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PINOCCHIO 109 boy as so many are; if I had been willing to learn and to work; if I had remained at home with my poor papa, I should not now be in the midst of the fields and obliged to be the watchdog to a peasant’s house. Oh, if I could be born again! But now it is too late, and I must have patience! ” Relieved by this little outburst, which came straight from his heart, he went into the dogkennel and fell asleep,
