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    Pinocchio in Africa
    Pinocchio in Africa
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    Pinocchio in Africa

    By Angelo Patri and Eugenio Cherubini

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Pinochio In Africa

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      Angelo Patri

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Why Pinocchio Did Not Go To School

      Pinocchio Assists In Welcoming The Circus

      Pinocchio Among The Wild Animals

      Pinocchio Makes Friends With The Wild Animals

      Pinocchio Determines To Go To Africa

      Pinocchio In Doubt

      He Bids Good-by To The Animals

      Pinocchio Does Not Sleep

      Pinocchio Eats Dates

      Pinocchio Lands On A Rock

      The First Night In Africa

      Pinocchio Is Well Received

      Pinocchio Is Arrested

      Pinocchio's Father

      Pinocchio Sells Drinking Water

      A Ride On A Dog's Back

      The Cave

      The Caravan

      The Baby Pulls His Nose

      Pinocchio Travels With The Caravan

      He Is Offered For Sale

      The Bird In The Forest

      His Adventure With A Lion

      Pinocchio Is Brought Before The King

      The Monkeys Stone The Marionette

      Pinocchio Dreams Again

      Pinocchio Is Carried Away In An Eggshell

      Pinocchio Escapes Again

      Pinocchio Is Swallowed By A Crocodile

      Pinocchio Is Made Emperor

      His First Night As Emperor

      He Sends For The Royal Doctor

      An Old Story

      His Duties As Emperor

      Pinocchio Makes His First Address

      The Emperor Becomes As Black As A Crow

      The Hippopotamus Hunt

      The Emperor Surprises His Subjects By His Wisdom

      Pinocchio Travels Through The Empire

      Pinocchio Is Placed In A Cage

      Pinocchio Performs For The Public

      Pinocchio Breaks The Cage And Makes His Escape

      Preface

         Collodi's Pinocchio tells the story of a wooden marionette and of his efforts to become a real boy. Although he was kindly treated by the old woodcutter, Geppetto, who had fashioned him out of a piece of kindling wood, he was continually getting into trouble and disgrace. Even Fatina, the Fairy with the Blue Hair, could not at once change an idle, selfish marionette into a studious and reliable boy. His adventures, including his brief transformation into a donkey, give the author an opportunity to teach a needed and wholesome lesson without disagreeable moralizing.

         Pinocchio immediately leaped into favor as the hero of Italian juvenile romance. The wooden marionette became a popular subject for the artist's pencil and the storyteller's invention. Brought across the seas, he was welcomed by American children and now appears in a new volume which sets forth his travels in Africa. The lessons underlying his fantastic experiences are clear to the youngest readers but are never allowed to become obtrusive. The amusing illustrations of the original are fully equaled in the present edition, while the whimsical nonsense which delights Italian children has been reproduced as closely as a translation permits.

      Why Pinocchio Did Not Go To School

         ONE morning Pinocchio slipped out of bed before daybreak. He got up with a great desire to study, a feeling, it must be confessed, which did not often take hold of him. He dipped his wooden head into the cool, refreshing water, puffed very hard, dried himself, jumped up and down to stretch his legs, and in a few moments was seated at his small worktable.

         There was his home work for the day, twelve sums, four pages of penmanship, and the fable of The Dog and the Rabbit to learn by heart. He began with the fable, reciting it in a loud voice, like the hero in the play: "'A dog was roaming about the fields, when from behind a little hill jumped a rabbit, which had been nibbling the tender grass.'

         "Roaming, nibbling. - The teacher says this is beautiful language. Maybe it is; I have nothing to say about that. Well, one more.

         "'A dog was roaming about the fields - when he saw - run out - a rabbit which - which - ' I don't know it; let's begin again. 'A dog was running about eating, eating - ' But eating what? Surely he did not eat grass!

         "This fable is very hard; I cannot learn it. Well, I never did have much luck with dogs and rabbits! Let me try the sums. Eight and seven, seventeen; and three, nineteen; and six, twenty-three, put don two and carry three. Nine and three, eleven; and four, fourteen; put down the whole number - one, four; total, four hundred thirteen.

         "Ah! good! very good! I do not wish to boast, but I have always had a great liking for arithmetic. Now to prove the answer: eight and sever, sixteen; and three, twenty-one; and six, twenty-four; put down four - why! it's wrong! Eight and seven, fourteen; and three, nineteen; and six - wrong again!

         I know what the trouble is; the wind is not in the right quarter to-day for sums. Perhaps it would be better to take a walk in the open.

         No sooner said than done. Pinocchio went out into the street and filled his lungs with the fresh morning air.Ah! here, at least, one can breathe. It is a pity that I am beginning to feel hungry! Strange how things go wrong sometimes! Take the lessons - he went on.

         Listen! A noise of creaking wheels, of bells ringing, the voices of people, the cries of animals! Pinocchio stopped short. What could it all mean?

         Down the street came a huge wagon drawn by three big mules. Behind it was a long train of men and women dressed in the strangest fashion. Some were on foot, some on horseback, some sat or lay on other wagons larger and heavier than the first. Two Moors, their scarlet turbans blazing in the sun, brought up the rear. With spears at rest and with shields held before them, they rode along, mounted on two snow-white horses.

         Pinocchio stood with his mouth open. Only after the two Moors had passed did he discover the fact that he had legs, and that these were following on behind the procession. And he walked, walked, walked, until the carriages and all the people stopped in the big town square. A man with a deep voice began to give orders. In a short time there arose an immense tent, which hid from Pinocchio and the many others who had gathered in the square all those wonderful wagons, horses, mules, and strange people.

         It may seem odd, but it is a fact that the school bell began to ring and Pinocchio never heard it!

      Pinocchio Assists In Welcoming The Circus

         THAT day the school bell rang longer and louder perhaps than it was wont to ring on other days. What of that? From the tent came the loud clanging of hammers, the sounds of instruments, the neighing of horses, the roaring of lions and tigers and panthers, the howling of wolves, the bleating of camels, the screeching of monkeys! Wonderful noises! Who cared for the school bell? Pinocchio? No, not he.

         Suddenly there was a loud command. All was still.

         The two Moors raised the tent folds with their spears. Out came a crowd of

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