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PINOCCHIO 227
** "Tell me, little Cricket, where can I find
a tumbler of milk for my poor papa? "
‘Three fields off from here there lives a
gardener called Giangio who keeps cows. Go
to him and you will get the milk you are in
want of.”
Pinocchio ran all the way to Giangio’s
house; and the gardener asked him:
“How much milk do you want?”
“IT want a tumblerful.”
" A tumbler of milk costs a halfpenny. Be¬
gin by giving me the halfpenny.”
“T have not even a farthing,” replied
Pinocchio, grieved and mortified.
“That is bad, puppet,” answered the gar¬
dener. “If you have not even a farthing, 1
have not even a drop of milk.”
“TI must have patience!” said Pinocchio,
and he turned to go.
“Wait a little,” said Giangio. " We can
come to an arrangement together. Will you
undertake to turn the pumping machine? ”
‘What is the pumping machine?”
‘It is a wooden pole which serves to draw
up the water from the cistern to water the
vegetables.”
A You can try me...
“Well, then, if you will draw a hundred
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