luck to you. Where are you going in
• 2:57:09
  such a hurry home? My good fairy wants me to return home before night.
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  Wait two minutes more. It's too late. Only two minutes. And
• 2:57:22
  if the fairy scolds me, let her scold. If you get tired,
• 2:57:26
  she'll stop, said lamp Wick. Are you going alone or with others alone?
• 2:57:35
  There will be more than a hundred of us. Will you walk at
• 2:57:39
  midnight? The wagon passes here? That is to take us within the boundaries
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  of that marvelous country. How I wish midnight would strike? Why to see
• 2:57:54
  you all set out together? We'll stay here a while longer, and you
• 2:57:58
  will see us. No, No, I want to return home. Wait
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  two more minutes. I've waited too long. As it is, the fairy
• 2:58:09
  will be worried. No, poor fairy, is she afraid the bats will
• 2:58:13
  eat you up? Listen, lamp Wick said, Pinocchio, are you really
• 2:58:18
  sure? There are no schools in the land of Toys, not even the
• 2:58:24
  shadow of one, not even one teacher, not one. And one does
• 2:58:33
  not have to study, never, never, never. What a great land,
• 2:58:41
  said Pinocchio, feeling his mouth water, What a beautiful land. I've
• 2:58:46
  never been there, but I can well imagine it. Well, why don't
• 2:58:50
  you come too, Well, it's useless for you to tempt me. I
• 2:58:54
  told you, I promised my good fairy to behave myself, and I'm going
• 2:58:58
  to keep my word. Well, goodbye then, and remember me to the
• 2:59:03
  grammar schools, to the high schools, and even to the colleges if you
• 2:59:11
  meet them on the way. Well, goodbye, lamp Wick, and have
• 2:59:16
  a pleasant trip, and enjoy yourself, and remember your friends once in a
• 2:59:20
  while. And with these words, Pinocchio started on his way home, turning
• 2:59:26
  once more to his friend and asked him, are you sure that in that
• 2:59:35
  country each week is composed of six Saturdays and one Sunday? Very sure?
• 2:59:46
  And that vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the thirty first
• 2:59:52
  of December. Very very sure? What a great country, repeated Pinocchio,
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  puzzled, is what to do, And then, in sudden determination, he
• 3:00:07
  said, hurriedly goodbye for the last time, and good luck, goodbye.
• 3:00:15
  How soon will you go? Within two hours? What a pity? If
• 3:00:20
  it were only one hour, I might wait for you and the fairy.
• 3:00:28
  Oh by this time, Well, in one hour or more or less,
• 3:00:31
  makes makes very little difference. I'm late, you know, poor Pinocchio.
• 3:00:37
  If the fairy scold you, no, let her scold. After she gets
• 3:00:43
  tired, she'll stop. In the meantime, the night became darker and darker,
• 3:00:52
  and all at once in the distance, a small light flickered, queer
• 3:01:00
  sound could be heard, soft us, a little bell, and faint and
• 3:01:07
  muffled, like the buzz of a far away mosquito. There it is,
• 3:01:13
  cried lamp Wick, jumping to his feet, What, whispered Pinocchio, the
• 3:01:18
  wagon which is coming to get me for the last time? Are you coming
• 3:01:26
  or not? But is it really true that in that country boy's never half
• 3:01:33
  the study, never never never, Oh, what a wonderful, beautiful,
• 3:01:43
  marvelous country. Oh. That is the end of chapter thirty Chapter thirty one,
• 3:01:52
  in which, after five months of play, Pinocchio wakes up one fine
• 3:01:58
  morning and finds a great surprise awaiting him. Finally the wagon arrived. It
• 3:02:07
  made no noise, for its wheels were bound with straw and rags. It
• 3:02:13
  was drawn by twelve pair of donkeys, all of the same size, but
• 3:02:20
  all of different color. Some were gray, others white, and still others
• 3:02:26
  a mixture of brown and black. Here and there were a few with large
• 3:02:33
  yellow and blue stripes. The strangest thing of all was that those twenty four
• 3:02:41
  donkeys, instead of being iron shod like any other beast of burden, had
• 3:02:48
  on their feet laced shoes made of leather, just like the ones boys wear.
• 3:02:56
  And the driver of the wagon to yourselves, a little fat man,
• 3:03:03
  much whiter than he was, tall, round and shiny as a ball of
• 3:03:09
  butter, with a face beaming like an apple, a little mouth that always
• 3:03:16
  smiled, and a voice small and wheedling, like that of a cat begging
• 3:03:22
  for food. No sooner did a boy see him than that boy fell in
• 3:03:30
  love with him. And nothing satisfied this boy but to be allowed to ride
• 3:03:37
  in the man's wagon to that lovely place called the Land of Toys. In
• 3:03:43
  fat the wagon was so closely packed with boys of all ages that it looked
• 3:03:52
  like a box of sardines. They were uncomfortable. They were piled one on
• 3:04:00
  top of the other. They could hardly breathe. Yet not one word of
• 3:04:05
  complaint was heard. The thought that in a few hours they would reach a
• 3:04:11
  country where there were no school, no books, no teachers made these boys
• 3:04:20
  so happy that they felt neither hunger nor thirst, nor sleep nor discomfort.
• 3:04:28
  No sooner had the wagon stopped than the little fat man turned to lamp Wick
• 3:04:33
  with bows and smiles. He asked, in a wheedling tone, tell me,
• 3:04:39
  my fine boy, do you also want to come to my wonderful country?
• 3:04:46
  Well? Indeed I do, But I warn you, my little dear,
• 3:04:52
  there's no more room in the wagon. It's full. Never mind,
• 3:04:58
  answered lamp Wick. If the there's no room inside, I can sit on
• 3:05:01
  top of the coach, and with one leap, he perched himself there.
• 3:05:07
  What about you, my love, asked the little man, turning politely to
• 3:05:11
  Pinocchio, what are you going to do? Will you come with us?
• 3:05:18
  Or will you stay here? Oh? I stay here, answered Pinocchio.
• 3:05:24
  I want to return home, but I prefer to study and to succeed in
• 3:05:33
  life. May that bring you luck? Pinocchio? Lamp Wick called out.
• 3:05:41
  Listen to me, Come with us, we will always be happy. Oh,
• 3:05:48
  no, no, no, Come with us, and we'll always be
• 3:05:54
  happy, cried four other voices from the wagon. Come with us, said,
• 3:05:58
  we'll always be happy, shouted the one hundred and more boys in the
• 3:06:03
  wagon all together. And if I go with you, what will my good
• 3:06:09
  fairy say, asked Pinocchio, who was beginning to waver and weaken in his
• 3:06:16
  good resolutions. Oh, don't worry so much. Only think that we are
• 3:06:22
  going to a land where we shall be allowed to make all the racket we
• 3:06:26
  like from morning till night. Pinocchio did not answer, but sighed deeply,
• 3:06:35
  once, twice a third time. Finally he said, make room for me.
• 3:06:43
  I want to go too. The seats are all filled, answered the
• 3:06:48
  little man. But to show you how much I think of you, take
• 3:06:54
  my place as coachman. Well, and you I'll walk well. No,
• 3:07:03
  indeed, I could not permit such a thing. I much prefer riding one
• 3:07:07
  of these donkeys, cried Pinocchio, And no sooner said than done. He
• 3:07:13
  approached the first donkey and tried to mount it, but the little animal turned
• 3:07:16
  suddenly and gave him such a terrible kick in the stomach that Pinocchio was thrown
• 3:07:22
  to the ground and fell with his legs in the air. At this unlooked
• 3:07:26
  for entertainment, the whole company of runaways laughed uproariously. The little fat man
• 3:07:33
  did not laugh. He went up to the rebellious animal, and, still
• 3:07:37
  smiling, bent over him lovingly and bit off half his right ear. In
• 3:07:45
  the meantime, Pinocchio lifted himself up from the ground and with one leap,
• 3:07:50
  landed on the donkey's back. The leap was so well taken that all the
• 3:07:54
  boys shouted Hurrah for Pinocchio and clapped their hand and hearty applause. Suddenly,
• 3:08:01
  the little donkey gave a kick with his two hind feet, and at this
• 3:08:07
  unexpected move, Pinocchio found himself once again sprawling right in the middle of the
• 3:08:13
  road. Again the boys shouted with laughter. But the little man, instead
• 3:08:18
  of laughing, became so loving toward the little animal that with another kiss,
• 3:08:28
  he bit off half his left ear. You can mount now, my boy,
• 3:08:33
  he then said to Pinocchio. Have no fear. That donkey was worried
• 3:08:39
  about something, but I have spoken to him, and now he seems quiet
• 3:08:46
  and reasonable. Pinocchio mounted and the wagon started on its way, while the
• 3:08:54
  donkeys galloped along the stony road. Pinocchio fancied, he heard a very quiet
• 3:09:01
  voice whispering to him, poor, silly, you have done as you wished,
• 3:09:11
  but you are going to be a sorry boy before long. Pinocchio,
• 3:09:16
  greatly frightened, looked about him to see whence the words had come, but
• 3:09:22
  he saw no one. The donkeys galloped, the wagon rolled along smoothly,
• 3:09:28
  the boys slept, lamp Wick snored like a dormouse, and the little fat
• 3:09:33
  man sang sleepily between his teeth. After a mile or so, Pinocchio again
• 3:09:41
  heard the same faint voice whispering, Remember, little simpleton boys who stopped studying
• 3:09:52
  and turned their backs upon books and schools and teachers, and are to give
• 3:10:00
  all their time to nonsense and pleasure. Sooner or later come to grief.
