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had received a blow in the stomach.
With that kick and that blow Pinocchio gained everybody's favor.
Everyone admired him, danced attendance upon him, petted and caressed him.
As the days passed into weeks, even the teacher praised him,
for he saw him attentive, hard working, and wide awake,
always the first to come in the morning, and the last
to leave when school was over.
Pinocchio's only fault was that he had too many friends.
Among these were many well-known rascals, who cared
not a jot for study or for success.
The teacher warned him each day, and even the good
Fairy repeated to him many times:
"Take care, Pinocchio! Those bad companions will
sooner or later make you lose your love for study.
Some day they will lead you astray."
"There's no such danger," answered the Marionette,
shrugging his shoulders and pointing to his forehead as if
to say, "I'm too wise."
So it happened that one day, as he was walking to school,
he met some boys who ran up to him and said:
"Have you heard the news?"
"No!"
"A Shark as big as a mountain has been seen near the shore."
"Really? I wonder if it could be the same one I heard
of when my father was drowned?"
"We are going to see it. Are you coming?"
"No, not I. I must go to school."
"What do you care about school? You can go there tomorrow.
With a lesson more or less, we are always the same donkeys."
"And what will the teacher say?"
"Let him talk. He is paid to grumble all day long."
"And my mother?"
"Mothers don't know anything," answered those scamps.
"Do you know what I'll do?" said Pinocchio.
"For certain reasons of mine, I, too, want to see that Shark;
but I'll go after school. I can see him then as well as now."
"Poor simpleton!" cried one of the boys. "Do you think
that a fish of that size will stand there waiting for you?
He turns and off he goes, and no one will ever be the wiser."
"How long does it take from here to the shore?" asked the Marionette.
"One hour there and back."
"Very well, then. Let's see who gets there first!" cried Pinocchio.
At the signal, the little troop, with books under their arms,
dashed across the fields. Pinocchio led the way, running
as if on wings, the others following as fast as they could.
Now and again, he looked back and, seeing his followers
hot and tired, and with tongues hanging out, he laughed
out heartily. Unhappy boy! If he had only known then
the dreadful things that were to happen to him on account
of his disobedience!
CHAPTER 27
The great battle between Pinocchio and his playmates.
One is wounded. Pinocchio is arrested
Going like the wind, Pinocchio took but a very short time
to reach the shore. He glanced all about him, but there was
no sign of a Shark. The sea was as smooth as glass.
"Hey there, boys! Where's that Shark?" he asked,
turning to his playmates.
"He may have gone for his breakfast," said one of them, laughing.
"Or, perhaps, he went to bed for a little nap,"
said another, laughing also.
From the answers and the laughter which followed them,
Pinocchio understood that the boys had played a trick on him.
"What now?" he said angrily to them. "What's the joke?"
"Oh, the joke's on you!" cried his tormentors, laughing
more heartily than ever, and dancing gayly around the Marionette.
"And that is--?"
"That we have made you stay out of school to come
with us. Aren't you ashamed of being such a goody-goody,
and of studying so hard? You never have a bit of enjoyment."
"And what is it to you, if I do study?"
"What does the teacher think of us, you mean?"
"Why?"
"Don't you see? If you study and we don't, we pay for
it. After all, it's only fair to look out for ourselves."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Hate school and books and teachers, as we all do. They
are your worst enemies, you know, and they like to make
you as unhappy as they can."
"And if I go on studying, what will you do to me?"
"You'll pay for it!"
"Really, you amuse me," answered the Marionette, nodding his head.
"Hey, Pinocchio," cried the tallest of them all, "that will do.
We are tired of hearing you bragging about yourself,
you little turkey cock! You may not be afraid of us,
but remember we are not afraid of you, either!
You are alone, you know, and we are seven."
"Like the seven sins," said Pinocchio, still laughing.
"Did you hear that? He has insulted us all. He has called us sins."
"Pinocchio, apologize for that, or look out!"
"Cuck--oo!" said the Marionette, mocking them with his thumb to his nose.
"You'll be sorry!"
"Cuck--oo!"
"We'll whip you soundly!"
"Cuck--oo!"
"You'll go home with a broken nose!"
"Cuck--oo!"
