Stranica 58 [58]
OCR
X THE PUPPEYS RECOGNISE THEIR BROTHER PINOCCHIO, AND RECEIVE HIM WITH DELIGHT; BUT AT THAT MOMENT THEIR MASTER FIREEATER MAKES HIS APPEARANCE AND PINOCCHIO IS IN DANGER OF COMING TO A BAD END HEN Pinocchio came into the little \ \ puppet theatre, an incident occurred that almost produced a revolution. I must tell you that the curtain was drawn up, and the play had already begun. On the stage Harlequin and Punchinello were as usual quarrelling with each other, and threatening every moment to come to blows. The audience, all attention, laughed till they were ill as they listened to the bickerings of these two puppets, who gesticulated and abused each other so naturally that they might have been two reasonable beings, and two persons of the world. All at once Harlequin stopped short, and turning to the public he pointed with his hand to some one far down in the pit, and exclaimed in a dramatic tone: “Gods of the firmament! do I dream, or am I awake? But surely that is Pinocchio!...” “It is indeed Pinocchio!” cried Punchinello. $8
