Stranica 101 [101]
PINOCCHIO 87
. Then why on earth did you require so
much persuasion to take it?”
Because you see that we boys are all like
that! We are more afraid of medicine than
of the illness.”
" Disgraceful! Boys ought to know that a
good remedy taken in time may save them from
serious illness, and perhaps from death... .”
" Qh! but another time I shall not require so
much persuasion. I shall remember those black
rabbits with the bier on their shoulders...
and then I shall immediately take the tumbler
in my hand, and down it will go! ...”
" Now come here to me, and tell me how
you fell into the hands of those assassins.”
" Ít came about that the showman Fire¬
eater gave me some gold pieces and said to me:
‘Go, and take them to your father!’ and in¬
stead I met on the road a Fox and a Cat, two
very respectable persons, who said to me:
" Would you like those pieces of gold to become
a thousand or two? Come with us and we will
take you to the Field of miracles,’ and I said:
‘Let us go.’ And they said: " Let us stop at
the inn of the Red Craw-fish,’ and after mid¬
night they left. And when I awoke I found
that they were no longer there, because they
had gone away. Then I began to travel by
night, for you cannot imagine how dark it was;