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PINOCCHIO 61 ‘No, I will not go. I am already close to the house, and I will return home to my papa who is waiting forme. Who can tell how often the poor old man must have sighed yesterday when I did not come back! I have indeed been a bad son, and the Talking-cricket was right when he said: " Disobedient boys never come to any good in the world.’ I have found it to my cost, for many misfortunes have happened tome. Even yesterday in Fire-eater's house Í ran the risk... . Oh! it makes me shudder only to think of it!” ‘Well, then,” said the Fox, “ you are quite decided to go home? Go, then, and so much the worse for you.” " So much the worse for you! ” repeated the Cat. “Think well of it, Pinocchio, for you are giving a kick to fortune.” “To fortune!” repeated the Cat. " Between to-day and to-morrow your five sovereigns would have become two thousand.” "Two thousand!” repeated the Cat. “ But how is it possible that they could have become so many? ” asked Pinocchio, remaining with his mouth open from astonishment. " T will explain it to you at once,” said the Fox. " You must know that in the land of the Owls there is a sacred field called by everybody
