Dear Boys and Girls, -Let us hope that ne of you has been so unfortunate as to have missed the pleasure of watching sometime or other a puppet show. Probably Punch and Judy is the one you kw best, but there are many others with jolly little fellows who dance in and out of all sorts of adventures. So you can imagine Picchio, the hero of this book, as one of those lively puppets. And, in case you have never read the earlier book about him, you will want to kw something of what happened to him before you meet him in these pages