• 3:10:07
  Oh, how how well I know this, How well I can prove it
• 3:10:11
  to you? A day will come when you will weep bitterly. Even I
• 3:10:18
  am weeping now, But it will be too late. At these whispered words,
• 3:10:26
  Pinocchio grew more and more frightened. He jumped to the ground, ran
• 3:10:31
  up to the donkey on whose back he had been riding and taking his nose
• 3:10:35
  in his hands, looked at him. Think how great was his surprise when
• 3:10:39
  he saw the donkey was weeping, weeping just like a boy. Hey,
• 3:10:46
  mister driver, cried Pinocchio, Do you know what strange thing is happening here?
• 3:10:50
  This donkey weeps? Let him weep. When he gets married, he
• 3:10:58
  will have to laugh. Have you perhaps taught him to speak? Now?
• 3:11:05
  He learned to mumble a few words when he lived for three years with a
• 3:11:11
  band of trained dogs. Poor beast, come, come, said the little
• 3:11:18
  man. Do not lose time over a donkey that can weep. Mount quickly
• 3:11:24
  and let us go. The night is cool and the road is long.
• 3:11:31
  Pinocchio obeyed without another word. The wagon started again toward dawn. The next
• 3:11:39
  morning, they finally reached that much longed for country, the Land of Toys.
• 3:11:46
  This great land was entirely different from any other place in the world.
• 3:11:50
  Its population, large, though it was, was composed wholly of boys.
• 3:11:56
  The oldest were about fourteen years of age, the youngest eight. In the
• 3:12:03
  street, there was such a racket, such shouting, such blowing of trumpets,
• 3:12:07
  that it was deafening. Everywhere. Groups of boys were gathered together Some
• 3:12:13
  played at marbles, at hopscotch, at ball. Others rode on bicycles or
• 3:12:18
  on wooden horses. Some played at blind Man's bluff, some at tag.
• 3:12:26
  Here a group played circus, another sang and recited. A few turned somersaults.
• 3:12:33
  Others walked on their hands with their feet in the air. Generals in
• 3:12:37
  full uniform leading regiments of cardboard soldiers passed by. Laughter, shrieks, howls,
• 3:12:45
  catcalls, hand clapping followed this parade. One boy made a noise like
• 3:12:50
  a hen, another like a rooster, and a third imitated a lion in
• 3:12:54
  his den. Altogether they created such a pandemonium it that it would have been
• 3:13:01
  necessary for you to put cotton in your ears. These squares were filled with
• 3:13:07
  small wooden theaters, overflowing with boys from morning till night. And on the
• 3:13:13
  wall of the houses, written in charcoal were words like these, Hurrah of
• 3:13:20
  the land of toys. Down with arithmetic, no more school. As soon
• 3:13:28
  as they had set foot in that land, Pinocchio, lamp Wick and all
• 3:13:33
  the other boys who had traveled with them started out on a tour of investigation.
• 3:13:39
  They wandered everywhere, They looked into every nook and corner house and theater.
• 3:13:45
  They became everybody's friend, who could be happier than they, what with
• 3:13:50
  entertainments and parties. The hours, the days, the weeks passed like lightning.
• 3:13:58
  Oh what a beautiful place this is, said Pinocchio each time that by
• 3:14:03
  chance he met his friend's lamp Wick. Was I right or wrong? Answered
• 3:14:09
  lamp Wick. And to think that you did not want to come, to
• 3:14:13
  think that, even yesterday, that idea came into your head to return home
• 3:14:18
  to see your fairy and to to let her start you studying again. If
• 3:14:24
  if today you are free from pencils and books and schools, you owe it
• 3:14:30
  to me, to my advice, to my care. Do you admit it?
• 3:14:33
  Only true friends counts? After all, it's true, lamp Wick,
• 3:14:39
  it's true. If today I am really a happy boy, it is all
• 3:14:43
  because of you. And to think that the teacher, when speaking of you,
• 3:14:48
  used to say, do not go with that lamp Wick. He is
• 3:14:52
  a bad companion, and someday he will lead you astray. A poor teacher,
• 3:14:58
  answered lamp Wick his head. Indeed, I know how much he disliked
• 3:15:03
  me, and how he enjoyed speaking ill of me. But I am I
• 3:15:09
  am a generous person, and I gladly forgive him. Well, you are
• 3:15:13
  a great soul, said Pinocchio, fondly, embracing his friend. Five months
• 3:15:22
  passed, and the boys continued playing and enjoying themselves from morning till night,
• 3:15:30
  without ever seeing a book, or a desk or a school. But my
• 3:15:37
  children, there came a morning when Pinocchio awoke and found a great surprise awaiting
• 3:15:45
  him, a surprise which made him feel very unhappy, as you shall see
• 3:15:56
  end of chapter thirty one chapter thirty two, in which Pinocchio's ears become like
• 3:16:09
  those of a donkey. In a little while he changes into a real donkey
• 3:16:16
  and begins to bray. Every One, at one time or another, has
• 3:16:24
  found some surprise awaiting him of the kind which Pinocchio had on that eventful morning
• 3:16:31
  of his life. There are but few wh what was it? Well,
• 3:16:37
  I will tell you, my dear little listeners. On awakening, Pinocchio put
• 3:16:43
  his hand up to his head, and there he found guess. He found
• 3:16:50
  that during the night his ears had grown at least ten full inches. You
• 3:16:58
  must know that Pinocchio, even from his birth, had very small ears,
• 3:17:07
  so small indeed that to the naked eye they could hardly be seen. Fancy
• 3:17:13
  how he felt when he noticed that overnight those two dainty organs had become as
• 3:17:18
  long as shoe brushes. He went in search of a mirror, but not
• 3:17:26
  finding any, he just filled a basin with water and looked at himself.
• 3:17:31
  And there he saw what he never could have wished to see. His manly
• 3:17:37
  figure was adorned and enriched by a beautiful pair of donkey's ears. I leave
• 3:17:45
  you to think of the terrible grief, the shame, the despair of the
• 3:17:50
  poor marionette. He began to cry, to scream, to knock his head
• 3:17:58
  against the wall. But the more he shrieked, the longer and the more
• 3:18:03
  hairy grew his ears. At those piercing shrieks, a dormouse came into the
• 3:18:11
  room, a fat little dormouse who lived upstairs. Seeing Pinocchio so grief stricken,
• 3:18:18
  she asked him anxiously, what is the matter, dear little neighbor.
• 3:18:24
  I am sick, my little dormouse, very very sick, and from an
• 3:18:31
  illness which frightens me. Do you understand how to feel the pulse? A
• 3:18:37
  little? Feel mine? Then, and tell me if I have a fever.
• 3:18:43
  The dormouse took Pinocchio's wrist between her paws, and after a few minutes,
• 3:18:52
  looked up at him sorrowfully and said, my friend, I am sorry,
• 3:19:00
  but I must give you some very sad news. What is it?
• 3:19:09
  You have a very bad fever. But what fever is it? The donkey
• 3:19:18
  fever? I don't know anything about that fever, answered Pinocchio, beginning to
• 3:19:24
  understand even too well what was happening to him. Well, then i'll tell
• 3:19:31
  you all about it, said the dormouse. Know then that within two or
• 3:19:37
  three hours you will no longer be a marionette, nor a boy, or
• 3:19:45
  what shall I be? Within two or three hours you will become like a
• 3:19:50
  real donkey, just like the ones that pull the fruit carts to market.
• 3:19:58
  What have I done? What a why dumb? Cried Pinocchio, grasping his
• 3:20:03
  long ears in his hands and pulling and tugging at them angrily, just as
• 3:20:09
  if they belonged to another. My dear boy, answered the dormouse, to
• 3:20:15
  cheer him up a bit. Oh, why worry now? What is done
• 3:20:18
  cannot be undone. You know, Fate has decreed that all lazy boys who
• 3:20:24
  come to hate books and schools and teachers spend all their days with toys and
• 3:20:30
  games, much sooner or later turn into donkeys. But is it really so,
• 3:20:37
  asked Pinocchio, sobbing bitterly. I'm sorry to say it is, and
• 3:20:45
  tears are now useless. You should have thought of this long before. But
• 3:20:52
  the fault is not mine, believe me, little dormouse. The fault is
• 3:20:58
  all lamp Wicks. Who is this lamp Wick. He's a classmate of mine.
• 3:21:05
  I wanted to return home. I wanted to be obedient. I wanted
• 3:21:09
  to study and to succeed in school. But lamp Wick said to me,
• 3:21:15
  why do you waste your time studying? Why do you want to go to
• 3:21:18
  school? Come with me to the land of toys. There will never study
• 3:21:22
  again. There we can enjoy ourselves and be happy from morn till night.
