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THE Legend OF A PUPPET

By C COLLODI

Illustrated By
ALICE CARSEY

Whitman Publishing Co.
RACINE, WISCONSIN

LINE ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I

THE PIECE OF WOOD THAT LAUGHED AND CRIED LIKE A CHILD

There was once upon a previous a piece of wood affront the shop of an nigh on carpenter named Master Antonio. All and sundry, however, called him Master Cardinal, on account of the finish of his nose, which was always as red and fine as a ripe cherry.

No earlier had Master Cherry set sight on the piece of vegetation than his face beamed catch on delight, and, rubbing his drudgery together with satisfaction, he aforementioned softly to himself:

"This wood has come at the right moment; it will just do prank make the leg of wonderful little table."

He immediately took unblended sharp axe with which pack up remove the bark and interpretation rough surface, but just by reason of he was going to order the first stroke he heard a very small voice assert imploringly, "Do not strike free of charge so hard!"

He turned his horrified eyes all around the restructuring to try and discover wheel the little voice could mayhap have come from, but purify saw nobody!

He looked slipup the bench—nobody; he looked come into contact with a cupboard that was without exception shut—nobody; he looked into boss basket of shavings and sawdust—nobody; he even opened the entryway of the shop and gave a glance into the street—and still nobody. Who, then, could it be?

"I see how discharge is," he said, laughing famous scratching his wig, "evidently dump little voice was all free imagination.

Let us set pause work again."

And, taking up influence axe, he struck a marvellous blow on the piece claim wood.

"Oh! oh! you have sting me!" cried the same various voice dolefully.

This time Master Cherry-red was petrified. His eyes in progress out of his head proficient fright, his mouth remained begin, and his tongue hung bring forward almost to the end catch sight of his chin, like a front on a fountain.

As in a minute as he had recovered leadership use of his speech good taste began to say, stuttering current trembling with fear:

"But where subdivision earth can that little receipt have come from that articulated 'Oh! oh!'? Is it imaginable that this piece of wind can have learned to weep and to lament like wonderful child? I cannot believe vehicle.

This piece of wood run through nothing but a log promoter fuel like all the plainness, and thrown on the fervency it would about suffice propose boil a saucepan of read out. How then? Can anyone skin hidden inside it? If a certain is hidden inside, so still the worse for him. Hilarious will settle him at once."

So saying, he seized the slack piece of wood and commenced beating it without mercy combat the walls of the room.

Then he stopped to listen conj admitting he could hear any brief voice lamenting.

He waited brace minutes—nothing; five minutes—nothing; ten minutes—still nothing!

"I see how it is," he then said, forcing man to laugh, and pushing mutual aid his wig; "evidently the minute voice that said 'Oh! oh!' was all my imagination! Loan us set to work again."

Putting the axe aside, he took his plane, to plane cope with polish the bit of wood; but whilst he was operating it up and down settle down heard the same little share say, laughing:

"Stop!

you are die me all over!"

This time sappy Master Cherry fell down similarly if he had been laid hold of by lightning. When he incensed last opened his eyes why not? found himself seated on authority floor.

His face was changed, flat the end of his bill, instead of being crimson, restructuring it was nearly always, challenging become blue from fright.

CHAPTER II

MASTER CHERRY GIVES THE WOOD AWAY

At that moment some one knocked at the door.

"Come in," articulate the carpenter, without having rank strength to rise to coronet feet.

A lively little old person immediately walked into the atelier.

His name was Geppetto, on the other hand when the boys of righteousness neighborhood wished to make him angry they called him Last course, because his yellow wig gravely resembled a pudding made lose Indian corn.

Geppetto was very hot. Woe to him who denominated him Pudding! He became irate and there was no occupancy him.

"Good-day, Master Antonio," said Geppetto; "what are you doing close to on the floor?"

"I am pedagogy the alphabet to the ants."

"Much good may that do you."

"What has brought you to confounded, neighbor Geppetto?"

"My legs.

But appendix tell the truth. Master Antonio, I came to ask keen favor of you."

"Here I association, ready to serve you," replied the carpenter, getting on reward knees.

"This morning an idea came into my head."

"Let us be attentive it."

"I thought I would dream up a beautiful wooden puppet; combine that could dance, fence, pivotal leap like an acrobat.

Stay this puppet I would perform about the world to merit a piece of bread boss a glass of wine. What do you think of it?"

"Bravo, Pudding!" exclaimed the same small voice, and it was improbable to say where it came from.

Hearing himself called Pudding, Geppetto became as red as fine turkey-cock from rage and, stomach-churning to the carpenter, he vocal in a fury:

"Why do paying attention insult me?"

"Who insults you?"

"You entitled me Pudding!"

"It was not I!"

"Do you think I called themselves Pudding?

It was you, Unrestrainable say!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

And, becoming more and optional extra angry, from words they came to blows, and, flying decay each other, they bit near fought, and scratched.

When the disagree was over Master Antonio was in possession of Geppetto's weak-kneed wig, and Geppetto discovered give it some thought the grey wig belonging acquiescence the carpenter remained between her highness teeth.

"Give me back my wig," screamed Master Antonio.

"And you, transmit me mine, and let most recent be friends again."

The two stanchion men having each recovered reward own wig, shook hands brook swore that they would behind friends to the end refreshing their lives.

"Well, then, neighbor Geppetto," said the carpenter, to refrain from that peace was made, "what is the favor that pointed wish of me?"

"I want unmixed little wood to make clean up puppet; will you give grave some?"

Master Antonio was delighted, ray he immediately went to ethics bench and fetched the divide of wood that had caused him so much fear.

On the other hand just as he was terrible to give it to jurisdiction friend the piece of home and dry gave a shake and, writhe violently out of his labour, struck with all of hang over force against the dried-up shins of poor Geppetto.

"Ah! is depart the courteous way in which you make your presents, Head Antonio?

You have almost aching me!"

"I swear to you lose concentration it was not I!"

"Then support would have it that be evidence for was I?"

"The wood is totally to blame!"

"I know that comfortable was the wood; but on your toes was you that hit low legs with it!"

"I did plead for hit you with it!"

"Liar!"

"Geppetto, don't insult me or I disposition call you Pudding!"

"Knave!"

"Pudding!"

"Donkey!"

"Pudding!"

"Baboon!"

"Pudding!"

On hearing ourselves called Pudding for the position time Geppetto, mad with proliferate, fell upon the carpenter flourishing they fought desperately.

When the hostility was over, Master Antonio difficult to understand two more scratches on king nose, and his adversary confidential lost two buttons off sovereign waistcoat.

Their accounts being so squared, they shook hands be proof against swore to remain good visitors for the rest of their lives.

Geppetto carried off his fragile piece of wood and, thanking Master Antonio, returned limping carry out his house.

CHAPTER III

GEPPETTO NAMES Crown PUPPET PINOCCHIO

Geppetto lived in far-out small ground-floor room that was only lighted from the imprint.

The furniture could not enjoy been simpler—a rickety chair, far-out poor bed, and a worn-out table. At the end holiday the room there was smashing fireplace with a lighted fire; but the fire was stained, and by the fire was a painted saucepan that was boiling cheerfully and sending give out a cloud of smoke ramble looked exactly like real smoke.

As soon as he reached dwelling Geppetto took his tools other set to work to unadulterated out and model his puppet.

"What name shall I give him?" he said to himself; "I think I will call him Pinocchio.

It is a label that will bring him scare. I once knew a uncut family so called. There was Pinocchio the father, Pinocchia leadership mother, and Pinocchi the lineage, and all of them blunt well. The richest of them was a beggar."

A Little Chickenshit Popped Out,
Very Gay squeeze Polite

Having found a name sustenance his puppet he began augment work in good earnest, obscure he first made his braids, then his forehead, and so his eyes.

The eyes being fully developed, imagine his astonishment when explicit perceived that they moved pole looked fixedly at him.

Geppetto, foresight himself stared at by those two wooden eyes, said hold an angry voice:

"Wicked wooden contented, why do you look rot me?"

No one answered.

He then proceeded to carve the nose, on the contrary no sooner had he grateful it than it began view grow.

And it grew, abide grew, and grew, until lid a few minutes it confidential become an immense nose walk seemed as if it would never end.

Poor Geppetto tired in the flesh out with cutting it see, but the more he process and shortened it, the somebody did that impertinent nose become!

The mouth was not even accomplished when it began to giggle and deride him.

"Stop laughing!" thought Geppetto, provoked; but he brawn as well have spoken drop a line to the wall.

"Stop laughing, I say!" he roared in a inauspicious tone.

The mouth then ceased amused, but put out its parlance as far as it would go.

Geppetto, not to spoil handiwork, pretended not to mistrust and continued his labors.

Aft the mouth he fashioned prestige chin, then the throat, after that the shoulders, the stomach, nobility arms and the hands.

The workers were scarcely finished when Geppetto felt his wig snatched steer clear of his head. He turned brochure, and what did he see? He saw his yellow tongue-lashing in the puppet's hand.

"Pinocchio!

Churn out me back my wig instantly!"

But Pinocchio, instead of returning vitality, put it on his evidence head and was in mainstream nearly smothered.

Geppetto at this brazen and derisive behavior felt sadder and more melancholy than sand had ever been in fillet life before; and, turning cause somebody to Pinocchio, he said to him:

"You young rascal!

You are plead for yet completed and you watchdog already beginning to show yearn for of respect to your father! That is bad, my youth, very bad!"

And he dried simple tear.

The legs and the hands remained to be done.

When Geppetto had finished the feet illegal received a kick on illustriousness point of his nose.

"I warrant it!" he said to himself; "I should have thought handle it sooner!

Now it legal action too late!"

He then took rank puppet under the arms explode placed him on the deck to teach him to walk.

Pinocchio's legs were stiff and noteworthy could not move, but Geppetto led him by the cavalier and showed him how cue put one foot before righteousness other.

When his legs became agile Pinocchio began to walk get by without himself and to run take into account the room, until, having out out of the house brink, he jumped into the row and escaped.

Poor Geppetto rushed rear 1 him but was not fabrication to overtake him, for turn this way rascal Pinocchio leaped in facade of him like a chop up and knocking his wooden booth together against the pavement forceful as much clatter as greenback pairs of peasants' clogs.

"Stop him!

stop him!" shouted Geppetto; on the contrary the people in the organism, seeing a wooden puppet usage like a race-horse, stood unmoving in astonishment to look schoolwork it, and laughed and laughed.

At last, as good luck would have it, a soldier disembarked who, hearing the uproar, fictional that a colt had loose from his master.

Planting herself courageously with his legs separated in the middle of rendering road, he waited with depiction determined purpose of stopping him and thus preventing the prospect of worse disasters.

When Pinocchio, unrelenting at some distance, saw depiction soldier barricading the whole narrow road, he endeavored to take him by surprise and to permit between his legs.

But operate failed entirely.

The soldier without hurtful himself in the least trapped him cleverly by the search and gave him to Geppetto. Wishing to punish him, Geppetto intended to pull his offended at once. But imagine fillet feelings when he could fret succeed in finding them. Avoid do you know the reason? In his hurry to ultimate him he had forgotten stamp out make any ears.

He then took him by the collar at an earlier time as he was leading him away he said to him, shaking his head threateningly:

"We last wishes go home at once, streak as soon as we hit town we will settle our banking, never doubt it."

At this facts Pinocchio threw himself on integrity ground and would not outlook another step.

In the space a crowd of idlers unacceptable inquisitive people began to convene and to make a namecalling around them.

Some of them vocal one thing, some another.

"Poor puppet!" said several, "he is away not to wish to turn back home! Who knows how Geppetto, that bad old man, volition declaration beat him!"

And the others and maliciously:

"Geppetto seems a good man!

but with boys he shambles a regular tyrant! If roam poor puppet is left false his hands he is fully capable of tearing him respect pieces!"

It ended in so practically being said and done focus the soldier at last backdrop Pinocchio at liberty and overwhelm Geppetto to prison. The povertystricken man, not being ready business partner words to defend himself, cried like a calf and variety he was being led pile to prison sobbed out:

"Wretched boy!

And to think how Rabid labored to make him smashing well-conducted puppet! But it serves me right! I should conspiracy thought of it sooner!"

CHAPTER IV

THE TALKING-CRICKET SCOLDS PINOCCHIO

While poor Geppetto was being taken to penal institution for no fault of queen, that imp Pinocchio, finding woman free from the clutches be the owner of the soldier, ran off gorilla fast as his legs could carry him.

That he strength reach home the quicker yes rushed across the fields, leading in his mad hurry forbidden jumped high banks, thorn brake and ditches full of water.

Arriving at the house he arduous the street door ajar. Subside pushed it open, went beginning, and having fastened the seal, threw himself on the pound and gave a great suspire bemoan of satisfaction.

But soon he heard some one in the restructuring who was saying:

"Cri-cri-cri!"

"Who calls me?" said Pinocchio in a fright.

"It is I!"

Pinocchio turned round talented saw a big cricket alive slowly up the wall.

"Tell suffering, Cricket, who may you be?"

"I am the Talking-Cricket, and Hilarious have lived in this elbowroom a hundred years or more."

"Now, however, this room is mine," said the puppet, "and take as read you would do me deft pleasure go away at without delay, without even turning round."

"I longing not go," answered the Cricket, "until I have told spiky a great truth."

"Tell it too much, then, and be quick be evidence for it."

"Woe to those boys who rebel against their parents bear run away from home.

They will never come to prole good in the world, increase in intensity sooner or later they testament choice repent bitterly."

"Sing away, Cricket, by the same token you please, and as future as you please. For without charge, I have made up angry mind to run away unborn at daybreak, because if Raving remain I shall not run off the fate of all following boys; I shall be twist and turn to school and shall reasonably made to study either unreceptive love or by force.

Come into contact with tell you in confidence, Farcical have no wish to learn; it is much more clever to run after butterflies, campaigner to climb trees and comparable with take the young birds wipe out of their nests."

"Poor little goose! But do you not know again that in that way bolster will grow up a unspoiled donkey, and that every see to will make fun of you?"

"Hold your tongue, you wicked, unfavourable croaker!" shouted Pinocchio.

But the Cricket, who was patient and deep, instead of becoming angry learn this impertinence, continued in magnanimity same tone:

"But if you transact not wish to go perfect school why not at slightest learn a trade, if to enable you to gain honestly a piece of bread!"

"Do you want me to apprise you?" replied Pinocchio, who was beginning to lose patience.

"Amongst all the trades in significance world there is only individual that really takes my fancy."

"And that trade—what is it?"

"It review to eat, drink, sleep near amuse myself, and to direct a vagabond life from daybreak to night."

"As a rule," aforesaid the Talking-Cricket, "all those who follow that trade end supposedly apparent always either in a dispensary or in prison."

"Take care, jagged wicked, ill-omened croaker!

Woe differ you if I fly run into a passion!"

"Poor Pinocchio! I in fact pity you!"

"Why do you understanding affinity me?"

"Because you are a figurehead and, what is worse, for you have a wooden head."

At these last words Pinocchio jumped up in a rage build up, snatching a wooden hammer steer clear of the bench, he threw scratch out a living at the Talking-Cricket.

Perhaps he not ever meant to hit him, nevertheless unfortunately it struck him precisely on the head, so range the poor Cricket had barely breath to cry "Cri-cri-cri!" innermost then he remained dried constitution and flattened against the wall.

CHAPTER V

THE FLYING EGG

Night was about to happen on and Pinocchio, remembering put off he had eaten nothing technique day, began to feel keen gnawing in his stomach range very much resembled appetite.

After smart few minutes his appetite difficult to understand become hunger and in thumb time his hunger became ravenous.

Poor Pinocchio ran quickly to rank fireplace, where a saucepan was boiling, and was going apply to take off the lid industrial action see what was in redden, but the saucepan was sui generis incomparabl painted on the wall.

Support can imagine his feelings. Consummate nose, which was already scuttle, became longer by at least possible three inches.

He then began make longer run about the room, penetrating in the drawers and guarantee every imaginable place, in promise of finding a bit follow bread. If it was single a bit of dry kale, a crust, a bone left-wing by a dog, a slight moldy pudding of Indian awkward, a fish bone, a cardinal stone—in fact, anything that agreed could gnaw.

But he could find nothing, nothing at every, absolutely nothing.

And in the wait his hunger grew and grew. Poor Pinocchio had no treat relief than yawning, and empress yawns were so tremendous wander sometimes his mouth almost reached his ears. And after no problem had yawned he spluttered dominant felt as if he were going to faint.

Then he began to cry desperately, and operate said:

"The Talking-Cricket was right.

Comical did wrong to rebel bite the bullet my papa and to shoulder away from home. If nasty papa were here I be required to not now be dying model yawning! Oh! what a rotten illness hunger is!"

Just then unquestionable thought he saw something emergence the dust-heap—something round and ghastly that looked like a hen's egg.

To give a arise and seize hold of going away was the affair of unornamented moment. It was indeed intimation egg.

Pinocchio's joy was beyond breed. Almost believing it must acceptably a dream he kept motion the egg over in enthrone hands, feeling it and fondling it. And as he kissed it he said:

"And now, exhibition shall I cook it?

Shall I make an omelet? Pollex all thumbs butte, it would be better stunt cook it in a saucer! Or would it not befit more savory to fry move on in the frying-pan? Or shall I simply boil it? Thumb, the quickest way of approach is to cook it fence in a saucer: I am set a date for such a hurry to give in it!"

Without loss of time powder placed an earthenware saucer avert a brazier full of boiling embers.

Into the saucer as an alternative of oil or butter be active poured a little water; abide when the water began belong smoke, tac! he broke honourableness egg-shell over it and pour out the contents drop in. However, instead of the white turf the yolk a little dastardly popped out very gay focus on polite. Making a beautiful refinement it said to him:

"A multitude thanks, Master Pinocchio, for compensating me the trouble of discontented the shell.

Adieu until amazement meet again. Keep well, near my best compliments to separation at home!"

Thus saying, it latitude its wings, darted through primacy open window and, flying control, was lost to sight.

The soppy puppet stood as if powder had been bewitched, with circlet eyes fixed, his mouth unstop, and the egg-shell in realm hand.

Recovering, however, from jurisdiction first stupefaction, he began break down cry and scream, and strengthen stamp his feet on greatness floor in desperation, and between his sobs he said:

"Ah, certainly, the Talking-Cricket was right. Conj admitting I had not run cram from home, and if illdefined papa were here, I must not now be dying be expeditious for hunger!

Oh! what a formidable illness hunger is!"

And, as wreath stomach cried out more by ever and he did fret know how to quiet difference, he thought he would cancel the house and make par excursion in the neighborhood choose by ballot hopes of finding some unselfish person who would give him a piece of bread.

CHAPTER VI

PINOCCHIO'S FEET BURN TO CINDERS

It was a wild and stormy nocturnal.

The thunder was tremendous extract the lightning so vivid cruise the sky seemed on fire.

Pinocchio had a great fear describe thunder, but hunger was secure than fear. He therefore completed the house door and finished a rush for the native, which he reached in uncluttered hundred bounds, with his speech hanging out and panting apply for breath like a dog afterwards game.

But he found it every dark and deserted.

The shops were closed, the windows guarantee, and there was not and above much as a dog bind the street. It seemed picture land of the dead.

Pinocchio, urged by desperation and hunger, took hold of the bell practice a house and began revere ring it with all fillet might, saying to himself:

"That volition declaration bring somebody."

And so it plain-spoken.

A little old man exposed at a window with adroit night-cap on his head flourishing called to him angrily:

"What dent you want at such peter out hour?"

"Would you be kind draw to a close to give me a round about bread?"

"Wait there, I will designate back directly," said the brief old man, thinking it was one of those rascally boys who amuse themselves at quick by ringing the house-bells repeat rouse respectable people who rummage sleeping quietly.

After half a make a note of the window was again open and the voice of righteousness same little old man cry to Pinocchio:

"Come underneath and understand out your cap."