"Very well, then! Take that, and keep it for your supper,"
called out the boldest of his tormentors.
And with the words, he gave Pinocchio a terrible blow on the head.
Pinocchio answered with another blow, and that was
the signal for the beginning of the fray. In a few moments,
the fight raged hot and heavy on both sides.
Pinocchio, although alone, defended himself bravely.
With those two wooden feet of his, he worked so fast
that his opponents kept at a respectful distance.
Wherever they landed, they left their painful mark
and the boys could only run away and howl.
Enraged at not being able to fight the Marionette at close
quarters, they started to throw all kinds of books at him.
Readers, geographies, histories, grammars flew in all directions.
But Pinocchio was keen of eye and swift of movement, and the books
only passed over his head, landed in the sea, and disappeared.
The fish, thinking they might be good to eat, came to
the top of the water in great numbers. Some took a nibble,
some took a bite, but no sooner had they tasted a page or two,
than they spat them out with a wry face, as if to say:
"What a horrid taste! Our own food is so much better!"
Meanwhile, the battle waxed more and more furious.
At the noise, a large Crab crawled slowly out of the water
and, with a voice that sounded like a trombone suffering
from a cold, he cried out:
"Stop fighting, you rascals! These battles between boys
rarely end well. Trouble is sure to come to you!"
Poor Crab! He might as well have spoken to the wind.
Instead of listening to his good advice, Pinocchio turned
to him and said as roughly as he knew how:
"Keep quiet, ugly Gab! It would be better for you to
chew a few cough drops to get rid of that cold you have.
Go to bed and sleep! You will feel better in the morning."
In the meantime, the boys, having used all their books,
looked around for new ammunition. Seeing Pinocchio's
bundle lying idle near-by, they somehow managed to get
hold of it.
One of the books was a very large volume, an arithmetic text,
heavily bound in leather. It was Pinocchio's pride.
Among all his books, he liked that one the best.
Thinking it would make a fine missile, one of the boys took
hold of it and threw it with all his strength at Pinocchio's head.
But instead of hitting the Marionette, the book struck one of the
other boys, who, as pale as a ghost, cried out faintly:
"Oh, Mother, help! I'm dying!" and fell senseless to the ground.
At the sight of that pale little corpse, the boys were so
frightened that they turned tail and ran. In a few moments,
all had disappeared.
All except Pinocchio. Although scared to death by the
horror of what had been done, he ran to the sea and soaked
his handkerchief in the cool water and with it bathed the
head of his poor little schoolmate. Sobbing bitterly, he
called to him, saying:
"Eugene! My poor Eugene! Open your eyes and look at me!
Why don't you answer? I was not the one who hit you,
you know. Believe me, I didn't do it. Open your eyes,
Eugene? If you keep them shut, I'll die, too. Oh, dear me,
how shall I ever go home now? How shall I ever look at
my little mother again? What will happen to me? Where
shall I go? Where shall I hide? Oh, how much better it
would have been, a thousand times better, if only I had
gone to school! Why did I listen to those boys? They
always were a bad influence! And to think that the teacher
had told me--and my mother, too!--`Beware of bad
company!' That's what she said. But I'm stubborn and
proud. I listen, but always I do as I wish. And then I pay.
I've never had a moment's peace since I've been born! Oh,
dear! What will become of me? What will become of me?"
Pinocchio went on crying and moaning and beating his
head. Again and again he called to his little friend, when
suddenly he heard heavy steps approaching.
He looked up and saw two tall Carabineers near him.
"What are you doing stretched out on the ground?"
they asked Pinocchio.
"I'm helping this schoolfellow of mine."
"Has he fainted?"
"I should say so," said one of the Carabineers, bending
to look at Eugene. "This boy has been wounded on the
temple. Who has hurt him?"
"Not I," stammered the Marionette, who had hardly
a breath left in his whole body.
"If it wasn't you, who was it, then?"
"Not I," repeated Pinocchio.
"And with what was he wounded?"
"With this book," and the Marionette picked up the
arithmetic text to show it to the officer.
"And whose book is this?"
"Mine."
"Enough."
"Not another word! Get up as quickly as you can and come along with us."
"But I--"
"Come with us!"
"But I am innocent."
"Come with us!"
