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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty five in the Shark's Body, Pinocchio finds whom
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  Speaker 1: read this chapter, my children, and you will know Pinocchio.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as he had said goodbye to his friend,
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  Speaker 1: the tunny tottered away in the darkness and began to
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  Speaker 1: walk as well as he could toward the faint light
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  Speaker 1: which glowed in the distance. As he walked, his feet
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  Speaker 1: splashed in a pool of greasy and slippery water, which
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  Speaker 1: had such a heavy smell of fish fried in oil
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  Speaker 1: that Pinocchio thought it was lent. The farther on he went,
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  Speaker 1: the brighter and clearer grew the tiny light. On and
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  Speaker 1: on he walked, until finally he found I give you
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  Speaker 1: a thousand guesses, my dear children. He found a little
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  Speaker 1: table set for dinner and lighted by a candle stuck
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  Speaker 1: in a glass bottle, And near the table sat a
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  Speaker 1: little old man, white as snow, eating live fish. They wriggled,
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  Speaker 1: so that now and again one of them slipped out
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  Speaker 1: of the old man's mouth and escaped into the darkness
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  Speaker 1: under the table. At this sight, the poor Marionette was
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  Speaker 1: filled with such great and sudden happiness that he almost
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  Speaker 1: dropped in a faint. He wanted to laugh, He wanted
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  Speaker 1: to cry, He wanted to say a thousand and one things,
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  Speaker 1: but all he could do was to stand still, stuttering
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  Speaker 1: and stammering brokenly. At last, with a great effort, he
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  Speaker 1: was able to let out a scream of joy, and
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  Speaker 1: opening his arms, he threw them around the old man's neck. Oh, father,
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  Speaker 1: dear father, I have found you at last. Now I
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  Speaker 1: shall never never leave you again. Are my eyes telling
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  Speaker 1: me the truth? Answered the old man, rubbing his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Are you really my own dear Pinocchio? Yes, yes, yes
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  Speaker 1: it is. I look at me, and you have forgotten me,
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  Speaker 1: haven't you. Oh, my dear father, how good you are?
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  Speaker 1: And to think that I oh, but if you only
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  Speaker 1: knew how many misfortunes have fallen on my head and
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  Speaker 1: how many troubles I have had. Just think that. On
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  Speaker 1: the day you sold your old coat to buy me
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  Speaker 1: my A B. C. Book so that I could go
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  Speaker 1: to school, I ran away to the Marionette theater, and
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  Speaker 1: the propos caught me and wanted to burn me to
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  Speaker 1: cook his roast. Lamb. He was the one who gave
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  Speaker 1: me the five gold pieces for you. But I met
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  Speaker 1: the fox and the cat who took me to the
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  Speaker 1: inn of the Red Lobster. There they ate like wolves,
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  Speaker 1: and I left the inn alone, and I met the
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  Speaker 1: assassins in the wood. I ran, and they ran after me,
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  Speaker 1: always after me, till they hanged me on the branch
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  Speaker 1: of a giant oak tree. Then the Fairy of the
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  Speaker 1: Azure Hair sent the coach to rescue me, and the
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  Speaker 1: doctors looking after me said, if he's not dead, then
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  Speaker 1: he's surely alive. And then I told a lie, and
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  Speaker 1: my nose began to grow, and it grew, and it
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  Speaker 1: grew till I couldn't get it through the door of
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  Speaker 1: the room. And then I went to the Fox and
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  Speaker 1: the cat in the fields of Wonder to bury the
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  Speaker 1: gold pieces. The parrot laughed at me, and instead of
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  Speaker 1: two thousand gold pieces, I found one. When the judge
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  Speaker 1: heard that I had been robbed, he sent me to
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  Speaker 1: jail to make the thieves happy. And when I came away,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a fine bunch of grapes hanging on a vine.
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  Speaker 1: The trap caught me, and the farmer put a collar
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  Speaker 1: on me and made me a watchdog. He found out
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  Speaker 1: I was innocent when I caught the weasels, and he'd
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  Speaker 1: let me go. The serpent with the tail that smoked
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  Speaker 1: started to laugh, and in vain his chest broke, and
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  Speaker 1: so I went back to the fairy's house. She was dead.
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  Speaker 1: And the pigeon, seeing me crying, said to me, I've
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  Speaker 1: seen your father building a boat to look for you
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  Speaker 1: in America. And I said to him, oh, if I
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  Speaker 1: only had wings, And he said to me, do you
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  Speaker 1: want to go to your father? And I said perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: but how? And he said, get on my back and
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  Speaker 1: I'll take you there. We flew all night long, and
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  Speaker 1: the next morning the fishermen were looking toward the sea, crying,
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  Speaker 1: there's a poor little man drownding. And I knew it
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  Speaker 1: was you, because my heart told me so, and I
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  Speaker 1: waved you from the shore. I knew you also put
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  Speaker 1: in geppetto. I wanted to go to you, but how
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  Speaker 1: could I. The sea was rough, and the white caps
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  Speaker 1: overturned the boat. When a terrible shark came up out
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  Speaker 1: of the sea, and as soon as he saw me
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  Speaker 1: in the water, swam quickly toward me, put out his
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  Speaker 1: tongue and swallowed me as easily as if I had
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  Speaker 1: been a chocolate peppermint. And how long have you been
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  Speaker 1: shut away in here from that day to this two long,
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  Speaker 1: weary years, two years, my Pinocchio, which have been like
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  Speaker 1: two centuries? And how have you lived? Where did you
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  Speaker 1: find the candle and the matches with which to light it?