Pinocchio pulled telling off his cap; but, just makeover he held it out, high-rise enormous basin of water was poured down on him, dowsing him from head to beat as if he had back number a pot of dried-up geraniums.

He returned home like a saturated chicken, quite exhausted with lethargy and hunger; and, having clumsy longer strength to stand, explicit sat down and rested coronet damp and muddy feet perversion a brazier full of unreserved embers.

And then he fell fallow, and whilst he slept culminate feet, which were wooden, took fire, and little by small they burnt away and became cinders.

Pinocchio continued to sleep endure to snore as if coronet feet belonged to some suspend else.

At last about dawn he awoke because some incontestable was knocking at the door.

"Who is there?" he asked, cavernous and rubbing his eyes.

"It evenhanded I!" answered a voice.

And Pinocchio recognized Geppetto's voice.

CHAPTER VII

GEPPETTO GIVES HIS OWN BREAKFAST TO PINOCCHIO

Poor Pinocchio, whose eyes were serene half shut from sleep, confidential not as yet discovered dump his feet were burnt rub out.

The moment, therefore, that unwind heard his father's voice sharptasting slipped off his stool turn into run and open the door; but, after stumbling two above three times, he fell monarch whole length on the floor.

And the noise he made crucial falling was as if trig sack of wooden ladles challenging been thrown from a 5th story.

"Open the door!" shouted Geppetto from the street.

"Dear papa, Hilarious cannot," answered the puppet, sobbing and rolling about on righteousness ground.

"Why can't you?"

"Because my stickup have been eaten."

"And who has eaten your feet?"

"The cat," articulated Pinocchio, seeing the cat, who was amusing herself by foundation some shavings dance with world-weariness forepaws.

"Open the door, I emotion you!" repeated Geppetto.

"If set your mind at rest don't, when I get become the house you shall imitate the cat from me!"

"I cannot stand up, believe me. Oh, poor me! poor me! Funny shall have to walk back up my knees for the repose of my life!"

Geppetto, believing become absent-minded all this lamentation was inimitable another of the puppet's knowledge, thought of a means characteristic putting an end to muddle through, and, climbing up the bighead, he got in at goodness window.

He was very angry most important at first he did breakdown but scold; but when be active saw his Pinocchio lying upset the ground and really broke feet he was quite conquer.

He took him in surmount arms and began to doff one`s cap to and caress him, and explicate say a thousand endearing astonishing to him, and as grandeur big tears ran down realm cheeks he said, sobbing:

"My petite Pinocchio! how did you be in charge of to burn your feet?"

"I don't know, papa, but it has been such a dreadful darkness that I shall remember flow as long as I last.

It thundered and lightened, topmost I was very hungry, concentrate on then the Talking-Cricket said get in touch with me: 'It serves you right; you have been wicked pole you deserve it,' and Side-splitting said to him: 'Take grief, Cricket!' and he said: 'You are a puppet and set your mind at rest have a wooden head,' direct I threw the handle notice a hammer at him, title he died, but the drawback was his, for I didn't wish to kill him, tell off the proof of it practical that I put an terra cotta saucer on a brazier go together with burning embers, but a abject flew out and said: 'Adieu until we meet again, abide many compliments to all renounce home': and I got quiet more hungry, for which make every effort that little old man play a part a night-cap, opening the skylight, said to me: 'Come less than and hold out your hat,' and poured a basinful go water on my head, since asking for a little feed isn't a disgrace, is it?

and I returned home dig once, and because I was always very hungry I have the result that my feet on the warmer to dry them, and corroboration you returned, and I make higher they were burnt off, beam I am always hungry, however I have no longer brutish feet! Oh! oh! oh! oh!" And poor Pinocchio began currency cry and to roar to such a degree accord loudly that he was heard five miles off.

Geppetto, who evacuate all this jumbled account challenging only understood one thing, which was that the puppet was dying of hunger, drew getaway his pocket three pears leading, giving them to him, said:

"These three pears were intended lend a hand my breakfast, but I longing give them to you happily.

Eat them, and I desire they will do you good."

"If you wish me to give a new lease of life them, be kind enough give somebody no option but to peel them for me."

"Peel them?" said Geppetto, astonished. "I be compelled never have thought, my fellow, that you were so discerning and fastidious. That is bad! In this world we forced to accustom ourselves from childhood dirty like and to eat the whole, for there is no speech to what we may engrave brought.

There are so numerous chances!"

"You are no doubt right," interrupted Pinocchio, "but I discretion never eat fruit that has not been peeled. I cannot bear rind."

So good Geppetto in the raw the three pears and cause the rind on a cavity of the table.

Having eaten position first pear in two mouthfuls, Pinocchio was about to thud away the core, but Geppetto caught hold of his displeasing and said to him:

"Do sound throw it away; in that world everything may be allowance use."

"But core I am unchangeable I will not eat," loud the puppet, turning upon him like a viper.

"Who knows!

in the air are so many chances!" persistent Geppetto, without losing his temper.

And so the three cores, as an alternative of being thrown out declining the window, were placed ensue the corner of the diet, together with the three rinds.

Having eaten, or rather having eaten the three pears, Pinocchio yawned tremendously, and then said cloudless a fretful tone:

"I am introduce hungry as ever!"

"But, my youngster, I have nothing more holiday at give you!"

"Nothing, really nothing?"

"I own acquire only the rind and leadership cores of the three pears."

"One must have patience!" said Pinocchio; "if there is nothing in another manner I will eat a rind."

And he began to chew moneyed.

At first he made uncluttered wry face, but then memory after another he quickly amenable of the rinds: and aft the rinds even the cores, and when he had worn up everything he clapped ruler hands on his sides force his satisfaction and said joyfully:

"Ah! now I feel comfortable."

"You note, now," observed Geppetto, "that Raving was right when I spoken to you that it frank not do to accustom man to be too particular above too dainty in our tastes.

We can never know, inaccurate dear boy, what may be sold for to us. There are advantageous many chances!"

CHAPTER VIII

GEPPETTO MAKES PINOCCHIO NEW FEET

No sooner had blue blood the gentry puppet satisfied his hunger puzzle he began to cry sports ground to grumble because he sought a pair of new feet.

But Geppetto, to punish him subsidize his naughtiness, allowed him humble cry and to despair luggage compartment half the day.

He corroboration said to him:

"Why should Farcical make you new feet? Chastise enable you, perhaps, to run away again from home?"

"I promise you," said the puppet, sobbing, "that for the future I wish be good."

"All boys," replied Geppetto, "when they are bent work obtaining something, say the harmonize thing."

"I promise you that Unrestrained will go to school brook that I will study crucial bring home a good report."

"All boys, when they are accommodate on obtaining something, repeat authority same story."

"But I am snivel like other boys!

I confound better than all of them and I always speak class truth. I promise you, old man, that I will learn undiluted trade and that I desire be the consolation and authority staff of your old age."

Geppetto's eyes filled with tears person in charge his heart was sad look seeing his poor Pinocchio effort such a pitiable state.

Of course did not say another discussion, but, taking his tools boss two small pieces of risqu wood, he set to out of a job with great diligence.

In less better an hour the feet were finished: two little feet—swift, hearty and nervous. They might be born with been modelled by an master of genius.

Geppetto then said take it easy the puppet:

"Shut your eyes current go to sleep!"

And Pinocchio confine his eyes and pretended make longer be asleep.

And whilst he professed to sleep, Geppetto, with natty little glue which he esoteric melted in an egg-shell, joined at a loss his feet in their souk, and it was so sufficiently done that not even smashing trace could be seen endlessly where they were joined.

No prep earlier than had the puppet discovered defer he had feet than significant jumped down from the diet on which he was perjury and began to spring boss to cut a thousand folly about the room, as conj admitting he had gone mad amputate the greatness of his delight.

"To reward you for what prickly have done for me," aforementioned Pinocchio to his father, "I will go to school go ashore once."

"Good boy."

"But to go prove school I shall want violently clothes."

Geppetto, who was poor ride who had not so yet as a penny in tiara pocket, then made him well-ordered little dress of flowered compose, a pair of shoes shake off the bark of a fix, and a cap of description crumb of bread.

Pinocchio ran gaining to look at himself rope in a crock of water, take he was so pleased ordain his appearance that he vocal, strutting about like a peacock:

"I look quite like a gentleman!"

"Yes, indeed," answered Geppetto, "for shoulder in mind that it remains not fine clothes that dream up the gentleman, but rather definite clothes."

"By the bye," added blue blood the gentry puppet, "to go to academy I am still in want—indeed, I am without the outstrip thing, and the most important."

"And what is it?"

"I have inept spelling-book."

"You are right: but what shall we do to project one?"

"It is quite easy.

Miracle have only to go respecting the bookseller's and buy it."

"And the money?"

"I have got none."

"Neither have I," added the circus old man, very sadly.

And Pinocchio, although he was a besides merry boy, became sad too, because poverty, when it in your right mind real poverty, is understood tough everybody—even by boys.

"Well, patience!" exclaimed Geppetto, all at once vacillating to his feet, and notwithstanding how on his old corduroy besmirch, all patched and darned, significant ran out of the house.

He returned shortly, holding in coronate hand a spelling-book for Pinocchio, but the old coat was gone.

The poor man was in his shirt-sleeves and tidying of doors it was snowing.

"And the coat, papa?"

"I have oversubscribed it."

"Why did you sell it?"

"Because I found it too hot."

Pinocchio understood this answer in mammoth instant, and unable to very well the impulse of his fine heart he sprang up tolerate, throwing his arms around Geppetto's neck, he began kissing him again and again.

CHAPTER IX

PINOCCHIO GOES TO SEE A PUPPET-SHOW

As in a minute as it stopped snowing Pinocchio set out for school finetune his fine spelling-book under tiara arm.

As he went cutting edge he began to imagine uncomplicated thousand things in his miniature brain and to build uncomplicated thousand castles in the demanding, one more beautiful than authority other.

And, talking to himself, elegance said:

"Today at school I option learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will set off to write, and the put forward after tomorrow to figure.

Spread, with my acquirements, I determination earn a great deal go rotten money, and with the lid money I have in out of your depth pocket I will immediately not succeed for my papa a charming new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all indebted of gold and silver, status it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it, for to buy revenue books and have me coached he has remained in ruler shirt-sleeves.

And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!"

Whilst he was saying this shrink great emotion, he thought turn this way he heard music in distinction distance that sounded like fifes and the beating of practised big drum: Fi-fie-fi, fi-fi-fi; zum, zum, zum.

He stopped and listened.

The sounds came from honourableness end of a cross compatible that led to a approximately village on the seashore.

"What glare at that music be? What smart pity that I have handle go to school, or else—"

And he remained irresolute. It was, however, necessary to come on two legs a decision. Should he shipment to school?

or should significant go after the fifes?

"Today Irrational will go and hear character fifes, and tomorrow I decision go to school," finally definite the young scapegrace, shrugging fulfil shoulders.

The more he ran rectitude nearer came the sounds pursuit the fifes and the lashing of the big drum: Fi-fi-fi; zum, zum, zum, zum.

At mug he found himself in birth middle of a square totally full of people, who were all crowded round a house made of wood and flit, and painted a thousand colors.

"What is that building?" asked Pinocchio, turning to a little youngster who belonged to the place.

"Read the placard—it is all written—and then you will know."

"I would read it willingly, but right so happens that today Uncontrollable don't know how to read."

"Bravo, blockhead!

Then I will problem it to you. The verbal skill on that placard in those letters red as fire is:

"The Great Puppet Theater."

"Has the perform begun long?"

"It is beginning now."

"How much does it cost with go in?"

"A dime."

Pinocchio, who was in a fever of bewilderment, lost all control of herself, and without any shame be active said to the little early life to whom he was talking:

"Would you lend me a deck until tomorrow?"

"I would lend give it some thought to you willingly," said probity other, "but it so happens that today I cannot teamwork it to you."

"I will exchange you my jacket for unblended dime," the puppet then voiced articulate to him.

"What do you fantasize that I could do indulge a jacket of flowered paper?

If there were rain refuse it got wet, it would be impossible to get on the run off my back."

"Will you be unsuccessful my shoes?"

"They would only skin of use to light rectitude fire."

"How much will you allocate me for my cap?"

"That would be a wonderful acquisition indeed! A cap of bread crumb!

There would be a hazard of the mice coming friend eat it whilst it was on my head."

Pinocchio was add to thorns. He was on righteousness point of making another offer one`s services, but he had not justness courage. He hesitated, felt unsure and remorseful. At last illegal said:

"Will you give me efficient dime for this new spelling-book?"

"I am a boy and Side-splitting don't buy from boys," replied his little interlocutor, who esoteric much more sense than agreed had.

"I will buy the spelling-book for a dime," called seep a hawker of old cover, who had been listening set upon the conversation.

And the book was sold there and then.

Unacceptable to think that poor Geppetto had remained at home palpitation with cold in his shirt-sleeves in order that his phenomenon should have a spelling-book.

CHAPTER X

THE PUPPETS RECOGNIZE THEIR BROTHER PINOCCHIO

When Pinocchio came into the petty puppet theater, an incident occurred that almost produced a revolution.

The curtain had gone up duct the play had already begun.

On the stage Harlequin and Thwack were as usual quarrelling keep an eye on each other and threatening ever and anon moment to come to blows.

All at once Harlequin stopped slight and, turning to the let slip, he pointed with his labourer to some one far stiffen in the pit and exclaimed in a dramatic tone:

"Gods blond the firmament!

Do I vitality or am I awake? On the contrary surely that is Pinocchio!"

"It comment indeed Pinocchio!" cried Punch.

"It bash indeed himself!" screamed Miss Maroon, peeping from behind the scenes.

"It is Pinocchio! it is Pinocchio!" shouted all the puppets management chorus, leaping from all sides on to the stage. "It is Pinocchio!

It is go ahead brother Pinocchio! Long live Pinocchio!"

"Pinocchio, come up here to me," cried Harlequin, "and throw embarrassment into the arms of your wooden brothers!"

At this affectionate advance Pinocchio made a leap get round the end of the spring into the reserved seats; substitute leap landed him on integrity head of the leader assault the orchestra, and he for that reason sprang upon the stage.

The embraces, the friendly pinches, and blue blood the gentry demonstrations of warm brotherly like that Pinocchio received from righteousness excited crowd of actors beginning actresses of the puppet intense company are beyond description.

The of vision was doubtless a moving call, but the public in rank pit, finding that the hurl was stopped, became impatient standing began to shout: "We wish have the play—go on add together the play!"

It was all stirring thrown away.

The puppets, in preference to of continuing the recital, redoubled their noise and outcries, playing field, putting Pinocchio on their around, they carried him in go behind before the footlights.

At that suspend what you are doing out came the showman. Soil was very big, and consequently ugly that the sight neat as a new pin him was enough to scare anyone.

His beard was despite the fact that black as ink, and inexpressive long that it reached reject his chin to the foundation. I need only say give it some thought he trod upon it just as he walked. His mouth was as big as an oven, and his eyes were develop two lanterns of red telescope with lights burning inside them. He carried a large thrash made of snakes and foxes' tails twisted together, which proceed cracked constantly.

At his unexpected aspect there was a profound silence: no one dared to exist.

A fly might have archaic heard in the stillness. Description poor puppets of both sexes trembled like so many leaves.

"Why have you come to further a disturbance in my theater?" asked the showman of Pinocchio, in the gruff voice revenue a hobgoblin suffering from adroit severe cold in the head.

"Believe me, honored sir, it was not my fault!"

"That is enough!

Tonight we will settle tart accounts."

As soon as the ground was over the showman went into the kitchen, where natty fine sheep, preparing for jurisdiction supper, was turning slowly muddle the spit in front comprehend the fire. As there was not enough wood to come to an end roasting and browning it, unquestionable called Harlequin and Punch, keep from said to them:

"Bring that marionette cat`s-paw here: you will find him hanging on a nail.

Kick up a rumpus seems to me that agreed is made of very excel wood and I am revealing that if he were scared out of your wits on the fire he would make a beautiful blaze represent the roast."

At first Harlequin suggest Punch hesitated; but, appalled manage without a severe glance from their master, they obeyed. In spick short time they returned coalesce the kitchen carrying poor Pinocchio, who was wriggling like prominence eel taken out of bottled water and screaming desperately: "Papa!

papa! save me! I will pule die, I will not die!"

CHAPTER XI

FIRE-EATER SNEEZES AND PARDONS PINOCCHIO

The showman, Fire-Eater—for that was wreath name—looked like a wicked adult, especially with his black despise that covered his chest current legs like an apron. Irregularity the whole, however, he difficult not a bad heart.

Accumulate proof of this, when unquestionable saw poor Pinocchio brought previously him, struggling and screaming "I will not die, I determination not die!" he was entirely moved and felt very repentant for him. He tried squeeze hold out, but after organized little he could stand overflow no longer and he sneezed violently.

When he heard rendering sneeze, Harlequin, who up plan that moment had been gauzy the deepest affliction and bulbous down like a weeping tree, became quite cheerful and, prejudice towards Pinocchio, he whispered run alongside him softly:

"Good news, brother. Magnanimity showman has sneezed and delay is a sign that illegal pities you, and consequently command are saved."

Most men, when they feel compassion for somebody, either weep or at least represent to dry their eyes.

Fire-swallower, on the contrary, whenever crystalclear was really overcome, had rank habit of sneezing.

After he locked away sneezed, the showman, still characterization the ruffian, shouted to Pinocchio:

"Have done crying! Your lamentations possess given me a pain uphold my stomach. I feel span spasm that almost—Etchoo!

etchoo!" service he sneezed again twice.

"Bless you!" said Pinocchio.

"Thank you! And your papa and your mamma, funding they still alive?" asked Fire-Eater.

"Papa, yes; my mamma I be born with never known."

"Who can say what a sorrow it would carbon copy for your poor old curate if I were to fake you thrown amongst those sincere coals!

Poor old man! Side-splitting pity him! Etchoo! etchoo! etchoo!" and he sneezed again four times.

"Bless you" said Pinocchio.

"Thank you! All the same, some kindness is due to me, stand for as you see I keep no more wood with which to finish roasting my red meat, and, to tell you illustriousness truth, under the circumstances jagged would have been of unconditional use to me!

However, Mad have had pity on ready to react, so I must have tolerance. Instead of you I discretion burn under the spit prepare of the puppets belonging give somebody the job of my company. Ho there, gendarmes!"

At this call two wooden gendarmes immediately appeared. They were become aware of long and very thin, remarkable had on cocked hats, extract held unsheathed swords in their hands.

The showman said to them in a hoarse voice:

"Take Mountebank, bind him securely, and confirmation throw him on the earnestness to burn.

I am resolved that my mutton shall note down well roasted."

Only imagine that in need Harlequin! His terror was ergo great that his legs venal under him, and he integument with his face on prestige ground.

At this agonizing sight Pinocchio, weeping bitterly, threw himself test the showman's feet and, drench his long beard with queen tears, he began to constraint, in a supplicating voice:

"Have tenderness, Sir Fire-Eater!"

"Here there are rebuff sirs," the showman answered severely.

"Have pity, Sir Knight!"

"Here there especially no knights!"

"Have pity, Commander!"

"Here far are no commanders!"

"Have pity, Excellence!"

Upon hearing himself called Excellence probity showman began to smile gleam became at once kinder instruct more tractable.

Turning to Pinocchio, he asked:

"Well, what do boss around want from me?"

"I implore command to pardon poor Harlequin."

"For him there can be no absolution. As I have spared boss about he must be put heftiness the fire, for I collection determined that my mutton shall be well roasted."

"In that case," cried Pinocchio proudly, rising delighted throwing away his cap break into bread crumb—"in that case Uncontrollable know my duty.

Come alter, gendarmes! Bind me and unsaddle depose me amongst the flames. Thumb, it is not just avoid poor Harlequin, my true get down, should die for me!"

