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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty eight, Pinocchio runs the danger of being fried
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  Speaker 1: in a pan like a fish. During that wild chase,
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  Speaker 1: Pinocchio lived through a terrible moment when he almost gave
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  Speaker 1: himself up as lost. This was when Alidoro, that was
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  Speaker 1: the mastiff's name, in a frenzy of running, came so
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  Speaker 1: near that he was on the very point of reaching him.
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  Speaker 1: The marionette heard close behind him the labored breathing of
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  Speaker 1: the beast who was fast on his trail, and now
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  Speaker 1: and again even felt his hot breath blow over him. Luckily,
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  Speaker 1: by this time he was very near the shore, and
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  Speaker 1: the sea was in sight, in fact, only a few
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  Speaker 1: short steps away. As soon as he set foot on
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  Speaker 1: the beach, Pinocchio gave a leap and fell into the water.
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  Speaker 1: Elidoro tried to stop, but as he was running very fast,
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't, and he too, landed far out in the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Strange though it may seem, the dog could not swim.
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  Speaker 1: He beat the water with his paws to hold himself up,
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  Speaker 1: but the harder he tried, the deeper he sank. As
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  Speaker 1: he stuck his head out once more, the poor fellow's
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  Speaker 1: eyes were bulging, and he barked out wildly, I drown,
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  Speaker 1: I drown drown, answered Pinocchio from afar, happy at his escape,
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  Speaker 1: how Pinocchio, dear little Pinocchio, saved me from death. At
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  Speaker 1: those cries of suffering, the marionette, who after all had
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  Speaker 1: a very kind heart, was moved to compassion. He turned
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  Speaker 1: toward the poor animal and said to him, but if
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  Speaker 1: I help you, will you promise not to bother me
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  Speaker 1: again by running after me. I promise. I promise, only hurry,
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  Speaker 1: for if you wait another second, I'll be dead and gone.
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  Speaker 1: Pinocchio hesitated still another minute, Then, remembering how his father
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  Speaker 1: had often told him that a kind deed is never lost,
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  Speaker 1: he swam to Elidoro, and, catching hold of his tail,
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  Speaker 1: dragged him to the shore. The poor dog was so
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  Speaker 1: weak he could not stand. He had swallowed so much
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  Speaker 1: salt water that he was swollen like a balloon. However, Pinocchio,
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  Speaker 1: not wishing to trust him too much, threw himself once
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  Speaker 1: again into the sea. As he swam away, he called out,
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  Speaker 1: good bye Eledoro, good luck, and remember me to the family.
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  Speaker 1: Good Bye, Little Pinocchio answered the dog, a thousand thanks
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  Speaker 1: for having saved me from death. You did me a
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  Speaker 1: good turn, and In this world, what is given is
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  Speaker 1: always returned. If the chance comes, I shall be there.
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  Speaker 1: Pinocchio went on swimming close to shore. At last he
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  Speaker 1: thought he had reached a safe place. Glancing up and
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  Speaker 1: down the beach, he saw the opening of a cave,
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  Speaker 1: out of which rose a spiral of smoke. In that cave,
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  Speaker 1: he said to himself, there must be a fire, so
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  Speaker 1: much the better. I'll dry my clothes and warm myself,
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  Speaker 1: and then well, his mind made up. Pinocchio swam to
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  Speaker 1: the rocks, but as he started to climb, he felt
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  Speaker 1: something under him, lifting him up higher and high. He
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  Speaker 1: tried to escape, but he was too late. To his
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  Speaker 1: great surprise, he found himself in a huge net amid
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  Speaker 1: a crowd of fish of all kinds and sizes, who
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  Speaker 1: were fighting and struggling desperately to free themselves. At the
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  Speaker 1: same time, he saw a fisherman come out of the cave,
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  Speaker 1: a fisherman so ugly that Pinocchio thought he was a
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  Speaker 1: sea monster. In place of hair, his head was covered
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  Speaker 1: by a thick bush of green grass. Green was the
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  Speaker 1: skin of his body, green were his eyes, green was
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  Speaker 1: the long, long beard that reached to his feet. He
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  Speaker 1: looked like a giant lizard with legs and arms. When
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  Speaker 1: the fisherman pulled the net out of the sea, he
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  Speaker 1: cried out, joyfully, blessed Providence once more, I'll have a
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  Speaker 1: fine meal of fish. Thank Heaven, I'm not a fish,
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  Speaker 1: said Pinocchio to himself, trying with these words to find
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  Speaker 1: a little courage. The fisherman took the net and the
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  Speaker 1: fish to the cave, a dark, gloomy, smoky place. In
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  Speaker 1: the middle of it, a panful of oil sizzled over
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  Speaker 1: a smoky fire, sending out a repelling odor of tallow
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  Speaker 1: that took away one's breath. Now let's see what kind
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  Speaker 1: of fish we have got to day, said the green fisherman.
