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XXXI AFTER FIVE MONTHS RESIDENCE IN THE LAND OF COCAGNE, PINOCCHIO, TO HIS GREAT ASTONISHMENT, GROWS A BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF DONKEYS EARS, AND HE BECOMES A LITTLE DONKEY, TAIL AND ALL \ last the coach arrived; and it arrived without making the slightest noise, for its wheels were bound round with tow and rags. It was drawn by twelve pairs of donkeys, all the same size but of different colours. Some were gray, some white, some brindled like pepper and salt, and others had large stripes of yellow and blue. But the most extraordinary thing was this: the twelve pairs, that is, the twenty-four donkeys, instead of being shod like other beasts of burden, had on their feet men’s boots made of white kid. And the coachman?... Picture to yourself a little man broader than he was long, flabby and greasy like a lump of butter, with a small round face like an orange, a little mouth that was always laughing, and a soft caressing voice like a cat’s when she is trying to insinuate herself into the good graces of the mistress of the house. 175
