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PINOCCHIO 51 “ Bring that puppet here: you will find him hanging on a nail. It seems to me that he 1s made of very dry wood, and I am sure that 1£ he was thrown on the fire he would make a beautiful blaze for the roast.” At first Harlequin and Punchinello hesitated; but, appalled by a severe glance from their master, they obeyed. Ina short time they returned to the kitchen carrying poor Pinocchio, who was wriggling like an eel taken out of water, and screaming desperately: " Papa! papa! save me! I will not die, I will not die!...”