THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO - 15

by C. Collodi in English Children Stories

CHAPTER 15 The Assassins chase Pinocchio, catch him, and hang him to the branch of a giant oak tree. As he ran, the Marionette felt more and more certain that he would have to give himself up into the ...Read Moreof his pursuers. Suddenly he saw a little cottage gleaming white as the snow among the trees of the forest. “If I have enough breath left with which to reach that little house, I may be saved,” he said to himself. Not waiting another moment, he darted swiftly through the woods, the Assassins still after him. After a hard race Read Less