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PINOCCHIO 103 for me? Shall I find him at the Fairy’s house? Poor man, it is so long since I last saw him: I am dying to embrace him, and to cover him with kisses! And will the Fairy forgive me my bad conduct toher? . . . To think of all the kindness and loving care I received from her. . . to think that if I am now alive I owe it to her: . . Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I navel) 2" Whilst he was saying this he stopped suddenly, frightened to death, and made four steps backwards. What had he seen? . . . He had seen an immense Serpent stretched across the road. Its skin was green, it had red eyes, and a pointed tail that was smoking like a chimney. It would be impossible to imagine the puppets terror. He walked away to a safe distance, and sitting down on a heap of stones waited until the Serpent should have gone about its business and had left the road clear. He waited an hour; two hours; three hours; but the Serpent was always there, and even from a distance he could see the red light of his fiery eyes and the column of smoke that ascended from the end of his tail. | At last Pinocchio, trying to feel courageous,
