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PINOCCHIO 47 Will you give me twopence for this new S pelling-book? ” “I am a boy and I dont buy from boys,” replied his little interlocutor, who had much more sense than he had. “I will buy the Spelling-book for twopence,” called out a hawker of old clothes, who had been listening to the conversation. And the book was sold there and then. And to think that poor Geppetto had remained at home trembling with cold in his shirt sleeves, that he might buy his son a Spelling-book!
