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 misdeeds. Boys that help their parents lovingly in their troubles always deserve praise and affection.” Just here Pinocchio’s dream ended and he awoke with his eyes opened wide.

Now imagine, little readers, the great surprise of Pinocchio, upon waking, to find that he was no longer a wooden marionette, but that he had become a boy like all the others! He gave a glance around him and, instead of a bed of straw, he saw a room beautifully furnished. Jumping down from his bed, he found prepared for him a nice new suit, a new cap, and a pair of new shoes.

He had scarcely dressed himself when, like all boys who have a new suit, he put his hands into his pockets; and just imagine his surprise when he pulled out a small pocketbook of mother-of-pearl, on which were written these words: “The Fairy with the Blue Hair returns the forty cents to her dear Pinocchio and thanks him with all her heart.” Opening the pocketbook, he found, instead of forty pennies, forty pieces of gold.

Afterward he went to look in the looking-glass and he did not know himself. He saw no longer the reflection of a wooden marionette, but the image of a bright and intelligent boy with chestnut hair and large bright eyes. Pinocchio was greatly surprised. In the midst of these marvels that happened