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WOODEN HEADED FRIENDS

When Pinocchio entered the puppet playhouse something very surprising happened. The curtain was up and the comedy had begun. On the stage Harlequin and Punchinello were quarreling with each other, and threatening every minute to come to blows. The audience, all attention, laughed loudly at the quarrel between the two marionettes who gesticulated and acted out their threats of abusing each other as naturally as if they had been real human beings.

Suddenly Harlequin stopped short, and turning toward the audience and pointing to some one in the rear of the theater he shouted in a highly dramatic tone: "What do my eyes behold? Do I dream or am I awake? Surely that boy there is Pinocchio."

"It certainly is," cried Punchinello.