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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 drawing-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 thousand? 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, macaroons, 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 7 97
