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"Look out, you croaking old Cricket, look out! If you make me angry I shall be sorry for you."

"Poor Pinocchio! It is you that will need pity. I really feel sorry for you."

"And why, I should like to know?"

"Because you are a puppet, and what is worse, because you have a wooden head."

At these last words Pinocchio jumped up in a rage, and snatching a hammer from the work bench flung it at the Talking Cricket. Perhaps he had never meant to hit him, but unfortunately the hammer struck him on the head, so that the poor Cricket had only breath to give one last cry of "Cri-cri-cri" before he was flattened upon the wall.