Stranica 131 [131]
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PINOCCHIO MOURNS THE DEATH OF THE BEAUTI¬
FUL 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
S soon as Pinocchio was released from the
heavy and humiliating weight of the
dog collar he started off across the
fields, and never stopped until he had reached
the high road that led to the Fairy’s house.
There he turned and looked down into the
plain beneath. He could see distinctly with
his naked eye the wood where he had been so
unfortunate as to meet with the Fox and the
Cat; he could see amongst the trees the top
of the Big Oak to which he had been hung;
but although he looked in every direction the
little house belonging to the beautiful Child
with the blue hair was nowhere visible.
Seized with a sad presentiment he began to
run with all the strength he had left, and in a
few minutes he reached the field where the little
white house had once stood. But the little white
house was no longer there. He saw instead a
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