Stranica 189 [189]
PINOCCHIO 169
“What are you doing there?” asked
Pinocchio, coming up to him.
" I am waiting for midnight, to start...”
“Why, where are you going?”
“Very far, very far, very far away.”
*“ And I have been three times to your house
to look for you.”
“What did you want with me?”
“Do you not know the great event? Have
you not heard of my good fortune? ”
What is it? ”
‘To-morrow I cease to be a puppet, and I
become a boy like you and all the other boys.”
“Much good may it do you.”
“To-morrow, therefore, I expect you to
breakfast at my house.”
" But when I tell you that I am going away
to-night.”
“ At what o clock? "
“In a short time.”
" And where are you going? ”
"TI am going to live in a country... the
most delightful country in the world: a real
land of Cocagne!.. .”
" And how is it called? ”
" It is called the " Land of Boobies.’ Why
do you not come too? ”
~ 1? No, never!”