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84 PINOCCHIO “ Here it is,” said the Fairy, taking a piece from a gold sugar-basin. ‘* Give me first the lump of sugar, and then I will drink that bad bitter water... .” “Do you promise me? ” Ee ans The Fairy gave him the sugar, and Pinocchio, having crunched it up and swallowed it in a second, said, licking his lips: - It would be a fine thing if sugar was medicine! . . . I would take it every day.” " Now keep your promise and drink these few drops of water, which will restore you to health.” Pinocchio took the tumbler unwillingly in his hand and put the point of his nose to it: he then approached it to his lips: he then again put his nose to it, and at last said: “It is too bitter! too bitter! I cannot drink ite ~ How can you tell that, when you have not even tasted it?” " I can imagine it! I know it from the smell. I want first another lump of sugar... and then I will drink it!...” The Fairy then, with all the patience of a good mamma, put another lump of sugar in his mouth, and then again presented the tumbler to him.