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  Speaker 1: Where did you get them? You must know that in
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  Speaker 1: a storm which swamped my boat, a large ship also
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  Speaker 1: suffered the same fate. The sailors were all saved, but
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  Speaker 1: the ship went right to the bottom of the sea,
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  Speaker 1: and the same terrible shark that swallowed me swallowed most
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  Speaker 1: of it. What swallowed a ship? Asked Pinocchio in astonishment.
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  Speaker 1: At one gulp. The only thing he spat out was
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  Speaker 1: the main mast, for it stuck into his teeth. To
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  Speaker 1: my own good luck, that ship was loaded with meat,
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  Speaker 1: preserved food, crackers, breads, bottles of wine, raisins, cheese, coffee, sugar, wax, candles,
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  Speaker 1: and boxes of matches. With all of these blessings, I
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  Speaker 1: have been able to live happily on for two whole years.
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  Speaker 1: But now I am at the very last crumbs. Today
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  Speaker 1: there is nothing left in the cupboard, and this candle
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  Speaker 1: you see here is the last one I have. And
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  Speaker 1: then and then, my dear, we'll find ourselves in darkness. Then,
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  Speaker 1: my dear father, said Pinocchio. There's no time to lose.
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  Speaker 1: We must try to escape. Escape how we can run
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  Speaker 1: out of the shark's mouth and dive into the sea.
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  Speaker 1: You speak well, but I cannot swim, my dear Pinocchio,
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  Speaker 1: Why should that matter? You can climb on my shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: and I, who am a fine swimmer, will carry you
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  Speaker 1: safely to the shore. Dreams my boy, answered geppetto, shaking
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  Speaker 1: his head and smiling sadly. Do you think it is
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  Speaker 1: possible for a marionette a yard high to have the
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  Speaker 1: strength to carry me on his shoulders and swim? Try
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  Speaker 1: it and see? And in any case, if it is
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  Speaker 1: written that we must die, we shall at least die together.
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  Speaker 1: Not adding another word, Pinocchio took the candle in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: and going ahead to light the way, he said to
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  Speaker 1: his father, follow me, and have no fear. They walked
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  Speaker 1: a long distance through the stomach and the whole body
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  Speaker 1: of the shark. When they reached the throat of the monster,
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  Speaker 1: they stopped for a while to wait for the right
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  Speaker 1: moment in which to make their escape. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to know that the shark, being very old and suffering
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  Speaker 1: from asthma and heart trouble was obliged to sleep with
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  Speaker 1: his mouth open. Because of this, Pinocchio was able to
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  Speaker 1: catch a glimpse of the sky filled with stars as
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  Speaker 1: he looked up through the open jaws of his new home.
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  Speaker 1: The time has come for us to escape, he whispered,
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  Speaker 1: turning to his father. The shark is fast asleep, the
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  Speaker 1: sea is calm, and the night is as bright as day.
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  Speaker 1: Follow me closely, dear father, and we shall soon be saved.
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  Speaker 1: No sooner than done. They climbed up the throat of
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  Speaker 1: the monster till they came to that immense open mouth.
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  Speaker 1: There they had to walk on tiptoes, for if they
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  Speaker 1: tickled the shark's long tongue, he might awaken. And where
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  Speaker 1: would they be then? The tongue was so wide and
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  Speaker 1: so long that it looked like a country road. The
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  Speaker 1: two fugitives were just about to dive into the sea
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  Speaker 1: when the sharks sneezed, and very so suddenly as he sneezed,
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  Speaker 1: he gave Pinocchio and Geppetto such a jolt that they
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  Speaker 1: found themselves thrown on their backs, and dashed once more,
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  Speaker 1: very unceremoniously, into the stomach of the monster, to make
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  Speaker 1: matters worse. The candle went out, and father and son
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  Speaker 1: were left in the dark. And now asked Pinocchio with
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  Speaker 1: a serious face, now we are lost. Why lost? Give
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  Speaker 1: me your hand, dear father, and be careful not to slip.
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  Speaker 1: Where will you take me? We must try again. Come
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  Speaker 1: with me, and don't be afraid. With these words, Pinocchio
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  Speaker 1: took his father by the hand, and, always walking on tiptoes,
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  Speaker 1: they climbed up the monster's throat for a second time,
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  Speaker 1: and then they crossed the whole tongue and jumped over
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  Speaker 1: three rows of teeth. But before they took the last
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  Speaker 1: great leap, the marionette said to his father, climb on
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  Speaker 1: my back and hold on tight to my neck. I'll
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  Speaker 1: take care of everything else. As soon as Geppetto was
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  Speaker 1: comfortably seated on his shoulders, Pinocchio, very sure of what
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  Speaker 1: he was doing, dived into the water and started to swim.
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  Speaker 1: The sea was like oil, The moon shone in all splendor,
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  Speaker 1: and the sh shark continued to sleep so soundly that
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  Speaker 1: not even a cannon shot would have awakened him. End
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  Speaker 1: of Chapter thirty five