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Geppetto is taken to prison
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‹ 3.36 3.38 › Insomma, tanto dissero e tanto fecero, che il carabiniere rimesse in libertà Pinocchio, e condusse in prigione quel pover' uomo di Geppetto. Il quale non avendo parole lì per lì per difendersi, piangeva come un vitellino, e nell' avviarsi verso il carcere, balbettava singhiozzando:
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Insomma een-SOM-ma In short , tanto TAN-to so much dissero DEES-se-ro they said e eh and tanto TAN-to so much fecero FEH-che-ro they did , che keh that il eel the carabiniere ka-ra-bee-NYEH-reh carabineer rimesse ree-MES-seh set in een at libertà lee-ber-TAH liberty Pinocchio , e eh and condusse kon-DOOS-seh led off in een to prigione pree-JOH-neh prison quel kwel that pover' POH-ver poor uomo WOH-mo fellow di dee of a Geppetto . Il eel the quale KWA-leh who non non not avendo a-VEN-do having parole pa-ROH-leh words lì lee there and per per for lì lee then per per to difendersi dee-FEN-der-see defend himself , piangeva PYAN-je-va wept come KOH-meh like un oon a vitellino vee-tel-LEE-no little calf , e eh and nell' nel in the avviarsi av-VYAR-see setting off verso VER-so towards il eel the carcere KAR-che-reh jail , balbettava bal-bet-TA-va stammered singhiozzando seen-gyot-TSAN-do sobbing :
The setting The crowd so works on the officer that he frees Pinocchio and marches Geppetto off to jail, weeping like a calf.
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