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V\ RICHARDSON! ?^H ^H v\ M wrrzwwi&imMr is&ss&mt 'S:c:tt-zvFMBrz$& rKKUMfCE- RICHARDSON! "tt#i#IBgaM& THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO 3p plnocchio and hls companions walked and walked until they Came to the Inn of the Red Crawfish THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO BY C COLLODI TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN ILLUSTRATED BY FREDERICK RICHARDSON THE JOHN C WINSTON COMPANY Chicago PHILADELPHIA Torontto Illustrations, copyright by The John C. Winston Company Copyright in Great Beitain The British Dominions and Possessions copybight in the philippine islands All rights reserved PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. AT THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS The John C. Winston Company, Props. Philadelphia The Adventures of Pinocchio CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 11 Chapter I How It Came to Pass That Master Cherry the Carpenter Found a Piece of Wood That Laughed and Cried Like a Child 15 Chapter II Master Cherry Makes a Present of the Piece of Wood to His Friend Geppetto, Who Takes It to Make for Himself a Won derful Puppet, That Shall Know How to Dance and to Fence and to Leap Like an Acrobat 19 Chapter III Geppetto Having Returned Home, Begins at Once to Make a Puppet, to Which He Gives the Name of Pinocchio. The First Tricks Played by the Puppet 26 Chapter IV The Story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, from Which We See That Naughty Boys Cannot Endure to Be Corrected by Those Who Know More Than They Do 32 Chapter V Pinocchio Is Hungry and Searches for an Egg to Make Himself an Omelet; but Just at the Most Interesting Moment the Omelet Flies Out of the Window 35 Chapter VI Pinocchio Falls Asleep With His Feet on the Brazier, and Wakes in the Morning to Find Them Burned Off 39 Chapter VII Geppetto Returns Home, Makes the Puppet New Feet, and Gives Him the Breakfast That the Poor Man Had Brought for Himself 43 Chapter VIII Geppetto Makes Pinocchio New Feet, and Sells His Own Coat to Buy Him a Spelling Book 51 Chapter IX Pinocchio Sells His Spelling Book That He May Go to See a Puppet Show- , , , 55 5 6 CONTENTS Chapter X page The Puppets Recognize Their Brother Pinocchio, and Receive Him With Delight; but at That Moment Their Master Fire Eater Makes His Appearance and Pinocchio Is In Danger of Coming to a Bad End 59 Chapter XI Fire Eater Sneezes and Pardons Pinocchio, Who Then Saves the Life of His Friend Harlequin 67 Chapter XII The Showman, Fire Eater, Makes Pinocchio a Present of Five Gold Pieces to Take Home to His Father, Geppetto; but Pinoc chio Instead Allows Himself to Be Taken In By the Fox and the Cat, and Goes With Them 71 Chapter XIII The Inn of the Red Crawfish 77 Chapter XIV Pinocchio, Because He Would Not Heed the Good Counsels of the Talking Cricket, Falls Among Assassins 82 Chapter XV The Assassins Pursue Pinocchio; and Having Overtaken Him, Hang Him to a Branch of the Big Oak 87 Chapter XVT The Beautiful Child With Blue Hair Has the Puppet Taken Down; Has Him Put to Bed and Calls In Three Doctors to Know If He Is Alive or Dead 91 Chapter XVII Pinocchio Eats the Sugar, but Will Not Take His Medicine: When, However, He Sees the Grave Diggers, Who Have Arrived to Carry Him Away, He Takes It. He Then Tells a Lie, and As a Punishment His Nose Grows Longer 97 Chapter XVIII Pinocchio Meets Again the Fox and the Cat, and Goes With Them to Bury His Money in the Field of Miracles 104 Chapter XIX Pinocchio Is Robbed of His Money, and As a Punishment He Is Sent to Prison for Four Months 113 CONTENTS 7 Chapter XX page Liberated From Prison, He Starts to Return to the Fairy's House; but on the Road He Meets With a Horrible Serpent, and After wards He Is Caught In a Trap 118 Chapter XXI Pinocchio Is Taken By a Peasant, Who Obliges Him to Fill the Place of His Watchdog in the Poultry Yard 123 Chapter XXII Pinocchio Discovers the Robbers, and As a Reward for His Fidelity Is Set At Liberty 127 Chapter XXIII Pinocchio Mourns the Death of the Beautiful Child With the Blue Hair. He Then Meets With a Pigeon Who Flies With Him to the Seashore, and There He Throws Himself Into the Water to Go to the Assistance of His Father Geppetto 132 Chapter XXIV Bees," Pinocchio Arrives at the Island of the "Industrious and Finds the Fairy Again 139 Chapter XXV Pinocchio Promises the Fairy to Be Good and Studious, for He is Quite Sick of Being a Puppet and Wishes to Become an Exem