Before starting out, the officers called out to several
fishermen passing by in a boat and said to them:
"Take care of this little fellow who has been hurt.
Take him home and bind his wounds. Tomorrow we'll come after him."
They then took hold of Pinocchio and, putting him
between them, said to him in a rough voice: "March!
And go quickly, or it will be the worse for you!"
They did not have to repeat their words. The Marionette
walked swiftly along the road to the village. But the
poor fellow hardly knew what he was about. He thought
With that kick and that blow Pinocchio gained everybody's favor.
Everyone admired him, danced attendance upon him, petted and caressed him.
As the days passed into weeks, even the teacher praised him,
for he saw him attentive, hard working, and wide awake,
always the first to come in the morning, and the last
to leave when school was over.
Pinocchio's only fault was that he had too many friends.
Among these were many well-known rascals, who cared
not a jot for study or for success.
The teacher warned him each day, and even the good
Fairy repeated to him many times:
"Take care, Pinocchio! Those bad companions will
sooner or later make you lose your love for study.
Some day they will lead you astray."
"There's no such danger," answered the Marionette,
shrugging his shoulders and pointing to his forehead as if
to say, "I'm too wise."
So it happened that one day, as he was walking to school,
he met some boys who ran up to him and said:
"Have you heard the news?"
"No!"
"A Shark as big as a mountain has been seen near the shore."
"Really? I wonder if it could be the same one I heard
of when my father was drowned?"
"We are going to see it. Are you coming?"
"No, not I. I must go to school."
"What do you care about school? You can go there tomorrow.
With a lesson more or less, we are always the same donkeys."
"And what will the teacher say?"
"Let him talk. He is paid to grumble all day long."
"And my mother?"
"Mothers don't know anything," answered those scamps.
"Do you know what I'll do?" said Pinocchio.
"For certain reasons of mine, I, too, want to see that Shark;
but I'll go after school. I can see him then as well as now."
"Poor simpleton!" cried one of the boys. "Do you think
that a fish of that size will stand there waiting for you?
He turns and off he goes, and no one will ever be the wiser."
"How long does it take from here to the shore?" asked the Marionette.
"One hour there and back."
"Very well, then. Let's see who gets there first!" cried Pinocchio.
At the signal, the little troop, with books under their arms,
dashed across the fields. Pinocchio led the way, running
as if on wings, the others following as fast as they could.
Now and again, he looked back and, seeing his followers
hot and tired, and with tongues hanging out, he laughed
out heartily. Unhappy boy! If he had only known then
the dreadful things that were to happen to him on account
of his disobedience!
CHAPTER 27
The great battle between Pinocchio and his playmates.
One is wounded. Pinocchio is arrested
Going like the wind, Pinocchio took but a very short time
to reach the shore. He glanced all about him, but there was
no sign of a Shark. The sea was as smooth as glass.
"Hey there, boys! Where's that Shark?" he asked,
turning to his playmates.
"He may have gone for his breakfast," said one of them, laughing.
"Or, perhaps, he went to bed for a little nap,"
said another, laughing also.
From the answers and the laughter which followed them,
Pinocchio understood that the boys had played a trick on him.
"What now?" he said angrily to them. "What's the joke?"
"Oh, the joke's on you!" cried his tormentors, laughing
more heartily than ever, and dancing gayly around the Marionette.
"And that is--?"
"That we have made you stay out of school to come
with us. Aren't you ashamed of being such a goody-goody,
and of studying so hard? You never have a bit of enjoyment."
"And what is it to you, if I do study?"
"What does the teacher think of us, you mean?"
"Why?"
"Don't you see? If you study and we don't, we pay for
it. After all, it's only fair to look out for ourselves."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Hate school and books and teachers, as we all do. They
are your worst enemies, you know, and they like to make
you as unhappy as they can."
"And if I go on studying, what will you do to me?"
"You'll pay for it!"
"Really, you amuse me," answered the Marionette, nodding his head.
"Hey, Pinocchio," cried the tallest of them all, "that will do.
We are tired of hearing you bragging about yourself,
you little turkey cock! You may not be afraid of us,
but remember we are not afraid of you, either!
You are alone, you know, and we are seven."
"Like the seven sins," said Pinocchio, still laughing.
"Did you hear that? He has insulted us all. He has called us sins."