• 3:21:31
  And why did you follow the advice of that false friend. Why because,
• 3:21:37
  my dear little muster dormouse, I I am a heedless marionette, heedless and
• 3:21:41
  heartless. Oh, if I only had a bit of heart, I should
• 3:21:46
  never have abandoned that good fairy who loved me so well, and who has
• 3:21:50
  been so kind to me. And by this time I should no longer be
• 3:21:58
  a Marionette, I should be a real oh boy like all these friends of
• 3:22:03
  mine. Oh. If I meet lamp Wick, I am going to tell
• 3:22:07
  him what I think of him, and more too. After this long speech,
• 3:22:15
  Pinocchio walked to the door of the room, but when he reached it,
• 3:22:20
  remembering his donkey ears, he felt ashamed to show them in public and
• 3:22:26
  turn back. He took a large cotton bag from a shelf, put it
• 3:22:31
  on his head, and pulled it far down to his very nose, and
• 3:22:37
  thus adorned, he went out. He looked for lamp Wick everywhere along the
• 3:22:43
  streets, in the squares, inside the theaters, everywhere, but he was
• 3:22:50
  not to be found. He asked everyone who he met, but no one
• 3:22:56
  had seen him. In desperation, he turned home and knocked at the door.
• 3:23:03
  Who is it, asked lamp Wick. From within, it is,
• 3:23:07
  I answered Pinocchio. Wait a minute. After a full half hour, the
• 3:23:18
  door opened. Another surprise awaited Pinocchio. There in the room stood his friend
• 3:23:26
  with a large cotton bag on his head, pulled down to his very nose.
• 3:23:33
  At the sight of that bag, Pinocchio felt slightly happier and thought to
• 3:23:39
  himself, my friend must be suffering from the same sickness that I am.
• 3:23:46
  I wonder if he too has donkey fever. But, pretending he had seen
• 3:23:52
  nothing, he asked with a smile. No, how are you, my
• 3:23:56
  dear lamp Wick, Well like a mouse in a parmesan cheese? Is that
• 3:24:05
  really true? Why should I lie to you? Well? I beg your
• 3:24:09
  pardon, my friend. But why any of you wearing that cotton bag over
• 3:24:15
  your ears? Uh? The doctor has ordered it because one of my knees
• 3:24:22
  hurts. And you, dear Pinocchio, why are you wearing that cotton bag
• 3:24:30
  down on your nose? The doctor has ordered it because I have a bruised
• 3:24:35
  foot. Oh my, poor Pinocchio, Oh my poor lamp Wick. An
• 3:24:46
  embarrassingly long silence followed these words, during which time the two friends looked at
• 3:24:54
  each other in a mocking way. Finally, Pinocchi, in a voice sweet
• 3:25:01
  as honey and soft as a flute, said to his companion, tell me,
• 3:25:09
  lamp Wick, dear friend, have you ever suffered from an earache?
• 3:25:20
  Never? And you never? Still? Since this morning, my ear has
• 3:25:28
  been torturing me. So is mine you as too? Which year is it?
• 3:25:37
  Both of them and yours? Both of them too? I wonder if
• 3:25:43
  it could be the same sickness. I'm afraid it is. Will you do
• 3:25:52
  me a favor, lamp Wick, ladly, with my whole heart? Will
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  you let me see your ears? Why not? Ah? But before I
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  show you mine, I want to see yours, dear Pinocchio, No,
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  you must show yours first. Oh, No, my dear, yours first,
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  then mine. Well, then said Pinocchio, let us make a contract.
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  Well, let's hear the contract. Let us take off our caps together,
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  all right, all right? Ready? Then Pinocchio began to count one,
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  two, three, and at the word three, the two boys pulled
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  off their caps and threw them high in the air. And then a scene
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  took place which is hard to believe, but it is all too true.
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  Pinocchio and his friend lamp Wick, when they saw each other, both stricken
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  by the same misfortune, instead of feeling sorrowful and ashamed, began to poke
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  fun at each other, and after much nonsense, they ended by bursting out
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  into hearty laughter. They laughed and laughed, and laughed and laughed again,
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  and laughed until they ached, laughed until they cried. But all of a
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  sudden, lamp Wick stopped laughing. He tottered and almost fell pale as a
• 3:27:37
  ghost. He turned to Pinocchio and said, help, help, Pinocchio,
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  what's the matter? Oh help me? Ah, I can't stand up.
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  I can't either, cried Pinocchio, and his laughter turned to tears as he
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  stumbled about helplessly. They had hardly finished speaking when both of them fell on
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  all fours and began running and jumping around the room. And as they ran,
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  their arms turned into legs, their faces lengthened into snouts, and their
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  backs became covered with long gray hairs. This was humiliation enough, but the
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  most horrible moment was the one in which the two poor creatures felt their tails
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  appear. Overcome with shame and grief, they tried to cry and bemoan their
• 3:28:31
  fate, but what is done can't be undone. Instead of moans and cries,
• 3:28:39
  they burst forth into loud donkey brays, which sounded very much like e
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  aw e aw e aw And at that moment, a loud knocking was heard
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  at the door, and a voice called to them, apin, I am
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  the little man, the driver of the wagon which brought you here. Oben,
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  I say well beware. End of Chapter thirty two. Chapter thirty three
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  Pinocchio, having become a donkey, is bought by the owner of a circus
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  who wants to teach him to do tricks. The donkey becomes lame and is
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  sold to a man who wants to use his skin for a drumhead. Very
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  sad and downcast were the two poor little fellows as they stood and looked at
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  each other outside the room. The little man grew more and more impatient,
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  and finally gave the door such a violent kick that it flew open. With
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  his usual sweet smile on his lips, he looked at Pinocchio and lamp Wick
• 3:29:56
  and said to them, fine work boys. You have brayed well, so
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  well that I recognized your voices immediately, and here I am. On hearing
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  this, the two donkeys bowed their heads in shame, dropped their ears,
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  and put their tails between their legs. At first, the little man petted
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  and caressed them, and smoothed down their hairy coats. Then he took out
• 3:30:22
  a curry comb and worked over them till they shone like glass. Satisfied with
• 3:30:28
  the looks of the two little animals, he bridled them and took them to
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  a market place far away from the land of toys in the hope of selling
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  them at a good price. In fact, he did not have to wait
• 3:30:39
  very long for an offer. Lamp Wick was bought by a farmer whose donkey
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  had died the day before. Pinocchio went to the owner of a circus who
• 3:30:48
  wanted to teach him to do tricks for his audiences. And now do you
• 3:30:54
  understand what the little man's profession was. This horrid little being, whose his
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  face shone with kindness, went about the world looking for boys. Lazy boys,
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  boys who hated books, boys who wanted to run away from home,
• 3:31:09
  boys who were tired of school. All these were his joy and his fortune.
• 3:31:16
  He took them with him to the land of toys and let them enjoy
• 3:31:20
  themselves to their hearts content. When after months of all play and no work
• 3:31:24
  they became little donkeys, he sold them on the marketplace. In a few
• 3:31:31
  years he had become a millionaire. What happened to lamp Wick, my dear
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  children, I do not know. Pinocchio, I can tell you met with
• 3:31:41
  great hardships even from the first day. After putting him in a stable,
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  his new master filled his manger with straw. But Pinocchio, after tasting a
• 3:31:52
  mouthful spat it out. Then the man filled the manger with hay. But
• 3:31:58
  Pinocchio did not like that any better. Ah, you don't like hay either,
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  he cried angrily. Wait, my pretty donkey, I'll teach you not
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  to be so particular. Without more ado, he took a whip and gave
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  the donkey a hearty blow across the legs. Pinocchio screamed with pain, and
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  as he screamed, he brayed, Haw haw haw, I can't digest straw,
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  then eat the hay, answered his master, who understood the donkey perfectly.
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  Haw haw haw, hay gives me a headache. Do you pretend,
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  by any chance that I should feed you duck or chicken? Asked the man
• 3:32:39
  again, and angrier than ever, he gave poor Pinocchio another lashing. At
• 3:32:46
  that second beating, Pinocchio became very quiet and said no more. After that,
• 3:32:52
  the door of the stable was closed and he was left alone. It
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  was many hours since he had eaten anything had He started to yawn from hunger.
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  As he yawned, he opened a mouth as big as an oven.
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  Finally, not finding anything else in the manger, he tasted the hay.
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  After tasting it, he chewed it well, closed his eyes, and swallowed
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  it. This hay is not bad, he said to himself. But how
• 3:33:22
  much happier I should be if I had studied just now instead of hay,
• 3:33:26
  I should be eating some good bread and butter patience. Next morning, when
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  he awoke, Pinocchio looked in the manger for more hay, but it was
• 3:33:37
  all gone. He had eaten it all during the night. He tried the
• 3:33:41
  straw, but as he chewed away at it, he noticed, to his
• 3:33:45
  great disappointment that it tasted neither like rice nor like macaroni. Patience, he
• 3:33:50
  repeated as he chewed. If only my misfortune might serve as a lesson to
• 3:33:54
  disobedient boys who refused to study, patience, have patience. Patience, indeed,
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  shouted his master just then as he came into the stable. Do you
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  think, perhaps, my little donkey, that I have brought you here only
• 3:34:09
  to give you food and drink? Oh? No, you are to help
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  me earn some fine gold pieces, do you hear? Come along now,
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  I am going to teach you to jump and bow, to doubt, to
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  waltz at a poker, and even to stand on your head. Poor Pinocchio,
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  whether he liked it or not, had to learn all these wonderful things.
