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The Old Puppet Leaning Against a Chair

and intelligent boy with chestnut hair and large bright eyes. Pinocchio was bewildered, and yet as happy and joyful as if it were a holiday. In the midst of these marvels that had happened one after another he could not tell whether it was all real or whether it was a dream.

"Where is my father?" he asked suddenly and running into the next room he found old Geppetto well and lively and in good humor. He had resumed his old profession of wood-