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THE MAN WITH THE TWO FACES
Claudio was screaming madly when his grandmother said to him:
"If you cry any more you will see the man with two faces."
"Oh, I say, who is he?"
"Well, he is a very strange being, who laughs with one face and cries with the other. If a child looks at his smiling face he gives it a toy; if it looks at his sad face he bites it and tears off the tip of his ear."
"Well, then, I wish he would come, because I will be very good and he will give me a toy."
"It would be much better if he did not come, because you are very bad and you would get your ear bitten."
"But I want to see him," said the boy.
"Look for him if you like," said the grandmother, "but mind he does not hurt you."