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"Oh," Pedro cried, "they bleed. I don't want them to die. Perhaps if I dig the roots as well, they will keep for Mamá's Christmas." He took a sharp stick and dug carefully about the roots. Soon, he had a soft ball of earth with the red flower standing proudly upright in the middle. Pedro put the plant in the corner of one of his wood baskets. Then he kept on gathering firewood. When the baskets were full, he turned the little burro back toward home, it was still early when he stopped at the house of his first customer.