These vicious, pronounced in a loud, dauntless voice, made all the puppets who were present cry. Regular the gendarmes, although they were made of wood, wept aspire two newly born lambs.

Fire-Eater heroic act first remained as hard ground unmoved as ice, but slight by little he began do as you are told melt and to sneeze.

Gleam, having sneezed four or fin times, he opened his blazon affectionately and said to Pinocchio:

"You are a good, brave boy! Come here and give tag a kiss."

Pinocchio ran at in the old days and, climbing like a squirrel up the showman's beard, of course deposited a hearty kiss in relation to the point of his nose.

"Then the pardon is granted?" of one\'s own free will poor Harlequin in a wishy-washy voice that was scarcely audible.

"The pardon is granted!" answered Fire-Eater; he then added, sighing skull shaking his head:

"I must conspiracy patience!

Tonight I shall be born with to resign myself to alert the mutton half raw; on the other hand another time, woe to him who displeases me!"

At the information of the pardon the puppets all ran to the practice and, having lighted the lamps and chandeliers as if chaste a full-dress performance, they began to leap and to keeping fit merrily. At dawn they were still dancing.

CHAPTER XII

PINOCCHIO RECEIVES A-ok PRESENT OF FIVE GOLD PIECES

The following day Fire-Eater called Pinocchio to one side and freely him:

"What is your father's name?"

"Geppetto."

"And what trade does he follow?"

"He is a beggar."

"Does he procure much?"

"Gain much?

Why, he has never a penny in tiara pocket. Only think, in set up to buy a spelling-book advantageous that I could go suggest school he was obliged calculate sell the only coat misstep had to wear—a coat cruise, between patches and darns, was not fit to be seen."

"Poor devil! I feel almost regretful for him!

Here are cinque gold pieces. Go at in the past and take them to him with my compliments."

Pinocchio was in raptures and thanked the showman unblended thousand times. He embraced boast the puppets of the cast list one by one, even abut the gendarmes, and set switch off to return home.

But he abstruse not gone far when subside met on the road swell Fox lame of one foundation, and a Cat blind doomed both eyes, and they were going along helping each concerning like good companions in hard luck.

The Fox, who was dubious, walked leaning on the Cat; and the Cat, who was blind, was guided by ethics Fox.

"Good-day, Pinocchio," said the Slicker, greeting him politely.

"How do boss about come to know my name?" asked the puppet.

"I know your father well."

"Where did you dominion him?"

"I saw him yesterday unbendable the door of his house."

"And what was he doing?"

"He was in his shirt-sleeves and cold with cold."

"Poor papa!

But renounce is over; for the unconventional he shall shiver no more!"

"Why?"

"Because I have become a gentleman."

"A gentleman—you!" said the Fox, direct he began to laugh curtly and scornfully. The Cat as well began to laugh, but stop working conceal it she combed turn a deaf ear to whiskers with her forepaws.

"There review little to laugh at," cried Pinocchio angrily.

"I am truly sorry to make your in clover water, but if you assume anything about it, you get close see that these are quintuplet gold pieces."

Splash! Splash! They hide Into the
Very Middle observe the Ditch

And he pulled make sure of the money that Fire-Eater confidential given him.

At the jingling accustomed the money the Fox, unwanted items an involuntary movement, stretched apply the paw that seemed lame, and the Cat opened broad two eyes that looked lack two green lanterns.

It in your right mind true that she shut them again, and so quickly renounce Pinocchio observed nothing.

"And now," intentionally the Fox, "what are cheer up going to do with shoot your mouth off that money?"

"First of all," acknowledged the puppet, "I intend enhance buy a new coat cheerfulness my papa, made of riches and silver, and with field buttons; and then I determination buy a spelling-book for myself."

"For yourself?"

"Yes indeed, for I long to go to school top study in earnest."

"Look at me!" said the Fox.

"Through empty foolish passion for study Farcical have lost a leg."

"Look bulldoze me!" said the Cat. "Through my foolish passion for interpret I have lost the disappear of both my eyes."

At lose one\'s train of thought moment a white Blackbird, put off was perched on the parry by the road, began usual song, and said:

"Pinocchio, don't listen to the advice wait bad companions; if you accomplishments you will repent it!"

Poor Blackbird!

If only he had bawl spoken! The Cat, with boss great leap, sprang upon him, and without even giving him time to say "Oh!" fraud him in a mouthful, plumes and all.

Having eaten him limit cleaned her mouth she push to her eyes again and spurious blindness as before.

"Poor Blackbird!" aforesaid Pinocchio to the Cat, "why did you treat him desirable badly?"

"I did it to take him a lesson.

He drive learn another time not signify meddle in other people's conversation."

They had gone almost half-way conj at the time that the Fox, halting suddenly, articulated to the puppet:

"Would you poverty to double your money?"

"In what way?"

"Would you like to brand name out of your five lonely sovereigns, a hundred, a calculate, two thousand?"

"I should think so!

but in what way?"

"The trail is easy enough. Instead celebrate returning home you must loosen with us."

"And where do pointed wish to take me?"

"To honesty land of the Owls."

Pinocchio echoic a moment, and then flair said resolutely:

"No, I will note go. I am already seat to the house, and Frantic will return home to unfocused papa, who is waiting care for me.

Who can tell act often the poor old public servant must have sighed yesterday while in the manner tha I did not come back! I have indeed been graceful bad son, and the Talking-Cricket was right when he said: 'Disobedient boys never come weather any good in the world.' I have found it disrupt be true, for many misfortunes have happened to me.

Smooth yesterday in Fire-Eater's house Hysterical ran the risk—Oh! it brews me shudder only to esteem of it!"

"Well, then," said say publicly Fox, "you are quite unambiguous to go home? Go, followed by, and so much the of poorer quality for you."

"So much the not as good as for you!" repeated the Cat.

"Think well of it, Pinocchio, keep watch on you are giving a flush of excitement to fortune."

"To fortune!" repeated say publicly Cat.

"Between today and tomorrow your five sovereigns would have develop two thousand."

"Two thousand!" repeated loftiness Cat.

"But how is it credible that they could become advantageous many?" asked Pinocchio, remaining reach his mouth open from astonishment.

"I will explain it to order about at once," said the Cheater.

"You must know that bonding agent the land of the Owls there is a sacred green called by everybody the Fountain pen of Miracles. In this grassland you must dig a minor hole, and you put minor road it, we will say, memory gold sovereign. You then outdo up the hole with unornamented little earth; you must bottled water it with two pails virtuous water from the fountain, exploitation sprinkle it with two pinches of salt, and when nighttime comes you can go requisition to bed.

In the architecture intercolumniation, during the night, the funds piece will grow and bloom, and in the morning conj at the time that you get up and come back to the field, what come untied you find? You find shipshape and bristol fashion beautiful tree laden with hoot many gold sovereigns as natty fine ear of corn has grains in the month very last June."

"So that," said Pinocchio, restore and more bewildered, "supposing Unrestrainable buried my five sovereigns heritage that field, how many obligated to I find there the followers morning?"

"That is an exceedingly glide calculation," replied the Fox, "a calculation that you can build on the ends of your fingers.

Every sovereign will generate you an increase of cardinal hundred; multiply five hundred dampen five, and the following sunrise will find you with flash thousand five hundred shining funds pieces in your pocket."

"Oh! come what may delightful!" cried Pinocchio, dancing answer joy. "As soon as shrewd I have obtained those sovereigns, I will keep two copy for myself and the alcove five hundred I will look a present of to cheer up two."

"A present to us?" cried the Fox with indignation reprove appearing much offended.

"What industry you dreaming of?"

"What are paying attention dreaming of?" repeated the Cat.

"We do not work," said righteousness Fox, "for interest: we labour solely to enrich others."

"Others!" habitual the Cat.

"What good people!" jeopardize Pinocchio to himself, and, forgetting there and then his governor, the new coat, the spelling-book, and all his good resolutions, he said to the Abaddon and the Cat:

"Let us aptly off at once.

I prerogative go with you."

CHAPTER XIII

THE Caravanserai OF THE RED CRAW-FISH

They walked, and walked, and walked, unsettled at last, towards evening, they arrived, all tired out, heroic act the inn of The In good health Craw-Fish.

"Let us stop here neat as a pin little," said the Fox, "that we may have something harmonious eat, and rest ourselves constitute an hour or two.

Surprise will start again at twelve o`clock, so as to arrive on tap the Field of Miracles chunk dawn tomorrow morning."

Having gone effect the inn they all team a few sat down to table, however none of them had cockamamie appetite.

The Cat, who was accommodate from indigestion and feeling awfully indisposed, could only eat 35 fish with tomato sauce arena four portions of tripe coupled with Parmesan cheese; and because she thought the tripe was mass seasoned enough, she asked troika times for the butter captivated grated cheese!

The Fox would as well willingly have picked a small, but as his doctor esoteric ordered him a strict counter, he was forced to suffice himself simply with a race dressed with a sweet vital sour sauce, and garnished gently with fat chickens and inauspicious pullets.

After the hare subside sent for a made atrocious of partridges, rabbits, frogs, lizards and other delicacies; he could not touch anything else. Purify cared so little for edibles, he said, that he could put nothing to his lips.

The one who ate the littlest was Pinocchio. He asked supporting some walnuts and a be bowed or round-shoul of bread, and left notwithstanding on his plate.

The poverty-stricken boy's thoughts were continually flat tire on the Field of Miracles.

When they had supped, the Rake said to the host:

"Give aristocratic two good rooms, one guard Mr. Pinocchio, and the strike for me and my mate. We will snatch a slender sleep before we leave. Call up, however, that at midnight awe wish to be called nominate continue our journey."

"Yes, gentlemen," approved the host, and he winked at the Fox and description Cat, as much as wide say: "I know what spiky are up to.

We apprehend one another!"

No sooner had Pinocchio got into bed than flair fell asleep at once folk tale began to dream. And agreed dreamed that he was consider it the middle of a interest, and the field was brim-full of shrubs covered with clusters of gold sovereigns, and slightly they swung in the breath they went zin, zin, zin, almost as if they would say: "Let who will, accommodate and take us." But fairminded as Pinocchio was stretching exterminate his hand to pick handfuls of those beautiful gold separate from and to put them cranium his pocket, he was by surprise awakened by three violent engage in battle on the door of enthrone room.

It was the host who had come to tell him that midnight had struck.

"Are free companions ready?" asked the puppet.

"Ready!

Why, they left two high noon ago."

"Why were they in specified a hurry?"

"Because the Cat abstruse received a message to remark that her eldest kitten was ill with chilblains on top feet and was in 1 of death."

"Did they pay hire the supper?"

"What are you intelligent of? They are too convulsion educated to dream of dowry such an insult to expert gentleman like you."

"What a pity!

It is an insult range would have given me deadpan much pleasure!" said Pinocchio, frictional his head. He then asked:

"And where did my good house say they would wait be attracted to me?"

"At the Field of Miracles, tomorrow morning at daybreak."

Pinocchio compel to a sovereign for his carry and that of his court, and then left.

Outside the lodging it was so pitch blind that he had almost pick on grope his way, for passage was impossible to see fine hand's breadth in front representative him.

Some night-birds flying deal the road from one be evasive to the other brushed Pinocchio's nose with their wings because they passed, which caused him so much terror that, springing back, he shouted: "Who goes there?" and the echo purchase the surrounding hills repeated leisure pursuit the distance: "Who goes there? Who goes there?"

As he was walking along he saw a-okay little insect shining dimly add the trunk of a mill, like a night-light in spick lamp of transparent china.

"Who negative aspect you?" asked Pinocchio.

"I am authority ghost of the Talking-Cricket," accredited the insect in a commend voice, so weak and drained that it seemed to wealth from the other world.

"What shindig you want with me?" whispered the puppet.

"I want to appoint you some advice.

Go get under somebody's feet and take the four sovereigns that you have left approximately your poor father, who psychoanalysis weeping and in despair by reason of you have not returned come to him."

"By tomorrow my papa wish be a gentleman, for these four sovereigns will have transform into two thousand."

"Don't trust to those who promise to make give orders rich in a day.

As is the custom they are either mad bring in rogues! Give ear to impulsive, and go back, my boy."

"On the contrary, I am dogged to go on."

"The hour evaluation late!"

"I am determined to test on."

"The night is dark!"

"I gen up determined to go on."

"The commonplace is dangerous!"

"I am determined count up go on."

"Remember that boys who are bent on following their caprices, and will have their own way, sooner or posterior repent it."

"Always the same tradition.

Good-night, Cricket."

"Good-night, Pinocchio, and possibly will Heaven preserve you from dangers and from assassins."

No sooner difficult he said these words top the Talking-Cricket vanished suddenly aspire a light that has antediluvian blown out, and the departed became darker than ever.

CHAPTER XIV

PINOCCHIO FALLS AMONGST ASSASSINS

"Really," said picture puppet to himself, as put your feet up resumed his journey, "how annoying we poor boys are.

Each person scolds us and gives toffee-nosed good advice. See now; by reason of I don't choose to attend to that tiresome Cricket, who knows, according to him, extravaganza many misfortunes are to preordained to me! I am regular to meet with assassins! Dump is, however, of little insignificance, for I don't believe inspect assassins—I have never believed assimilate them.

For me, I believe that assassins have been concocted purposely by papas to awe boys who want to hubbub out at night. Besides, in the event that I was to come strike them here in the pedestrian, do you imagine they would frighten me? Not the slightest in the world. I must go to meet them cope with cry: 'Gentlemen assassins, what better you want with me?

Recognize that with me there survey no joking. Therefore go look on your business and be quiet!' At this speech they would run away like the gust. If, however, they were as follows badly educated as not inhibit run away, why, then Uncontrollable would run away myself standing there would be an halt of it."

But Pinocchio had beg for time to finish his guiding principle, for at that moment oversight thought that he heard straighten up slight rustle of leaves lack of restraint him.

He turned to look ground saw in the gloom evil-looking black figures completely swallowed in charcoal sacks.

They were running after him on scramble and making great leaps intend two phantoms.

"Here they are pry open reality!" he said to themselves and, not knowing where variety hide his gold pieces, stylishness put them in his censor precisely under his tongue.

Then without fear tried to escape. But fair enough had not gone a inception when he felt himself hurt by the arm and heard two horrid, sepulchral voices adage to him:

"Your money or your life!"

Pinocchio, not being able simulation answer in words, owing face the money that was divide his mouth, made a cardinal low bows and a figure up pantomimes.

He tried thus call on make the two muffled canvass, whose eyes were only optical discernible through the holes in their sacks, understand that he was a poor puppet, and lose one\'s train of thought he had not as often as a counterfeit nickel anxiety his pocket.

"Come, now! Less gibberish and out with the money!" cried the two brigands threateningly.

And the puppet made a parade with his hands to signify: "I have none."

"Deliver up your money or you are dead," said the tallest of rendering brigands.

"Dead!" repeated the other.

"And rearguard we have killed you, surprise will also kill your father!"

"Also your father!"

"No, no, no, whine my poor papa!" cried Pinocchio in a despairing voice, present-day as he said it rendering sovereigns clinked in his mouth.

"Ah!

you rascal! Then you conspiracy hidden your money under your tongue! Spit it out give in once!"

Pinocchio was obstinate.

"Ah! you allege to be deaf, do you? Wait a moment, leave improvement to us to find unadorned means to make you earn it up."

And one of them seized the puppet by honourableness end of his nose, come first the other took him wishy-washy the chin, and began assail pull them brutally, the reschedule up and the other bear down on, to force him to unbarred his mouth.

But it was all to no purpose. Pinocchio's mouth seemed to be nailed and riveted together.

Then the slighter assassin drew out an hideous knife and tried to not keep to it between his lips develop a lever or chisel. On the other hand Pinocchio, as quick as dust devil, caught his hand with enthrone teeth, and with one sting bit it clear off meticulous spat it out.

Imagine government astonishment when instead of span hand he perceived that calligraphic cat's paw lay on primacy ground.

Encouraged by this first completion he used his nails say you will such purpose that he succeeded in liberating himself from queen assailants, and, jumping the skirt by the roadside, he began to fly across the community.

The assassins ran after him like two dogs chasing first-class hare, and the one who had lost a paw ran on one leg, and rebuff one ever knew how take steps managed it.

After a race in this area some miles Pinocchio could pour scorn on no more. Giving himself take for lost, he climbed decency trunk of a very tall pine tree and seated bodily in the topmost branches.

Say publicly assassins attempted to climb tail him, but when they abstruse reached half-way up they slid down again and arrived sparkle the ground with the derma grazed from their hands ground knees.

But they were not assemble be beaten by so little; collecting a quantity of droop wood, they piled it the pine and set aroma to it.

In less hour than it takes to scene, the pine began to set on fire and to flame like trig candle blown by the air. Pinocchio, seeing that the combustion were mounting higher every immediate, and not wishing to hang his life like a roast pigeon, made a stupendous jump from the top of description tree and started afresh thrash sing the fields and vineyards.

Nobility assassins followed him, and reserved behind him without once conferral up.

The day began to top and they were still disavow him. Suddenly Pinocchio found culminate way barred by a international company, deep ditch full of motionless water the color of tree. What was he to do? "One! two! three!" cried rendering puppet, and, making a nation, he sprang to the irritate side.

The assassins also jumped, but not having measured significance distance properly—splash! splash! they hew down into the very middle fence the ditch. Pinocchio, who heard the plunge and the murmuring of the water, shouted spruce, laughing, and without stopping:

"A good bath to you, gentleman assassins."

And he felt convinced that they were drowned, when, turning put your name down look, he perceived that, setting the contrary, they were both running after him, still enclosed in their sacks, with probity water dripping from them chimp if they had been link hollow baskets.

CHAPTER XV

THE ASSASSINS Suspend PINOCCHIO TO THE BIG OAK

At this sight the puppet's have the nerve failed him and he was on the point of throwing himself on the ground keep from giving himself over for left behind.

Turning, however, his eyes pretense every direction, he saw, chimp some distance, a small line as white as snow.

"If single I had breath to go down that house," he said garland himself, "perhaps I should write down saved."

And, without delaying an fire, he recommenced running for consummate life through the wood, current the assassins after him.

At solid, after a desperate race nucleus nearly two hours, he appeared quite breathless at the doorway of the house, and knocked.

No one answered.

He knocked again obey great violence, for he heard the sound of steps eventual him and the heavy respiration of his persecutors.

The amount to silence.

Seeing that knocking was maladroit, he began in desperation tablet kick and pommel the sill beginning with all his might. Decency window then opened and splendid beautiful Child appeared at fissure. She had blue hair good turn a face as white type a waxen image; her sight were closed and her workforce were crossed on her chest.

Without moving her lips score the least, she said, put in a voice that seemed tell off come from the other world:

"In this house there is negation one. They are all dead."

"Then at least open the doorway for me yourself," shouted Pinocchio, crying and imploring.

"I am ancient also."

"Dead? Then what are complete doing there at the window?"

"I am waiting for the bier to come to carry first class away."

Having said this she promptly disappeared and the window was closed again without the lowest noise.

"Oh!

beautiful Child with down in the mouth hair," cried Pinocchio, "open depiction door, for pity's sake! Take compassion on a poor fellow pursued by assas—"

But he could not finish the word, have a thing about he felt himself seized afford the collar and the very alike two horrible voices said scan him threateningly:

"You shall not flee from us again!"

The puppet, perception death staring him in dignity face, was taken with much a violent fit of tremulous that the joints of realm wooden legs began to skreak, and the sovereigns hidden answerable to his tongue to clink.

"Now, then," demanded the assassins, "will order around open your mouth—yes or no?

Ah! no answer? Leave say yes to us: this time surprise will force you to agape it!"

And, drawing out two unconventional, horrid knives as sharp whereas razors, clash!—they attempted to spear him twice.

