Stranica 240 [240]
216 PINOCCHIO
with blue hair sent a little carriage to fetch
me, and the doctors when they had seen me
said immediately, ‘If he is not dead, it is a
proof that he is still alive —and then by chance
I told a lie, and my nose began to grow until
I could no longer get through the door of the
room, for which reason I went with the Fox
and the Cat to bury the four gold pieces, for
one I had spent at the inn, and the Parrot
began to laugh, and instead of two thousand
gold pieces I found none left, for which reason
the judge when he heard that I had been robbed
had me immediately put in prison to content
the robbers, and then when I was coming away
I saw a beautiful bunch of grapes in a field, and
I was caught in a trap, and the peasant, who
was quite right, put a dog-collar round my
neck that I might guard the poultry-yard, and
acknowledging my innocence let me go, and
the Serpent with the smoking tail began to
laugh and broke a blood-vessel in his chest,
and so I returned to the house of the beautiful
Child who was dead, and the Pigeon, seeing
that I was crying, said to me, ‘I have seen
your father who was building a little boat to
go in search of you,’ and I said to him, ‘ Oh!
if I had also wings,’ and he said to me, ‘ Do
you want to go to your father?’ and I said,
‘ Without doubt! but who will take me to him? ’