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PINOCCHIO GETS DONKEY S EARS; AND THEN HE
BECOMES A REAL LITTLE DONKEY AND BEGINS
TO BRAY
HAT was this surprise?
I will tell you, my dear little readers.
The surprise was that Pinocchio when
he awoke scratched his head; and in scratching
his head he discovered. . . . Can you guess in
the least what he discovered?
He discovered to his great astonishment
that his ears had grown more than a hand.
You know that the puppet from his birth
had always had very small ears—so small that
they were not visible to the naked eye. You
can imagine then what he felt when he found
that during the night his ears had become so
long that they seemed like two brooms.
He went at once in search of a glass that
he might look at himself, but not being able
to find one he filled the basin of his washing¬
stand with water, and he saw reflected what
he certainly would never have wished to see.
He saw his head embellished with a magnificent
pair of donkey’s ears!
Only think of poor Puinocchio’s sorrow.
shame, and despair!
He began to cry and roar, and he beat his
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