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PINOCCHIO 87 . Then why on earth did you require so much persuasion to take it?” Because you see that we boys are all like that! We are more afraid of medicine than of the illness.” " Disgraceful! Boys ought to know that a good remedy taken in time may save them from serious illness, and perhaps from death... .” " Qh! but another time I shall not require so much persuasion. I shall remember those black rabbits with the bier on their shoulders... and then I shall immediately take the tumbler in my hand, and down it will go! ...” " Now come here to me, and tell me how you fell into the hands of those assassins.” " Ít came about that the showman Fireeater gave me some gold pieces and said to me: ‘Go, and take them to your father!’ and instead I met on the road a Fox and a Cat, two very respectable persons, who said to me: " Would you like those pieces of gold to become a thousand or two? Come with us and we will take you to the Field of miracles,’ and I said: ‘Let us go.’ And they said: " Let us stop at the inn of the Red Craw-fish,’ and after midnight they left. And when I awoke I found that they were no longer there, because they had gone away. Then I began to travel by night, for you cannot imagine how dark it was;
