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XVII
Pinocchio eats the sugar, but will not take his medicine: when, however, he sees the grave-diggers, who have arrived to carry him away, he takes it. He then tells a lie, and as a punishment his nose grows longer.
As soon as the three doctors had left the room the Fairy approached Pinocchio, and having touched his forehead she perceived that he was in a high fever that was not to be trifled with.
She therefore dissolved a certain white powder in half a tumbler of water, and offering it to the puppet she said to him lovingly:
'Drink it, and in a few days you will be cured.'
