citizen may become a king. There are trees, taller than church
steeples, with branches touching the ground, so that one may gather
sweet fruit without the least trouble. My boy, Africa is a country full
of enchanted forests, where the game allows itself to be killed,
quartered, and hung; where riches - "

No one knows how far this description would have gone, if at that
moment the voice of the director had not been heard. The music had
stopped, and the director was talking to the people, who did not seem
very willing to part with their money.


6. Pinocchio Determines To Go To Africa

PINOCCHIO had already resolved to go to Africa to eat of the fruit
and to gather riches. He was eager to learn more, and impatient of
interruption.

"And the director is an African also?"

"Certainly he is an African."

"And is he very rich?"

"Is he rich? Take my word for it that if he would, he could buy up
this whole country."

Pinocchio was struck dumb. Still he wanted to make the men believe
that what he had heard was not altogether new to him. "Oh, I know that
Africa is a very beautiful country, and I have often planned to go