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CHAPTER XXXIV
When the donkey had been under water about an hour, the buyer, talking to himself, said: “Now my nice-looking lame donkey ought to be dead by this time. I will pull him up and then set to work to make a drum.” And he began to pull the rope with which he had bound the donkey. He pulled and pulled and pulled, until he saw coming out of the water—what do you think? Instead of a dead donkey he saw a marionette, alive and kicking, struggling and twisting like an eel.
Seeing that wooden marionette, the buyer thought that he was dreaming; and he stood there astonished,
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