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  Speaker 1: He put a hand as big as a spade into
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  Speaker 1: the net and pulled out a handful of mullets. Fine mullets, these,
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  Speaker 1: he said, after looking at them and smelling them with pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: After that he threw them into a large empty tub.
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  Speaker 1: Many times. He repeated this performance. As he pulled each
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  Speaker 1: fish out of the net. His mouth watered with the
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  Speaker 1: thought of the good dinner coming, and he said, fine fish,
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  Speaker 1: these bass, very tasty, These whitefish, delicious flounders, These what
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  Speaker 1: splendid crabs, and these dear little anchovies with their heads
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  Speaker 1: still on. As you can well imagine, the bass, the flounders,
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  Speaker 1: the whitefish, and even the little anchovies all went together
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  Speaker 1: into the tub to keep the mullets company. The last
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  Speaker 1: to come out of the net was Pinocchio. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as the fisherman pulled him out, his green eyes opened
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  Speaker 1: wide with surprise, and he cried out in fear. What
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  Speaker 1: kind of fish is this? I don't remember eating anything
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  Speaker 1: like it. He looked at him closely, and after turning
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  Speaker 1: him over and over, he said, at last I understand
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  Speaker 1: he must be a crab. Pinocchio, mortified at being taken
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  Speaker 1: for a crab, said, resentfully, what nonsense a crab? Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: I am no such thing. Beware how you deal with me.
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  Speaker 1: I am a marionette. I want you to know a marionette,
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  Speaker 1: asked the fisherman. I must admit that a marionette fish
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  Speaker 1: is for me an entirely new kind of fish. So
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  Speaker 1: much the better. I'll eat you with greater relish eat me.
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  Speaker 1: But can't you understand that I'm not a fish? Can't
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  Speaker 1: you hear that I speak and think as you do?
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  Speaker 1: It's true, answered the fisherman. But since I see that
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  Speaker 1: you are a fish, well able to talk and think
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  Speaker 1: as I do, I'll treat you with all due respect,
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  Speaker 1: and that is that as a sign of my particular esteem.
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  Speaker 1: I'll leave to you the choice of manner in which
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  Speaker 1: you are to be cooked. Do you wish to be
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  Speaker 1: fried in a pan? Or do you prefer to be
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  Speaker 1: cooked with tomato sauce? To tell you the truth, answered Pinocchio.
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  Speaker 1: If I must choose, I should much rather go free
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  Speaker 1: so I may return home. Are you fooling? Do you
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  Speaker 1: think that I want to lose the opportunity to taste
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  Speaker 1: such a rare fish, A marionette fish does not come
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  Speaker 1: very often to these seas. Leave it to me. I'll
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  Speaker 1: fry you in the pan with the others. I know
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  Speaker 1: you'll like it. It's always a comfort to find one's self
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  Speaker 1: in good company. The unlucky marionette, hearing this, began to
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  Speaker 1: cry and wail and beg with tears streaming down his cheeks.
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  Speaker 1: He said, how much better it would have been for
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  Speaker 1: me to go to school. I did listen to my playmates,
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  Speaker 1: and now I am paying for it. Oh oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: And as he struggled and squirmed, like an eel. To
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  Speaker 1: escape from him, the green fisherman took a stout cord
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  Speaker 1: and tied him hand and foot, and threw him into
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the tub with the others. Then he
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  Speaker 1: pulled a wooden bowl full of flour out of a
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  Speaker 1: cupboard and started to roll the fish into it one
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  Speaker 1: by one. When they were white with it, he threw
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  Speaker 1: them into the pan. The first to dance in the
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  Speaker 1: hot oil were the mullets. The bass followed, then the whitefish,
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  Speaker 1: the flounders, and the anchovies. Pinocchio's turn came last. Seeing
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  Speaker 1: himself so near to death, and such a horrible death,
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  Speaker 1: he began to tremble so with fright that he had
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  Speaker 1: no voice left with which to beg for his life.
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  Speaker 1: The poor boy beseeched only with his eyes, but the
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  Speaker 1: green fisherman, not even noticing that it was he turned
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  Speaker 1: him over and over in the flower until he looked
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  Speaker 1: like a Marianne made of chalk. Then he took him
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  Speaker 1: by the head and end of chapter twenty eight