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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter four, the Story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket,
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  Speaker 1: in which one sees that bad children do not like
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  Speaker 1: to be corrected by those who know more than they do.
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  Speaker 1: Very little time did it take to get poor old
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  Speaker 1: geppetto to prison. In the meantime that Rascal Pinocchio, free
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  Speaker 1: now from the clutches of the carabineer, was running wildly
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  Speaker 1: across the fields and meadows, taking one short cut after
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  Speaker 1: another toward home. In his wild flight, he leapt over
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  Speaker 1: brambles and bushes, and across brooks and ponds, as if
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  Speaker 1: he were a goat or a hare chased by hounds.
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  Speaker 1: On reaching home, he found the house door half open.
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  Speaker 1: He slipped into the room, locked the door, and threw
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  Speaker 1: himself on the floor, happy at his escape. But his
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  Speaker 1: happiness lasted only a short time, for just then he
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  Speaker 1: heard some one saying, cree, cree, creer, Who is calling me?
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  Speaker 1: Asked Pinocchio, Greatly frightened, I am Pinocchio turned and saw
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  Speaker 1: a large cricket crawling slowly up the wall. Tell me, cricket,
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  Speaker 1: who are you? I am the talking cricket, and I
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  Speaker 1: have been living in this room for more than one
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  Speaker 1: hundred years to day. However, this room is mine, said
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  Speaker 1: the marionette, And if you wish to do me a favor,
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  Speaker 1: get out now, and don't turn round even once. I
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  Speaker 1: refuse to leave this spot, answered the cricket, until I
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  Speaker 1: have told you a great truth, Tell it then, and hurry.
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  Speaker 1: Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and
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  Speaker 1: run away from home. They will never be happy in
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  Speaker 1: this world, and when they are older, they will be
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  Speaker 1: very sorry for it. Sing on, cricket, mine as you please.
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  Speaker 1: What I know is that tomorrow at dawn, I leave
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  Speaker 1: this place forever. If I stay here, the same thing
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  Speaker 1: will happen to me, which happens to all other boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls. They are sent to school, and whether they
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  Speaker 1: want to or not, they must study. As for me,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you, I hate to study. It's much
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  Speaker 1: more fun, I think, to chase after butterflies, climb trees
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  Speaker 1: and steal birds nests. Poor little silly, don't you know
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  Speaker 1: that if you go on like that, you will grow
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  Speaker 1: into a perfect donkey, and that you will be the
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  Speaker 1: living stock of everyone. Keep still, you, ugly cricket, cried Pinocchio.
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  Speaker 1: But the cricket, who was a wise old philosopher, instead
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  Speaker 1: of being offended at Pinocchio's impudence, continued in the same tone.
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  Speaker 1: If you do not like going to school, why don't
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  Speaker 1: you at least learn a trade so that you can
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  Speaker 1: earn an honest living. Shall I tell you something, asked Pinocchio,
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  Speaker 1: who was beginning to lose patience. Of all the trades
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  Speaker 1: in the world, there is only one that really suits me.
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  Speaker 1: And what can that be? That of eating, drinking, sleeping, playing,
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  Speaker 1: and wandering around from morning till night. Let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you for your your own good, Pinocchio said the talking
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  Speaker 1: cricket in his calm voice, that those who follow that
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  Speaker 1: trade always end up in the hospital or in prison. Careful,
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  Speaker 1: ugly cricket, if you make me angry, you will be sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Poor Pinocchio, I am sorry for you. Why because you
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  Speaker 1: are a marionette. And what is much worse, you have
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  Speaker 1: a wooden head. At these last words, Pinocchio jumped up
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  Speaker 1: in a fury, took a hammer from the bench, and
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  Speaker 1: threw it with all his strength at the talking cricket.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps he did not think he would strike it, but
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  Speaker 1: sad to relate my dear children, he did hit the
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  Speaker 1: cricket straight on its head with a last week Crea
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  Speaker 1: creat Create the Poor. Cricket fell from the wall dead
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  Speaker 1: end of chapter four