Stranica 98 [98]
84 PINOCCHIO
“ Here it is,” said the Fairy, taking a piece
from a gold sugar-basin.
‘* Give me first the lump of sugar, and then
I will drink that bad bitter water... .”
“Do you promise me? ”
Ee ans
The Fairy gave him the sugar, and Pinoc¬
chio, having crunched it up and swallowed it in
a second, said, licking his lips:
- It would be a fine thing if sugar was
medicine! . . . I would take it every day.”
" Now keep your promise and drink these
few drops of water, which will restore you to
health.”
Pinocchio took the tumbler unwillingly in
his hand and put the point of his nose to it:
he then approached it to his lips: he then again
put his nose to it, and at last said:
“It is too bitter! too bitter! I cannot drink
ite
~ How can you tell that, when you have not
even tasted it?”
" I can imagine it! I know it from the
smell. I want first another lump of sugar...
and then I will drink it!...”
The Fairy then, with all the patience of a
good mamma, put another lump of sugar in
his mouth, and then again presented the
tumbler to him.