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XXXII 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 washingstand 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 184
