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overjoyed. One morning he said to Geppetto: “I am going to market to buy a jacket, a cap, and a pair of shoes. When I come back I shall be dressed like a real gentleman.”
Outside the house he began to run, because he was so happy. Suddenly he heard himself called by name, and, turning, he saw a beautiful Snail.
“Do you not know me?” asked the Snail.
“It seems to me— It seems to me—”
“Don’t you remember the Snail that lived with the beautiful Fairy with the Blue Hair?”
“I remember all,” cried Pinocchio. “Tell me quickly, where is the beautiful Fairy now?”
At these words the Snail replied with his usual slowness, “The beautiful Fairy lies ill in a hospital.”
“In a hospital?”
