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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve, fire Eater gives Pinocchio five gold pieces for
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  Speaker 1: his father, Geppetto, but the marionette meets a fox and
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  Speaker 1: a cat and follows them. The next day, fire Eater
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  Speaker 1: called Pinocchio side and asked him, what is your father's name, Geppetto,
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  Speaker 1: and what is his trade? He's a wood carver. Does
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  Speaker 1: he earn much? He earns so much that he never
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  Speaker 1: has a pinion in his pockets. Just think that in
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  Speaker 1: order to buy me an a B. C. Book for school,
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  Speaker 1: he had to sell the only coat he owned, a
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  Speaker 1: coat so full of darns and patches that it was
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  Speaker 1: a pity poor fellow. I feel sorry for him. Here,
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  Speaker 1: take these five gold pieces, go give them to him
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  Speaker 1: with my kindest regards. Pinocchio, as may easily be imagined,
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  Speaker 1: thanked him a thousand times. He kissed each marionette in turn,
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  Speaker 1: even the officers, and beside himself with joy, set out
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  Speaker 1: on his homeward journey. He had gone barely half a
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  Speaker 1: mile when he met a lame fox and a blind
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  Speaker 1: cat walking together like two good friends. The lame fox
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  Speaker 1: leaned on the cat, and the blind cat let the
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  Speaker 1: fox lead him along. Good morning, Pinocchio, said the fox,
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  Speaker 1: greeting him courteously. How do you know my name, asked
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  Speaker 1: the marionette. I know your father, well, where have you
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  Speaker 1: seen him? I saw him yesterday standing at the door
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  Speaker 1: of his house. What was he doing? He was in
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  Speaker 1: his shirt sleeves, trembling with cold. Oh poor father, But
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  Speaker 1: after today, God willing, he will suffer no longer. Why
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  Speaker 1: because I have become a rich man. You a rich man,
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  Speaker 1: said the fox, and he began to laugh out blowed.
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  Speaker 1: The cat was laughing also, but tried to hide it
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  Speaker 1: by stroking his long whiskers. There is nothing to laugh at,
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  Speaker 1: cried Pinocchio angrily. I am very sorry to make your
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  Speaker 1: mouth water, but these, as you know, are five new
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  Speaker 1: gold pieces. And he pulled out the gold pieces which
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  Speaker 1: fire Eater had given him. At the cheerful tinkle of gold,
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  Speaker 1: the fox unconsciously held out his paw that was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be lame, and the cat opened wide his two
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  Speaker 1: eyes till they looked like live coals. But he closed
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  Speaker 1: them again so quickly that Pinocchio did not notice. And may,
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  Speaker 1: I ask, inquired the fox, what you are going to
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  Speaker 1: do with all that money? First of all, into the Marionette.
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  Speaker 1: I want to buy a fine new coat for my father,
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  Speaker 1: a coat of gold and silver with diamond buttons. After that,
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  Speaker 1: I'll buy an A B. C. Book for myself, for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: For myself, I want to go to school and study hard.
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  Speaker 1: Look at me, said the fox, For the silly reason
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  Speaker 1: of wanting to study, I have lost a paw. Look
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  Speaker 1: at me, said the cat, for the same foolish reason,
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  Speaker 1: I have lost the sight of both eyes. At that moment,
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  Speaker 1: a blackbird perched on the fence along the road, called
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  Speaker 1: out shop and clear, Pinocchio, do not listen to bad advice.
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  Speaker 1: If you do, you'll be sorry, poor little blackbird, if
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  Speaker 1: he'd only kept his words to himself. In the twinkling
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  Speaker 1: of a eyelid, the cat leaped on him and ate him,
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  Speaker 1: feathers and all. After eating the bird, he cleaned his whiskers,
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  Speaker 1: closed his eyes, and became blind once more. Poor blackbird,
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  Speaker 1: said Pinocchio to the cat, Why did you kill him?
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  Speaker 1: I killed him to teach him a lesson. He talks
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  Speaker 1: too much. Next time, you will keep his words to himself.
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  Speaker 1: By this time, the three companions had walked a long distance. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: the fox stopped in his tracks, and turning to the marionette,
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  Speaker 1: said to him, do you want to double your gold pieces?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean? Do you want one hundred, one thousands,
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  Speaker 1: two thousands gold pieces for your miserable five? Yes, but
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  Speaker 1: how the way is very easy. Instead of returning home,
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  Speaker 1: come with us? And where will you take me? To
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  Speaker 1: the city of simple simons. Pinocchio thought, awhile, and then
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  Speaker 1: said firmly no, I don't want to go. Home is near,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going where father is waiting for me. How
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  Speaker 1: unhappy he must be that I have not yet returned.
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  Speaker 1: I have been a bad son. And the talking cricket
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  Speaker 1: was right when he said that a disobedient boy cannot
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  Speaker 1: be happy in this world. I have learned this at
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  Speaker 1: my own expense. Even last night in the theater, when
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  Speaker 1: a fire eater, the shivers run up and down my
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  Speaker 1: back at the mere thought of it. Well, then, said fox,
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  Speaker 1: if you really want to go home, go ahead, but
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  Speaker 1: you'll be sorry. You'll be sorry, repeated the cat. Think well, Pinocchio,
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  Speaker 1: you are turning your back on Dame Fortune. On Dame Fortune,
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  Speaker 1: repeated the cat. Tomorrow your five gold pieces will be
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, two thousand, repeated the cat. But how can
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  Speaker 1: they possibly become so many, asked Pinocchio, wonderingly. I'll explain,
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  Speaker 1: said the fox. You must know that just outside the
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  Speaker 1: city of simple Simons, there is a blessed field called
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  Speaker 1: the Field of Wonders. In this field you dig a hole,
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  Speaker 1: and in the hole you bury a gold piece. After
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  Speaker 1: covering up the hole with earth, you water it well,
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  Speaker 1: sprinkle a bit of salt on it, and go to bed.
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  Speaker 1: During the night, the gold piece sprouts, grows, blossoms, and
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  Speaker 1: next morning you find a beautiful tree that is loaded
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  Speaker 1: with gold pieces. So that if I were to bury
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  Speaker 1: my five gold pieces, cried Pinocchio, with growing wonder next
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  Speaker 1: morning I should find how many? It is very simple
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  Speaker 1: to figure out, answered the fox. Why you can figure
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  Speaker 1: it on your fingers. Granted that each piece gives you
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  Speaker 1: five hundred, multiply five hundred. By five next morning you
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  Speaker 1: will find twenty five hundred new sparkling gold pieces, fine fine,
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  Speaker 1: cried Pinocchio, dancing about with joy. And as soon as
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  Speaker 1: I have them, I shall keep two thousand for myself,
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  Speaker 1: and the other five hundred i'll give to you too,
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  Speaker 1: a gift for us, cried the fox, pretending to be insulted,
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  Speaker 1: why of course not, of course not, repeated the cat.
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  Speaker 1: We do not work for gain, answered the fox. We
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  Speaker 1: work only to enrich others. Do enrich others, repeated the cat,
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  Speaker 1: What good people thought? Pinocchio to himself and forgetting his father,
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  Speaker 1: the new coat, the A. B c. Book, and all
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  Speaker 1: his good resolutions, he said to the fox and the cat,
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  Speaker 1: let us go I am with you. End of Chapter twelve,