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CHAPTER IX
The snow having stopped, Pinocchio, with his nice new A B C card under his arm, went to school. As he walked along he imagined many things and built a thousand castles in the air, each new one more beautiful than the others. And, talking to himself, he said: “To-day at school I wish to learn immediately to read; to-morrow I will learn to write, and then the day after to-morrow I will learn to make numbers. Then with my learning I will earn lots of pennies, and with the pennies that will fill my pocket I will order my papa a nice new suit of cloth. But why did I say of cloth? I will have one of gold and line it with silver and have
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