. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . The puppets recognise their brother Pinocchio, andreceive him with delight; but at that momenttheir master Fire-eater makes his appearance andPinocchio is in danger of coming to a bad end. WHEN Pinocchio came into the little puppettheatre, an incident occurred that almost produceda revolution. I must tell you that the curtain was drawn up,and the play had already begun. On the stage Harlequin and Punchinello were asusual quarrelling with each other, and threateningevery moment to come to blows. The audience, all attention, laughed till theywere ill as they


. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . The puppets recognise their brother Pinocchio, andreceive him with delight; but at that momenttheir master Fire-eater makes his appearance andPinocchio is in danger of coming to a bad end. WHEN Pinocchio came into the little puppettheatre, an incident occurred that almost produceda revolution. I must tell you that the curtain was drawn up,and the play had already begun. On the stage Harlequin and Punchinello were asusual quarrelling with each other, and threateningevery moment to come to blows. The audience, all attention, laughed till theywere ill as they listened to the bickerings of thesetwo puppets, who gesticulated and abused eachother so naturally that they might have been tworeasonable beings, and two persons of the world. 50 THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO All at once Harlequin stopped short, and turningto the public he pointed with his hand to some onefar down in the pit, and exclaimed in a dramatictone: Gods of the firmament! do I dream, or am Iawake? But surely that is Pinocchi


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