Stranica 90 [90]
XVI
THE BEAUTIFUL CHILD WITH BLUE HAIR HAS
THE PUPPET TAKEN DOWN: HAS HIM PUT
TO BED AND CALLS IN THREE DOCTORS TO
KNOW IF HE IS ALIVE OR DEAD
HILST poor Pinocchio, suspended
to a branch of the Big Oak, was ap¬
parently more dead than alive, the
beautiful Child with blue hair came again to
the window. When she saw the unhappy pup¬
pet hanging by his throat, and dancing up and
down in the gusts of the north wind, she was
moved by compassion. Striking her hands to¬
gether she made three little claps.
" At this signal there came a sound of the
sweep of wings flying rapidly, and a large
Falcon flew on to the window-sill.
‘What are your orders, gracious Fairy?”
he asked, inclining his beak in sign of rever¬
ence—for I must teli you:that the Child with
blue hair was no more and no less than a beau¬
tiful Fairy, who for more than a thousand
years had lived in the wood.
" Do you see that puppet dangling from
a branch of the Big Oak?”
“TI see him.”
“Very well. Fly there at once: with your
strong beak break the knot that keeps him sus¬
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