Stranica 235 [235]
PINOCCHIO 211
goat, leaning over towards the sea, had
stretched out her fore-legs to help him out of
tHe water) (05%,
But it was too late! ‘The monster had over¬
taken him, and, drawing in his breath, he sucked
in the poor puppet as he would have sucked a
hen’s egg; and he swallowed him with such vio¬
lence and avidity that Pinocchio, in falling into
the Dog-fish’s stomach, received such a blow
that he remained unconscious for a quarter of
an hour afterwards.
When he came to himself again after the
shock he could not in the least imagine in what
world he was. All round him it was quite
dark, and the darkness was so black and so
profound that it seemed to him that he had
fallen head downwards into an inkstand full
of ink. He listened, but he could hear no
noise; only from time to time great gusts of
wind blew in his face. At first he could not
understand where the wind came from, but at
last he discovered that it came out of the
monster’s lungs. For you must know that the
Dog-fish suffered very much from asthma, and
when he breathed it was exactly as if a north
wind was blowing.
Pinocchio at first tried to keep up his cour¬
age; but when he had one proof after another