Part 6 (1/2)
”What's the matter now?”
”I don't like the way that door looks It's half open”
The Fairy closed the door
”I won't drink it,” cried Pinocchio, bursting out crying ”I won't drink this aater I won't I won't! No, no, no, no!”
”My boy, you'll be sorry”
”I don't care”
”You are very sick”
”I don't care”
”In a few hours the fever will take you far away to another world”
”I don't care”
”Aren't you afraid of death?”
”Not a bit I'd rather die than drink that awful medicine”
At that moment, the door of the roo a small black coffin on their shoulders
”What do you want from me?” asked Pinocchio
”We have coest Rabbit
”For me? But I'm not dead yet!”
”No, not dead yet; but you will be in a few moments since you have refused to take the medicine which would have made you well”
”Oh, Fairy, lass! Quick, please! I don't want to die! No, no, not yet--not yet!”
And holding the glass with his two hands, he sed the ulp
”Well,” said the four Rabbits, ”this ti on their heels, theytheir little black coffin andbetween their teeth
In a twinkling, Pinocchio felt fine With one leap he was out of bed and into his clothes
The Fairy, seeing hi, said to hiood for you, after all, wasn't it?”
”Good indeed! It has givenyou so hard to make you drink it?”
”I'm a boy, you see, and all boys hate medicine ht to know, after all, that medicine, taken in time, can save them from much pain and even froed so hard I'll remember those black Rabbits with the black coffin on their shoulders and I'll take the glass and pouf!--down it will go!”
”Come here now and tell me how it came about that you found yourself in the hands of the assassins”
”It happened that Fire Eater gave ive to my Father, but on the way, I met a Fox and a Cat, who asked me, 'Do you want the five pieces to become two thousand?' And I said, 'Yes' And they said, 'Coo' Then they said, 'Let us stop at the Inn of the Red Lobster for dinner and after ain' We ate and went to sleep When I awoke they were gone and I started out in the darkness all alone On the road I met two assassins dressed in black coal sacks, who said to me, 'Your money or your life!' and I said, 'I haven't any ue One of them tried to put his hand in my mouth and I bit it off and spat it out; but it wasn't a hand, it was a cat's paw And they ran after ht ed , 'Tomorroe'll come back for you and you'll be dead and your old pieces that you have hidden under your tongue'”
”Where are the gold pieces now?” the Fairy asked
”I lost them,” answered Pinocchio, but he told a lie, for he had theh it was, becaer
”And where did you lose them?”
”In the wood near by”
At this second lie, his nose grew a few more inches
”If you lost them in the near-by wood,” said the Fairy, ”we'll look for the that is lost there is always found”
”Ah, now I re old pieces, but I sed them when I drank the er than ever, so long that he could not even turn around If he turned to the right, he knocked it against the bed or into the panes; if he turned to the left, he struck the walls or the door; if he raised it a bit, he al at hih?” the Marionette asked her, worried now at the sight of his growing nose
”I a?”
”Lies, my boy, are known in a s and lies with long noses Yours, just now, happen to have long noses”
Pinocchio, not knohere to hide his shame, tried to escape fro that he could not get it out of the door
CHAPTER 18
Pinocchio finds the Fox and the Cat again, and goes with the as if his heart would break, the Marionette th of his nose No h the door The Fairy showed no pity toward hiood lesson, so that he would stop telling lies, the worst habit any boy ht and with his eyes half out of his head froan to feel sorry for hiether A thousand woodpeckers flew in through theand settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose They pecked and pecked so hard at that enormous nose that in a few ood you are,his eyes, ”and how much I love you!”
”I love you, too,” answered the Fairy, ”and if you wish to stay with ood little sister”