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PINOCCHIO 233 glance round and saw that the straw walls of the hut had disappeared, and that he was in a pretty littl room furnished and arranged with a simplicity that was almost elegance. Jumping out of bed he found a new suit of clothes ready for him, a new cap, and a pair of new leather boots that fitted him beautifully. He was hardly dressed when he naturally put his hands in his pockets, and pulled out a little ivory purse on which these words were written: “ The Fairy with blue hair returns the forty pence to her dear Pinocchio, and thanks him for his good heart.” He opened the purse, and instead of forty copper pennies he saw forty shining gold pieces fresh from the mint. He then went and looked at himself in the glass, and he thought he was some one else. For he no longer saw the usual reflection of a wooden puppet; he was greeted instead by the image of a bright, intelligent boy with chestnut hair, blue eyes, and looking as happy and joyful as if it were the Easter holidays. In the midst of all these wonders succeeding each other Pinocchio felt quite bewildered, and he could not tell if he was really awake or if he was dreaming with his eyes open. " Where can my papa be?” he exclaimed suddenly, and going into the next room he
