Stranica 218 [218]
196 PINOCCHIO
I will teach you to jump through the hoops, to
go through frames of paper head foremost, to
dance waltzes and polkas, and to stand upright
on your hind legs.”
Poor ‘Pinocchio, either by love or by force,
had to learn all these fine things. But it took
him three months before he had learnt them,
and he got many a whipping that nearly took
off his skin.
At last a day came when his master was able
to announce that he would give a really
extraordinary representation. The many-col¬
oured placards stuck on the street corners were
thus worded:
GREAT FULL DRESS REPRESENTATION
TO-NIGHT
WILL TAKE PLACE THE USUAL FEATS
AND SURPRISING PERFORMANCES
EXECUTED BY ALL THE ARTISTES
AND BY ALL THE HORSES OF THE COMPANY,
AND MOREOVER
THE FAMOUS
LITTLE DONKEY PINOCCHIO,
CALLED
THE STAR OF THE DANCE,
WILL MAKE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE.
Ture THEATRE WILL BE BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATED.