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XXXVI
Pinocchio at last ceases to be a puppet and becomes a boy.
Whilst Pinocchio was swimming quickly towards the shore he discovered that his father, who was on his shoulders with his legs in the water, was trembling as violently as if the poor man had got an attack of ague fever.
Was he trembling from cold or from fear? . . . Perhaps a little from both the one and the other. But Pinocchio, thinking that it was from fear, said to comfort him:
'Courage, papa! In a few minutes we shall be safely on shore.'
