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PINOCCHIO STARTS TO SCHOOL

The snow having stopped, Pinocchio, with his nice ABC book under his arm, started for school. As he walked along he began to imagine a thousand things and to build a thousand air castles, each new one more beautiful than the others. To himself he said, “Today at school I will learn to read at once; tomorrow I will learn to write; and then the day after tomorrow I will master my numbers. Then with all that learning I can earn many pennies, and with the first ones that fill my pocket I will order a nice new cloth suit for my father. Cloth indeed? Why need