"Pinocchio, apologize for that, or look out!"
"Cuck--oo!" said the Marionette, mocking them with his thumb to his nose.
"You'll be sorry!"
"Cuck--oo!"
"We'll whip you soundly!"
"Cuck--oo!"
"You'll go home with a broken nose!"
"Cuck--oo!"
"Very well, then! Take that, and keep it for your supper,"
called out the boldest of his tormentors.
And with the words, he gave Pinocchio a terrible blow on the head.
Pinocchio answered with another blow, and that was
the signal for the beginning of the fray. In a few moments,
the fight raged hot and heavy on both sides.
Pinocchio, although alone, defended himself bravely.
With those two wooden feet of his, he worked so fast
that his opponents kept at a respectful distance.
Wherever they landed, they left their painful mark
and the boys could only run away and howl.
Enraged at not being able to fight the Marionette at close
quarters, they started to throw all kinds of books at him.
Readers, geographies, histories, grammars flew in all directions.
But Pinocchio was keen of eye and swift of movement, and the books
only passed over his head, landed in the sea, and disappeared.
The fish, thinking they might be good to eat, came to
the top of the water in great numbers. Some took a nibble,
some took a bite, but no sooner had they tasted a page or two,
than they spat them out with a wry face, as if to say:
"What a horrid taste! Our own food is so much better!"
Meanwhile, the battle waxed more and more furious.
At the noise, a large Crab crawled slowly out of the water
and, with a voice that sounded like a trombone suffering
from a cold, he cried out:
"Stop fighting, you rascals! These battles between boys
rarely end well. Trouble is sure to come to you!"
Poor Crab! He might as well have spoken to the wind.
Instead of listening to his good advice, Pinocchio turned
to him and said as roughly as he knew how:
"Keep quiet, ugly Gab! It would be better for you to
chew a few cough drops to get rid of that cold you have.
Go to bed and sleep! You will feel better in the morning."
In the meantime, the boys, having used all their books,
looked around for new ammunition. Seeing Pinocchio's
bundle lying idle near-by, they somehow managed to get
hold of it.
One of the books was a very large volume, an arithmetic text,
heavily bound in leather. It was Pinocchio's pride.
Among all his books, he liked that one the best.
Thinking it would make a fine missile, one of the boys took
hold of it and threw it with all his strength at Pinocchio's head.
But instead of hitting the Marionette, the book struck one of the
other boys, who, as pale as a ghost, cried out faintly:
"Oh, Mother, help! I'm dying!" and fell senseless to the ground.
At the sight of that pale little corpse, the boys were so
frightened that they turned tail and ran. In a few moments,
all had disappeared.
All except Pinocchio. Although scared to death by the
horror of what had been done, he ran to the sea and soaked
his handkerchief in the cool water and with it bathed the
head of his poor little schoolmate. Sobbing bitterly, he
called to him, saying:
"Eugene! My poor Eugene! Open your eyes and look at me!
Why don't you answer? I was not the one who hit you,
you know. Believe me, I didn't do it. Open your eyes,
Eugene? If you keep them shut, I'll die, too. Oh, dear me,
how shall I ever go home now? How shall I ever look at
my little mother again? What will happen to me? Where
shall I go? Where shall I hide? Oh, how much better it
would have been, a thousand times better, if only I had
gone to school! Why did I listen to those boys? They
always were a bad influence! And to think that the teacher
had told me--and my mother, too!--`Beware of bad
company!' That's what she said. But I'm stubborn and
proud. I listen, but always I do as I wish. And then I pay.
I've never had a moment's peace since I've been born! Oh,
dear! What will become of me? What will become of me?"
Pinocchio went on crying and moaning and beating his
head. Again and again he called to his little friend, when
suddenly he heard heavy steps approaching.
He looked up and saw two tall Carabineers near him.
"What are you doing stretched out on the ground?"
they asked Pinocchio.
"I'm helping this schoolfellow of mine."
"Has he fainted?"
"I should say so," said one of the Carabineers, bending
to look at Eugene. "This boy has been wounded on the
temple. Who has hurt him?"
"Not I," stammered the Marionette, who had hardly
a breath left in his whole body.
"If it wasn't you, who was it, then?"
