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PINOCCHIO
Just then there passed a man, all perspiring, who was pulling two wagons filled with coal. Pinocchio, judging from his face that he was a good man, lowered his eyes for shame, and said in an under-
tone, “Will you please give me a penny? I am dying of hunger.”
“Not a cent,” replied the coal man; “but I will give you five if you will help me pull this wagon up the hill.”
“I am surprised,” replied the marionette, almost offended. “I was not made a mule; I have never pulled a wagon in all my life.”
