Page:Collodi - The Story of a Puppet, translation Murray, 1892.djvu/67

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ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO
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hundred I will make a present of to you two.'

'A present to us?' cried the Fox with indignation, and appearing much offended. 'What are you dreaming of?'

'What are you dreaming of?' repeated the Cat.

'We do not work,' said the Fox, 'for dirty interest: we work solely to enrich others.'

'Others!' repeated the Cat.

'What good people!' thought Pinocchio to himself: and forgetting there and then his papa, the new coat, the Spelling-book, and all his good resolutions, he said to the Fox and the Cat:

'Let us be off at once. I will go with you.