plary Boy 148 Chapter XXVI Pinocchio Accompanies His Schoolfellows to the Seashore to See the Terrible Dogfish 154 Chapter XXVII Great Fight Between Pinocchio and His Companions. One of Them Is Wounded, and Pinocchio Is Arrested by the Gen darmes 158 Chapter XXVIII Pinocchio Is In Danger of Being Fried In a Frying Pan Like a Fish 167 Chapter XXIX He Returns to the Fairy's House. She Promises Him That the Following Day He Shall Cease to Be a Puppet and Shall Be come a Boy. Grand Breakfast of Coffee and Milk to Celebrate This Great Event 175 8 CONTENTS Chapter XXX page Pinocchio, Instead of Becoming a Boy, Starts Secretly With His Boobies" Friend Candlewick for the "Land of 184 Chapter XXXI Months' After Five Residence In the Land of Cocagne, Pinocchio, to His Great Astonishment, Grows a Beautiful Pair of Don key's Ears, and He Becomes a Little Donkey, Tail and All. 193 Chapter XXXII Pinocchio Gets Donkey's Ears; and Then He Becomes a Real Little Donkey and Begins to Bray 201 Chapter XXXIII Pinocchio, Having Become a Genuine Little Donkey, Is Taken to Be Sold, and Is Bought By the Director of a Company of Buf foons to Be Taught to Dance, and to Jump Through Hoops; but One Evening He Lames Himself and Then He Is Bought By a Man Who Purposes to Make a Drum of His Skin 209 Chapter XXXIV Pinocchio, Having Been Thrown Into the Sea, Is Eaten By the Fish and Becomes a Puppet as He Was Before. While He Is Swimming Away to Save His Life He Is Swallowed by the Terrible Dogfish 220 Chapter XXXV Pinocchio Finds In the Body of the Dogfish Whom Does He Find? Read This Chapter and You Will Know 229 Chapter XXXVI Pinocchio At Last Ceases to Be a Puppet and Becomes a Boy 238 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Pinocchio and His Companions Walked and Walked Until Thet Came to the Inn of the Red Crawfish. .Frontispiece Master Cherry Struck the Wood a Tremendous Blow .... 16 The Piece of Wood Struck Geppetto a Terrible Blow 21 "Give Me Back My Wig," Screamed Master Antonio 23 Geppetto Rushed After Pinocchio 29 The Chicken Spread Its Wings and Flew Away 37 The Wind Whistled Angrily 40 Little by Little His Feet Burned Away 41 "I Cannot Stand," Sobbed Pinocchio 44 He Made Pinocchio a Suit of Clothes from Some Wall- Paper That Was Covered with Pretty Flowers 47 Pinocchio Ate the First Pear in Two Mouthfuls 49 Pinocchio Sold His Book for Twopence 58 The Audience Laughed at Harlequin and Punchinello 60 The Puppets Carried Pinocchio on Their Shoulders 62 Pinocchio Pulled Out the Money That Fire Eater Had Given Him 65 Pinocchio Dreamed That He Was Picking Gold Pieces 79 Pinocchio Ran for His Life 88 The Poodle Walked on His Hind Legs 92 Pinocchio's Nose Immediately Grew Longer 102 The Fox and the Cat Came Out on to the Road 105 "Have Patience," Rejoined the Parrot 107 Pinocchio Was Caught in the Trap 121 A Mason Carrying a Basket of Lime, Passed Down the Road 144 To," "Drink, My Boy, if You Wish Said the Little Woman 149 The Boys Played Him All Sorts of Tricks 155 Pinocchio Defended Himself Like a Hero 160 Pinocchio Found Himself Inclosed in a Great Net. 170 cb 9 10 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Country!" "What a Delightful Exclaimed Pinocchio 190 Pinocchio Saw a Big Snail Looking Out of the Window... 191 The More Pinocchio Cried the More His Ears Grew 202 Pinocchio Uttered a Cry of Joy 230 Giango Taught Pinocchio How to Turn the Pumping Machine 233 CB INTRODUCTION OF course you know that in the good old Once- Upon-a-Time Tales of people who live in the Distant Country on the shores of the Far-off Sea, the strangest things always happen. So you will not be surprised at the strange things that happened to Pinocchio, for his is one of the Once- Upon-a-Time stories, too. It must be, because nearly everyone who tells it to someone else begins like this: "Once upon a time in a country across the sea lived an old man. He was a kindly old soul, but he was very lonely without a son to comfort him in his " old age. But one morning Now when this point is reached, the story be comes Pinocchio's story, one of the most delightful and amazing stories that ever happened in those Once-Upon-a-Time days. No passer-by nor neighbor would ever have ex pected anything remarkable to happen in Geppetto's poor little cottage. Yet remarkable things can happen in humble cottages as easily as in great castles, or in glittering palaces. Moreover, they hap pen when you least expect them, or when you have given up expecting.
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