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PINOCCHIO CAUGHT
At this the marionette's courage failed him, and he was about to give himself up as lost, when looking about him he saw gleaming far, far away in the middle of a deep dark forest, a little house as white as snow. "If I have breath enough to reach that house, perhaps I shall be saved," he thought, and without delaying a minute he began to run through the forest as fast as he could. The robbers still followed him. Finally after a desperate run of two hours, he arrived, out of breath, at the door of the house and knocked. There was no reply. He knocked again, harder than before, because he heard the approaching steps and heavy breathing of his pursuers, but still there was silence in the house. Seeing that knocking had no effect he began to kick and beat the door in desperation. At last there appeared at a