• 3:34:28
  But it took him three long months and cost him many many lashings before
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  he was pronounced perfect. The day came at last when Pinocchio's master was able
• 3:34:39
  to announce an extraordinary performance. The announcements, posted all around the town and
• 3:34:46
  written in large letters, read thus, great spectacle, tonight, leaps and
• 3:34:50
  exercises by the great artists and the famous horses of the company, first public
• 3:34:56
  appearance of the famous donkey called Pinocchio, the Star of the Dance. The
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  theater will be as light as day that night. As you can well imagine,
• 3:35:09
  the theater was filled to overflowing one hour before the show was scheduled to
• 3:35:13
  start. Not an orchestra chair could be had, not a balcony seat,
• 3:35:18
  nor a gallery seat, not even for their weight in gold. The place
• 3:35:22
  swarmed with boys and girls of all ages and sizes, wriggling and dancing about
• 3:35:28
  in a fever of impatience to see the famous donkey dance. When the first
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  part of the performance was over, the owner and manager of the circus,
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  in a black coat, white knee breeches, and patent leather boots, presented
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  himself to the public, and in a loud, pompous voice, made the
• 3:35:46
  following announcement, Most honored friends, gentlemen and ladies, your humble servant,
• 3:35:52
  the manager of this theater, presents himself before you tonight, in order to
• 3:35:56
  introduce to you the greatest, the most famous donkey in the world, a
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  donkey that has had the great honor in his short life of performing before the
• 3:36:05
  kings and queens and emperors of all the great courts of Europe. We thank
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  you for your attention. This speech was greeted by much laughter and applause,
• 3:36:18
  and the applause grew to a roar. When Pinocchio, the famous donkey appeared
• 3:36:22
  in the circus ring, he was handsomely arrayed. A new bridle of shining
• 3:36:28
  leather with buckles of polished brass, was on his back. Two white camellias
• 3:36:33
  were tied to his ears. Ribbons and tassels of red silk adorned his mane,
• 3:36:39
  which was divided into many curls. A great sash of gold and silver
• 3:36:43
  was fastened around his waist, and his tail was decorated with ribbons of many
• 3:36:48
  brilliant colors. He was a handsome donkey. Indeed, the manager when introducing
• 3:36:54
  him to the public, added these words, most audience, I shall not
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  take your time to night to tell you of the great difficulties which I have
• 3:37:05
  encountered while trying to tame this animal. Since I found him in the wilds
• 3:37:09
  of Africa. Observe I beg of you the savage look of his eye.
• 3:37:13
  All the means used by centuries of civilization in subduing wild beasts failed in this
• 3:37:20
  case. I had finally to resort to the gentle language of the whip in
• 3:37:24
  order to bring him to my will with all my kindness. However, I
• 3:37:30
  never succeeded in gaining my donkey's love. He is still to day as savage
• 3:37:35
  as the day I found him. He still fears and hates me. But
• 3:37:39
  I have found in him one great redeeming feature. Do you see this little
• 3:37:45
  bump on his forehead. It is this bump which gives him the great talent
• 3:37:48
  of dancing and using his feet as nimbly as a human being. Admire him,
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  O signory, and enjoy yourselves. I let you you now be the
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  judges of my success as a teacher of animals. Before I leave you,
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  I wish to state that there will be another performance tomorrow night. If the
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  weather threatens rain, the great spectacle will take place at eleven o'clock in the
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  morning. The manager bowed and then turned to Pinocchio and said, ready,
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  Pinocchio, before starting your performance, salute your audience. Pinocchio obediently bent his
• 3:38:26
  two knees to the ground and remained kneeling until the manager, with the crack
• 3:38:31
  of the whip, cried, sharply walk. The donkey lifted himself on his
• 3:38:37
  fore feet and walked around the ring. A few minutes passed, and again
• 3:38:41
  the voice of the manager called quickstep, and Pinocchio obediently changed his step Gallop,
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  and Pinocchio galloped full speed, and Pinocchio ran as fast as he could.
• 3:38:56
  As he ran, the master raised his arm and a pistol shot rang
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  in the air. At the shot, the little donkey fell to the ground
• 3:39:05
  as if he were really dead. A shower of applause greeted the donkey as
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  he arose to his feet. Cries and shouts and handclappings were heard on all
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  sides. At all that noise, Pinocchio lifted his head and raised his eyes.
• 3:39:22
  There in front of him in a box sat a beautiful woman around her
• 3:39:28
  neck she wore a long gold chain from which hung a large medallion. On
• 3:39:33
  the medallion was painted the picture of a marionette. That picture's of me.
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  That beautiful lady is my fairy, said Pinocchio to himself, recognizing her.
• 3:39:45
  He felt so happy that he tried his best to cry out, oh my
• 3:39:48
  fairy, my own fairy. But instead of words, a loud braying was
• 3:39:54
  heard in the theater, so loud and so long that all the specter men,
• 3:40:01
  women and children, but especially the children, burst out laughing. Then,
• 3:40:07
  in order to teach the donkey that it was not good manners to bray
• 3:40:11
  before the public, the manager hit him on the nose with the handle of
• 3:40:13
  the whip. The poor little donkey stuck out a long tongue and licked his
• 3:40:20
  nose for a long time in an effort to take away the pain and what
• 3:40:26
  was his grief? When, on looking up toward the boxes, he saw
• 3:40:28
  that the fairy had disappeared, he felt himself fainting, His eyes filled with
• 3:40:35
  tears, and he wept bitterly. No one knew it, however, least
• 3:40:41
  of all the manager, who, cracking his whip, cried out, Bravo,
• 3:40:45
  Pinocchio, Now show us how gracefully you can jump through the rings.
• 3:40:50
  Pinocchio tried two or three times, but each time he came near the ring,
• 3:40:56
  he found it more to his taste to go under it. Four time,
• 3:41:00
  at a look from his master, he leaped through it, but as
• 3:41:03
  he did so, his hind legs caught in the ring, and he fell
• 3:41:07
  to the floor in a heap. When he got up, he was lame
• 3:41:11
  and could hardly limp as far as the stable Pinocchio, we want Pinocchio,
• 3:41:16
  we want the little donkey, cried the boys from the orchestra. Saddened by
• 3:41:22
  the accident. No one saw Pinocchio again that evening. The next morning,
• 3:41:28
  the veterinary, that is, the animal doctor declared that he would be lame
• 3:41:33
  for the rest of his life. What do I want with a lame donkey,
• 3:41:37
  said the manager to the stable boy. Take him to the market and
• 3:41:41
  sell him. When they reached the square, a buyer was soon found.
• 3:41:48
  How much do you ask for that little lame donkey? He asked, four
• 3:41:52
  dollars. I'll give you four cents. Don't think I'm buying him for work.
• 3:41:58
  I want only his skin. It looked it's very tough and I can
• 3:42:01
  use it to make myself a drumhead. I belonged to a musical band in
• 3:42:05
  my village, and I need a drum. I leave it to you,
• 3:42:09
  my dear children, to picture to yourself the great pleasure with which Pinocchio heard
• 3:42:13
  he was to become a drumhead. As soon as the buyer had paid the
• 3:42:18
  four cents, the donkey changed hands. His new owner took him to a
• 3:42:22
  high cliff overlooking the sea, put a stone around his neck, tied a
• 3:42:26
  rope to one of his hind feet, gave him a push, and threw
• 3:42:31
  him into the water. Pinocchio sank immediately, and his new master sat on
• 3:42:37
  the cliff waiting for him to drown, so as to skin him and make
• 3:42:41
  himself a drumhead. End of chapter thirty three. Chapter thirty four, Pinocchio
• 3:42:52
  is thrown into the sea, eaten by fishes, and becomes a marionette once
• 3:42:56
  more. As he swims to land, he is swallowed by the tes arable
• 3:43:00
  shark. Down into the sea. Deeper and deeper sank Pinocchio, and finally,
• 3:43:07
  after fifty minutes of waiting, the man on the cliff said to himself,
• 3:43:11
  by this time, my poor little lame donkey must be drowned up with
• 3:43:15
  him, and then I can get to work on my beautiful drum. He
• 3:43:18
  pulled the rope which he had tied to Pinocchio's leg, pulled and pulled and
• 3:43:22
  pulled, and at last he saw a peer on the surface of the water.
