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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 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 115
