CHAPTER 9.
Pinocchio sells his A-B-C book to pay his way into the Marionette Theater.
See Pinocchio hurrying off to school with his new A-B-C book under his arm! As he walked along, his brain was busy planning hundreds of wonderful things, building hundreds of castles in the air.

Talking to himself, he said: "In school today, I'll learn to read, tomorrow to write, and the day after tomorrow I'll do arithmetic.

Then, clever as I am, I can earn a lot of money.

With the very first pennies I make, I'll buy Father a new cloth coat.

Cloth, did I say?
No, it shall be of gold and silver with diamond buttons.