• 3:43:28
  Can you guess what? Instead of a dead donkey, he saw very
• 3:43:31
  much alive marionette, wriggling and squirming like an eel. Seeing that wooden marionette,
• 3:43:37
  the poor man thought he was dreaming, and sat there with his mouth
• 3:43:41
  wide open and his eyes popping out of his head. Gathering his wits together,
• 3:43:45
  he said, and the donkey I threw into the sea, I am
• 3:43:48
  that donkey, answered the marionette, laughing you. I ah, you little
• 3:43:54
  cheat. Are you poking fun at me? Poking fun at you? Not
• 3:44:00
  at all, dear master, I am talking seriously. But then, how
• 3:44:05
  is it that you, who a few minutes ago were a donkey, are
• 3:44:07
  now standing before me a wooden marionette. It may be the effect of salt
• 3:44:13
  water. The sea is fond of playing these traits. Be careful, Marionette,
• 3:44:16
  be careful, don't laugh at me. Woe be to you if I
• 3:44:20
  lose my patience. Well, then my master, Do you want to know
• 3:44:24
  my whole story? Untie my leg, and I can tell it to you
• 3:44:26
  better. The old fellow, curious to know the true story of the marionette's
• 3:44:31
  life, immediately untied the rope which held his foot. Pinocchio, feeling free
• 3:44:37
  as a bird of the air, began his tail, know then that once
• 3:44:41
  upon a time I was a wooden marionette, just as I am to day.
• 3:44:46
  One day I was about to become a boy, a real boy.
• 3:44:48
  But on account of my laziness and my hatred of books, and because I
• 3:44:52
  listened to bad companions, I ran away from home. One beautiful morning,
• 3:44:58
  I awoke to find myself changed into a donkey, long ears, gray coat,
• 3:45:03
  even a tail. What a shameful day for me. I hope you
• 3:45:07
  will never experience one like it, dear Master. I was taken to the
• 3:45:09
  fair and sold to a circus owner who tried to make me dance and jump
• 3:45:13
  through the rings. One night, during a performance, I had a bad
• 3:45:18
  fall and became lame. Not knowing what to do with a lame donkey,
• 3:45:22
  the circus owner sent me to the market place, and you bought me.
• 3:45:26
  Indeed I did, and I paid four cents for you now, who will
• 3:45:30
  return my money to me? But why did you buy me? You bought
• 3:45:33
  me to do me harm, to kill me, to make a drumhead out
• 3:45:37
  of me. Indeed I did, And now where shall I find another skin?
• 3:45:41
  Never mind, dear master, there are so many donkeys in this world.
• 3:45:46
  Tell me, impudent little rogue, does your story end here? One
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  more word? Answered the marionette, and I am through. After buying me,
• 3:45:54
  you brought me here to kill me, but feeling sorry for me,
• 3:45:56
  you tied a stone to my neck and threw me to the bottom of the
• 3:46:00
  sea. That was very good and kind of you to want me to suffer
• 3:46:03
  as little as possible. And I shall remember you always, And now my
• 3:46:07
  fairy will take care of me, even if you your fairy who is she?
• 3:46:11
  She is my mother, and like all mothers who love their children,
• 3:46:15
  she never loses sight of me, even though I do not deserve it.
• 3:46:18
  And to day, this good fairy of mine, as soon as she saw
• 3:46:22
  me in danger of drowning, sent a thousand fishes to the spot where I
• 3:46:24
  lay. They thought I was really a dead donkey, and began to eat
• 3:46:28
  me. What great bites they took, one ate my ears another my nose,
• 3:46:33
  a third my neck, and my mane. Some went at my legs,
• 3:46:37
  and some at my back. And among the others there was one tiny
• 3:46:41
  fish, so gentle and polite that he did me the great favor of eating
• 3:46:43
  even my tail. From now on, said the man, horrified. I
• 3:46:48
  swear I shall never again taste fish. How I should enjoy opening a mullet
• 3:46:52
  or a white fish just to find there the tail of a dead donkey.
• 3:46:56
  I think as you do, answered the marionette, laughing. Still, you
• 3:47:00
  must know that when the fish finished eating my donkey coat, which covered me
• 3:47:03
  from head to foot, they naturally came to the bones, or rather,
• 3:47:07
  in my case, to the wood, for as you know, I am
• 3:47:11
  made of very hard wood. After the first few bites, those greedy fish
• 3:47:15
  found out that the wood was not good for their teeth, and afraid of
• 3:47:18
  indigestion, they turned and ran here and there without saying good bye or even
• 3:47:22
  as much as thank you to me. Here, dear master, you have
• 3:47:26
  my story. You know now why you found a marionette and not a dead
• 3:47:30
  donkey when you pulled me out of the water. I laugh at your story,
• 3:47:33
  cried the man angrily. I know that I spent four cents to get
• 3:47:37
  you, and I want my money back. Do you know what I can
• 3:47:39
  do. I'm going to take you to the market once more and sell you
• 3:47:43
  as dry firewood. Very well, sell me. I am satisfied, said
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  Pinocchio. But as he spoke, he gave a quick leap and dived into
• 3:47:52
  the sea, swimming away as fast as he could. He cried out,
• 3:47:54
  laughing, goodbye master. If you ever need a skin for your drum,
• 3:47:58
  remember me. He swam on and on. After a while he turned around
• 3:48:03
  again and called, louder than before, goodbye master, If you ever need
• 3:48:07
  a piece of good dry firewood, remember me. In a few seconds,
• 3:48:11
  he had gone so far he could hardly be seen. All that could be
• 3:48:15
  seen of him was a very small black dot moving swiftly on the blue surface
• 3:48:20
  of the water, A little black dot which now and then lifted a leg
• 3:48:22
  or an arm in the air. One would have thought that Pinocchio had turned
• 3:48:26
  into a porpoise playing in the sun. After swimming for a long time,
• 3:48:30
  Pinocchio saw a large rock in the middle of the sea, a rock as
• 3:48:33
  white as marble. High on the rock stood a little goat, bleating and
• 3:48:37
  calling and beckoning, to the marionette to come to her. There was something
• 3:48:41
  very strange about that little goat. Her coat was not white or black or
• 3:48:46
  brown, as that of any other goat, but azure, a deep,
• 3:48:50
  brilliant color that reminded one of the hair of the lovely maiden. Pinocchio's heart
• 3:48:56
  beat fast and then faster and faster. He redoubled his efforts and swam as
• 3:49:01
  hard as he could toward the white rock. He was almost half way over
• 3:49:05
  when suddenly a horrible sea monster stuck its head out of the water, an
• 3:49:07
  enormous head with a huge mouth wide open, showing three rows of gleaming teeth,
• 3:49:13
  the mere sight of which would have filled you with fear. Do you
• 3:49:16
  know what it was? That sea monster was no other than the enormous shark,
• 3:49:20
  which has often been mentioned in this story, and which, on account
• 3:49:24
  of its cruelty, has been nicknamed the Attila of the sea by both fish
• 3:49:28
  and fishermen. Poor Pinocchio, the sight of that monster frightened him almost to
• 3:49:33
  death. He tried to swim away from him, to change his path to
• 3:49:37
  escape, but that immense mouth kept coming nearer and nearer. Hasten, Pinocchio,
• 3:49:43
  I beg you bleeded the little goat on the high rock, and Pinocchio
• 3:49:46
  swam desperately with his arms, his body, his legs, his feet.
• 3:49:50
  Quick, Pinocchio, the monster is coming nearer. Pinocchio swam faster and faster,
• 3:49:56
  and harder and harder. Faster, Pinocchio, the mo master would get
• 3:50:00
  you there. He is there, he is quick. Quicker, you were
• 3:50:03
  lost. Pinocchio went through the water like a shot, swifter and swifter.
• 3:50:07
  He came close to the rock. The goat leaned over and gave him one
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  of her hoofs to help him out of the water. Alas it was too
• 3:50:15
  late. The monster overtook him, and the marionette found himself in between the
• 3:50:20
  rows of gleaming white teeth. Only for a moment, however, for the
• 3:50:24
  shark took a deep breath, and as he breathed, he drank in the
• 3:50:26
  marionette as easily as he would have sucked an egg. Then he swallowed him
• 3:50:31
  so fast that Pinocchio, falling down into the body of the fish, lay
• 3:50:35
  stunned for half an hour. When he recovered his senses, the marionette could
• 3:50:39
  not remember where he was. Around him, all was darkness, a darkness
• 3:50:43
  so deep and so black that for a moment he thought he had put his
• 3:50:46
  head into an inkwall. He listened for a few moments and heard nothing.
• 3:50:52
  Once in a while, a cold wind blew on his face. At first
• 3:50:54
  he could not understand where that wind was coming from, but after a while
• 3:50:58
  he understood that it came from the lungs of the monster. I forgot to
• 3:51:03
  tell you that the shark was suffering from asthma, so that whenever he breathed,
• 3:51:05
  a storm seemed to blow. Pinocchio at first tried to be brave,
• 3:51:11
  but as soon as he became convinced that he was really and truly in the
• 3:51:15
  shark's stomach, he burst into sobs and tears. Help help, he cried,
• 3:51:20
  Oh poor me, Will some one come to save me? Who is
• 3:51:24
  there to help you? Unhappy boy, said a rough voice, like a
• 3:51:28
  guitar out of tune. Who is talking? Said Pinocchio, frozen with terror.
• 3:51:33
  It is I a poor tunny swallowed by the shark at the same time
• 3:51:37
  as you. And what kind of a fish are you? I have nothing
• 3:51:41
  to do with fishes. I am a marionette. If you are not a
• 3:51:45
  fish, why did you let this monster swallow you? I didn't let him.
