Chapter 26 Chapter 26 The Adventures of Pinocchio

The next day Pinocchio went to the public school. Just imagine what children would do to play tricks on a puppet when they saw him come into their school!They laughed and laughed endlessly.Some joked this way, and some joked that way.Someone took off his hat, someone pulled his vest from behind.Someone wanted to use ink to draw two big beards under his nose, someone wanted to tie his feet and hands with string so that he could dance with the string. At first Pinocchio was very calm and ignored them.But then he couldn't help it anymore, and he turned to the one who had stalked and teased him the most, and said with a straight face, "Be careful, boys. I didn't come here to be a clown to you." .I respect everyone, and I hope everyone respects me."

"What a brat! You speak like a printed book!" cried the naughty children, jumping up with laughter.One of the most daring children reaches for the tip of the puppet's nose. But he did not catch it in time, because Pinocchio stuck out his foot from under the table and kicked him hard on the shin bone. "Oh! What a hard foot!" the child yelled, desperately rubbing the bruises kicked by the puppet. "And the elbow! . . . it's harder than the foot!" said another.He was pushed back by the puppet's arm on his stomach for an impertinent joke. After such a kick and such a kick, Pinocchio immediately won the respect and sympathy of the whole school.

They all like him. The teacher also praised him very much when he saw him concentrating in class, studying hard, willing to use his brain, always the first to enter school and the last to leave after school. His only shortcoming is that he has too many classmates.Many of them are well-known little villains who don't want to study or be successful at all. The teacher asked him to be careful every day, and the kind fairy kept tossing and saying to him: "Be careful, Pinocchio! Sooner or later, a classmate like you will make you not like studying, and maybe one day it will make you go to university." disaster."

"Never mind!" replied the puppet, shrugging his shoulders, and tapped his forefinger on his forehead, saying, "There's brains in there!" So one day, when he was in school, he suddenly met a group of classmates walking towards him and said to him, "Do you know an important news?" "have no idea." "Here comes a shark from the sea, as big as a mountain?" "Really? . . . Is that the shark that ate my poor daddy?" "Let's go to the seaside to see. Are you going too?" "Me? No. I'm going to school."

"What's the matter with school? Let's go to school tomorrow. It doesn't matter if you take one more lesson or miss one lesson. Anyway, if you don't understand, you're still a donkey." "What would the teacher say?" "Let the teacher talk about it. He grunts every day, and it's time to give him some retribution." "What about my mother?..." "Our mother won't know anything," said the naughty children. "Do you know what I should do?" said Pinocchio. "I wanted to see this shark too for some reason... but I went after class."

"Poor fool!" cried one of the children. "Such a big fish, do you think he'll just sit there and wait, whenever you want? When he annoys you, he turns around and goes somewhere else." If you go, you won’t be able to see it.” "How long will it take to get to the sea from here," asked the puppet. "An hour back and forth." "Then go! Whoever runs the fastest will be the most talented!" cried Pinocchio. As soon as the starting signal sounded, a group of naughty children tucked their books and exercise books under their armpits. , rushed to the field.Pinocchio ran ahead, only to feel that he had wings on his feet.

He turned his head away from time to time, laughing at the classmates who were a long way behind him.He saw them panting, out of breath, covered in dust, and sticking out their tongues, and laughed heartily.At this time, the poor fellow did not know what terrible things, what terrible disasters he was heading towards! ...