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CHAPTER XXI
Pinocchio, you may well believe, began to cry and scream; but it was useless because there was not a house near him and no one passed along the road. In the meantime night came on. The trap hurt him so much, and he was so afraid of the dark, that he nearly fainted with pain and fright. Suddenly he saw a firefly, and he called out to it, “O Firefly, will you help me to get away from here?”
“Poor boy!” replied the Firefly, stopping to look at Pinocchio; “how did you ever get your legs caught in that trap?”
“I came into the field in order to get a bunch of grapes and—”
“But are the grapes yours?”
“No.”
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