• 3:51:50
  He chased me and swallowed me without even a by your leave? And
• 3:51:52
  now what are we to do here in the dark? Wait until the shark
• 3:51:56
  has digested us both, I suppose. But I don't want to be digested,
• 3:52:01
  shouted Pinocchio, starting to sob. Neither do, I said the Tunny.
• 3:52:05
  But I am wise enough to think that if one is born a fish,
• 3:52:09
  it is more dignified to die under the water than in the frying pan.
• 3:52:13
  What nonsense, cried Pinocchio. Mine is an opinion, replied the Tunny,
• 3:52:18
  and opinion should be respected. But I want to get out of this
• 3:52:22
  place. I want to escape. Go if you can. Is this shark
• 3:52:28
  that has swallowed us very long, asked the Marionette, his body, not
• 3:52:33
  counting the tail, is almost a mile long. While talking in the darkness,
• 3:52:37
  Pinocchio thought he saw a faint light in the distance. What can that
• 3:52:41
  be, he said to the Tunny, some other fish waiting as patiently as
• 3:52:46
  we to be digested by the shark. I want to see him. He
• 3:52:50
  may be an old fish and may know some way of escape. I wish
• 3:52:54
  you all good luck, dear Marionette. Goodbye Tunny, good Bye Marionette,
• 3:52:58
  and good luck. When shall I see you again? Who knows it is
• 3:53:03
  better not to think about it? End of chapter thirty four. Chapter thirty
• 3:53:09
  five in the Shark's Body, Pinocchio finds whom Read this chapter, my children,
• 3:53:13
  and you will know Pinocchio. As soon as he had said goodbye to
• 3:53:18
  his friend, the tunny tottered away in the darkness and began to walk as
• 3:53:22
  well as he could toward the faint light which glowed in the distance. As
• 3:53:26
  he walked, his feet splashed in a pool of greasy and slippery water,
• 3:53:30
  which had such a heavy smell of fish fried in oil that Pinocchio thought it
• 3:53:33
  was lent. The farther on he went, the brighter and clearer grew the
• 3:53:37
  tiny light. On and on he walked, until finally he found I give
• 3:53:41
  you a thousand guesses, my dear children. He found a little table set
• 3:53:46
  for dinner and lighted by a candle stuck in a glass bottle, And near
• 3:53:50
  the table sat a little old man, white as snow, eating live fish.
• 3:53:54
  They wriggled so that now and again one of them slipped out of the
• 3:53:58
  old man's mouth, and a escaped into the darkness under the table. At
• 3:54:01
  this sight, the poor Marionette was filled with such great and sudden happiness that
• 3:54:07
  he almost dropped in a faint. He wanted to laugh, he wanted to
• 3:54:09
  cry, He wanted to say a thousand and one things, but all he
• 3:54:13
  could do was to stand still, stuttering and stammering brokenly. At last,
• 3:54:18
  with a great effort, he was able to let out a scream of joy,
• 3:54:22
  and opening his arms, he threw them around the old man's neck.
• 3:54:26
  Oh, father, dear father, I have found you at last. Now
• 3:54:31
  I shall never never leave you again. Are my eyes telling me the truth?
• 3:54:35
  Answered the old man, rubbing his eyes. Are you really my own
• 3:54:39
  dear Pinocchio? Yes, yes, yes it is. I look at me,
• 3:54:45
  and you have forgotten me, haven't you. Oh, my dear father,
• 3:54:48
  how good you are? And to think that I oh, but if
• 3:54:52
  you only knew how many misfortunes have fallen on my head and how many troubles
• 3:54:58
  I have had. Just think so that on the day you sold your old
• 3:55:01
  coat to buy me my a B. C. Book so that I could
• 3:55:05
  go to school, I ran away to the Marionette theater, and the proprietor
• 3:55:09
  caught me and wanted to burn me to cook his roast. Lamb. He
• 3:55:13
  was the one who gave me the five gold pieces for you. But I
• 3:55:16
  met the Fox and the cat who took me to the Inn of the Red
• 3:55:20
  Lobster. There they ate like wolves, and I left the inn alone,
• 3:55:24
  and I met the assassins in the wood. I ran, and they ran
• 3:55:28
  after me, always after me, till they hanged me on the branch of
• 3:55:31
  a giant oak tree. Then the fairy of the azure Hair sent the coach
• 3:55:35
  to rescue me, and the doctors looking after me said, if he's not
• 3:55:39
  dead, then he's surely alive. And then I told a lie, and
• 3:55:43
  my nose began to grow, and it grew, and it grew till I
• 3:55:46
  couldn't get it through the door of the room. And then I went to
• 3:55:50
  the Fox and the cat in the fields of Wonder to bury the gold pieces.
• 3:55:54
  The parrot laughed at me, and instead of two thousand gold pieces,
• 3:55:58
  I found one. When the judge heard that I had been robbed, he
• 3:56:01
  sent me to jail to make the thieves happy. And when I came away,
• 3:56:05
  I saw a fine bunch of grapes hanging on a vine. The trap
• 3:56:07
  caught me, and the farmer put a collar on me. And made me
• 3:56:11
  a watchdog. He found out I was innocent when I caught the weasels,
• 3:56:16
  and he'd let me go. The serpent with the tail that smoked started to
• 3:56:20
  laugh and in vain. His chest broke, and so I went back to
• 3:56:24
  the fairy's house. She was dead. And the pigeon, seeing me crying,
• 3:56:28
  said to me, I've seen your father building a boat to look for
• 3:56:31
  you in America. And I said to him, oh, if I only
• 3:56:35
  had wings. And he said to me, do you want to go to
• 3:56:39
  your father? And I said perhaps, but how? And he said,
• 3:56:41
  get on my back and I'll take you there. We flew all night long,
• 3:56:46
  and the next morning the fishermen were looking toward the sea, crying,
• 3:56:48
  there's a poor little man drownding. And I knew it was you, because
• 3:56:52
  my heart told me so, and I waved you from the shore. I
• 3:56:56
  knew you also put in geppetto I want to go to you, But how
• 3:57:01
  could I? The sea was rough, and the white caps overturned the boat.
• 3:57:05
  When a terrible shark came up out of the sea, and as soon
• 3:57:07
  as he saw me in the water, swam quickly toward me, put out
• 3:57:11
  his tongue and swallowed me as easily as if I had been a chocolate peppermint.
• 3:57:16
  And how long have you been shut away in here? From that day
• 3:57:20
  to this? Two long, weary years, two years, my Pinocchio,
• 3:57:24
  which had been like two centuries. And how have you lived? Where did
• 3:57:28
  you find the candle and the matches with which to light it? Where did
• 3:57:31
  you get them? You must know that in a storm which swamped my boat,
• 3:57:35
  a large ship also suffered the same fate. The sailors were all saved,
• 3:57:41
  but the ship went right to the bottom of the sea, and the
• 3:57:43
  same terrible shark that swallowed me swallowed most of it. What swallowed a ship?
• 3:57:50
  Asked Pinocchio in astonishment. At one gulp. The only thing he spat
• 3:57:54
  out was the main mast, for it stuck into his teeth. To my
• 3:57:56
  own good luck, that ship was loaded with meat, preserved food, crackers,
• 3:58:01
  breads, bottles of wine, raisins, cheese, coffee, sugar,
• 3:58:07
  wax, candles, and boxes of matches. With all of these blessings,
• 3:58:11
  I have been able to live happily on for two whole years. But now
• 3:58:15
  I am at the very last crumbs. Today there is nothing left in the
• 3:58:18
  cupboard, and this candle. You see, here is the last one I
• 3:58:22
  have. And then and then, my dear, we'll find ourselves in darkness.
• 3:58:26
  Then, my dear father, said Pinocchio, there's no time to lose.
• 3:58:31
  We must try to escape. Escape how we can run out of the
• 3:58:35
  shark's mouth and dive into the sea. You speak well, but I cannot
• 3:58:39
  swim, my dear Pinocchio, why should that matter? You can climb on
• 3:58:43
  my shoulders, and I, who am a fine swimmer, will carry you
• 3:58:46
  safely to the shore. Dreams, my boy, answered geppetto, shaking his
• 3:58:50
  head and smiling sadly. Do you think it is possible for a marionette a
• 3:58:54
  yard high to have the strength to carry me on his shoulders and swim?
• 3:58:58
  Try it and see? And in any case, if it is written that
• 3:59:01
  we must die, we shall at least die together. Not adding another word,
• 3:59:05
  Pinocchio took the candle in his hand, and going ahead to light the
• 3:59:09
  way, he said to his father, follow me, and have no fear.
• 3:59:13
  They walked a long distance through the stomach and the whole body of the
• 3:59:16
  shark. When they reached the throat of the monster, they stopped for a
• 3:59:18
  while to wait for the right moment in which to make their escape. I
• 3:59:22
  want you to know that the shark, being very old and suffering from asthma
• 3:59:26
  and heart trouble, was obliged to sleep with his mouth open. Because of
• 3:59:30
  this, Pinocchio was able to catch a glimpse of the sky filled with stars
• 3:59:33
  as he looked up through the open jaws of his new home. The time
• 3:59:37
  has come for us to escape, he whispered, turning to his father.