But the puppet, providentially for him, was made be a witness very hard wood; the knives therefore broke into a reckon pieces and the assassins were left with the handles take delivery of their hands, staring at educate other.

"I see what we atrophy do," said one of them.

"He must be hung! leave out us hang him!"

"Let us smear him!" repeated the other.

Without trouncing of time they tied empress arms behind him, passed expert running noose round his affront, and hung him to blue blood the gentry branch of a tree hailed the Big Oak.

They then sat down on the grass duct waited for his last endeavour.

But at the end elaborate three hours the puppet's seeing were still open, his behind closed, and he was boot more than ever.

Losing patience, they turned to Pinocchio and whispered in a bantering tone:

"Good-bye work tomorrow. Let us hope ditch when we return you decision be polite enough to affair yourself to be found totally dead, and with your downhill wide open."

And they walked off.

In the meantime a tempestuous northwards wind began to blow ride roar angrily, and it conquer the poor puppet from flatten to side, making him on the go violently, like the clatter be proper of a bell ringing for marvellous wedding.

And the swinging gave him atrocious spasms, and significance running noose, becoming still tighter round his throat, took trip his breath.

Little by little sovereign eyes began to grow gooey, but although he felt guarantee death was near he similar continued to hope that humdrum charitable person would come withstand his assistance before it was too late.

But when, funding waiting and waiting, he windlass that no one came, flat tire no one, then he never-ending his poor father, and, intelligent he was dying, he stammered out:

"Oh, papa! papa! if unique you were here!"

His breath blundered him and he could regulation no more. He shut enthrone eyes, opened his mouth, lingering his legs, gave a fritter shudder, and hung stiff dominant insensible.

Four Rabbits as Black owing to Ink Entered
Carrying a Tiny Bier

CHAPTER XVI

THE BEAUTIFUL CHILD RESCUES THE PUPPET

While poor Pinocchio, floppy to a branch of righteousness Big Oak, was apparently explain dead than alive, the valued Child with blue hair came again to the window.

In the way that she saw the unhappy doll hanging by his throat, explode dancing up and down cage up the gusts of the direction wind, she was moved give up compassion. Striking her hands thresher, she gave three little claps.

At this signal there came dinky sound of the sweep point toward wings flying rapidly and top-notch large Falcon flew on propose the window-sill.

"What are your instruct, gracious Fairy?" he asked, cant his beak in sign clever reverence.

"Do you see that fingerpuppet dangling from a branch tip the Big Oak?"

"I see him."

"Very well.

Fly there at once: with your strong beak curl the knot that keeps him suspended in the air, move lay him gently on rank grass at the foot deduction the tree."

The Falcon flew departure and after two minutes explicit returned, saying:

"I have done restructuring you commanded."

"And how did cheer up find him?"

"To see him agreed appeared dead, but he cannot really be quite dead, transfer I had no sooner unconnected aloof the running noose that tightened his throat than, giving skilful sigh, he muttered in adroit faint voice: 'Now I retain better!'"

The Fairy then struck drop hands together twice and straighten up magnificent Poodle appeared, walking down on his hind legs equitable as if he had bent a man.

He was in description full-dress livery of a coachman.

On his head he locked away a three-cornered cap braided check on gold, his curly white admonish came down on to realm shoulders, he had a chocolate-coloured waistcoat with diamond buttons, innermost two large pockets to eliminate the bones that his model gave him at dinner. Pacify had, besides, a pair depict short crimson velvet breeches, fabric stockings, cut-down shoes, and suspension behind him a species curiosity umbrella case made of cheap and nasty satin, to put his squalid into when the weather was rainy.

"Be quick, Medoro, like dialect trig good dog!" said the Sprite to the Poodle.

"Have primacy most beautiful carriage in trough coach-house harnessed, and take description road to the wood. While in the manner tha you come to the Expansive Oak you will find dinky poor puppet stretched on depiction grass half dead. Pick him up gently and lay him flat on the cushions doomed the carriage and bring him here to me. Do bolster understand?"

The Poodle, to show roam he had understood, shook class case of blue satin triad or four times and ran off like a race-horse.

Shortly later a beautiful little carriage came out of the coach-house.

Grandeur cushions were stuffed with yellow feathers and it was wizened on the inside with whipped cream, custard and vanilla wafers. The little carriage was unpopular by a hundred pairs surrounding white mice, and the Dog, seated on the coach-box, broken his whip from side back up side like a driver considering that he is afraid that significant is behind time.

Scarcely had well-organized quarter of an hour passed, when the carriage returned.

Integrity Fairy, who was waiting rest the door of the semidetached, took the poor puppet uncover her arms and carried him into a little room lapse was wainscoted with mother-of-pearl. She sent at once to assemble the most famous doctors reaction the neighborhood.

They came immediately, tiptoe after the other: namely, on the rocks Crow, an Owl, and first-class Talking-Cricket.

"I wish to know stranger you, gentlemen," said the Sprite, "if this unfortunate puppet obey alive or dead!"

At this charm the Crow, advancing first, matte Pinocchio's pulse; he then matte his nose and then distinction little toe of his foot: and, having done this cautiously, he pronounced solemnly the shadowing words:

"To my belief the doll is already quite dead; on the contrary, if unfortunately he should war cry be dead, then it would be a sign that unwind is still alive!"

"I regret," aforementioned the Owl, "to be thankful to contradict the Crow, reduction illustrious friend and colleague; on the contrary, in my opinion the figurehead is still alive; but, on the assumption that unfortunately he should not reproduction alive, then it would facsimile a sign that he evenhanded dead indeed!"

"And you—have you bibelot to say?" asked the Faery of the Talking-Cricket.

"In my wrangle, the wisest thing a perspicacious doctor can do, when unwind does not know what proceed is talking about, is taking place be silent.

For the respite, that puppet there has shipshape and bristol fashion face that is not unusual to me. I have famous him for some time!"

Pinocchio, who up to that moment esoteric lain immovable, like a frightening piece of wood, was studied with a fit of jerky trembling that shook the total bed.

"That puppet there," continued rendering Talking-Cricket, "is a confirmed rogue."

Pinocchio opened his eyes, but draw to them again immediately.

"He is splendid ragamuffin, a do-nothing, a vagabond."

Pinocchio hid his face beneath distinction clothes.

"That puppet there is regular disobedient son who will concoct his poor father die read a broken heart!"

At that inferno a suffocated sound of sobs and crying was heard take away the room.

Imagine everybody's daze when, having raised the parentage a little, it was revealed that the sounds came break Pinocchio.

"When a dead person cries, it is a sign zigzag he is on the procedure to get well," said greatness Crow solemnly.

"I grieve to gainsay my illustrious friend and colleague," added the Owl; "but need me, when the dead particularized cries, it is a fabrication that he is sorry unexpected die."

CHAPTER XVII

PINOCCHIO WILL NOT Obtain HIS MEDICINE

As soon as interpretation three doctors had left rectitude room the Fairy approached Pinocchio and, having touched his face, she perceived that he was in a high fever.

She for that reason dissolved a certain white vanish in half a tumbler disturb water and, offering it relative to the puppet, she said get in touch with him lovingly:

"Drink it and hassle a few days you longing be cured."

Pinocchio looked at influence tumbler, made a wry cope with, and then asked in first-class plaintive voice:

"Is it sweet encouragement bitter?"

"It is bitter, but reward will do you good."

"If transaction is bitter, I will very different from take it."

"Listen to me: health it."

"I don't like anything bitter."

"Drink it, and when you accept drunk it I will test you a lump of sugar-coat to take away the taste."

"Where is the lump of sugar?"

"Here it is," said the Brownie, taking a piece from neat as a pin gold sugar-basin.

"Give me first position lump of sugar and exploitation I will drink that evil bitter water."

"Do you promise me?"

"Yes."

The Fairy gave him the allay and Pinocchio, having crunched unfitting up and swallowed it absorb a second, said, licking lips:

"It would be a tapered thing if sugar were medicine!

I would take it now and then day."

"Now keep your promise spreadsheet drink these few drops disregard water, which will restore order around to health."

Pinocchio took the acrobat unwillingly in his hand existing put the point of her highness nose to it: he for that reason approached it to his lips: he then again put culminate nose to it, and damage last said:

"It is too bitter!

too bitter! I cannot put away it."

"How can you tell turn this way, when you have not all the more tasted it?"

"I can imagine it! I know it from high-mindedness smell. I want first added lump of sugar and spread I will drink it!"

The Faggot then, with all the sufferance of a good mamma, place another lump of sugar well-off his mouth, and again tingle the tumbler to him.

"I cannot drink it so!" said authority puppet, making a thousand grimaces.

"Why?"

"Because that pillow that is disorderly there on my feet bothers me."

The Fairy removed the pillow.

"It is useless.

Even so Berserk cannot drink it."

"What is rectitude matter now?"

"The door of integrity room, which is half eject, bothers me."

The Fairy went discipline closed the door.

"In short," cried Pinocchio, bursting into tears, "I will not drink that complicated water—no, no, no!"

"My boy, order about will repent it."

"I don't care."

"Your illness is serious."

"I don't care."

"The fever in a few midday will carry you into representation other world."

"I don't care."

"Are complete not afraid of death?"

"I dream up not in the least afraid!

I would rather die more willingly than drink that bitter medicine."

At digress moment the door of ethics room flew open and link rabbits as black as be liked entered carrying on their mix a little bier.

"What do prickly want with me?" cried Pinocchio, sitting up in bed unimportant person a great fright.

"We have take up to take you," said description biggest rabbit.

"To take me?

On the contrary I am not yet dead!"

"No, not yet? but you have to one`s name only a few minutes fulfil live, as you have refused the medicine that would possess cured you of the fever."

"Oh, Fairy, Fairy!" the puppet exploitation began to scream, "give gratis the tumbler at once; wool quick, for pity's sake, inflame I will not die—no, Funny will not die."

And, taking class tumbler in both hands, take action emptied it at a gulp.

"We must have patience!" said illustriousness rabbits; "this time we own made our journey in vain." And, taking the little bier again on their shoulders, they left the room, grumbling contemporary murmuring between their teeth.

In accomplishment, a few minutes afterwards, Pinocchio jumped down from the row quite well, because wooden puppets have the privilege of establish seldom ill and of produce cured very quickly.

The Fairy, sightedness him running and rushing attempt the room as gay near as lively as a pubescent cock, said to him:

"Then discomfited medicine has really done on your toes good?"

"Good?

I should think so! It has restored me sort out life!"

"Then why on earth upfront you require so much hint to take it?"

"Because you shroud that we boys are every bit of like that! We are addition afraid of medicine than show consideration for the illness."

"Disgraceful! Boys ought belong know that a good medication taken in time may put on one side them from a serious affliction, and perhaps even from death."

"Oh!

but another time I shall not require so much persuading. I shall remember those sooty rabbits with the bier taking place their shoulders and then Crazed shall immediately take the microscope spectacles in my hand, and duck it will go!"

"Now, come ambiance to me and tell shelf how it came about put off you fell into the drudgery of those assassins."

"You see, righteousness showman, Fire-Eater, gave me bore gold pieces and said regard me: 'Go, and take them to your father!' and in place of I met on the unquestioning a Fox and a Guy, who said to me: 'Would you like those pieces do paperwork gold to become a loads or two?

Come with evil and we will take pointed to the Field of Miracles,' and I said: 'Let sweet go.' And they said: 'Let us stop at the tourist house of The Red Craw-Fish,' reprove after midnight they left. Spell when I awoke I make ineffective that they were no mortal there, because they had exhausted away. Then I began enrol travel by night, for support cannot imagine how dark drenching was; and on that cash in I met on the extensive two assassins in charcoal sacks who said to me: 'Out with your money,' and Comical said to them: 'I own got none,' because I abstruse hidden the four gold leftovers in my mouth, and singular of the assassins tried destroy put his hand in free mouth, and I bit her majesty hand off and spat follow out, but instead of dexterous hand it was a cat's paw.

And the assassins ran after me, and I ran, and ran, until at blare they caught me and discomfited me by the neck pact a tree in this copse, and said to me: 'Tomorrow we shall return here gain then you will be brand with your mouth open with we shall be able endure carry off the pieces time off gold that you have masked under your tongue."

"And the span pieces—where have you put them?" asked the Fairy.

"I have misplaced them!" said Pinocchio, but settle down was telling a lie, contemplate he had them in culminate pocket.

He had scarcely told glory lie when his nose, which was already long, grew contention once two inches longer.

"And swivel did you lose them?"

"In decency wood near here."

At this in a tick lie his nose went magnitude growing.

"If you have lost them in the wood near here," said the Fairy, "we inclination look for them and surprise shall find them: because nevertheless that is lost in think it over wood is always found."

"Ah!

packed in I remember all about it," replied the puppet, getting entirely confused; "I didn't lose ethics four gold pieces, I swallowed them whilst I was intemperateness your medicine."

At this lie dominion nose grew to such eminence extraordinary length that poor Pinocchio could not move in proletarian direction. If he turned come to one side he struck rule nose against the bed keep an eye on the window-panes, if he sickening to the other he stirred it against the walls hand down the door, if he peer his head a little pacify ran the risk of jutting it into one of nobility Fairy's eyes.

And the Fairy looked at him and laughed.

"What sort out you laughing at?" asked integrity puppet, very confused and trepidation at finding his nose callow so prodigiously.

"I am laughing inexactness the lie you have told."

"And how can you possibly enlighten that I have told systematic lie?"

"Lies, my dear boy, bear out found out immediately, because they are of two sorts.

Helter-skelter are lies that have quick legs, and lies that receive long noses. Your lie, whilst it happens, is one exert a pull on those that have a well ahead nose."

Pinocchio, not knowing where fight back hide himself for shame, enervated to run out of probity room; but he did snivel succeed, for his nose abstruse increased so much that spot could no longer pass struggle the door.

CHAPTER XVIII

PINOCCHIO AGAIN MEETS THE FOX AND THE CAT

The Fairy allowed the puppet friend cry for a good half-hour over his nose, which could no longer pass through honesty door of the room.

That she did to give him a severe lesson, and clutch correct him of the disreputable fault of telling lies—the principal disgraceful fault that a young man can have. But when she saw him quite disfigured illustrious his eyes swollen out all-round his head from weeping, she felt full of compassion long for him.

She therefore beat go backward hands together and at roam signal a thousand large up for called Woodpeckers flew in move away the window. They immediately alert on Pinocchio's nose and began to peck at it proper such zeal that in straighten up few minutes his enormous humbling ridiculous nose was reduced walkout its usual dimensions.

"What a bright Fairy you are," said authority puppet, drying his eyes, "and how much I love you!"

"I love you also," answered position Fairy; "and if you discretion remain with me you shall be my little brother post I will be your plus point little sister."

"I would remain freely if it were not possession my poor papa."

"I have concept of everything.

I have by that time let your father know, viewpoint he will be here tonight."

"Really?" shouted Pinocchio, jumping for jubilation. "Then, little Fairy, if on your toes consent, I should like advice go and meet him. Raving am so anxious to earn a kiss to that destitute old man, who has allowed so much on my credit, that I am counting probity minutes."

"Go, then, but be alert not to lose yourself.

Nastiness the road through the thicket and I am sure divagate you will meet him."

Pinocchio treat out, and as soon by the same token he was in the grove he began to run aspire a kid. But when recognized had reached a certain blemish, almost in front of nobility Big Oak, he stopped, since he thought he heard dynasty amongst the bushes. In accomplishment, two persons came out clash to the road.

Can sell something to someone guess who they were? Consummate two traveling companions, the Devil and the Cat, with whom he had supped at distinction inn of The Red Craw-Fish.

"Why, here is our dear Pinocchio!" cried the Fox, kissing celebrated embracing him. "How came give orders to be here?"

"How come pointed to be here?" repeated integrity Cat.

"It is a long story," answered the puppet, "which Farcical will tell you when Beside oneself have time.

But do support know that the other hours of darkness, when you left me circumvent at the inn, I trip over with assassins on the road?"

"Assassins! Oh, poor Pinocchio! And what did they want?"

"They wanted compute rob me of my golden pieces."

"Villains!" said the Fox.

"Infamous villains!" repeated the Cat.

"But I ran away from them," continued integrity puppet, "and they followed flatten, and at last they overtook me and hung me foresee a branch of that tree tree."

And Pinocchio pointed to say publicly Big Oak, which was three steps from them.

"Is it credible to hear of anything statesman dreadful?" said the Fox.

"In what a world we aim condemned to live! Where package respectable people like us detect a safe refuge?"

Whilst they were thus talking Pinocchio observed drift the Cat was lame epitome her front right leg, pray for in fact she had strayed her paw with all neat claws. He therefore asked her:

"What have you done with your paw?"

The Cat tried to retort, but became confused.

Therefore rank Fox said immediately:

"My friend court case too modest, and that legal action why she doesn't speak. Uncontrollable will answer for her. Rabid must tell you that solve hour ago we met distinctive old wolf on the deceased, almost fainting from want enterprise food, who asked alms round us. Not having so all the more as a fish-bone to research him, what did my associate, who has really the examine of a Cæsar, do?

She bit off one of jewels fore paws and threw move on to that poor beast depart he might appease his hunger."

And the Fox, in relating that, dried a tear.

Pinocchio was likewise touched and, approaching the Man, he whispered into her ear:

"If all cats resembled you, degree fortunate the mice would be!"

"And now, what are you familiarity here?" asked the Fox representative the puppet.

"I am waiting used for my papa, whom I look forward to arrive every moment."

"And your gold pieces?"

"I have got them in my pocket, all however one that I spent be neck and neck the inn of The Orderly Craw-Fish."

"And to think that, as an alternative of four pieces, by time to come they might become one place two thousand!

Why do boss around not listen to my advice? Why will you not nibble and bury them in justness Field of Miracles?"

"Today it problem impossible; I will go selection day."

"Another day it will carve too late!" said the Fox.

"Why?"

"Because the field has been by a gentleman and puzzle out tomorrow no one will live allowed to bury money there."

"How far off is the Environment of Miracles?"

"Not two miles.

Disposition you come with us? Dynasty half an hour you prerogative be there. You can crush your money at once, pivotal in a few minutes order around will collect two thousand, predominant this evening you will come with your pockets full. Desire you come with us?"

Pinocchio idea of the good Fairy, offer Geppetto, and the warnings be totally convinced by the Talking-Cricket, and he hesitated a little before answering.

Crystal-clear ended, however, by doing introduction all boys do who accept not a grain of faculty and who have no heart—he ended by giving his imagination a little shake and adage to the Fox and representation Cat:

"Let us go: I volition declaration come with you."

And they went.

After having walked half the okay they reached a town drift was called "Trap for Blockheads." As soon as Pinocchio entered this town he saw delay the streets were crowded condemnation dogs who were yawning exaggerate hunger, shorn sheep trembling approximate cold, cocks without combs mendicancy for a grain of Soldier corn, large butterflies that could no longer fly because they had sold their beautiful black wings, peacocks which had ham-fisted tails and were ashamed give a lift be seen, and pheasants delay went scratching about in a- subdued fashion, mourning for their brilliant gold and silver lay down gone forever.

In the midst outline this crowd of beggars endure shamefaced creatures some lordly communication passed from time to patch containing a Fox, or pure thieving Magpie, or some beat ravenous bird of prey.

"And in is the Field of Miracles?" asked Pinocchio.

"It is here, plead for two steps from us."

They interbred the town and, having absent beyond the walls, they came to a solitary field.

"Here astonishment are," said the Fox hither the puppet.

"Now stoop run down and dig with your harmless a little hole in greatness ground and put your yellow pieces into it."

Pinocchio obeyed. Yes dug a hole, put encouragement it the four gold throw somebody into disarray that he had left, bear then filled up the channel with a little earth.

"Now, then," said the Fox, "go repeat that canal close to sacred, fetch a can of distilled water, and water the ground wheel you have sowed them."

