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 had to lift him up by the shoulders and stay there to support him. The dying cockroach swallowed the host, grimaced, choked, coughed and died. — Better that way, said the doctor. If he healed, what a sad life he would have, alone in the world, without his wife or his children...

Everyone agreed, wiping away their tears. The prince, after ordering the burial, asked Master Snail:

— What about the other patients, Doctor?



— The others... the others are dead," he replied a little sheepishly.

Scaly winked at the girl as if to say: "See? No one escapes his hands..." and invited her to leave. Before leaving, however, Narizinho peeked out of the window and saw the killer frog hanging by its neck from a hawthorn branch. She felt pity, but remembering the dying cockroach father, she said to herself: — Well deserved!