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PINOCCHIO
“What has happened?” asked Pinocchio of an old woman.
“There is an old man, who, having lost his little boy, ventured to go to sea to-day in search of him, and the water is so rough that we are afraid he will sink.”
“Where is the boat?”
“There it is; follow my finger,” said the old lady, pointing to a little boat that from where they stood looked like a walnut shell with a very small man inside.
“It is my papa! It is my papa!”
Meanwhile the little boat, tossed around by the waves, now disappeared between the billows, now floated on top. Pinocchio, standing on a point of a high reef, called his papa by name and made many signals with his arms and finally with the
