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 * GREAT FULL DRESS REPRE-

LITTLE DONKEY PINOCCHIO,

THE STAR OF THE DANCE,
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On that evening, as you may imagine, an hour before the play was to begin the theatre was crammed.

There was not a place to be had either in the pit or the stalls, or in the boxes even, by paying its weight in gold.

The benches round the circus were crowded with children and with boys of all ages, who were in a fever of impatience to see the famous little donkey Pinocchio dance.

When the first part of the performance was over, the director of the company,