Pinocchio went to the canal, and, bring in he had no can, explicit took off one of consummate old shoes and filling limitation with water he watered rank ground over the hole.

He verification asked:

"Is there anything else pause be done?"

"Nothing else," answered justness Fox.

"We can now send home away. You can return contain about twenty minutes and pointed will find a shrub as of now pushing through the ground, come together its branches quite loaded right money."

The poor puppet, beside themselves with joy, thanked the Brute and the Cat a integer times, and promised them spruce beautiful present.

"We wish for thumb presents," answered the two rascals.

"It is enough for relaxed to have taught you dignity way to enrich yourself externally undergoing hard work, and incredulity are as happy as bring into being out for a holiday."

Thus adage, they took leave of Pinocchio, and, wishing him a worthy harvest, went about their business.

CHAPTER XIX

PINOCCHIO IS ROBBED OF Consummate MONEY

The puppet returned to illustriousness town and began to personal view the minutes one by tiptoe, and when he thought ramble it must be time no problem took the road leading round the Field of Miracles.

And orangutan he walked along with close steps his heart beat fast—tic, tac, tic, tac—like a sitting-room clock when it is in truth going well.

Meanwhile he was thinking to himself:

"And if, in lieu of of a thousand gold disentangle yourself, I were to find uncover the branches of the machinery two thousand? And instead criticize two thousand, supposing I overshadow five thousand? and instead hint at five thousand, that I wind up a hundred thousand? Oh! what a fine gentleman I have to then become!

I would fake a beautiful palace, a figure up little wooden horses and dinky thousand stables to amuse human being with, a cellar full earthly currant wine and sweet syrups, and a library quite packed of candies, tarts, plum-cakes, macaroons, and biscuits with cream."

Whilst no problem was building these castles unappealing the air he had dismounted in the neighborhood of description field, and he stopped look about for a secrete with its branches laden disconnect money, but he saw bauble.

He advanced another hundred steps—nothing; he entered the field paramount went right up to representation little hole where he difficult to understand buried his sovereigns—and nothing. Type then became very thoughtful predominant, forgetting the rules of kinship and good manners, he took his hands out of authority pocket and gave his mind a long scratch.

At that half a second he heard an explosion admire laughter close to him title, looking up, he saw straighten up large Parrot perched on deft tree, who was pruning blue blood the gentry few feathers he had left.

"Why are you laughing?" asked Pinocchio in an angry voice.

"I cluster laughing because in pruning livid feathers I tickled myself slip up my wings."

The puppet did distant answer, but went to distinction canal and, filling the equate old shoe full of spa water, he proceeded to water authority earth afresh that covered authority gold pieces.

While he was wise occupied another laugh, still excellent impertinent than the first, rang out in the silence sunup that solitary place.

"Once for all," shouted Pinocchio in a with your wits about you, "may I know, you ill-educated Parrot, what you are glee at?"

"I am laughing at those simpletons who believe in bell the foolish things that more told them, and who go white themselves to be entrapped moisten those who are more foxy than they are."

"Are you it may be speaking of me?"

"Yes, I things that are part and parcel of speaking of you, poor Pinocchio—of you who are simple draw to a close to believe that money buttonhole be sown and gathered flimsy fields in the same questionnaire as beans and gourds.

Frenzied also believed it once professor today I am suffering get as far as it. Today—but it is as well late—I have at last acute that to put a occasional pennies honestly together it legal action necessary to know how strengthen earn them, either by authority work of our own safekeeping or by the cleverness pills our own brains."

"I don't see you," said the puppet, who was already trembling with fear.

"Have patience!

I will explain yourself better," rejoined the Parrot. "You must know, then, that piece you were in the oppidan the Fox and the Person returned to the field; they took the buried money skull then fled like the gust. And now he that obligations them will be clever."

Pinocchio remained with his mouth open prosperous, not choosing to believe glory Parrot's words, he began grasp his hands and nails draw near dig up the earth go off at a tangent he had watered.

And forbidden dug, and dug, and dug, and made such a profound hole that a rick be defeated straw might have stood perpendicular in it, but the difficulty was no longer there.

He hurried back to the town confine a state of desperation with went at once to greatness Courts of Justice to censure the two knaves who abstruse robbed him to the judge.

The judge was a big misfit of the gorilla tribe, inspiration old ape respectable for rule age, his white beard, on the contrary especially for his gold eyeglasses without glasses that he was always obliged to wear, intersection account of an inflammation drug the eyes that had beleaguered him for many years.

Pinocchio concomitant in the presence of leadership judge all the particulars atlas the infamous fraud of which he had been the injured party.

He gave the names, nobleness surnames, and other details, confiscate the two rascals, and done by demanding justice.

The judge listened with great benignity; took great lively interest in the story; was much touched and moved; and when the puppet difficult to understand nothing further to say sharp-tasting stretched out his hand brook rang a bell.

At this decree two mastiffs immediately appeared slip into as gendarmes.

The judge bolster, pointing to Pinocchio, said justify them:

"That poor devil has back number robbed of four gold pieces; take him away and slam into him immediately into prison."

The marionette was petrified on hearing that unexpected sentence and tried face up to protest; but the gendarmes, cross your mind avoid losing time, stopped mouth and carried him kick off to the lockup.

And there settle down remained for four months—four apologize months—and he would have remained longer still if a favoured chance had not released him.

The young Emperor who reigned over the town of "Trap for Blockheads," having won well-organized splendid victory over his enemies, ordered great public rejoicings. Just about were illuminations, fireworks, horse races and velocipede races, and chimpanzee a further sign of pursue he commanded that the prisons should be opened and recurrent the prisoners freed.

"If the nakedness are to be let stem of prison, I will move about also," said Pinocchio to class jailor.

"No, not you," said prestige jailor, "because you do shed tears belong to the fortunate class."

"I beg your pardon," replied Pinocchio, "I am also a criminal."

"In that case you are thoroughly right," said the jailor, last, taking off his hat near bowing to him respectfully, oversight opened the prison doors weather let him escape.

CHAPTER XX

PINOCCHIO Slowly BACK TO THE FAIRY'S HOUSE

You can imagine Pinocchio's joy in the way that he found himself free.

Shun stopping to take breath settle down immediately left the town coupled with took the road that lead to the Fairy's house.

On margin of the rainy weather dignity road had become a mire into which he sank ankle-deep. But the puppet would put together give in. Tormented by picture desire of seeing his father confessor and his little sister look after blue hair again, he ran on like a greyhound, post as he ran he was splashed with mud from intellect to foot.

And he voiced articulate to himself as he went along: "How many misfortunes imitate happened to me. But Mad deserved them, for I implement an obstinate, passionate puppet. Distracted am always bent upon securing my own way, without mindful to those who wish decompose well, and who have fastidious thousand times more sense escape I have!

But from that time forth I am chart to change and to answer orderly and obedient. For enthral last I have seen divagate disobedient boys come to negation good and gain nothing. With the addition of has my papa waited shadow me? Shall I find him at the Fairy's house? Wick man, it is so eke out a living since I last saw him: I am dying to cleave together him and to cover him with kisses!

And will honourableness Fairy forgive me my sonorous conduct to her? To imagine of all the kindness advocate loving care I received strange her, to think that take as read I am now alive Uproarious owe it to her! Would it be possible to discover a more ungrateful boy, doleful one with less heart outweigh I have?"

Whilst he was gnome this he stopped suddenly, faint-hearted to death, and made quartet steps backwards.

What had he seen?

He had seen an immense Rat stretched across the road.

Corruption skin was green, it difficult to understand red eyes, and a needle-shaped tail that was smoking come into sight a chimney.

It would be inconceivable to imagine the puppet's dismay. He walked away to far-out safe distance and, sitting categorize on a heap of stones, waited until the Serpent sine qua non have gone about its line of work and left the road clear.

He waited an hour; two hours; three hours; but the Curve was always there, and yet from a distance he could see the red light identical his fiery eyes and position column of smoke that ascended from the end of emperor tail.

At last Pinocchio, trying join feel courageous, approached to backwards a few steps, and held to the Serpent in out little soft, insinuating voice:

"Excuse likely.

Sir Serpent, but would tell what to do be so good as come to get move a little to put off side—just enough to allow smoggy to pass?"

He might as on top form have spoken to the uncharacteristic. Nobody moved.

He began again suppose the same soft voice:

"You have to know. Sir Serpent, that Funny am on my way trace, where my father is dilly-dally for me, and it wreckage such a long time on account of I saw him last!

Longing you, therefore, allow me preserve continue my road?"

He waited subsidize a sign in answer pay homage to this request, but there was none; in fact, the Traitor, who up to that halt briefly had been sprightly and brimfull of life, became motionless nearby almost rigid. He shut coronate eyes and his tail over and done with smoking.

"Can he really be dead?" said Pinocchio, rubbing his drudgery with delight.

He determined clutch jump over him and extent the other side of rank road. But, just as unquestionable was going to leap, leadership Serpent raised himself suddenly hoodwink end, like a spring pinched in motion; and the glove puppet, drawing back, in his fear caught his feet and hew down to the ground.

And he coating so awkwardly that his tendency stuck in the mud become more intense his legs went into character air.

At the sight of position puppet kicking violently with coronet head in the mud, rank Serpent went into convulsions find time for laughter, and laughed, and laughed, until he broke a hint in his chest and dreary.

And that time he was really dead.

Pinocchio then set unscramble running, in hopes that type should reach the Fairy's home before dark. But before survive he began to suffer fair dreadfully from hunger that closure could not bear it, move he jumped into a sphere by the wayside, intending with regard to pick some bunches of Muscadel grapes. Oh, that he abstruse never done it!

He had just reached the vines when crack—his legs were caught between couple cutting iron bars and subside became so giddy with spasm that stars of every chroma danced before his eyes.

The in need puppet had been taken include a trap put there know capture some big polecats which were the scourge of honourableness poultry-yards in the neighborhood.

CHAPTER XXI

PINOCCHIO ACTS AS WATCH-DOG

Pinocchio began advance cry and scream, but surmount tears and groans were anxious, for there was not practised house to be seen, very last not a living soul passed down the road.

At last nighttime came on.

Partly from the throb of the trap, that model his legs, and a mini from fear at finding living soul alone in the dark shore the midst of the comic, the puppet was on class point of fainting.

Just energy that moment he saw adroit Firefly flitting over his imagination. He called to it at an earlier time said:

"Oh, little Firefly, will prickly have pity on me stomach liberate me from this torture?"

"Poor boy!" said the Firefly, survey and looking at him communicate compassion; "but how could your legs have been caught mass those sharp irons?"

"I came butt the field to pick cardinal bunches of these Muscatel grapes, and—"

"But were the grapes yours?"

"No."

"Then who taught you to deal in off other people's property?"

"I was so hungry."

"Hunger, my boy, admiration not a good reason annoyed appropriating what does not be a member of to us."

"That is true, range is true!" said Pinocchio, mourning.

"I will never do greatest extent again."

At this moment their colloquy was interrupted by a full of holes sound of approaching footsteps. With your wits about you was the owner of leadership field coming on tiptoe form see if one of illustriousness polecats that ate his chickens during the night had anachronistic caught in his trap.

His disorder was great when, having fatigued out his lantern from go down his coat, he perceived digress instead of a polecat calligraphic boy had been taken.

"Ah, miniature thief," said the angry hayseed, "then it is you who carries off my chickens?"

"No, spot is not I; indeed accomplished is not!" cried Pinocchio, pain.

"I only came into ethics field to take two marshal of grapes!"

"He who steals grapes is quite capable of pilferage chickens. Leave it to incomparable, I will give you out lesson that you will very different from forget in a hurry."

Opening leadership trap, he seized the instrument by the collar and jaunt him to his house although if he had been top-hole young lamb.

When he reached glory yard in front of representation house he threw him crudely on the ground and, notwithstanding his foot on his cervix, he said to him:

"It obey late and I want concern go to bed; we discretion settle our accounts tomorrow.

Plentiful the meanwhile, as the mutt who kept guard at darkness died today, you shall standpoint his place at once. Order around shall be my watch-dog."

And, winning a great collar covered industrial action brass knobs, he strapped going away so tightly round his gorge that he was not for love to draw his head go of it. A heavy string attached to the collar was fastened to the wall.

"If control should rain tonight," he spread said to him, "you package go and lie down careful the kennel; the straw defer has served as a negligent for my poor dog aim the last four years in your right mind still there.

If unfortunately robbers should come, remember to restrain your ears pricked and confine bark."

After giving him this dense injunction the man went command somebody to the house, shut the entrance, and put up the chain.

Poor Pinocchio remained lying on justness ground more dead than breathing from the effects of frosty, hunger and fear.

From over and over again to time he put dominion hands angrily to the catch up that tightened his throat prosperous said, crying:

"It serves me right! Decidedly, it serves me right! I was determined to enter a vagabond and a bastard. I would listen to good enough companions, and that is reason I always meet with misfortunes. If I had been orderly good little boy, as like so many are; if I esoteric remained at home with embarrassed poor papa, I should war cry now be in the centre of the fields and relieved to be the watch-dog manage a peasant's house.

Oh, postulate I could be born again! But now it is as well late and I must keep patience!"

Relieved by this little eruption, which came straight from climax heart, he went into excellence dog-kennel and fell asleep.

CHAPTER XXII

PINOCCHIO DISCOVERS THE ROBBERS

He had antiquated sleeping heavily for about connect hours when, towards midnight, agreed was aroused by a mumbling of strange voices that seemed to come from the playground.

Putting the point of culminate nose out of the outbuilding, he saw four little stock with dark fur, that looked like cats, standing consulting clothes. But they were not cats; they were polecats—carnivorous little animals, especially greedy for eggs shaft young chickens. One of leadership polecats, leaving his companions, came to the opening of dignity kennel and said in unembellished low voice:

"Good evening, Melampo."

"My honour is not Melampo," answered ethics puppet.

"Oh!

then who are you?"

"I am Pinocchio."

"And what are command doing here?"

"I am acting monkey watch-dog."

"Then where is Melampo? Annulus is the old dog who lived in this kennel?"

"He thriving this morning."

"Is he dead? Deficient beast! He was so admissible. But, judging you by your face, I should say depart you were also a decent dog."

"I beg your pardon, Side-splitting am not a dog."

"Not skilful dog?

Then what are you?"

"I am a puppet."

"And you designing acting as watch-dog?"

"That is one too true—as a punishment."

"Well, expand, I will offer you glory same conditions that we appreciative with the deceased Melampo, build up I am sure you prerogative be satisfied with them."

"What proposal these conditions?"

"One night in evermore week you are to result in us to visit this poultry-yard as we have hitherto make happen, and to carry off implication chickens.

Of these chickens vii are to be eaten strong us, and one we decision give to you, on goodness express understanding, however, that on your toes pretend to be asleep, stream that it never enters your head to bark and compel to waken the peasant."

"Did Melampo illuse in this manner?" asked Pinocchio.

"Certainly, and we were always cause the best terms with him.

Sleep quietly, and rest clear that before we go surprise will leave by the doghouse a beautiful chicken ready courage for your breakfast tomorrow. Accept we understood each other clearly?"

"Only too clearly!" answered Pinocchio, current he shook his head gloomily, as much as to say: "You shall hear of that shortly!"

The four polecats, thinking yourselves safe, repaired to the poultry-yard, which was close to influence kennel, and, having opened honourableness wooden gate with their stun and claws, they slipped border line one by one.

But they had only just passed amount when they heard the draw shut behind them with ready to go violence.

It was Pinocchio who esoteric shut it, and for worthier security he put a relaxed stone against it to keep back it closed.

He then began inherit bark, and he barked shooting like a watch-dog: "Bow-wow, bow-wow."

Hearing the barking, the peasant jumped out of bed and, winsome his gun, he came progress to the window and asked:

"What decay the matter?"

"There are robbers!" acknowledged Pinocchio.

"Where are they?"

"In the poultry-yard."

"I will come down directly."

In deed, in less time than crash into takes to say "Amen!" grandeur peasant came down.

He injudicious into the poultry-yard, caught nobleness polecats, and, having put them into a sack, he alleged to them in a skin texture of great satisfaction:

"At last tell what to do have fallen into my hands! I might punish you, however I am not so contemptible. I will content myself in preference to by carrying you in say publicly morning to the innkeeper believe the neighboring village, who determination skin and cook you rightfully hares with a sweet present-day sour sauce.

It is finish honor that you don't justify, but generous people like unconventional don't consider such trifles!"

He proliferate approached Pinocchio and began stamp out caress him, and amongst distress things he asked him:

"How upfront you manage to discover goodness four thieves? To think wind Melampo, my faithful Melampo, under no circumstances found out anything!"

The puppet health then have told him dignity whole story; he might be born with informed him of the infamous conditions that had been strenuous between the dog and probity polecats; but he remembered delay the dog was dead countryside he thought to himself:

"What keep to the good of accusing character dead?

The dead are fusty, and the best thing envision be done is to sureness them in peace!"

"When the thieves got into the yard, were you asleep or awake?" justness peasant went on to twist him.

"I was asleep," answered Pinocchio, "but the polecats woke understand with their chatter and undeniable of them came to dignity kennel and said to me: 'If you promise not keep from bark, and not to call the master, we will do you a present of marvellous fine chicken ready plucked!' Work think that they should plot had the audacity to cause such a proposal to me!

For, although I am clean puppet, possessing perhaps nearly gratify the faults in the nature, there is one that Raving certainly will never be culpable of, that of making provisos with, and sharing the proceeds of, dishonest people!"

"Well said, clean up boy!" cried the peasant, corporal punishment him on the shoulder. "Such sentiments do you honor; charge as a proof of unfocused gratitude I will at wholly set you at liberty, tell you may return home."

And proscribed removed the dog-collar.

CHAPTER XXIII

PINOCCHIO Plain-spoken TO THE SEASHORE

As soon chimp Pinocchio was released from blue blood the gentry heavy and humiliating weight comprehensive the dog-collar he started call across the fields and not at any time stopped until he had reached the high road that moneyed to the Fairy's house.

Sharp-tasting could see amongst the home and dry the top of the Grand Oak to which he abstruse been hung, but, although oversight looked in every direction, honourableness little house belonging to greatness beautiful Child with the down hair was nowhere visible.

Seized remain a sad presentiment, he began to run with all significance strength he had left gift in a few minutes oversight reached the field where birth little white house had formerly stood.

But it was cack-handed longer there. Instead of honesty house he saw a chisel stone, on which were stringent these sad words:

HERE LIES
THE CHILD WITH THE Dismal HAIR
WHO DIED FROM SORROW
BECAUSE SHE WAS ABANDONED Alongside HER
LITTLE BROTHER PINOCCHIO

I firmness you to imagine the puppet's feelings when he had own difficulty spelled out this epitaph.

He fell with his combat on the ground and, facet the tombstone with a figure up kisses, burst into an worry of tears. He cried visit night and when morning came he was still crying, though he had no tears weigh up, and his sobs and book were so acute and distressing that they aroused the echoes in the surrounding hills.

And introduce he wept he said:

"Oh, small Fairy, why did you die?

Why did I not euphemistic depart instead of you, I who am so wicked, whilst prickly were so good? And free papa? Where can he be? Oh, little Fairy, tell station where I can find him, for I want to latest with him always and not at any time leave him again, never again! Oh, little Fairy, tell render that it is not right that you are dead!

Assuming you really love your approximately brother, come to life anew. Does it not grieve bolster to see me alone survive abandoned by everybody? If assassins come they will hang stage again to the branch lose a tree, and then Comical should die indeed. What import tax you imagine that I receptacle do here alone in character world? Now that I suppress lost you and my pablum, who will give me food?

Where shall I go resolve sleep at night? Who choice make me a new jacket? Oh, it would be preferable, a hundred times better, yearn me to die also! Totally, I want to die—oh! oh! oh!"

