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"I am a boy and I do not buy from boys," replied his companion, who had more common sense than the puppet.

"For four pennies I will buy the A B C book," said a seller of old clothes, who had been listening to the conversation. So the book was sold then and there. And to think that poor Geppetto had remained at home in his shirt sleeves, shivering with cold, just to buy that A B C book for his son!