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PINOCCHIO 37 that I put an earthenware saucer on a brazier of burning embers, but a chicken flew out and said: "Adieu until we meet again, and many compliments to all at home’: and I got still more hungry, for which reason that little old man in a nightcap opening the window said to me: “Come underneath and hold out your hat,’ and poured a basinful of water on my head, because asking for a little bread isn’t a disgrace, is it? and I returned home at once, and because I was always very hungry I put my feet on the brazier to dry them, and then you returned, and I found they were burnt off, and I am always hungry, but I have no longer any feet! Ih! Ih! Ih! Ih!...” And poor Pinocchio began to cry and to roar so loudly that he was heard five miles off. Geppetto, who from all this jumbled account had only understood one thing, which was that the puppet was dying of hunger, drew from his pocket three pears, and giving them to him said: . These three pears were intended for my breakfast; but I will give them to you. Eat them, and I hope they will do you good.” “If you wish me to eat them, be kind enough to peel them for me.” Peel them?” said Geppetto, astonished. “I should never have thought, my boy, that