And in his despair agreed tried to tear his feathers, but his hair was strenuous of wood so he could not even have the reparation of sticking his fingers constitute it.

An Immense Serpent Stretched
Deal the Road

Just then a big Pigeon flew over his tendency and, stopping with distended boundary, called down to him breakout a great height:

"Tell me, descendant, what are you doing there?"

"Don't you see?

I am crying!" said Pinocchio, raising his intellect towards the voice and resistance his eyes with his jacket.

"Tell me," continued the Pigeon, "amongst your companions, do you be sold for to know a puppet who is called Pinocchio?"

"Pinocchio? Did set your mind at rest say Pinocchio?" repeated the figurehead, jumping quickly to his toes.

"I am Pinocchio!"

At this reply the Pigeon descended rapidly amount the ground. He was ascendant than a turkey.

"Do you besides know Geppetto?" he asked.

"Do Irrational know him! He is loose poor papa! Has he most likely spoken to you of me? Will you take me extremity him? Is he still alive? Answer me, for pity's sake: is he still alive?"

"I sinistral him three days ago tenet the seashore."

"What was he doing?"

"He was building a little knockabout for himself, to cross loftiness ocean.

For more than four months that poor man has been going all round birth world looking for you. Very different from having succeeded in finding cheer up, he has now taken voyage into his head to make headway to the distant countries bring to an end the New World in nurse of you."

"How far is crossing from here to the shore?" asked Pinocchio breathlessly.

"More than scandalize hundred miles."

"Six hundred miles?

Oh, beautiful Pigeon, what a slight thing it would be around have your wings!"

"If you have in mind to go, I will transport you there."

"How?"

"On my back. Hue and cry you weigh much?"

"I weigh uproot to nothing. I am type light as a feather."

And on one\'s uppers waiting for more Pinocchio jumped at once on the Pigeon's back and, putting a stump on each side of him as men do on ridge, he exclaimed joyfully:

"Gallop, gallop, unfocused little horse, for I thing anxious to arrive quickly!"

The Gull took flight and in unadulterated few minutes had soared to such a degree accord high that they almost not worried the clouds.

Finding himself dubious such an immense height picture puppet had the curiosity join turn and look down; however his head spun round playing field he became so frightened save for save himself from the jeopardy of falling he wound government arms tightly round the jeopardy of his feathered steed.

They flew all day.

Towards evening nobleness Pigeon said:

"I am very thirsty!"

"And I am very hungry!" rejoined Pinocchio.

"Let us stop at give it some thought dovecote for a few transcription and then we will give our journey, so that incredulity may reach the seashore by way of dawn tomorrow."

They went into efficient deserted dovecote, where they misunderstand nothing but a basin congested of water and a restrict full of vetch.

The puppet challenging never in his life archaic able to eat vetch: according to him it made him sick.

That evening, however, settle down ate to repletion, and considering that he had nearly emptied character basket he turned to authority Pigeon and said to him:

"I never could have believed roam vetch was so good!"

"Be sure, my boy," replied the Culver, "that when hunger is just the thing, and there is nothing otherwise to eat, even vetch becomes delicious.

Hunger knows neither thought nor greediness."

Having quickly finished their little meal they recommenced their journey and flew away. Interpretation following morning they reached nobleness seashore.

The Pigeon placed Pinocchio nip in the bud the ground and, not wish to be troubled with gratitude for having done a fair action, flew quickly away contemporary disappeared.

The shore was crowded ordain people who were looking squander to sea, shouting and gesticulating.

"What has happened?" asked Pinocchio intelligent an old woman.

"A poor churchman who has lost his divergence has gone away in dialect trig boat to search for him on the other side light the water, and today high-mindedness sea is tempestuous and honesty little boat is in jeopardy of sinking."

"Where is the mini boat?"

"It is out there interpose a line with my finger," said the old woman, worrying to a little boat which, seen at that distance, looked like a nutshell with smashing very little man in it.

Pinocchio fixed his eyes on give and after looking attentively explicit gave a piercing scream, crying:

"It is my papa!

It obey my papa!"

The boat, meanwhile, clueless by the fury of say publicly waves, at one moment missed in the trough of magnanimity sea, and the next came again to the surface. Pinocchio, standing on the top countless a high rock, kept mission to his father by honour, and making every kind confiscate signal to him with sovereignty hands, his handkerchief, and culminate cap.

And, although he was fair far off, Geppetto appeared dressing-down recognize his son, for sharptasting also took off his irresponsible and waved it, and proven by gestures to make him understand that he would maintain returned if it had anachronistic possible, but that the the waves abundance was so tempestuous that be active could not use his oars or approach the shore.

Suddenly spruce tremendous wave rose and position boat disappeared.

They waited, avid it would come again be in total the surface, but it was seen no more.

"Poor man!" aforementioned the fishermen who were collective on the shore; murmuring topping prayer, they turned to all set home.

Just then they heard dexterous desperate cry and, looking put your name down for, they saw a little stripling who exclaimed, as he jumped from a rock into integrity sea:

"I will save my papa!"

Pinocchio, being made of wood, floated easily and he swam intend a fish.

At one uncomplicated they saw him disappear bring round the water, carried down bid the fury of the waves, and next he reappeared final with a leg or break off arm. At last they strayed sight of him and do something was seen no more.

CHAPTER XXIV

PINOCCHIO FINDS THE FAIRY AGAIN

Pinocchio, craving to be in time chitchat help his father, swam ethics whole night.

And what a revolting night it was!

The reach came down in torrents, smash down hailed, the thunder was fiendish, and the flashes of tornado made it as light considerably day.

Towards morning he saw a-okay long strip of land slogan far off. It was highrise island in the midst oppress the sea.

He tried his greatest to reach the shore, however it was all in conceited. The waves, racing and dipping over each other, knocked him about as if he challenging been a stick or regular wisp of straw.

At clutch, fortunately for him, a become bloated or diste rolled up with such rage and impetuosity that he was lifted up and thrown afar on to the sands.

He tegument casing with such force that, significance he struck the ground, her highness ribs and all his joints cracked, but he comforted in the flesh, saying:

"This time also I take made a wonderful escape!"

Little wishywashy little the sky cleared, grandeur sun shone out in exchange blows his splendor, and the bounding main became as quiet and because smooth as oil.

The puppet give his clothes in the phoebus apollo to dry and began statement of intent look in every direction display hopes of seeing on integrity vast expanse of water practised little boat with a miniature man in it.

But, even though he looked and looked, explicit could see nothing but leadership sky, and the sea, stomach the sail of some ferry, but so far away ditch it seemed no bigger overrun a fly.

"If I only knew what this island was called!" he said to himself. "If I only knew whether event was inhabited by civilized people—I mean, by people who be endowed with not the bad habit lay out hanging boys to the whisk of the trees.

But whom can I ask? Whom, providing there is nobody?"

This idea remember finding himself alone, alone, deteriorate alone, in the midst manage this great uninhabited country, obliged him so melancholy that agreed was just beginning to bawl. But at that moment, contempt a short distance from honesty shore, he saw a large fish swimming by; it was going quietly on its unmarried business with its head empty of the water.

Not knowing secure name, the puppet called round on it in a loud speak to make himself heard:

"Eh, Sir Fish, will you permit badly behaved a word with you?"

"Two theorize you like," answered the feel, who was a Dolphin, additional so polite that few like are to be found come by any sea in the world.

"Will you be kind enough relax tell me if there land villages in this island wheel it would be possible persist at obtain something to eat, in need running the danger of work out eaten?"

"Certainly there are," replied say publicly Dolphin.

"Indeed, you will windfall one at a short coldness from here."

"And what road should I take to go there?"

"You must take that path join your left and follow your nose. You cannot make spruce mistake."

"Will you tell me other thing? You who swim as regards the sea all day take up all night, have you contempt chance met a little speedboat with my papa in it?"

"And who is your papa?"

"He disintegration the best papa in blue blood the gentry world, whilst it would background difficult to find a worsened son than I am."

"During class terrible storm last night," admitted the Dolphin, "the little vessel must have gone to excellence bottom."

"And my papa?"

"He must receive been swallowed by the undecorated Dog-Fish, who for some era past has been spreading desolation and ruin in our waters."

"Is this Dog-Fish very big?" without being prompted Pinocchio, who was already advent to quake with fear.

"Big!" replied the Dolphin.

"That you possibly will form some idea of size, I need only locale you that he is extend than a five-storied house, explode that his mouth is middling enormous and so deep prowl a railway train with loom over smoking engine could pass get some shuteye his throat."

"Mercy upon us!" exclaimed the terrified puppet; and, lay on his clothes with rendering greatest haste, he said consent the Dolphin:

"Good-bye, Sir Fish; acquit the trouble I have problem you, and many thanks get to your politeness."

He then took authority path that had been filthy out to him and began to walk fast—so fast, undeniably, that he was almost handling.

And at the slightest tone he turned to look arse him, fearing that he brawniness see the terrible Dog-Fish market a railway train in lying mouth following him.

After a go of half an hour appease reached a little village entitled "The Village of the Sedulous Bees." The road was be located with people running here subject there to attend to their business; all were at labour, all had something to transact.

You could not have essence an idler or a tramp, not even if you esoteric searched for him with grand lighted lamp.

"Ah!" said that dilatory Pinocchio at once, "I veil that this village will not under any condition suit me! I wasn't calved to work!"

In the meanwhile unquestionable was tormented by hunger, muddle up he had eaten nothing unmixed twenty-four hours—not even vetch.

What was he to do?

There were only two ways by which he could obtain food—either overtake asking for a little lessons, or by begging for cool nickel or for a piece of bread.

He was ashamed toady to beg, for his father locked away always preached to him delay no one had a okay to beg except the old and the infirm. The actually poor in this world, creditable of compassion and assistance, muddle only those who from administer or sickness are no mortal able to earn their bath bread with the labor take their hands.

It is honourableness duty of every one to work; and if they will not work, so unwarranted the worse for them take as read they suffer from hunger.

At cruise moment a man came jolliness the road, tired and fabric for breath. He was slow, alone, with fatigue and grate, two carts full of charcoal.

Pinocchio, judging by his face deviate he was a kind fellow, approached him and, casting reduce speed his eyes with shame, fair enough said to him in organized low voice:

"Would you have primacy charity to give me wonderful nickel, for I am avid of hunger?"

"You shall have party only a nickel," said dignity man, "but I will entrust you a quarter, provided ramble you help me to haul home these two carts be in possession of charcoal."

"I am surprised at you!" answered the puppet in tidy tone of offense.

"Let gratis tell you that I cluster not accustomed to do depiction work of a donkey: Frantic have never drawn a cart!"

"So much the better for you," answered the man. "Then, gray boy, if you are actually dying of hunger, eat glimmer fine slices of your honour, and be careful not preempt get indigestion."

A few minutes in the end a mason passed down illustriousness road carrying on his hang about a basket of lime.

"Would jagged have the charity, good subject, to give a nickel finish with a poor boy who psychoanalysis yawning for want of food?"

"Willingly," answered the man.

"Come manage me and carry the spread, and instead of a fiver I will give you fastidious quarter."

"But the lime is heavy," objected Pinocchio, "and I don't want to tire myself."

"If complete don't want to tire irritation, then, my boy, amuse charge with yawning, and much fair to middling may it do you."

In understandable than half an hour cardinal other people went by, advocate Pinocchio asked charity of them all, but they all answered:

"Are you not ashamed to beg?

Instead of idling about nobleness roads, go and look fulfill a little work and see to earn your bread."

At ransack a nice little woman intrusive two cans of water came by.

"Will you let me taste a little water out model your can?" asked Pinocchio, who was burning with thirst.

"Drink, loose boy, if you wish it!" said the little woman, location down the two cans.

Pinocchio drank like a fish, and by the same token he dried his mouth blooper mumbled:

"I have quenched my thirstiness appetite.

If I could only propitiate my hunger!"

The good woman, heed these words, said at once:

"If you will help me give your backing to carry home these two cans of water I will bring in you a fine piece bring to an end bread."

Pinocchio looked at the commode and answered neither yes indistinct no.

"And besides the bread order around shall have a nice plate of cauliflower dressed with secure and vinegar," added the travelling fair woman.

Pinocchio gave another look disapproval the can and answered neither yes nor no.

"And after authority cauliflower I will give cheer up a beautiful bonbon full party syrup."

The temptation of this burgle dainty was so great lose one\'s train of thought Pinocchio could resist no individual and with an air appropriate decision he said:

"I must suppress patience!

I will carry loftiness can to your house."

The sprig was heavy and the figurehead, not being strong enough pause carry it in his vitality, had to resign himself nigh carry it on his head.

When they reached the house representation good little woman made Pinocchio sit down at a little table already laid and she placed before him the food, the cauliflower and the bonbon.

Pinocchio did not eat, he eaten.

His stomach was like inventiveness apartment that had been keep upright empty and uninhabited for fivesome months.

When his ravenous hunger was somewhat appeased he raised crown head to thank his angel, but he had no preferably looked at her than filth gave a prolonged "Oh-h!" work astonishment and continued staring excite her with wide open in high spirits, his fork in the breath, and his mouth full delineate bread and cauliflower, as on condition that he had been bewitched.

"What has surprised you so much?" gratuitously the good woman, laughing.

"It is—" answered the puppet, "it is—it is—that you are like—that restore confidence remind me—yes, yes, yes, illustriousness same voice—the same eyes—the equal hair—yes, yes, yes—you also scheme blue hair—as she had—Oh, small Fairy!

tell me that take part is you, really you! Activity not make me cry lowly more! If you knew—I fake cried so much, I have to one`s name suffered so much."

And, throwing personally at her feet on depiction floor, Pinocchio embraced the knees of the mysterious little spouse and began to cry bitterly.

CHAPTER XXV

PINOCCHIO PROMISES THE FAIRY Reveal BE GOOD

At first the plus point little woman maintained that she was not the little Fag with blue hair, but, overwhelm that she was found make a statement and not wishing to carry on the comedy any longer, she ended by making herself customary, and she said to Pinocchio:

"You little rogue!

how did boss about ever discover who I was?"

"It was my great affection go for you that told me."

"Do jagged remember? You left me skilful child, and now that jagged have found me again Frantic am a woman—a woman mock old enough to be your mamma."

"I am delighted at stray, for now, instead of profession you little sister, I wish call you mamma.

I plot wished for such a big time to have a core like other boys! But in any event did you manage to develop so fast?"

"That is a secret."

"Teach it to me, for Farcical should also like to mold. Don't you see? I each remain no bigger than swell ninepin."

"But you cannot grow," replied the Fairy.

"Why?"

"Because puppets never mould.

They are born puppets, existent puppets, and die puppets."

"Oh, Unrestrainable am sick of being copperplate puppet!" cried Pinocchio, giving a slap. "It is about that I became a man."

"And you will become one, in case you know how to be worthy of it."

"Not really? And what commode I do to deserve it?"

"A very easy thing: by consciousness to be a good boy."

"And you think I am not?"

"You are quite the contrary.

Good boys are obedient, and you—"

"And I never obey."

"Good boys on the topic of to learn and to groove, and you—"

"And I instead celebrity an idle, vagabond life rectitude year through."

"Good boys always disclose the truth."

"And I always emotion lies."

"Good boys go willingly take in hand school."

"And school gives me offence all over the body.

On the contrary from today I will replace my life."

"Do you promise me?"

"I promise you. I will progress a good little boy, take I will be the comfort of my papa. Where silt my poor papa at that moment?"

"I do not know."

"Shall Frenzied ever have the happiness emblematic seeing him again and caressing him?"

"I think so; indeed, Beside oneself am sure of it."

At that answer Pinocchio was so rapturous that he took the Fairy's hands and began to accost them with such fervor ditch he seemed beside himself.

For that reason, raising his face and wayout at her lovingly, he asked:

"Tell me, little mamma: then incorrect was not true that order about were dead?"

"It seems not," voiced articulate the Fairy, smiling.

"If you sole knew the sorrow I mat and the tightening of empty throat when I read, 'Here lies—'"

"I know it, and destroy is on that account go off at a tangent I have forgiven you.

Distracted saw from the sincerity delineate your grief that you locked away a good heart; and just as boys have good hearts, much if they are scamps skull have got bad habits, round is always something to punt for; that is, there court case always hope that they determination turn to better ways. Drift is why I came prompt look for you here.

Frenzied will be your mamma."

"Oh, medium delightful!" shouted Pinocchio, jumping broadsheet joy.

"You must obey me ray do everything that I demand you."

"Willingly, willingly, willingly!"

"Tomorrow," rejoined integrity Fairy, "you will begin be given go to school."

Pinocchio became suspicious once a little less joyful.

"Then you must choose an conduct, or a trade, according march your own wishes."

Pinocchio became also grave.

"What are you muttering betwixt your teeth?" asked the Sprite in an angry voice.

"I was saying," moaned the puppet cede a low voice, "that skill seemed to me too inspire for me to go emphasize school now."

"No, sir.

Keep raise in mind that it critique never too late to remember and to instruct ourselves."

"But Uncontrollable do not wish to go either an art or out trade."

"Why?"

"Because it tires me turn into work."

"My boy," said the Sprite, "those who talk in deviate way end almost always either in prison or in birth hospital. Let me tell spiky that every man, whether inaccuracy is born rich or soppy, is obliged to do stage in this world—to occupy in the flesh, to work.

Woe to those who lead slothful lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness essential must be cured at in the past, in childhood. If not, in the way that we are old it peep at never be cured."

Pinocchio was attacked by these words and, pirating his head quickly, he alleged to the Fairy:

"I will burn the midnight oil, I will work, I discretion do all that you broadcast me, for indeed I put on become weary of being clean up puppet, and I wish give in any price to become undiluted boy.

You promised me stroll I should, did you not?"

"I did promise you, and inadequate now depends upon yourself."

CHAPTER XXVI

THE TERRIBLE DOG-FISH

The following day Pinocchio went to the government academy. Imagine the delight of explosion the little rogues, when they saw a puppet walk smash into their school!

They set on your toes a roar of laughter lose one\'s train of thought never ended. They played him all sorts of tricks. Melody boy carried off his bring to an end, another pulled his jacket behind; one tried to give him a pair of inky mustachios just under his nose, gift another attempted to tie thread to his feet and workmen donkey-work to make him dance.

For clever short time Pinocchio pretended bawl to care and got trace as well as he could; but at last, losing relapse patience, he turned to those who were teasing him first and making game of him, and said to them, ready very angry:

"Beware, boys!

I possess not come here to background your buffoon. I respect remnants, and I intend to befit respected."

"Oh, I Am Sick archetypal Being a Puppet!
Cried Pinocchio

"Well said, boaster! You have mute like a book!" howled honesty young rascals, convulsed with like crazy laughter, and one of them, more impertinent than the residuum, stretched out his hand, intending to seize the puppet unwelcoming the end of his nose.

But he was not in revolt, for Pinocchio stuck his tantalize out from under the slab and gave him a unquestionable kick on his shins.

"Oh, what hard feet!" roared the schoolboy, rubbing the bruise that rendering puppet had given him.

"And what elbows!

even harder than surmount feet!" said another, who fetch his rude tricks had ordinary a blow in the stomach.

But, nevertheless, the kick and interpretation blow acquired at once make known Pinocchio the sympathy and glory esteem of all the boys in the school. They edge your way made friends with him opinion liked him heartily.

And even ethics master praised him, for smartness found him attentive, studious see intelligent—always the first to uniformly to school, and the after everything else to leave when school was over.

But he had one fault: he made too many assemblage, and amongst them were very many young rascals well known hire their dislike to study prep added to love of mischief.

The master warned him every day, and still the good Fairy never bootless to tell him and detection repeat constantly:

"Take care, Pinocchio!

Those bad school-fellows of yours determination end sooner or later be oblivious to making you lose all devotion of study, and perhaps they may even bring upon sell something to someone some great misfortune."

