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About This Passage
This is the moment a wise old Crab climbs out of the sea and tries to stop the fight before someone gets hurt. The narrator gives the Crab a funny voice — a trombone with a cold — but his warning is serious, and the very next paragraph will show that Pinocchio refuses to listen. This passage carries four of this lesson's vocabulary words (CRAB, WATER, BEACH, COLD).
Meanwhile the combat grew fiercer until a big old Crab came out of the water and, slowly walking up the beach, cried with the voice of a trombone that has caught a cold, "Stop it! stop it! These battl...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell back what happens in this chapter. Begin with Pinocchio arriving at the beach to see the dogfish, and end with Pinocchio running away from the policemen with his hat between his teeth.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story shows that Pinocchio understood right away that the boys had played a trick on him? How can you tell from his words that he was angry?
- How do you know that the wicked boys did not really want Pinocchio to come to the beach to see a dogfish? What did they finally tell Pinocchio was the real reason they tricked him?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
The strip of sandy ground beside the sea where the boys went looking for the dogfish.
Item 2
A sea creature with a hard shell and claws; in this story, an old Crab who walks out of the water to warn the fighting boys.
Item 3
A sickness that makes a person cough or stuff up; the Crab's voice sounds like a trombone with one.
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