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XVI THE BEAUTIFUL CHILD WITH BLUE HAIR HAS THE PUPPET TAKEN DOWN: HAS HIM PUT TO BED AND CALLS IN THREE DOCTORS TO KNOW IF HE IS ALIVE OR DEAD HILST poor Pinocchio, suspended to a branch of the Big Oak, was apparently more dead than alive, the beautiful Child with blue hair came again to the window. When she saw the unhappy puppet hanging by his throat, and dancing up and down in the gusts of the north wind, she was moved by compassion. Striking her hands together she made three little claps. " At this signal there came a sound of the sweep of wings flying rapidly, and a large Falcon flew on to the window-sill. ‘What are your orders, gracious Fairy?” he asked, inclining his beak in sign of reverence—for I must teli you:that the Child with blue hair was no more and no less than a beautiful Fairy, who for more than a thousand years had lived in the wood. " Do you see that puppet dangling from a branch of the Big Oak?” “TI see him.” “Very well. Fly there at once: with your strong beak break the knot that keeps him sus78
