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Pinocchio Is Led Out to Be Sold

hard life from the first. When he was put in a stall his new master threw some straw into the manger, but Pinocchio after he had tried a mouthful, spit it out. Then his master, grumbling, gave him some hay, but that did not please him any better.

"Oh, so you do not like hay?" cried the man in rage. "Well I will teach you to like it," and taking a whip he gave the donkey a crack on the legs.

Pinocchio gave a long bray of pain, "Hee-haw" as if to say, “I cannot eat straw."

"Then eat hay," replied his master, who