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PINOCCHIO
convulsions of laughter. He laughed and laughed and laughed with such force that he broke a blood vessel and died.
Then Pinocchio started again to run along the road, hoping to reach the house of the Fairy before dark. Along the way, however, he was overcome
by hunger. So he jumped into a field to see if he could find a bunch of grapes. Here, too, he was unfortunate.
As soon as he arrived under the vine—crac—he felt his legs caught by two pieces of iron that made him see several new stars in the heavens. The poor marionette found himself fast in a trap which had been placed there by a farmer in order to catch a thieving polecat of the neighborhood.