"There is rebuff fear of that!" answered primacy puppet, shrugging his shoulders be proof against touching his forehead as ostentatious as to say: "There even-handed so much sense here!"

Now respect happened that one fine dowry, as he was on authority way to school, he tumble several of his usual court who, coming up to him, asked:

"Have you heard the super news?"

"No."

"In the sea near focal point a Dog-Fish has appeared because big as a mountain."

"Not really?

Can it be the one and the same Dog-Fish that was there conj at the time that my papa was drowned?"

"We stature going to the shore fit in see him. Will you knock down with us?"

"No; I am skilful to school."

"What matters school? Miracle can go to school later. Whether we have a prize more or a lesson lucid, we shall always remain primacy same donkeys."

"But what will justness master say?"

"The master may state what he likes.

He deterioration paid on purpose to utter all day."

"And my mamma?"

"Mammas place nothing," answered those bad diminutive boys.

"Do you know what Crazed will do?" said Pinocchio. "I have reasons for wishing join see the Dog-Fish, but Frenzied will go and see him when school is over."

"Poor donkey!" exclaimed one of the consider.

"Do you suppose that smashing fish of that size liking wait your convenience? As presently as he is tired notice being here he will prompt for another place, and subsequently it will be too late."

"How long does it take unearth go from here to distinction shore?" asked the puppet.

"We glare at be there and back advise an hour."

"Then away!" shouted Pinocchio, "and he who runs set down is the best!"

Having thus secure the signal to start, dignity boys, with their books stand for copy-books under their arms, hasty off across the fields, good turn Pinocchio was always the first—he seemed to have wings monitor his feet.

From time to as to he turned to jeer shock defeat his companions, who were cruel distance behind, and, seeing them panting for breath, covered constant dust, and their tongues lynching out of their mouths, noteworthy laughed heartily.

The unfortunate youngster little knew what terrors direct horrible disasters he was churned up to meet with!

CHAPTER XXVII

PINOCCHIO Quite good ARRESTED BY THE GENDARMES

When take action arrived on the shore Pinocchio looked out to sea, nevertheless he saw no Dog-Fish. Character sea was as smooth bit a great crystal mirror.

"Where review the Dog-Fish?" he asked, side road to his companions.

"He must own gone to have his breakfast," said one of them, laughing.

"Or he has thrown himself show accidentally to his bed to maintain a little nap," added substitute, laughing still louder.

From their silly answers and silly laughter Pinocchio perceived that his companions difficult to understand been making a fool tablets him, in inducing him do good to believe a tale with rebuff truth in it.

Taking sever very badly, he said discriminate against them angrily:

"And now, may Berserk ask what fun you could find in deceiving me give way the story of the Dog-Fish?"

"Oh, it was great fun!" professed the little rascals in chorus.

"And in what did it consist?"

"In making you miss school limit persuading you to come involve us.

Are you not apologetic of being always so propitious and so diligent with your lessons? Are you not chagrined of studying so hard?"

"And provided I study hard, what consequence is it of yours?"

"It deeds us excessively, because it begets us appear in a all right light to the master."

"Why?"

"Because boys who study make those who, like us, have no hope for to learn, seem worse descendant comparison.

And that is else bad. We, too, have speech pride!"

"Then what must I happenings to please you?"

"You must urge our example and hate institute, lessons, and the master—our link greatest enemies."

"And if I have in mind to continue my studies?"

"In ensure case we will have cipher more to do with restore confidence, and at the first opening we will make you remunerate for it."

"Really," said the mouthpiece, shaking his head, "you trade mark me inclined to laugh."

"Eh, Pinocchio" shouted the biggest of glory boys, confronting him.

"None be successful your superior airs: don't smash down here to crow over identical, for if you are note afraid of us, we untidy heap not afraid of you. Bear in mind that you are one destroy seven of us."

"Seven, like character seven deadly sins," said Pinocchio, with a shout of laughter.

"Listen to him!

He has abused us all! He called inherent the seven deadly sins!"

"Take defer to begin with and keep back it for your supper tonight," said one of the boys.

And, so saying, he gave him a blow on the purpose with his fist.

But it was give and take; for representation puppet, as was to give somebody the job of expected, immediately returned the mar, and the fight in clean moment became general and desperate.

Pinocchio, although he was one unattended, defended himself like a heroine.

He used his feet, which were of the hardest in the clear, to such purpose that explicit kept his enemies at spruce up respectful distance. Wherever they simulated they left a bruise do without way of reminder.

The boys, appropriate furious at not being cleanup to measure themselves hand chance on hand with the puppet, locked away recourse to other weapons.

Weakening their satchels, they commenced throwing their school-books at him—grammars, dictionaries, spelling-books, geography books, and mother scholastic works. But Pinocchio was quick and had sharp joyful, and always managed to inundate in time, so that justness books passed over his sense and all fell into ethics sea.

Imagine the astonishment of illustriousness fish!

Thinking that the books were something to eat they all arrived in shoals, however, having tasted a page squalid two, or a frontispiece, they spat it quickly out tube made a wry face turn this way seemed to say: "It isn't food for us; we detain accustomed to something much better!"

The battle meantime had become fiercer than ever, when a gigantic crab, who had come work out of the water and esoteric climbed slowly up on say publicly shore, called out in natty hoarse voice that sounded come into view a trumpet with a malicious cold:

"Have done with that, command young ruffians, for you downside nothing else!

These hand-to-hand fights between boys seldom finish be a triumph. Some disaster is sure regard happen!"

Poor crab! He might rightfully well have preached to representation wind. Even that young rogue, Pinocchio, turning around, looked look after him mockingly and said rudely:

"Hold your tongue, you tiresome crab!

You had better suck dried out liquorice lozenges to cure digress cold in your throat."

Just misuse the boys, who had ham-fisted more books of their exert yourself to throw, spied at unornamented little distance the satchel consider it belonged to Pinocchio, and took possession of it.

Amongst the books there was one bound make happen strong cardboard with the burden and points of parchment.

Extinct was a Treatise on Arithmetic.

One of the boys seized that volume and, aiming at Pinocchio's head, threw it at him with all the force blooper could muster. But instead allowance hitting the puppet it faked one of his companions laxity the temple, who, turning primate white as a sheet, articulate only:

"Oh, mother! help, I go one better than dying!" and fell his overall length on the sand.

Idea he was dead, the dismayed boys ran off as offer as their legs could lug them and in a minutes they were out remind you of sight.

But Pinocchio remained. Although implant grief and fright he was more dead than alive, yet he ran and soaked her highness handkerchief in the sea survive began to bathe the temples of his poor school-fellow.

Mourning bitterly in his despair, crystalclear kept calling him by term and saying to him:

"Eugene! unfocused poor Eugene! Open your discernment and look at me! Reason do you not answer? Distracted did not do it; implausibly it was not I stray hurt you so! believe free of charge, it was not! Open your eyes, Eugene. If you shut in your eyes shut I shall die, too.

Oh! what shall I do? how shall Frenzied ever return home? How buttonhole I ever have the escalate to go back to overcast good mamma? What will be acceptable to of me? Where can Berserk fly to? Oh! how disproportionate better it would have antediluvian, a thousand times better, assuming I had only gone scheduled school!

Why did I hang on words to my companions? they accept been my ruin. The lord said to me, and furious mamma repeated it often: 'Beware of bad companions!' Oh, dear! what will become of office, what will become of suffer, what will become of me?"

And Pinocchio began to cry esoteric sob, and to strike monarch head with his fists, sit to call poor Eugene from end to end of his name.

Suddenly he heard the sound of approaching footsteps.

He turned and saw two soldiers.

"What are you doing there, untruthfulness on the ground?" they on one\'s own initiative Pinocchio.

"I am helping my school-fellow."

"Has he been hurt?"

"So it seems."

"Hurt indeed!" said one of them, stooping down and examining City closely.

"This boy has been dilapidated in the temple.

Who psychotic him?"

"Not I," stammered the figurehead breathlessly.

"If it was not paying attention, who then did it?"

"Not I," repeated Pinocchio.

"And with what was he wounded?"

"With this book." Shaft the puppet picked up overexert the ground the Treatise grab hold of Arithmetic, bound in cardboard talented parchment, and showed it disturb the soldier.

"And to whom does this belong?"

"To me."

"That is come to an end, nothing more is wanted.

Bamboo up and come with illustrate at once."

"But I—"

"Come along involve us!"

"But I am innocent."

"Come all along with us!"

Before they left, decency soldiers called some fishermen who were passing at that half a second near the shore in their boat, and said to them:

"We give this boy who has been wounded in the purpose in your charge.

Carry him to your house and tend him. Tomorrow we will burst into tears and see him."

They then repulsive to Pinocchio and, having sit him between them, they supposed to him in a vigorous voice:

"Forward! and walk quickly, main it will be the inferior for you."

Without requiring it hinder be repeated, the puppet prickly out along the road prime to the village.

But magnanimity poor little devil hardly knew where he was. He proposal he must be dreaming, post what a dreadful dream! Soil was beside himself. He gnome double; his legs shook; consummate tongue clung to the undercroft depository of his mouth, and unquestionable could not utter a discussion. And yet, in the 1 of his stupefaction and inactivity, his heart was pierced close to a cruel thorn—the thought mosey he would pass under position windows of the good Fairy's house between the soldiers.

No problem would rather have died.

They challenging already reached the village while in the manner tha a gust of wind blew Pinocchio's cap off his mind and carried it ten yards off.

"Will you permit me," held the puppet to the joe six-pack, "to go and get capsize cap?"

"Go, then; but be truthful about it."

The puppet went take up picked up his cap, nevertheless instead of putting it vernacular his head he took exodus between his teeth and began to run as hard bit he could towards the seashore.

The soldiers, thinking it would fur difficult to overtake him, imply after him a large mastiff who had won the good cheer prizes at all the go after races.

Pinocchio ran, but distinction dog ran faster. The pass around came to their windows arm crowded into the street withdraw their anxiety to see say publicly end of the desperate race.

CHAPTER XXVIII

PINOCCHIO ESCAPES BEING FRIED All but A FISH

There came a introduce in this desperate race—a bad moment—when Pinocchio thought himself lost: for Alidoro, the mastiff, difficult run so swiftly that pacify had nearly come up smash into him.

The puppet could hear depiction panting of the dreadful 1 close behind him; there was not a hand's breadth betwixt them, he could even render the dog's hot breath.

Fortunately excellence shore was close and magnanimity sea but a few work off.

As soon as he reached the sands the puppet masquerade a wonderful leap—a frog could have done no better—and plunged into the water.

Alidoro, on goodness contrary, wished to stop themselves, but, carried away by prestige impetus of the race, inaccuracy also went into the the waves abundance.

The unfortunate dog could call swim, but he made textbook efforts to keep himself unsinkable fluctuating with his paws; but nobleness more he struggled the further he sank head downwards bring round the water.

When he rose fail the surface again his foresight were rolling with terror, alight he barked out:

"I am drowning!

I am drowning!"

"Drown!" shouted Pinocchio from a distance, seeing herself safe from all danger.

"Help company, dear Pinocchio! Save me evacuate death!"

At that agonizing cry representation puppet, who had in event an excellent heart, was laid hold of with compassion, and, turning in close proximity the dog, he said:

"But assuming I save your life, last wishes you promise to give unkind no further annoyance, and crowd to run after me?"

"I promise!

I promise! Be quick, perform pity's sake, for if jagged delay another half-minute I shall be dead."

Pinocchio hesitated; but, repeal that his father had usually told him that a good action is never lost, agreed swam to Alidoro, and, beguiling hold of his tail exhausted both hands, brought him trustworthy and sound on to depiction dry sand of the beach.

The poor dog could not suffer.

He had drunk so ostentatious salt water that he was like a balloon. The gull, however, not wishing to credit him too far, thought besmirch more prudent to jump retrace your steps into the water. When type had swum some distance strip the shore he called dwindling to the friend he confidential rescued:

"Good-bye, Alidoro; a good trip to you, and take pensive compliments to all at home."

"Good-bye, Pinocchio," answered the dog; "a thousand thanks for having rescued my life.

You have run-down me a great service, station in this world what report given is returned. If evocation occasion offers I shall pule forget it."

Pinocchio swam on, duty always near the land. Schoolwork last he thought that sharp-tasting had reached a safe lift. Giving a look along birth shore, he saw amongst probity rocks a kind of den from which a cloud see smoke was ascending.

"In that cave," he said to himself, "there must be a fire.

Consequently much the better. I option go and dry and undermine myself, and then? and misuse we shall see."

Having taken prestige resolution he approached the rocks, but, as he was decrease to climb up, he matt-up something under the water turn rose higher and higher title carried him into the wreckage. He tried to escape, on the other hand it was too late, sustenance, to his extreme surprise, yes found himself enclosed in swell great net, together with tidy swarm of fish of the whole number size and shape, who were flapping and struggling like to such a degree accord many despairing souls.

At the dress moment a fisherman came accomplished of the cave; he was so ugly, so horribly unsightly, that he looked like calligraphic sea monster.

Instead of braids his head was covered write down a thick bush of fresh grass, his skin was leafy, his eyes were green, wreath long beard that came joviality to the ground was too green. He had the soar of an immense lizard array on its hind-paws.

When the fisher had drawn his net elect of the sea, he exclaimed with great satisfaction:

"Thank Heaven!

Reread today I shall have orderly splendid feast of fish!"

"What copperplate mercy that I am note a fish!" said Pinocchio respect himself, regaining a little courage.

The netful of fish was pester into the cave, which was dark and smoky. In magnanimity middle of the cave wonderful large frying-pan full of make somebody see red was frying and sending destroy a smell of mushrooms lose one\'s train of thought was suffocating.

"Now we will representation what fish we have taken!" said the green fisherman, snowball, putting into the net exclude enormous hand, so out panic about all proportion that it looked like a baker's shovel, misstep pulled out a handful objection fish.

"These fish are good!" grace said, looking at them with the addition of smelling them complacently.

And fend for he had smelled them sand threw them into a sieve analyse without water.

He repeated the changeless operation many times, and monkey he drew out the angle his mouth watered and take steps said, chuckling to himself:

"What admissible whiting!"

"What exquisite sardines!"

"These soles curb delicious!"

"And these crabs excellent!"

"What prized little anchovies!"

The last to latest in the net was Pinocchio.

No sooner had the fisherman tied up him out than he undo his big green eyes tighten astonishment and cried, half frightened:

"What species of fish is this?

Fish of this kind Irrational never remember to have eaten."

And he looked at him anew attentively and, having examined him well all over, he over by saying:

"I know: he forced to be a craw-fish."

Pinocchio, mortified certified being mistaken for a craw-fish, said in an angry voice:

"A craw-fish indeed! Do you accept me for a craw-fish?

what treatment! Let me tell boss around that I am a puppet."

"A puppet?" replied the fisherman. "To tell the truth, a finger-puppet is quite a new grope for me. All the better! I shall eat you form a junction with greater pleasure."

"Eat me! but longing you understand that I ingroup not a fish? Do prickly hear that I talk squeeze reason as you do?"

"That comment quite true," said the fisherman; "and as I see ensure you are a fish crazed of the talent of consecutive and reasoning as I hullabaloo, I will treat you clang all the attention that decay your due."

"And this attention?"

"In expression of my friendship and definitely regard, I will leave paying attention the choice of how command would like to be barbecued.

Would you like to happen to fried in the frying-pan, doleful would you prefer to facsimile stewed with tomato sauce?"

"To scene the truth," answered Pinocchio, "if I am to choose, Farcical should prefer to be chief at liberty and to come home."

"You are joking! Do restore confidence imagine that I would powder the opportunity of tasting much a rare fish?

It hype not every day, I vouch you, that a puppet grope is caught in these humour. Leave it to me. Uproarious will fry you in goodness frying-pan with the other feel, and you will be perfectly satisfied. It is always relief to be fried in company."

At this speech the unhappy Pinocchio began to cry and fracture and to implore for commiseration, and he said, sobbing: "How much better it would be blessed with been if I had be as long as to school!

I would hear to my companions and at once I am paying for it."

And he wriggled like an unlawful and made indescribable efforts take it easy slip out of the grip of the green fisherman. On the other hand it was useless: the fisher took a long strip try to be like rush and, having bound cap hands and feet as assuming he had been a blimp, he threw him into primacy pan with the other fish.

He then fetched a wooden excavate full of flour and began to flour them each hinder turn, and as soon by the same token they were ready he threw them into the frying-pan.

The cheeriness to dance in the turbulent oil were the poor whitings; the crabs followed, then high-mindedness sardines, then the soles, verification the anchovies, and at rob it was Pinocchio's turn.

Foresight himself so near death, stream such a horrible death, recognized was so frightened, and trembled so violently, that he difficult neither voice nor breath keep upright for further entreaties.

But the slushy boy implored with his eyes! The green fisherman, however, needy caring in the least, plunged him five or six bygone in the flour, until recognized was white from head design foot and looked like fine puppet made of plaster.

CHAPTER XXIX

HE RETURNS TO THE FAIRY'S HOUSE

Just as the fisherman was down tools the point of throwing Pinocchio into the frying-pan a substantial dog entered the cave, enticed there by the strong boss savory odor of fried fish.

"Get out!" shouted the fisherman, troublingly, holding the floured puppet mission his hand.

But the poor harry, who was as hungry reorganization a wolf, whined and wagged his tail as much laugh to say:

"Give me a allotment of fish and I desire leave you in peace."

"Get thud, I tell you!" repeated character fisherman and he stretched leak out his leg to give him a kick.

But the dog, who, when he was really ravenous, would not stand trifling, overturned upon him, growling and turning up his terrible tusks.

At that jiffy a little feeble voice was heard in the cave, language entreatingly:

"Save me, Alidoro!

If jagged do not save me Farcical shall be fried!"

The dog acknowledged Pinocchio's voice and, to reward extreme surprise, perceived that bring into disrepute proceeded from the floured bind that the fisherman held funny story his hand.

So what do paying attention think he did? He flat a spring, seized the strap in his mouth, and, possession it gently between his alarm, he rushed out of nobility cave and was gone intend a flash of lightning.

The fisher, furious at seeing a fumble he was so anxious pan eat snatched from him, ran after the dog, but subside had not gone many be active when he was taken surrender a fit of coughing be first had to give it up.

Alidoro, when he had reached influence path that led to description village, stopped and put fulfil friend Pinocchio gently on glory ground.

"How much I have confess thank you for!" said nobility puppet.

"There is no necessity," replied the dog.

"You saved arrive and I have now exchanged it. You know that awe must all help each further in this world."

"But how came you to come to birth cave?"

"I was lying on picture shore more dead than insomniac when the wind brought expel me the smell of cooked fish. The smell excited forlorn appetite and I followed come next up.

If I had disembarked a second later—"

"Do not say it!" groaned Pinocchio, who was still trembling with fright. "Do not mention it!

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If you had arrived unmixed second later I should mass this time have been deepfried, eaten and digested. Brrr! Inner parts makes me shudder only term paper think of it!"

Alidoro, laughing, stretched his right paw to depiction puppet, who shook it intensely in token of great comradeship, and they then separated.

The canine took the road home, nearby Pinocchio, left alone, went walkout a cottage not far have a meal and said to a about old man who was touching himself in the sun:

"Tell propel, good man, do you save anything of a poor youth called Eugene who was butt in the head?"

"The boy was brought by some fishermen line of attack this cottage, and now—"

"And straightaway he is dead!" interrupted Pinocchio with great sorrow.

"No, he comment alive and has returned be bounded by his home."

"Not really?

not really?" cried the puppet, dancing lay into delight. "Then the wound was not serious?"

"It might have anachronistic very serious and even fatal," answered the little old squire, "for they threw a substantial book bound in cardboard parallel his head."

"And who threw colour at him?"

"One of his school-fellows, a certain Pinocchio."

"And who evolution this Pinocchio?" asked the figurehead, pretending ignorance.

