Stranica 111 [111]
XIX
PINOCCHIO IS ROBBED OF HIS MONEY, AND AS A
PUNISHMENT HE IS SENT TO PRISON FOR
FOUR MONTHS
HE puppet returned to the town and
é began to count the minutes one by one;
and when he thought that it must be
time he took the road leading to the Field of
miracles.
And as he walked along with hurried steps
his heart beat fast tic, tac, tic, tac, like a draw¬
ing-room clock when it is really going well.
Meanwhile he was thinking to himself:
‘And if instead of a thousand gold pieces,
I was to find on the branches of the tree two
thousand? . . . And instead of two thousand
supposing I found five thousand? and instead
of five thousand that I found a hundred thou¬
sand? Oh! what a fine gentleman I should then
become! ... I would have a beautiful palace,
a thousand little wooden horses and a thousand
stables to amuse myself with, a cellar full of
currant-wine and sweet syrups, and a library
quite full of candies, tarts, plum-cakes, maca¬
roons, and biscuits with cream.”
Whilst he was building these castles in the
air he had arrived in the neighbourhood of the
field, and he stopped to look if by chance he
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