• 3:59:39
  The shark is fast asleep, the sea is calm, and the night is
• 3:59:43
  as bright as day. Follow me closely, dear father, and we shall
• 3:59:46
  soon be saved. No sooner than done. They climbed up the throat of
• 3:59:50
  the monster till they came to that immense open mouth. There they had to
• 3:59:54
  walk on tiptoes, for if they tickled the shark's long tongue, he might
• 3:59:58
  awaken, and where would they be then? The tongue was so wide and
• 4:00:01
  so long that it looked like a country road. The two fugitives were just
• 4:00:05
  about to dive into the sea when the shark sneezed, And very suddenly as
• 4:00:09
  he sneezed, he gave Pinocchio and geppetto such a jolt that they found themselves
• 4:00:13
  thrown on their backs and dashed once more, very unceremoniously, into the stomach
• 4:00:18
  of the monster. To make matters worse, the candle went out, and
• 4:00:22
  father and son were left in the dark. And now asked Pinocchio with a
• 4:00:26
  serious face, now we are lost. Why lost? Give me your hand,
• 4:00:31
  dear father, and be careful not to slip. Where will you take
• 4:00:35
  me? We must try again. Come with me, and don't be afraid.
• 4:00:37
  With these words, Pinocchio took his father by the hand, and,
• 4:00:41
  always walking on tiptoes, they climbed up the monster's throat for a second time,
• 4:00:46
  and then they crossed the whole tongue and jumped over three rows of teeth.
• 4:00:48
  But before they took the last great leap, the marionette said to his
• 4:00:52
  father, climb on my back and hold on tight to my neck. I'll
• 4:00:56
  take care of everything else. As soon as Geppetto was comfortably seated on his
• 4:01:00
  shoulders, Pinocchio, very sure of what he was doing, dived into the
• 4:01:03
  water and started to swim. The sea was like oil, The moon shone
• 4:01:07
  in all splendor, and the shark continued to sleep so soundly that not even
• 4:01:11
  a cannon shot would have awakened him. End of chapter thirty five. Chapter
• 4:01:18
  thirty six, Pinocchio finally ceases to be a marionette and becomes a boy.
• 4:01:24
  My dear father, we are saved, cried the marionette. All we have
• 4:01:28
  to do now is to get to shore, and that is easy. Without
• 4:01:31
  another word, he swam swiftly away in an effort to reach land as soon
• 4:01:35
  as possible. All at once he noticed that Geppetto was shivering and shaking,
• 4:01:39
  as if with a high fever. Was he shivering from fear or from cold?
• 4:01:43
  Who knows, perhaps a little of both. But Pinocchio, thinking his
• 4:01:48
  father was frightened, tried to comfort him by saying, courage father, In
• 4:01:52
  a few moments, we shall be safe on land. But where is that
• 4:01:56
  blessed shore? Asked the little old old man, more and more worried as
• 4:02:01
  he tried to pierce the far away shadows. Here, I am searching on
• 4:02:05
  all sides, and I see nothing but sea and sky. I see the
• 4:02:09
  shore, the marionette said, Remember, father, that I am like a
• 4:02:13
  cat. I see better at night than by day. Poor Pinocchio pretended to
• 4:02:18
  be peaceful and contented, but he was far from that. He was beginning
• 4:02:24
  to feel discouraged. His strength was leaving him, and his breathing was becoming
• 4:02:28
  more and more labored. He felt he could not go on much longer,
• 4:02:31
  and the shore was still far away. He swam a few more strokes,
• 4:02:35
  then he turned to Geppetto and cried out weakly, help me, father,
• 4:02:39
  help me from dying. Father and son were really about to drown when they
• 4:02:45
  heard a voice like a guitar out of tune, call from the sea.
• 4:02:48
  What is the trouble? It is? I and my poor father, I
• 4:02:52
  know that voice. You are Pinocchio exactly, and you I am the tunny
• 4:02:58
  your compared in the shark's stomach. And how did you escape? I imitated
• 4:03:05
  your example. You are the one who showed me the way, and after
• 4:03:07
  you went, I followed, Tunny. You arrived at the right moment.
• 4:03:11
  I implore you for the love you bear your children, the little tunnies,
• 4:03:16
  to help us, or we are lost. With great pleasure. Indeed,
• 4:03:20
  hang on to my tail, both of you, and let me lead you
• 4:03:22
  in a twinkling. You'll be safe on land. Geppetto and Pinocchio, as
• 4:03:26
  you can easily imagine, did not refuse the invitation. Indeed, instead of
• 4:03:31
  hanging on to the tail, they thought it better to climb on the tunny's
• 4:03:33
  back. Are we too heavy, asked Pinocchio heavy. Not in the least,
• 4:03:39
  you are as light as seashells, answered the tunny, who was as
• 4:03:43
  large as a two year old horse. As soon as they reached the shore,
• 4:03:48
  Pinocchio was the first to jump to the ground to help his old father.
• 4:03:52
  Then he turned to the fish and said to him, dear friend,
• 4:03:56
  you have saved my father, and I have not enough words with which to
• 4:03:58
  thank you. Allow me to embrace you as a sign of my eternal gratitude.
• 4:04:03
  The tunny stuck his nose out of the water, and Pinocchio knelt on
• 4:04:07
  the sand and kissed him most affectionately on his cheek. At this warm greeting,
• 4:04:11
  the poor tunny, who was not used to such tenderness, wept like
• 4:04:15
  a child. He felt so embarrassed and ashamed that he turned quickly, plunged
• 4:04:20
  into the sea, and disappeared. In the meantime, day had dawned.
• 4:04:24
  Pinocchio offered his arm to Geppetto, who was so weak he could hardly stand,
• 4:04:30
  and said to him, lean on my arm, dear father, and
• 4:04:33
  let us go. We will walk very very slowly, and if we feel
• 4:04:37
  tired, we can rest by the wayside. And where are we going,
• 4:04:41
  asked geppetto, to look for a house or a hut where they will be
• 4:04:46
  kind enough to give us a bite of bread and a bit of straw to
• 4:04:48
  sleep on. They had not taken a hundred steps when they saw two rough
• 4:04:54
  looking individuals sitting on a stone, begging for alms. It was the fox
• 4:04:58
  and the cat, but one could hardly recognize them they look so miserable.
• 4:05:03
  The cat, after pretending to be blind for so many years, had really
• 4:05:07
  lost sight of both eyes. The fox, old thin and almost hairless,
• 4:05:11
  had even lost his tail. That sly thief, had fallen into deepest poverty,
• 4:05:16
  and one day he had been forced to sell his beautiful tail for a
• 4:05:20
  bite to eat. Oh, Pinocchio, he cried in a tearful voice,
• 4:05:24
  Give us some alms. We beg of you. We are old, tired
• 4:05:28
  and sick. Sick, repeated the cat. Adio false friends, answered the
• 4:05:33
  marionette. You cheated me once, but you will never catch me again.
• 4:05:39
  Believe us today, we are truly poor and starving, starving, repeated the
• 4:05:45
  cat. If you are poor, you deserve it. Remember the old proverb
• 4:05:50
  which says, stolen money never bears fruit. Adio, false friends, have
• 4:05:56
  mercy on us on us adio, false friends. Remember the old proverb which
• 4:06:01
  says, bad wheat always makes poor bread. Do not abandon us, abandon
• 4:06:07
  us, repeated the cat addio, false friends. Remember the old proverb whoever
• 4:06:15
  steals his neighbor's shirt usually dies without his own. Waving goodbye to them,
• 4:06:20
  Pinocchio and Geppetto calmly went on their way. A few more steps, they
• 4:06:24
  saw at the end of a long road, near a clump of trees,
• 4:06:28
  a tiny cottage built of straw. Someone must live in that hut, said
• 4:06:33
  Pinocchio. Let us see for ourselves. They went and knocked on the door.
• 4:06:39
  Who is it, said a little voice from within. A poor father
• 4:06:43
  and a poorer son, without food and no roof to cover them, answered
• 4:06:48
  the marionette. Turn the key and the door will open, said the same
• 4:06:54
  little voice. Pinocchio turned the key, and the door opened. As soon
• 4:06:58
  as they went in. They looked here and there and everywhere, but saw
• 4:07:01
  no one. Oh ho, where is the owner of the hut? Cried
• 4:07:07
  Pinocchio very much surprised. Here, I am up here. Father and son
• 4:07:13
  looked up at the ceiling, and there on the beam sat the talking cricket.
• 4:07:16
  Oh, my dear cricket, said Pinocchio, bowing politely. Oh now
• 4:07:22
  you can call me your dear cricket. But do you remember when you threw
• 4:07:26
  your hammer to kill me? You are right, dear cricket. Throw a
• 4:07:30
  hammer at me now, I deserve it. But spare my poor old father.
• 4:07:33
  I am going to spare both the father and the son. I have
• 4:07:37
  only wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago played upon me.
• 4:07:41
  I teach you that in this world of ours, we must be kind and
• 4:07:43
  courteous to others if we want to find kindness in our own days of trouble.
