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XXXV
PINOCCHIO FINDS IN THE BODY OF THE DOG¬
FISH . . . WHOM DOES HE FIND! READ THIS
CHAPTER AND YOU WILL KNOW
INOCCHIO, having taken leave of his
Pp friend the Tunny, began to grope his way
in the dark through the body of the Dog¬
fish, taking a step at a time in the direction
of the light that he saw shining dimly at a
great distance.
The farther he advanced the brighter be¬
came the light; and he walked and walked until
at last he reached it: and when he reached it
. . . what did he find? I will give you a thou¬
sand guesses. He found a little table spread
. out, and on it a lighted candle stuck into a
green glass bottle, and seated at the table was
a little old man. He was eating some live fish,
and they were so very much alive that whilst
he was eating them they sometimes even
jumped out of his mouth.
At this sight Pinocchio was filled with such
great and unexpected joy that he became
almost delirious. He wanted to laugh, he
wanted to cry, he wanted to say a thousand
things, and instead he could only stammer out
a few confused and broken words. At last he
succeeded in uttering a cry of joy, and opening
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