At last a day came when his master was able to announce that he would give a really extraordinary representation. The many colored placards stuck on the street corners were thus worded:
Great Full Dress Representation
TONIGHT
Will Take Place the Usual Feats and Surprising
Performances Executed by All the Artists
and by all the horses of the company
and moreover
The Famous
LITTLE DONKEY PINOCCHIO
called
THE STAR OF THE DANCE
Will Make His First Appearance
the theater will be brilliantly illuminated
| In Less Than an Hour All His Friends Were Invited |
On that evening, as you may imagine, an hour before the play was to begin the theater was crammed.
There was not a place to be had either in the pit or the stalls, or in the boxes even, by paying its weight in gold.
The benches round the circus were crowded with children and with boys of all ages, who were in a fever of impatience to see the famous little donkey Pinocchio dance.