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"Yours, too? And which ear is it?" "Both of them. And yours?" "Both of them, too. I wonder if it could be the same sickness." "I'm afraid it is." "Will you do me a favor, Lamp-Wick?" "Gladly! With my whole heart." "Will you let me see your ears?" "Why not? But before I show you mine, I want to see yours, dear Pinocchio." "No. You must show yours first." "No, my dear! Yours first, then mine."
I will now conclude with some tests with alkaline and acid reagents, taken in order, and first the acids. These will also impress upon our minds the effects of acids and alkalis on the different kinds of fibres. I. In three flasks three similar portions of cotton lamp-wick, woollen yarn, and silk are placed, after previously moistening them in water and wringing them out.
And by this time, I should no longer be a Marionette. I should have become a real boy, like all these friends of mine! Oh, if I meet Lamp-Wick I am going to tell him what I think of him and more, too!" After this long speech, Pinocchio walked to the door of the room. But when he reached it, remembering his donkey ears, he felt ashamed to show them to the public and turned back.
It's my opinion, two thirds of all the divorce cases in the law-books just grow up out of things no bigger than that lamp-wick. But how people that ever loved each other could come to hard words like that, you don't see? Well, ha, ha!
He took them with him to the Land of Toys and let them enjoy themselves to their heart's content. When, after months of all play and no work, they became little donkeys, he sold them on the market place. In a few years, he had become a millionaire. What happened to Lamp-Wick? My dear children, I do not know. Pinocchio, I can tell you, met with great hardships even from the first day.
An embarrassingly long silence followed these words, during which time the two friends looked at each other in a mocking way. Finally the Marionette, in a voice sweet as honey and soft as a flute, said to his companion: "Tell me, Lamp-Wick, dear friend, have you ever suffered from an earache?" "Never! And you?" "Never! Still, since this morning my ear has been torturing me." "So has mine."
In silence he built up the fire, fussed for a time with the lamp-wick, lighted a cigarette, took a turn across the cabin, inspected thoughtfully the back of one hand, and then lifted his gaze to Imogene. She had been waiting, with a vague alarm. And this his stern visage and burning eyes increased. "Will Ruth marry me at once, do you think?" he questioned. "To-morrow or the next day?"
For that, in condensed form, is the story of the lives of the great. Summer days are long, and the evenings, we know, are as long as the lamp-wick. So, with all my reading, I had time to play; and, with all my studiousness, I had the will to play. My favorite playmates were boys.
The Fairy promised to prepare two hundred cups of coffee-and-milk and four hundred slices of toast buttered on both sides. The day promised to be a very gay and happy one, but Unluckily, in a Marionette's life there's always a BUT which is apt to spoil everything. Pinocchio, instead of becoming a boy, runs away to the Land of Toys with his friend, Lamp-Wick.
They wandered everywhere, they looked into every nook and corner, house and theater. They became everybody's friend. Who could be happier than they? What with entertainments and parties, the hours, the days, the weeks passed like lightning. "Oh, what a beautiful life this is!" said Pinocchio each time that, by chance, he met his friend Lamp-Wick. "Was I right or wrong?" answered Lamp-Wick.
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