Oldal 47 [47]
PINOCCHIO 37
that I put an earthenware saucer on a brazier
of burning embers, but a chicken flew out and
said: "Adieu until we meet again, and many
compliments to all at home’: and I got still
more hungry, for which reason that little old
man in a nightcap opening the window said
to me: “Come underneath and hold out your
hat,’ and poured a basinful of water on my
head, because asking for a little bread isn’t a
disgrace, is it? and I returned home at once,
and because I was always very hungry I put
my feet on the brazier to dry them, and then
you returned, and I found they were burnt
off, and I am always hungry, but I have no
longer any feet! Ih! Ih! Ih! Ih!...” And
poor Pinocchio began to cry and to roar so
loudly that he was heard five miles off.
Geppetto, who from all this jumbled ac¬
count had only understood one thing, which
was that the puppet was dying of hunger, drew
from his pocket three pears, and giving them
to him said:
. These three pears were intended for my
breakfast; but I will give them to you. Eat
them, and I hope they will do you good.”
“If you wish me to eat them, be kind
enough to peel them for me.”
Peel them?” said Geppetto, astonished.
“I should never have thought, my boy, that