• 4:07:48
  You are right, little cricket, you are more than right, and
• 4:07:52
  I shall remember the lesson you have taught me. But will you tell me
• 4:07:56
  how you succeeded in buying this pretty little cottage. This cottage was given to
• 4:08:01
  me yesterday by a little goat with blue hair. And where did the goat
• 4:08:05
  go? Asked Pinocchio. I don't know, And when will she be back?
• 4:08:09
  She will never come back. Yesterday she went away bleating sadly, and
• 4:08:13
  it seemed to me, she said, poor Pinocchio, I shall never see
• 4:08:18
  him again. The shark must have eaten him by this time. Were those
• 4:08:20
  are real words? Then it was she. It was my dear little fairy,
• 4:08:26
  cried out Pinocchio, sobbing bitterly. After he had cried a long time,
• 4:08:31
  he wiped his eyes, and then he made a bed of straw for
• 4:08:33
  old geppetto. He laid him on it and said to the talking cricket,
• 4:08:37
  tell me, little cricket, where shall I find a glass of milk for
• 4:08:41
  my poor father. Three fields away from here lives farmer John. He has
• 4:08:45
  some cows. Go there and he will give you what you want. Pinocchio
• 4:08:48
  ran all the way to Farmer John's house. The farmer said to him,
• 4:08:52
  how much milk do you want? I want a full glass. A full
• 4:08:56
  glass costs a penny. First give me the penny. I have no penny,
• 4:09:01
  answered Pinocchio, sad and ashamed. Very bad, my Marionette answered the
• 4:09:07
  farmer, very bad. If you have no penny, I have no milk.
• 4:09:11
  Too bad, said Pinocchio, and started to go. Wait a moment,
• 4:09:16
  said Farmer John, perhaps we can come to terms. Do you know
• 4:09:18
  how to draw water from a well? I can try. Then go to
• 4:09:24
  that well you see yonder, and draw one hundred bucketfuls of water very well.
• 4:09:30
  After you have finished, I shall give you a glass of warm,
• 4:09:31
  sweet milk. I am satisfied. Farmer John took the marionette to the well
• 4:09:37
  and showed him how to draw the water. Pinocchio set to work as well
• 4:09:41
  as he knew how, but long before he had pulled up the one hundred
• 4:09:45
  buckets, he was tired out and dripping with perspiration. He had never worked
• 4:09:50
  so hard in his life until to day. The farmer said, my donkey
• 4:09:56
  has drawn the water for me. But now that poor animal is dying,
• 4:10:00
  will you take me to see him? Said Pinocchio gladly. As soon as
• 4:10:05
  Pinocchio went into the stable, he spied a little donkey lying on a bed
• 4:10:09
  of straw in the corner of the stable. He was worn out from hunger
• 4:10:13
  and too much work. After looking at him a long time, he said
• 4:10:16
  to himself, I know that donkey. I've seen him before, And bending
• 4:10:20
  low over him, he asked, who are you At this question, the
• 4:10:24
  donkey opened weary, dying eyes and answered in the same tongue. I am
• 4:10:30
  lamp Wick. Then he closed his eyes and died. Oh my poor lamp
• 4:10:35
  Wick, said Pinocchio in a faint voice, as he wiped his eyes with
• 4:10:39
  some straw he had picked up from the ground. Do you feel sorry for
• 4:10:41
  a little donkey that has cost you nothing? Said the farmer? What should
• 4:10:46
  I do? I who have paid my good money for him? But you
• 4:10:50
  see he was my friend, your friend, a classmate of mine. What
• 4:10:58
  shouted farmer John, bursting out laft, What you had donkeys in your school?
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  How you must have studied? The marionette, ashamed and hurt by those
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  words, did not answer, but, taking his glass of milk, returned
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  to his father. From that day on, for more than five months,
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  Pinocchio got up every morning just as dawn was breaking and went to the farm
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  to draw water, And every day he was given a glass of warm milk
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  for his poor old father, who grew stronger and better day by day.
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  But he was not satisfied with this. He learned to make baskets of reeds
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  and sold them. With the money he received, he and his father were
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  able to keep from starving. Among other things, he built a rolling chair,
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  strong and comfortable to take his old father out for an airing on bright
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  sunny days. In the evening, the Marionette studied by lamplight. With some
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  of the money he had earned, he bought himself a secondhand volume that had
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  a few pages missing, and with that he learned to read in a very
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  short time. As far as writing was concerned, he used a long stick
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  at one end of which he had whittled a long, fine point ink.
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  He had none, so he used the juice of blackberries or cherries. Little
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  by little, his diligence was rewarded. He succeeded not only in his studies,
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  but also in his work, and a day came when he put enough
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  money together to keep his old father comfortable and happy. Besides this, he
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  was able to save the great amount of fifty pennies. With it, he
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  wanted to buy himself a new suit. One day, he said to his
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  father, I am going to the market place to buy myself a coat,
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  a cap, and a pair of shoes. When I come back, i'll
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  be so dressed up you will think I am a rich man. He ran
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  out of the house and up the road to the village, laughing and singing.
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  Suddenly he heard his name called, and looking around to see whence the
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  voice came from, he noticed a large snail crawling out of some bushes.
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  Don't you recognize me? Said the snail, Yes and no. Do you
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  remember this snail that lived with the fairy with azure hair? Do you not
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  remember how she opened the door for you one night and gave you something to
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  eat? I remember everything, cried Pinocchio. Answer me quickly, pretty snail.
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  Where have you left my fairy? What is she doing? Has she
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  forgiven me? Does she remember me? Does she still love me? Is
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  she very far away from me? May I see her? At all?
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  These questions tumbling out one after another, the snail answered, calm as ever,
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  my dear Pinocchio, the fairy is lying ill in a hospital. In
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  a hospital. Yes, indeed, she has been stricken with trouble and illness.
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  And she hasn't a penny left with which to buy a bite of bread.
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  Really, Oh, how sorry I am, my poor dear little fairy.
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  If I had a million, I should run to her with it,
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  but I have only fifty pennies. Here they are I was just going to
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  buy some clothes. Here, Take them, little snail, and give them
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  to my good fairy, What about the new clothes joes? What does that
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  matter? I should like to sell these rags I have on to help her
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  more, Go and hurry come back here within a couple of days, and
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  I hope to have more money for you. Until to day, I have
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  worked for my father. Now I shall have to work for my mother also.
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  Good Bye, and I hope to see you soon. The snail,
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  much against her usual habit, began to run like a lizard under a summer
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  sun. When Pinocchio returned home, his father asked him, and where is
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  the new suit? I couldn't find one to fit me. I shall have
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  to look again some other day. That night, Pinocchio, instead of going
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  to bed at ten o'clock, waited until midnight, and instead of making eight
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  baskets, he made sixteen. After that he went to bed and fell asleep.
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  As he slept, he dreamed of his fairy, beautiful, smiling and
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  happy, who kissed him and said to him, Bravo, Pinocchio, and
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  reward for your kind heart. I forgive you for all your old mischief.
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  Boys who love and take make good care of their parents when they are old
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  and sick deserve praise, even though they may not be held up as models
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  of obedience and good behavior. Keep on doing well, and you will be
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  happy. At that very moment, Pinocchio awoke and opened wide his eyes.
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  What was his surprise and his joy when, on looking himself over, he
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  saw that he was no longer a marionette, but that he had become a
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  real live boy. He looked all about him, and instead of the usual
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  walls of straw, he found himself in a beautifully furnished little room, the
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  prettiest he had ever seen. In a twinkling, he jumped down from his
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  bed to look at the chair standing near there, he found a new suit,
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  a new hat, and a pair of shoes. As soon as he
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  was dressed, he put his hands in his pockets and pulled out a little
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  leather purse, on which were written the following words, The fairy with azure
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  hair returns fifty pennies for her dear Pinocchio, with many thanks for his kind
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  heart. The marionette opened the purse to find the money, and behold there
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  were fifty gold coins. Pinocchio ran to the mirror. He hardly recognized himself.
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  The bright face of a tall boy looked at him with wide awake,
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  blue eyes, dark brown hair, and happy, smiling lips. Surrounded by
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  so much splendor, the marionette hardly knew what he was doing. He rubbed
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  his eyes two or three times, wondering if he were still asleep or awake,
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  and decided he must be awake. And where is father? He cried?
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  Suddenly he ran into the next room, and there stood Geppetto, grown
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  years younger, overnight, spick and span in his new clothes, and gay
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  as a lark. In the morning, he was once more mastro Geppetto,
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  the wood carver, hard at work on a lovely picture frame, decorating it
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  with flowers and leaves and heads of animals. Father, father, what has
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  happened? Tell me if you can, cried Pinocchio, as he ran and
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  jumped on his father's neck. This sudden change in our house is all your
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  doing, My dear Pinocchio, answered Geppetto, What have I to do with
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  it? Just this? When bad boys become good and kind, they have
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  the power of making their homes gay and new with happiness. I wonder where
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  the old Pinocchio of wood has hidden himself. There he is, answered Geppetto,
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  and he pointed to a large marionette leaning against a chair, head turned
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  to one side, arms hanging limp, and legs twisted under him. After
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  a long, long look, Pinocchio said to himself with great content, how
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  ridiculous I was as a marionette, and how happy I am now that I
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  have become a real boy. End of Chapter thirty six.