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out a box of flour, and having buttered the fish all over, dipped them into flour and tossed them into the frying pan. The first to be put in were the mullets, then the whitefish, then the soles, then the bass, then the crabs, then the anchovies, and finally it came Pinocchio's turn. The marionette, seeing himself so near his end, and such a horrible one too, trembled with fright, and had not breath left to say a word. The poor boy looked sadly at the fisherman, but the green monster, not caring in the least, buttered him from head to foot and dipped him five times in the flour, so that he looked like a plaster puppet. Then he took him by the neck and—