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A Last Leap Brought Him on the Stage

"It's Pinocchio—it is, it is" screamed Rosa, peeping from behind the scenes.

"Pinocchio! It is Pinocchio!" shouted all the marionettes coming out from the wings onto the stage.

"Pinocchio, come up here to me" cried Harlequin, "Come and throw your arms around your wooden brothers."

At this affectionate invitation Pinocchio made a great leap from the back part of the theater to the reserved section, another jump from there to the head of the orchestra leader, and from there a last leap brought