Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet

Chapter 5 THE FLYING EGG

Word Count: 652 | Released on: 01/12/2017

he had eaten nothing all day, began to feel a gnaw

e had become hunger and in no t

ke off the lid to see what was in it, but the saucepan was only painted on the wall. You can i

f bread. If it was only a bit of dry bread, a crust, a bone left by a dog, a little moldy pudding of Indian corn, a fish

n yawning, and his yawns were so tremendous that sometimes his mouth almost reached h

o cry desperate

papa and to run away from home. If my papa were here I should no

ound and white that looked like a hen's egg. To give a spring and

t must be a dream he kept turning the egg over in his hand

a saucer! Or would it not be more savory to fry it in the frying-pan? Or shall I simply boil

r he poured a little water; and when the water began to smoke, tac! he broke the egg-shell over it and let the contents drop in.

trouble of breaking the shell. Adieu until we meet aga

darted through the open window a

the egg-shell in his hand. Recovering, however, from his first stupefaction, he began to cry

n away from home, and if my papa were here, I should not no

t, he thought he would leave the house and make an excursion in the neighborhoo

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Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet

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“The Piece of Wood That Laughed and Cried Like a Child Master Cherry Gives the Wood Away Geppetto Names His Puppet Pinocchio The Talking-Cricket Scolds Pinocchio The Flying Egg Pinocchio's Feet Burn to Cinders Geppetto Gives His Own Breakfast to Pinocchio Geppetto Makes Pinocchio New Feet Pinocchio Goes To See a Puppet-Show The Puppets Recognize Their Brother Pinocchio Fire-Eater Sneezes and Pardons Pinocchio Pinocchio Receives a Present of Five Gold Pieces The Inn of the Red Craw-Fish Pinocchio Falls Among Assassins The Assassins Hang Pinocchio to the Big Oak The Beautiful Child Rescues the Puppet Pinocchio Will Not Take His Medicine Pinocchio Again Meets the Fox and the Cat Pinocchio Is Robbed of His Money Pinocchio Starts Back to the Fairy's House Pinocchio Acts as Watch-dog Pinocchio Discovers the Robbers Pinocchio Flies to the Seashore Pinocchio Finds the Fairy Again Pinocchio Promises the Fairy To Be Good The Terrible Dog-Fish Pinocchio Is Arrested by the Gendarmes Pinocchio Escapes Being Fried Like a Fish He Returns to the Fairy's House The "Land of Boobies" Pinocchio Enjoys Five Months of Happiness Pinocchio Turns Into a Donkey Pinocchio Is Trained for the Circus Pinocchio Is Swallowed by the Dog-Fish A Happy Surprise for Pinocchio Pinocchio at Last Ceases to Be a Puppet and Becomes a Boy”