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The four cats, Piro, and another shaggy monster of a dog completed the company and shared the visitors' supper, preferring their soup and chicken to the Saturday-evening fare of the monks of boiled beans and olive oil.
'Very well, little fox; but remember it may cost me my life, answered the youth. 'Oh, leave it to me, and do as I tell you, and you will see that in the end it will bring you luck, answered the fox; and plucking the pears he took them up to the king. 'My master, Count Piro, sends you these pears, he said, 'and asks for an answer to his proposal.
After some time the fox thought he would see if the Count Piro was really grateful to him for all he had done, and went back to the castle, where he lay down on the door-step, and pretended to be dead. The princess was just going out for a walk, and directly she saw him lying there, she burst into tears and fell on her knees beside him.
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