"Not I," repeated Pinocchio.
"And with what was he wounded?"
"With this book," and the Marionette picked up the
arithmetic text to show it to the officer.
"And whose book is this?"
"Mine."
"Enough."
"Not another word! Get up as quickly as you can and come along with us."
"But I--"
"Come with us!"
"But I am innocent."
"Come with us!"
Before starting out, the officers called out to several
fishermen passing by in a boat and said to them:
"Take care of this little fellow who has been hurt.
Take him home and bind his wounds. Tomorrow we'll come after him."
They then took hold of Pinocchio and, putting him
between them, said to him in a rough voice: "March!
And go quickly, or it will be the worse for you!"
They did not have to repeat their words. The Marionette
walked swiftly along the road to the village. But the
poor fellow hardly knew what he was about. He thought
- attentive [ə´tentiv]
a.注意的；殷勤的 (初中英语单词) - working [´wə:kiŋ] a.工人的；劳动的 (初中英语单词)
- well-known [,wel´nəun] a.著名的，众所周知的 (初中英语单词)
- forehead [´fɔrid] n.额，前部 (初中英语单词)
- waiting [´weitiŋ] n.等候；伺候 (初中英语单词)
- unhappy [ʌn´hæpi] a.不幸的；不快乐的 (初中英语单词)
- dreadful [´dredful] a.可怕的；讨厌的 (初中英语单词)
- laughter [´lɑ:ftə] n.笑，笑声 (初中英语单词)
- ashamed [ə´ʃeimd] a.惭愧；不好意思 (初中英语单词)
- turkey [´tə:ki] n.火鸡 (初中英语单词)
- beginning [bi´giniŋ] n.开始，开端；起源 (初中英语单词)
- wooden [´wudn] a.木制的；呆板的 (初中英语单词)
- movement [´mu:vmənt] n.活动；运动；动作 (初中英语单词)
- spoken [´spəukən] speak的过去分词 (初中英语单词)
- meantime [´mi:ntaim] n.&ad.其间；同时 (初中英语单词)
- volume [´vɔlju:m, ´vɑljəm] n.卷；书籍；体积；容量 (初中英语单词)
- handkerchief [´hæŋkətʃif] n.手帕，手绢 (初中英语单词)
- schoolmate [´sku:lmeit] n.同学 (初中英语单词)
- bitterly [´bitəli] ad.悲痛地；憎恨地 (初中英语单词)
- schoolfellow [´sku:l,feləu] n.同学 (初中英语单词)
- breath [breθ] n.呼吸；气息 (初中英语单词)
- swiftly [´swiftli] ad.迅速地，敏捷地 (初中英语单词)
- repeated [ri´pi:tid] a.反复的；重复的 (高中英语单词)
- grumble [´grʌmbəl] v.&n.抱怨；发牢骚 (高中英语单词)
- seeing [si:iŋ] see的现在分词 n.视觉 (高中英语单词)
- hanging [´hæŋiŋ] n.绞刑 a.悬挂着的 (高中英语单词)
- heartily [´hɑ:tili] ad.衷心地；亲切地 (高中英语单词)
- angrily [´æŋgrili] ad.生气地；愤怒地 (高中英语单词)
- hearing [´hiəriŋ] n.听力；听证会；审讯 (高中英语单词)
- painful [´peinfəl] a.痛(苦)的；费力的 (高中英语单词)
- horrid [´hɔrid] a.令人讨厌的；极糟的 (高中英语单词)
- roughly [´rʌfli] ad.粗糙地；毛糙地 (高中英语单词)
- near-by [´niə-bai] a.附近的 ad.在附近 (高中英语单词)
- stubborn [´stʌbən] a.顽固的；坚持的 (高中英语单词)
- ammunition [,æmju´niʃən] n.军火，弹药 (英语四级单词)
- arithmetic [ə´riθmətik] n.算术 (英语四级单词)
- senseless [´sensləs] a.无知觉的；愚蠢的 (英语四级单词)
- corpse [kɔ:ps] n.尸体 (英语四级单词)
- respectful [ri´spektfəl] a.恭敬的；尊敬人的 (英语六级单词)
- beating [´bi:tiŋ] n.敲；搅打；失败 (英语六级单词)
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