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158 PINOCCHIO The dog recognised Pinocchio’s voice, and to his extreme surprise perceived that it proceeded from the floured bundle that the fisherman held in his hand. So what do you think he did? He made a spring, seized the bundle in his mouth, and holding it gently between his teeth he rushed out of the cave and was gone like a flash of hohtning. The fisherman, furious at seeing a fish he was so anxious to eat snatched from him, ran after the dog; but he had not gone many steps when he was taken with a fit of coughing and had to give it up. Alidoro, when he had reached the path that led to the village, stopped, and put his friend Pinocchio gently on the ground. ‘How much I have to thank you for!” said the puppet. “There is no necessity,” replied the dog. ‘You saved me and I have now returned it. You know that we must all help each other in this world.” ‘But how came you to come to the cave? ” " I was lying on the shore more dead than alive when the wind brought to me the smell of fried fish. The smell excited my appetite, and I f ollowed itup. If I had arrived a second later. .
