misdeeds. Boys that help their parents lovingly in their troubles always deserve praise and affection."
At this Pinocchio's dream ended, and he opened his eyes suddenly. But imagine his great surprise, upon waking, to find he was no longer a wooden marionette, but had become a boy like all the others! He looked around him, and saw instead of a bed of straw and the straw walls of the cottage, a well furnished room in a comfortable house. Jumping out of bed, he found a nice new suit ready for him, a new cap and a pair of new shoes, just the right size. As soon as he was dressed, like all boys who have a new suit, he put his hands into his pockets, and pulled out a small mother-of-pearl pocketbook, on which was written: "The Fairy with the Blue Hair returns the forty cents to her dear Pinocchio, and thanks him with all her heart." Opening the purse he found, instead of forty pennies, forty pieces of gold.
Then he went to look in the mirror that hung on his wall, and did not know himself at all, for he no longer saw the reflection of a wooden puppet, but the image of a bright
