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XXXIV
Pinocchio having been thrown into the sea is eaten by the fish and becomes a puppet as he was before. Whilst he is swimming away to save his life he is swallowed by the terrible Dog-fish.
After Pinocchio had been fifty minutes under the water his purchaser said aloud to himself:
'My poor little lame donkey must by this time be quite drowned. I will therefore pull him out of the water, and I will make a fine drum of his skin.'
And he began to haul in the rope that he had tied to the donkey's leg; and he