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THE TALKING CRICKET

Now children, while poor old Geppetto was led to prison, for no fault of his, that imp Pinocchio finding himself free, took to his heels and ran toward the fields in order to reach his home the faster. In his haste he jumped great mounds of earth, thorn hedges and ditches filled with water exactly as do rabbits and deer when chased by the hunters.