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PINOCCHIO ACTS THE HERO

The showman, Fire Eater (for that was his name) looked very dreadful, with his black beard covering his chest and legs like a great apron, but really he was not a bad man. When he heard Pinocchio crying, “I do not want to die! I do not want to die," and saw his struggles, he began to be sorry for him. He tried to resist the feeling, but could stand it no longer, and at last he gave a terrible sneeze. At the sound Harlequin, who until then had been doubled up like a weeping willow with his grief, began to look