Stranica 49 [49]
PINOCCHIO 39
the three pears, Pinocchio yawned tremen¬
dously, and then said in a fretful tone:
“TI am as hungry as ever!”
“ But, my boy, I have nothing more to give
you!”
“ Nothing, really nothing? ”
‘JT have only the rind and the cores of the
three pears.”
‘One must have patience! ” said Pinocchio;
“if there is nothing else I will have to eat a
rind.”
And he began to chew it. At first he made
a wry face; but then one after another he
quickly disposed of the rinds: and after the
rinds even the cores, and when he had eaten up
everything he clapped his hands on his sides
in his satisfaction, and said joyfully:
“Ah! now I feel comfortable.”
“ You see now,” observed Geppetto, " that
I was right when I said to you that it did not
do to accustom ourselves to be too particular
or too dainty in our tastes. We can never
know, my dear boy, what may happen to us.
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There are so many chances; , , ,