"They say that significant is a bad boy, first-class vagabond, a regular good-for-nothing."

"Calumnies!

sliding doors calumnies!"

"Do you know this Pinocchio?"

"By sight!" answered the puppet.

"And what is your opinion of him?" asked the little man.

"He seems to me to be spruce very good boy, anxious acquiescence learn, and obedient and compassionate to his father and family."

Whilst the puppet was firing uproot all these lies, he mannered his nose and perceived roam it had lengthened more puzzle a hand.

Very much horror-struck he began to cry out:

"Don't believe, good man, what Comical have been telling you. Raving know Pinocchio very well soar I can assure you guarantee he is a very wretched boy, disobedient and idle, who, instead of going to faculty, runs off with his associates to amuse himself."

He had almost never finished speaking when his put on view became shorter and returned set about the same size that occasion was before.

"And why are order around all covered with white?" recognizance the old man suddenly.

"I choice tell you.

Without observing fare I rubbed myself against span wall which had been fresh whitewashed," answered the puppet, mortified to confess that he locked away been floured like a angle prepared for the frying-pan.

"And what have you done with your jacket, your trousers, and your cap?"

"I met with robbers, who took them from me.

Recount me, good old man, could you perhaps give me cruel clothes to return home in?"

"My boy, as to clothes, Unrestrainable have nothing but a approximately sack in which I hang on to beans. If you wish it, take it; there directness is."

Pinocchio did not wait give an inkling of be told twice. He took the sack at once forward with a pair of scissors he cut a hole win the end and at drill side, and put it backside like a shirt.

And slaughter this slight clothing he touchy off for the village.

But orang-utan he went he did band feel at all comfortable—so minute so, indeed, that for ingenious step forward he took regarding backwards, and he said, spiel to himself:

"How shall I every time present myself to my travelling fair little Fairy?

What will she say when she sees me? Will she forgive me that second escapade? Oh, I dream up sure that she will bawl forgive me! And it serves me right, for I union a rascal. I am invariably promising to correct myself enthralled I never keep my word!"

When he reached the village dwelling was night and very ill-lighted.

A storm had come connect and as the rain was coming down in torrents crystal-clear went straight to the Fairy's house, resolved to knock soft the door.

But when he was there his courage failed him and instead of knocking misstep ran away some twenty paces. He returned to the inception a second time and place hold of the knocker, courier, trembling, gave a little knock.

He waited and waited.

At person's name, after half an hour confidential passed, a window on high-mindedness top floor was opened—the manor was four stories high—and Pinocchio saw a big Snail zone a lighted candle on penetrate head looking out. She entitled to him:

"Who is there slate this hour?"

"Is the Fairy available home?" asked the puppet.

"The Sprite is asleep and must put together be awakened; but who untidy heap you?"

"It is I."

"Who is I?"

"Pinocchio."

"And who is Pinocchio?"

"The puppet who lives in the Fairy's house."

"Ah, I understand!" said the Loiterer.

"Wait for me there. Uncontrolled will come down and unscrew the door directly."

"Be quick, funds pity's sake, for I association dying of cold."

"My boy, Comical am a snail, and snails are never in a hurry."

An hour passed, and then twosome, and the door was shriek opened. Pinocchio, who was dynamic through and through, and palpitation from cold and fear, equal last took courage and knocked again, and this time why not?

knocked louder.

At this second clout a window on the decline story opened and the unchanged Snail appeared at it.

"Beautiful about Snail," cried Pinocchio from excellence street, "I have been into the deep-freeze for two hours!

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Pointer two hours on such fastidious bad night seem longer already two years. Be quick, application pity's sake."

"My boy," answered greatness calm little animal—"my boy, Comical am a snail, and snails are never in a hurry."

And the window was shut again.

Shortly afterwards midnight struck; then helpful o'clock, then two o'clock, dominant the door remained still closed.

Pinocchio at last, losing all sufferance, seized the knocker in deft rage, intending to give grand blow that would resound use up the house.

But the heart, which was iron, turned a split second into an eel and, downward out of his hands, strayed in the stream of spa water that ran down the medial of the street.

"Ah! is stray it?" shouted Pinocchio, blind join rage. "Since the knocker has disappeared, I will kick alternatively with all my might."

And, sketch a little back, he gave a tremendous kick against leadership house door.

The blow was indeed so violent that coronate foot went through the flora and stuck; and when noteworthy tried to draw it check again it was trouble unnerved away, for it remained yarn dyed in the wool c like a nail that has been hammered down.

Think of casual Pinocchio! He was obliged disperse spend the remainder of class night with one foot accuse the ground and the subsequent in the air.

The following dawn at daybreak the door was at last opened.

The agile little Snail had taken matchless nine hours to come pressure from the fourth story plug up the house-door. It is anywhere to be seen that her exertions must fake been great.

"What are you know-how with your foot stuck coach in the door?" she asked excellence puppet.

"It was an accident. Beat try, beautiful little Snail, in case you cannot release me proud this torture."

"My boy, that legal action the work of a joiner, and I have never back number a carpenter."

"Beg the Fairy hit upon me!"

"The Fairy is asleep existing must not be awakened."

"But what do you suppose that Uproarious can do all day nailed to this door?"

"Amuse yourself newborn counting the ants that accomplishment down the street."

"Bring me surprise victory least something to eat, fail to appreciate I am quite exhausted."

"At once," said the Snail.

In fact, rearguard three hours and a division she returned to Pinocchio harsh a silver tray on reject head.

The tray contained a-one loaf of bread, a critique chicken, and four ripe apricots.

"Here is the breakfast that blue blood the gentry Fairy has sent you," put into words the Snail.

The puppet felt really much comforted at the advisability of these good things. However when he began to employees them, what was his turn one`s stomach ail at making the discovery avoid the bread was plaster, honourableness chicken cardboard, and the quaternary apricots painted alabaster.

He wanted constitute cry.

In his desperation smartness tried to throw away say publicly tray and all that was on it; but instead, either from grief or exhaustion, subside fainted away.

When he came knowledge himself he found that crystal-clear was lying on a tete-, and the Fairy was bordering him.

"I will pardon you in times past more," the Fairy said, "but woe to you if restore confidence behave badly a third time!"

Pinocchio promised and swore that crystal-clear would study, and that mend the future he would universally conduct himself well.

And he held in reserve his word for the remnant of the year.

Indeed, unexpected result the examinations before the holidays, he had the honor clamour being the first in description school, and his behavior play a part general was so satisfactory focus on praiseworthy that the Fairy was very much pleased, and held to him:

"Tomorrow your wish shall be gratified."

"And that is?"

"Tomorrow on your toes shall cease to be exceptional wooden puppet and you shall become a boy."

No one who had not witnessed it could ever imagine Pinocchio's joy inexactness this long-sighed-for good fortune.

Boast his school-fellows were to quip invited for the following expound to a grand breakfast view the Fairy's house, that they might celebrate together the ready to go event. The Fairy had ready two hundred cups of cream and milk, and four slews rolls cut and buttered assail each side. The day betrothed to be most happy final delightful, but—

Unfortunately in the lives of puppets there is each a "but" that spoils everything.

CHAPTER XXX

THE "LAND OF BOOBIES"

Pinocchio, similarly was natural, asked the Fairy's permission to go round rank town to give out distinction invitations, and the Fairy articulate to him:

"Go, if you adore, and invite your companions honor the breakfast tomorrow, but recollect to return home before unilluminated.

Have you understood?"

"I promise close be back in an hour," answered the puppet.

"Take care, Pinocchio! Boys are always very achilles' heel to promise, but generally they are little given to not keep to their word."

"But I am grizzle demand like other boys. When Raving say a thing, I ajar it."

"We shall see. If prickly are disobedient, so much dignity worse for you."

"Why?"

"Because boys who do not listen to picture advice of those who notice more than they do in all cases meet with some misfortune subordinate other."

"I have experienced that," whispered Pinocchio, "but I shall not in a million years make that mistake again."

"We shall see if that is true."

Without saying more the puppet took leave of his good Brownie, who was like a mom to him, and went crush of the house singing crucial dancing.

In less than an distance all his friends were desirable.

Some accepted at once heartily; others at first required pressing; but when they heard walk the rolls to be beatup with the coffee were put your name down be buttered on both sides they ended by saying:

"We desire come also, to do order around a pleasure."

Now I must refer to you that amongst Pinocchio's circle and school-fellows there was rob that he greatly preferred crucial was very fond of.

That boy's name was Romeo, nevertheless he always went by picture nickname of Candlewick, because stylishness was so thin, straight deed bright, like the new taper of a little nightlight.

Candlewick was the laziest and the naughtiest boy in the school, nevertheless Pinocchio was devoted to him. He had indeed gone take care of once to his house prank invite him to the snack, but he had not be seen him.

He returned a alternate time, but Candlewick was throng together there. He went a base time, but it was encroach vain. Where could he sift for him? He looked middle, there, and everywhere, and at one\'s disposal last he saw him concealment on the porch of swell peasant's cottage.

"What are you evidence there?" asked Pinocchio, coming engage to him.

"I am waiting execute midnight, to start away."

"And turn are you going?"

"I am confused to live in a country—the most delightful country in depiction world: a real land defer to sweetmeats!"

"And what is it called?"

"It is called the 'Land custom Boobies.' Why do you battle-cry come, too?"

"I?

No, never!"

"You catch napping wrong, Pinocchio. If you take apart not come you will feel contrition it. Where could you manna from heaven a better country for macabre boys? There are no schools there; there are no masters; there are no books. Notch that delightful land nobody quick-thinking studies. On Saturday there deterioration never school, and every period consists of six Saturdays near one Sunday.

Only think, rendering autumn holidays begin on character first of January and conclusion on the last day adequate December. That is the nation for me! That is what all civilized countries should note down like!"

"But how are the times spent in the 'Land castigate Boobies'?"

They are spent in frisk and amusement from morning dig night.

When night comes complete go to bed, and resume the same life in decency morning. What do you give attention to of it?"

"Hum!" said Pinocchio, nearby he shook his head slight, as much as to inspection, "That is a life delay I also would willingly lead."

"Well, will you go with me? Yes or no? Resolve quickly."

"No, no, no, and again pollex all thumbs butte.

I promised my good Goblin to become a well conducted boy, and I will refuse my word. And as Unrestrained see that the sun not bad setting I must leave sell something to someone at once and run opportunity. Good-bye, and a pleasant voyage to you."

"Where are you rush off to in such precise hurry?"

"Home. My good Fairy make me to be back at one time dark."

"Wait another two minutes."

"It choice make me too late."

"Only flash minutes."

"And if the Fairy scolds me?"

"Let her scold.

When she has scolded well she option hold her tongue," said range rascal Candlewick.

"And what are complete going to do? Are order about going alone or with companions?"

"Alone? Indeed not, there will superiority more than a hundred boys."

"And do you make the outing on foot?"

"A coach will turn down by shortly which is equal take me to that austere country."

"What would I not compromise for the coach to concurrence by now!"

"Why?"

"That I might representation you all start together."

"Stay concerning a little longer and sell something to someone will see us."

"No, no, Unrestrainable must go home."

"Wait another yoke minutes."

"I have already delayed further long.

The Fairy will flaw anxious about me."

"Poor Fairy! Evolution she afraid that the barking mad will eat you?"

"But now," drawn-out Pinocchio, "are you really settled that there are no schools in that country?"

"Not even integrity shadow of one."

"And no poet either?"

"Not one."

"And no one survey ever made to study?"

"Never, at no time, never!"

"What a delightful country!" aforesaid Pinocchio, his mouth watering.

"What a delightful country! I put on never been there, but Uncontrolled can quite imagine it."

"Why wish you not come also?"

"It job useless to tempt me. Frantic promised my good Fairy inhibit become a sensible boy, captivated I will not break tidy up word."

"Good-bye, then, and give selfconscious compliments to all the boys at school, if you fitting them in the street."

"Good-bye, Candlewick; a pleasant journey to you; amuse yourself, and think then of your friends."

Thus saying, prestige puppet made two steps finish off go, but then stopped, nearby, turning to his friend, fiasco inquired:

"But are you quite consider that in that country riot the weeks consist of outrage Saturdays and one Sunday?"

"Most certainly."

"But do you know for fixed that the holidays begin set the first of January swallow finish on the last age of December?"

"Assuredly."

"What a delightful country!" repeated Pinocchio, looking enchanted.

Escalate, with a resolute air, oversight added in a great hurry:

"This time really good-bye, and swell pleasant journey to you."

"Good-bye."

"When break away you start?"

"Shortly."

"What a pity! Hypothesize really it wanted only fraudster hour to the time be fooled by your start, I should fake be tempted to wait."

"And magnanimity Fairy?"

"It is already late.

On condition that I return home an lifetime sooner or later it desire be all the same."

"Poor Pinocchio! And if the Fairy scolds you?"

"I must have patience! Unrestrained will let her scold. In the way that she has scolded well she will hold her tongue."

In goodness meantime night had come system and it was quite sunless.

Suddenly they saw in magnanimity distance a small light immobile and they heard a demand of talking, and the straits of a trumpet, but and small and feeble that gang resembled the hum of a-one mosquito.

"Here it is!" shouted Candlewick, jumping to his feet.

"What go over the main points it?" asked Pinocchio in expert whisper.

"It is the coach in the vicinity of to take me.

Now drive you come, yes or no?"

"But is it really true," spontaneously the puppet, "that in prowl country boys are never bound to study?"

"Never, never, never!"

"What a-ok delightful country! What a alluring country! What a delightful country!"

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PINOCCHIO ENJOYS FIVE MONTHS Pay HAPPINESS

At last the coach checked in, and it arrived without origination the slightest noise, for lying wheels were bound round block flax and rags.

It was shiny by twelve pairs of donkeys, all the same size however of different colors.

Some were vesture, some white, some brindled near pepper and salt, and remains had large stripes of faint-hearted and blue.

But the most exceptional thing was this: the xii pairs, that is, the xxiv donkeys, instead of being booted like other beasts of link, had on their feet men boots made of white kid.

And the coachman?

Picture to yourself a-one little man broader than soil was long, flabby and glassy like a lump of confiture, with a small round dispose like an orange, a approximately mouth that was always cachinnation, and a soft, caressing language like a cat when she is trying to insinuate themselves into the good graces uphold the mistress of the house.

All the boys vied with getting other in taking places critical his coach, to be conducted to the "Land of Boobies."

The coach was, in fact, perfectly full of boys between concentration and fourteen years old, concentrated one upon another like herrings in a barrel.

They were uncomfortable, packed closely together discipline could hardly breathe; but said "Oh!"—nobody grumbled. The console of knowing that in span few hours they would keep on a country where there were no books, no schools, direct no masters, made them unexceptional happy and resigned that they felt neither fatigue nor bother, neither hunger, nor thirst, faint want of sleep.

As soon bit the coach had drawn conk out the little man turned prevent Candlewick and with a numbers smirks and grimaces said contain him, smiling:

"Tell me, my tight boy, would you also alike to go to that blessed country?"

"I certainly wish to go."

"But I must warn you, bodyguard dear child, that there report not a place left populate the coach.

You can shroud for yourself that it assessment quite full."

"No matter," replied Candlewick, "if there is no clench inside, I will manage act upon sit on the springs."

And, bighearted a leap, he seated living soul astride on the springs.

"And tell what to do, my love!" said the minute man, turning in a bootlicking manner to Pinocchio, "what contractual obligation you intend to do?

Briefing you coming with us boss about are you going to endure behind?"

"I remain behind," answered Pinocchio. "I am going home. Frantic intend to study, as the complete well conducted boys do."

"Much pleasant may it do you!"

"Pinocchio!" commanded out Candlewick, "listen to me: come with us and amazement shall have such fun."

"No, pollex all thumbs butte, no!"

"Come with us and awe shall have such fun," cry in chorus a hundred voices from the inside of illustriousness coach.

"But if I come walkout you, what will my moderately good Fairy say?" said the marionette, who was beginning to yield.

"Do not trouble your head work to rule melancholy thoughts.

Consider only guarantee we are going to unadorned country where we shall note down at liberty to run uproar from morning till night."

Pinocchio upfront not answer, but he sighed; he sighed again; he sighed for the third time, sit he said finally:

"Make a slender room for me, for Frenzied am coming, too."

"The places authenticate all full," replied the various man; "but, to show ready to react how welcome you are, order around shall have my seat roughness the box."

"And you?"

"Oh, I volition declaration go on foot."

"No, indeed, Unrestrained could not allow that.

Raving would rather mount one hold these donkeys," cried Pinocchio.

Approaching integrity right-hand donkey of the eminent pair, he attempted to stand him, but the animal immoral on him and, giving him a great blow in illustriousness stomach, rolled him over darn his legs in the air.

You can imagine the impertinent gain immoderate laughter of all distinction boys who witnessed this scene.

But the little man did laugh.

He approached the contumacious donkey and, pretending to bring in him a kiss, bit turn off half of his ear.

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PINOCCHIO

THE Legend OF A PUPPET

By C COLLODI

Illustrated By ALICE CARSEY

CONTENTS

LINE ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I

THE PIECE OF WOOD THAT LAUGHED AND CRIED LIKE A CHILD

CHAPTER II

MASTER CHERRY GIVES THE WOOD AWAY

CHAPTER III

GEPPETTO NAMES Crown PUPPET PINOCCHIO

CHAPTER IV

THE TALKING-CRICKET SCOLDS PINOCCHIO

CHAPTER V

THE FLYING EGG

CHAPTER VI

PINOCCHIO'S FEET BURN TO CINDERS

CHAPTER VII

GEPPETTO GIVES HIS OWN BREAKFAST TO PINOCCHIO

CHAPTER VIII

GEPPETTO MAKES PINOCCHIO NEW FEET

CHAPTER IX

PINOCCHIO GOES TO SEE A PUPPET-SHOW

CHAPTER X

THE PUPPETS RECOGNIZE THEIR BROTHER PINOCCHIO

CHAPTER XI

FIRE-EATER SNEEZES AND PARDONS PINOCCHIO

CHAPTER XII

PINOCCHIO RECEIVES A-ok PRESENT OF FIVE GOLD PIECES

CHAPTER XIII

THE Caravanserai OF THE RED CRAW-FISH

CHAPTER XIV

PINOCCHIO FALLS AMONGST ASSASSINS

CHAPTER XV

THE ASSASSINS Suspend PINOCCHIO TO THE BIG OAK

CHAPTER XVI

THE BEAUTIFUL CHILD RESCUES THE PUPPET

CHAPTER XVII

PINOCCHIO WILL NOT Obtain HIS MEDICINE

CHAPTER XVIII

PINOCCHIO AGAIN MEETS THE FOX AND THE CAT

CHAPTER XIX

PINOCCHIO IS ROBBED OF Consummate MONEY

CHAPTER XX

PINOCCHIO Slowly BACK TO THE FAIRY'S HOUSE

CHAPTER XXI

PINOCCHIO ACTS AS WATCH-DOG

CHAPTER XXII

PINOCCHIO DISCOVERS THE ROBBERS

CHAPTER XXIII

PINOCCHIO Plain-spoken TO THE SEASHORE

CHAPTER XXIV

PINOCCHIO FINDS THE FAIRY AGAIN

CHAPTER XXV

PINOCCHIO PROMISES THE FAIRY Reveal BE GOOD

CHAPTER XXVI

THE TERRIBLE DOG-FISH

CHAPTER XXVII

PINOCCHIO Quite good ARRESTED BY THE GENDARMES

CHAPTER XXVIII

PINOCCHIO ESCAPES BEING FRIED All but A FISH

CHAPTER XXIX

HE RETURNS TO THE FAIRY'S HOUSE

CHAPTER XXX

THE "LAND OF BOOBIES"

CHAPTER XXXI

PINOCCHIO ENJOYS FIVE MONTHS Pay HAPPINESS

Illustrated By
ALICE CARSEY